INTRODUCING: The 100 people transforming the world of business
Business Insider
The world of business is changing rapidly.
Artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles promise to change just about everything. Over-the-top viewing, or OTT, is transforming how we entertain ourselves. Direct-to-consumer brands are changing how we shop. There are new ways to go to the doctor, new ways of working, and new ways to invest.
And urgent conversations are being had about purpose, the beneficiaries of these innovations, and what should be done to help those who risk being left behind.
For more than 10 years, Business Insider has focused on these transformative forces and the people behind them.
So this spring, we asked our newsroom to identify the people having an outsize impact on business.
From tech titans to rising stars, groundbreaking scientists to social activists, these 100 people are driving real change in their industries.
You can view the list by industry category below, or keep scrolling to see all 100 people transforming business, in alphabetical order.
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Emmanuel Aidoo, head of digital asset markets at Credit Suisse, is using blockchain to transform banking
Rob Arnott, chairman and CEO of Research Affiliates LLC, helped commercialize quant investing
Colleen Aubrey, the global VP of performance advertising at Amazon, is charged with winning over big brands
Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, is setting the tone for buying and selling goods online
Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block knows what your customers are thinking
Jason Blum, the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, has perfected a low risk, high reward model to produce a box-office-hit empire
Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber, the founders of Gimlet Media, are spearheading a podcast boom
Paul Brown, the CEO of Inspire Brands, is assembling a restaurant empire
Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, has forced workplaces across America to improve their culture and operations
Pravit Chintawongvanich, equity derivatives strategist at Wells Fargo, brought volatility trading to the mainstream
Yael Cosset, the chief digital officer at Kroger, is reimagining grocery stores for shoppers of the future
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Stripe president John Collison are opening the world for online business
Stacey Cunningham, NYSE president, is championing cutting-edge tech while preserving tradition
Mazy Dar, founder and CEO of OpenFin, is trying to create Wall Street's new operating system
Glitch CEO Anil Dash is making it easy (and fun) to write software
Jeff Dean, a senior fellow for artificial intelligence at Google, is making the AI of science fiction a reality
Katie Dill, VP of design at Lyft, is shaping the experience consumers have with gig-economy apps
Rick Doblin hopes to turn psychedelics like ecstasy into mainstream treatments for brain diseases through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Jennifer Doudna, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, helped invent blockbuster gene-editing tool Crispr
Andy Dunn, the SVP of digital consumer brands at Walmart, is leading the retailer's quest to build an arsenal of brands
Aicha Evans, the CEO of Zoox, is developing a bold business model for self-driving cars
Rushika Fernandopulle, the CEO of Iora Health, is inventing an entirely new way to go to the doctor
Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, is demanding that CEOs create long-term value led by purpose
Lucien Foster, head of fintech strategy and partnerships at BNY Mellon, is shaking up a 235-year-old bank
Pam Fletcher, the vice-president of global innovation at General Motors, is helping the 110-year-old automaker make electric cars
David Frankel and Daniel Katz, the founders of A24, have focused on auteur-driven content to grab the attention of every big name in Hollywood — and Apple
Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, might be the CEO that pharma needs most
Randy Freer, the CEO at Hulu, has grown Hulu faster than any other streaming service
Atul Gawande, the CEO of Haven, is using his healthcare experience to fix the industry's flaws
Nima Ghamsari, founder and CEO of Blend, is making it easier for homebuyers to get a mortgage online
Diane Gherson, a senior vice president of human resources at IBM, is addressing the 'skills gap'
Jay Coen Gilbert, a cofounder of B Lab, is looking to move the world beyond shareholder primacy
Henry Golding, actor in "Crazy Rich Asians," is changing what it means to be a leading man in Hollywood
Scott Gottlieb has won rare bipartisan praise running the FDA
Sarita Gupta, a co-executive director of Jobs with Justice, is ensuring that 'the future of workers' isn't lost in the 'future of work'
Arlan Hamilton, the founder of Backstage Capital, is shaking up Silicon Valley's boys' club so that anyone with a good idea can be a startup founder
Nick Hanauer, the founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, has helped push minimum-wage increases across the US
Tristan Harris, director and cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, is on mission to end the harmful incentives of screen time
Lori Heinel, deputy global chief investment officer at State Street Global Advisors, is championing a gender-diversity revolution in corporate America
Rachel Holt, the head of new mobility at Uber, is helping people live car-free
Barry Hurewitz, global head of UBS Evidence Lab Innovations, is redefining how investors use 'alternative data'
Bob Iger, the chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co., is leading the biggest entertainment company in the world through an industry-shaking merger
Omer Ismail, head of digital finance for the Americas at Goldman Sachs, is creating a startup culture within a vaunted Wall Street bank
Lisa Jackson, the vice president of environment, policy, and social initiatives at Apple, is showing the world that corporate success and environmental responsibility are a winning formula
Patty Jenkins, director of "Wonder Woman" and the upcoming sequel "Wonder Woman 1984," has become a role model to aspiring female filmmakers
Karen Karniol-Tambour, head of investment research at Bridgewater Associates, is the millennial overseeing a major operation at the world's largest hedge fund
Mary Kay Henry, the president of Service Employees International Union, is fighting to raise the minimum wage
Chida Khatua, cofounder and CEO of EquBot, is the first CEO to merge artificial intelligence and traditional stock picking into a product anyone can invest in
Manish Kohli, global head of payments and receivables at Citigroup, is ramping up the bank's hugely important payments business through tech
Marko Kolanovic, global head of equity and derivatives strategy at JPMorgan, brought quant criticism into the mainstream
John Krafcik, the CEO of Waymo, led the development of the first autonomous, commercial ride-hailing service in the US
Annie Lamont, the cofounder of Oak HC/FT, is betting on companies that can lower the cost of healthcare and make going to the doctor less terrible
Tim League, the founder and CEO of Alamo Drafthouse, has crafted one of the most popular theater chains in the US
Andrew Left, founder of Citron Research, is a short seller who moves markets with his tweets
Jessica Lessin, the CEO of The Information, challenged conventional wisdom about subscriptions
Tara Walpert Levy, the VP of agency solutions for Google and YouTube, is keeping controversy-shy advertisers on YouTube
Kenneth Lin, founder and CEO of Credit Karma, is transforming the credit-score business
Howie Liu, Andrew Ofstad, and Emmet Nicholas, the founders of Airtable, want to let anyone build an app, even if they can't code
Tobi Lutke, the founder and CEO of Shopify, is giving Amazon a run for its money
Karen Lynch, the president of Aetna, is meeting members at the CVS pharmacies in their communities
Fernando Machado, the global CMO of Burger King, is responsible for some of the fast-food giant's most creative campaigns
Shoaib Makani, cofounder and CEO of KeepTruckin, is changing the industry through the digitization of logging systems
Rose Marcario, the CEO of Patagonia, has managed to prioritize environmental policies while growing the business
Anna Mason, a partner at Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, is invigorating nascent startup scenes across the US
Heather Meeker is helping small software startups come up with new ways to compete with Big Tech
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is trying to transform how people get around with electric cars and futuristic concepts like the Hyperloop
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is betting the company's future on AI and augmented reality
David Neeleman, the founder of JetBlue and Azul, is working to bring affordable air travel to underserved communities
Lisa Nishimura, VP of independent film and documentary features at Netflix, has helped usher in a golden age of documentary
Steven Pearson, the founder of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, is preparing us for tough decisions about costly drugs
Marc Pritchard, the chief brand officer at Procter & Gamble, has been a voice of conscience for the marketing industry
Jeff Raider, CEO of Harry's Labs, helped popularize direct-to-consumer brands
Toni Reid, VP of Amazon Alexa experience and Echo Devices at Amazon, is pioneering the next major computing platform
Shonda Rhimes, writer and producer and founder of Shondaland, changed the balance of power in the TV industry
Huw Richards, head of digital banking at JPMorgan, is shedding banker pitchbooks for data and insights
Amazon Web Services' Debanjan Saha is taking on the old guard of Silicon Valley
Peter Scher, the head of corporate responsibility at JPMorgan Chase, is investing in underdeveloped cities around the world
Tina Sharkey, cofounder and cochair of Brandless, is redefining brands
GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij is helping programmers work together, no matter where they are
Bonny Simi, the president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, is investing in innovations that will transform the way people fly
Google's Aparna Sinha is leading the software project that's quietly shaking up Silicon Valley
Sarjoun Skaff, cofounder and chief technology officer at Bossa Nova Robotics, is building robots for the store of the future
Greg Smith, Walmart US executive vice president of supply chain, is using automation to help make one of the world's biggest transportation companies more efficient
Masayoshi Son, the CEO and chairman of SoftBank Group, is Silicon Valley's new kingmaker, with a $100 billion treasure chest
Jon Stein, CEO of Betterment, founded the first unicorn robo-advisor
Adam Sussman, the vice president and general manager of Nike Direct digital and geographies, is leading a fundamental shift at the sports retailer
Toby Sun, cofounder and CEO of Lime, is rolling out new methods of transportation in cities worldwide
Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic Games, is taking the game industry into uncharted territory
Tal Tamir, the CEO and founder of Wiliot, is building battery-free chips that harness energy from radio signals
PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada is sounding the alarm when software goes bad
Vlad Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, the cofounders of Robinhood, built the go-to online brokerage for millennials
Hans Vestberg, CEO of Verizon, is leading the way for the spread of 5G
Elizabeth Warren, the US senator from Massachusetts (D), is fighting to improve capitalism
Emily Weiss, the founder of Glossier, is upending the beauty industry
Brian Whipple, the CEO at Accenture Interactive, is disrupting traditional ad agencies
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, founders of Gemini, are bringing transparency to the crypto market
Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe, is helping people learn what their DNA could mean for their identity and their health
Linda Yaccarino, the chair of advertising sales and client partnerships at NBCUniversal, is pushing for innovation to preserve the $70 billion TV business
Slack VP of product Tamar Yehoshua is building a smarter way for people to talk to each other at work
Heidi Zak, cofounder and co-CEO of ThirdLove, is challenging the way women shop for bras
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