The 7 Most Likeable SaaS CEOs
To find out who are the most likeable SaaS CEOs, click through the slideshow.
To find out who are the most likeable SaaS CEOs, click through the slideshow.
Marc Benioff, a noted philanthropist, is the founder and CEO of Salesforce.
He has been an advocate for LGBT rights, hiring the company’s first diversity officer last year.
Recently, Benioff’s compensation package was slashed 60 percent after shareholders indicated they were not pleased with his pay package.
Salesforce is hoping to house 10,000 employees in its new Salesforce Tower in San Francisco by the end of 2017.
Likeability score: 85.6/100
Steve Singh has been Concur CEO since 1996, but left the company at the end of April. He was recently named Docker CEO.
He is also working on a new venture, according to Geekwire, a hardware/software company called Center, which aims to disrupt the corporate credit card market.
Concur was acquired by SAP in 2014.
Likeability score: 83.6/100
Christopher W. Cabrera has been CEO of Xactly since 2005 when he founded the company, which provides sales performance management, sales compensation and employee engagement software.
The company entered into an agreement on Tuesday to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners, news that sent its stock up 16 percent.
Likeability score: 83.6/100
Carlos Rodriguez, ADP CEO and president, has been CEO since 2011, but has worked at the company since 1999. The company is one of the best places to work for women technologists, and works to promote diversity and inclusion, partnering with organizations like the The Anita Borg Institute, Women in Technology International (WITI) and Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT).
Likeability score: 78.8/100
Box CEO Aaron Levie co-founded the cloud storage company in 2005, when he was 20 years old.
Last year, Box launched new Box Zones in Australia and Canada to support regional data storage.
Likeability score: 78.7/100
Ultimate Software develops and sells UltiPro, a cloud-based human capital solution. Scott Scherr founded the company in 1990 and has been CEO since 1996.
Last year, Scherr was ranked #2 on Glassdoor’s 2016 List of Highest-Rated CEOs at U.S. large companies.
Likeability score: 77.6/100
Robert (Bob) Hammer has served as the chairman, president, and CEO of CommVault Systems since 1998. The company provides data protection and information management software.
Likeability score: 77.6/100
Robert (Bob) Hammer has served as the chairman, president, and CEO of CommVault Systems since 1998. The company provides data protection and information management software.
We’ve already explored what traits the best CEOs have in common, but who exactly are the most likeable CEOs in the SaaS industry? Owler has released its 2017 Owler National Likeability Study which evaluates how well liked CEOs are relative to their peers and a broader set of CEOs across tech, finance, pharma, retail, healthcare, insurance and others.
The study is based on Owler’s proprietary algorithm which evaluates the weighting of CEO’s review based on the person who rated the CEO, so input from employees, followers, competitors and other stakeholders are weighted differently.
It’s a good time to be in SaaS, particularly in the enterprise, with SaaS vendors growing 32 percent year on year in Q4 2016, reaching almost $13 billion in quarterly revenues.
To find out who are the most likeable SaaS CEOs, click through the slideshow.
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