Longest-serving CEOs

Name: Longest-serving CEOs
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The chief executives who have run their publicly traded company the longest.

As of October 31, 2026.

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#	CEO	Company	CEO since	Years
1	Richard D. Fairbank	Capital One Financial Corporation	July 1994	32
2	Marc Benioff	Salesforce Inc.	March 1999	27
3	Kian Hwa Goh	Orangekloud Technology Inc.	June 2003	23
4	Nancy McKinstry	Wolters Kluwer N.V.	September 2003	23
5	Mark Zuckerberg	Meta Platforms Inc.	February 2004	22
6	Carl H. Lindner III	American Financial Group Inc.	January 2005	21
7	Shantanu Narayen	Adobe Inc.	December 2007	18
8	Elon Musk	Tesla Inc.	October 2008	18
9	Matthew Prince	Cloudflare Inc.	July 2009	17
10	Lars Boilesen	Otello Corporation ASA	January 2010	16
11	Lucian Grainge	Universal Music Group N.V.	January 2011	15
12	Steven H. Collis	Cencora Inc.	July 2011	15
13	Stephen Forbes Cooper	Warner Music Group Corp.	August 2011	15
14	Andres Gluski	The AES Corporation	September 2011	15
15	Paul Hermelin	Capgemini	April 2012	14
16	Ryan Michael Lance	ConocoPhillips	May 2012	14
17	F. Thomson Leighton	Akamai Technologies Inc.	January 2013	13
18	William S. Demchak	The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.	April 2013	13
19	Sebastien Bazin	Accor	August 2013	13
20	Alan H. Shaw	Norfolk Southern Corporation	November 2013	12
21	Mary T. Barra	General Motors Company	January 2014	12
22	Satya Nadella	Microsoft Corporation	February 2014	12
23	Lisa T. Su	Advanced Micro Devices Inc.	October 2014	12
24	Stéphane Pallez	La Francaise des Jeux	November 2014	11
25	Patrice Caine	Thales	December 2014	11
26	Glenn J. Williams	Primerica Inc.	April 2015	11
27	Giovanni Caforio	Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	May 2015	11
28	George Kurian	NetApp Inc.	July 2015	11
29	Yefang Zhang	Farmmi Inc.	July 2015	11
30	Stéphane Boujnah	Euronext N.V.	November 2015	10
31	Philippe Donnet	Assicurazioni Generali Societa' PER Azioni	March 2016	10
32	Roy Christopher Harvey	Alcoa Corporation	November 2016	9
33	Andre Guillaumon	Brasilagro Brazilian Agric Real Estate Co Sponsored	November 2016	9
34	Adena T. Friedman	Nasdaq Inc.	January 2017	9
35	George A. Scangos	Vir Biotechnology Inc.	January 2017	9
36	David A. Ricks	Eli Lilly and Company	January 2017	9
37	Gian Maria Mossa	Banca Generali - Societa' PER Azioni O in Forma Abbreviata: Generbanca	March 2017	9
38	Matteo Del Fante	Poste Italiane - Societa' PER Azioni	April 2017	9
39	Andrew Rees	Crocs Inc.	June 2017	9
40	Patrice Louvet	Ralph Lauren Corporation	July 2017	9
41	Feng Felix Zhou	China SXT Pharmaceuticals Inc.	July 2017	9
42	Alexandre Bompard	Carrefour	July 2017	9
43	Dara Khosrowshahi	Uber Technologies Inc.	August 2017	9
44	Edward D. Breen	DuPont de Nemours Inc.	September 2017	9
45	Stefano Felici	Technoprobe S.P.A.	October 2017	9
46	Minghui Raymond Lin	CLPS Incorporation	December 2017	8
47	Michael O'Grady	Northern Trust Corporation	January 2018	8
48	Antonio F. Neri	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company	February 2018	8
49	Benoît Coquart	Legrand	February 2018	8
50	Sumit Singh	Chewy Inc.	March 2018	8
51	Yves Chapot	Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin	May 2018	8
52	Nikesh Arora	Palo Alto Networks Inc.	June 2018	8
53	David M. Solomon	The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.	October 2018	8
54	H. Lawrence Culp Jr.	GE Aerospace	October 2018	8
55	Ramon Laguarta	PepsiCo Inc.	October 2018	8
56	Craig Warren Peters	Getty Images Holdings Inc.	January 2019	7
57	Albert Bourla	Pfizer Inc.	January 2019	7
58	Kathy J. Warden	Northrop Grumman Corporation	January 2019	7
59	David Simon	Simon Property Group Inc.	February 2019	7
60	Daniel Patrick O'Day	Gilead Sciences Inc.	March 2019	7
61	Federico Trucco	Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp.	March 2019	7
62	Guillaume Faury	Airbus SE	April 2019	7
63	Marco Beenen	BW Offshore Limited	July 2019	7
64	Charles W. Scharf	Wells Fargo & Company	October 2019	7
65	John C. May II	Deere & Company	November 2019	6
66	Sundar Pichai	Alphabet Inc.	December 2019	6
67	Hayden Brown	Upwork Inc.	January 2020	6
68	Zhuoqin Huang	Pop Culture Group Co. Ltd	January 2020	6
69	Reshma Kewalramani	Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	April 2020	6
70	Arvind Krishna	International Business Machines Corporation	April 2020	6
71	Geoffrey Martha	Medtronic plc.	April 2020	6
72	William F. Gifford Jr.	Altria Group Inc.	April 2020	6
73	Robert Swaak	ABN AMRO Bank N.V.	April 2020	6
74	Jamie Iannone	eBay Inc.	April 2020	6
75	James D. Taiclet Jr.	Lockheed Martin Corporation	June 2020	6
76	David Grant Jemmett	CISO Global Inc.	June 2020	6
77	David Loew	Ipsen	July 2020	6
78	Andreas Waage Enger	Höegh Autoliners ASA	September 2020	6
79	Linda J. Rendle	The Clorox Company	September 2020	6
80	Sverre Molvik	Selvaag Bolig ASA	October 2020	6
81	Anders Opedal	Equinor ASA	November 2020	5
82	Tony Xu	DoorDash Inc.	December 2020	5
83	Michael Miebach	Mastercard Incorporated	January 2021	5
84	Patricia K. Poppe	Pacific Gas & Electric Co.	January 2021	5
85	Anthony Capuano	Marriott International	February 2021	5
86	Jane Nind Fraser	Citigroup Inc.	February 2021	5
87	Stefan Larsson	PVH Corp.	February 2021	5
88	Ganesh Moorthy	Microchip Technology Incorporated	March 2021	5
89	Marc J. Rowan	Apollo Global Management Inc. (New)	March 2021	5
90	Nicolas Hieronimus	L'oreal	May 2021	5
91	Valérie Baudson	Amundi	May 2021	5
92	Yongxu Liu	Shengfeng Development Limited	May 2021	5
93	Dominique Thillaud	Compagnie des Alpes	June 2021	5
94	Robert Lawrence Brainin	Champions Oncology Inc.	June 2021	5
95	Cristiano R. Amon	QUALCOMM Incorporated	June 2021	5
96	Benoit Bazin	Compagnie de Saint-Gobain	July 2021	5
97	Bent Martini	Havila Kystruten as	August 2021	5
98	Henrik Golfetto Høye	Protector Forsikring ASA	September 2021	5
99	Yamini Rangan	HubSpot Inc.	September 2021	5
100	Jon R. Moeller	The Procter & Gamble Company	November 2021	4

How this ranking is built

Current chief executives of publicly traded companies with a known start date, ordered by that date. Start dates come from SEC Form 3 filings, Wikidata and staff research; a CEO whose start date we do not know is left out.

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