It is not a surprise to anyone that 4 of the 5 most valuable companies in the world are currently companies focused on the technology sector. Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple are some examples of these powerful companies, which are also led by brilliant people whose duty is to keep these companies in the innovation elite and at the same time that their stock value continues to increase.
For this reason, the popular North American media known as Bloomberg has conducted an investigation to find out which have been the highest-paid CEOs or General Directors of 2019 based not only on salary but also on bonuses obtained by shares and income obtained by companies. they run.
From the list with the 10 richest CEOs of 2019, it is important to mention that not all run companies merely dedicated to the technology industry, as some are focused on entertainment and many others are indirectly related to this industry.
Who are the highest-paid CEOs of 2019?
- Elon Musk – Tesla Inc: 595,266, 817 millionDollars.
- Tim Cook – Apple: 133 Inc: $ 727.869 million.
- Tom Rutledge – Charter Communications: $ 116,995,201 million.
- Joseph Ianniello – ViacomCBS Inc: $ 116,656,495 million.
- Sumit Singh – Chewy Inc: $ 108,158,705 million.
- Jonathan Gray – Blackstone Group Inc: $ 107,630,680 million.
- Robert Swan – Intel: $ 99,022,847 million.
- Sundar Pichai – Alphabet Inc: $ 86,162,752 million.
- Satya Nadella – Microsoft: $ 77,289,149 million.
- Douglas Ingram – Sarepta Thearapuutics: $ 70,228,746 million.
It is no surprise that Elon Musk appears on the list now that Tesla has become the most valuable company in the automotive sector, ousting Japanese firm Toyota from this position.
Perhaps most surprisingly, the CEOs of Alphabet and Microsoft are not in the top 5, however, we must not forget that their companies do rank in the top 5 with the most stock market value in the world.
In the case of women, Bloomberg mentions that Lisa Su, CEO of AMD occupies the number 19 position on the list with a total of 55,841,377 million dollars, while she is followed by Oracle’s Safra Catz in position number 36 with its 43,411,550 million of dollars in revenue. At position 72 is Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, who posted a total of $ 31,879,506 million.