The 10 most talented people in technology

   

1. Tim Cook, Apple

Tim Cook As Apple's chief operating officer, Tim Cook turned what Fortune called the atrocious state of Apples manufacturing, distribution and supply apparatus the extraordinary and extraordinarily profitable machine.




2.Jeff Bezos, Amazon

The Amazon founder and CEO as the spiritual heir to the late Steve Jobs, and while he may lack Jobs' showmanship he has a Jobs-esque ability to see into the future - and he uses that ability to dominate markets before most people even know they exist. Amazon dominated bookselling, then online retail; Android tablets



3. Jonathan Ive, Apple

Jonathan Ive One of the most influential and imitated designers the world has ever seen - his original iMac even influenced toasters and sex toys - Jonathan Ive is responsible for an incredible range of stunning hardware. To have just one of his creations on a CV would be pretty impressive, the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro




4. Marissa Mayer, Google

Mayer is famed for her ability to spot, implement and improve bright ideas, and after years in charge of management and design for Google's many products she's now Google's vice-president in charge of local, mobile and contextual services.




5. Joichi Ito, MIT

Joichi Joi Ito many hats include chairman of Creative Commons director of the MIT Media Lab, Mozilla board member, venture capitalist, human rights activist, World of Warcraft guild master and being one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers many hats include chairman of Creative Commons, director of the MIT Media Lab, Mozilla board member, venture capitalist, human rights activist, World of Warcraft guild master and being one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers.







6. Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo

Has anybody in the technology industry spread more joy than Shigeru Miyamoto The gaming legend's CV includes Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, Pikmin and Nintendogs, and he's variously been called the guru of gaming the father of modern videogames and the god of the videogames industry.

7. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg: Sandberg is the brains behind Facebook, where she "oversees the company's business operations including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communications." In other words, she runs the place




8. Gabe Newell, Valve

The plain-speaking former Microsoft man co-founded Valve, the publisher responsible for triple-A games including the Half-Life series, Team Fortress and Portal. Its incredibly profitable Steam service means that Valve is tremendously rich, but Valve's really impressive achievement is to make all that money while being almost universally adored among gamers




9. Sundar Pichai, Google

According to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, Google paid Sundar Pichai "tens of millions of dollars" to stay with Google instead of jumping ship to Twitter. That was probably a bargain: under his watch, Chrome has gone from zero to hero, overtaking Firefox in market share in late 2011.




10. Marc Benioff, Salesforce

The multi-award winning chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com calls himself "a student of Steve Jobs", but he's come a long way from his days writing assembly language for Apple: quick to spot the potential of cloud computing, Benioff declared war on traditional software and built a $16 billion business.