Top CEOs who rule social media

LinkedIn had come up with a survey of the top CEOs of the fortune 500 companies. We here give you the Top 10 CEOs you must follow on the social networking sites.

1. Richard Branson: This 63 year old business magnate and investor, is best known as the founder of Virgin Group. He started his venture at an early age of 16 with a magazine called Student. Then he went on to set up a mail-order record business, which later came to be known as the Virgin Megastores. He is also the 4th richest citizen of United Kingdom, according to Forbes 2012 list of billionairs.

2. Jeff Weiner: This young man started the business related social networking website- LinkedIn in 2008 as the Interim President. His hard work and the use of American Business skills helped the website to reach sky heights. He soon became the CEO of the company.

 

3. Marissa Mayer: This 38 year old young lady, was the key spokesperson for Google. She became the CEO and President of Yahoo in july 2012. She was ranked 14th on the list of most powerfull business women of 2012 by Fortune Magazine, and the 32nd most powerfull women of 2013 in Forbes Magazine.

 

4. Arianna Huff: This Greek Americanauthour is best known for her news website, The Huffington post. In 2009, she was teh 12th in Forbes First List of Most Influential Women in Media. Even after Huffington Post was acquired by AOL, she continued to remain the President and the Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post Media group. 

5. Elon Musk: The 42 year old graduate from Queens School Of Business, founded Space X, Tesla Motors and also co-founded Pay Pal. He is a self taught computer programmer and sold the computer code for a video game at the age of 12.

 

6. Anand Mahindra: This 58 year old graduate from Harvard College, is presently, the chairman and the managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra. He ranked 68 in India's Rich List of 2011 in Forbes.

 

7. Kaifu Lee: This 51 year chairman and CEO of Innovative Works, is a Chinese IT Venture capitalist, Executive, writer and micro-blogger. He became the focus of the legal dispute between Google and Microsoft.

 

8. Jeffrey R. Immelt: This American Business executive is currently the chairman of the board and executive officer of the US based conglomerate, General Electric.

 

9. Jack Welch: The founder of Welch Management Institute is an AMerican business executive, Authour and Chemical Engineer. He was earlier the CEO of GE between 1981 and 2001.

 

10. Angela Ahrendts: The 53 year CEO of Burberry Groups is a graduate from Ball State University. Before Burberry, she was the executive Vice President at Liz Caliborne Inc.