Aditya Puri, MD and CEO of HDFC Bank, is in the list of 30 best CEOs, published by American financial magazine Barron’s. Barron’s said this year seven new CEOs have been added to the list – Robert Iger of Walt Disney, Joseph Jimenez at Novartis, Macy’sTerry Lundgren, Sergio Marchionne at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Larry Merlo at CVS Health, Kevin Plank at Under Armour and Aditya Puri, MD, HDFC Bank. The magazine said Apple’s Steve Jobs would surely have stayed on the list, if he were still alive. Jobs made the original list and remained there each year until his death in 2011. Jobs’ successor Tim Cook has joined the group this year. All the 30 CEOs listed hail from all parts of the globe. While 20 of them are from the companies based in US, five are from Europe, and as many are Asian, it said. “Of the 30 CEOs in our original feature, seven have kept their jobs and only two remain on our list – Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and Michael O’Leary of Ryanair Holdings,” Barron’s said while announcing the 11th edition of annual best CEOs, 2015.
