Our Rockstar CEOs

Our Rockstar CEOs
Mainfreight's Don Braid has helped create $7.6b of value for the logistics group's shareholders.
Brian Gaynor
We live in an era of rockstar chief executives. These are individuals, mainly men, who run large and successful listed companies and generate huge media attention, either because of their success, wealth, opinions or occasionally their personal lives.The North American CEOs who come to mind are Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Tim Cook (Apple), Elon Musk (Tesla), Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway).Across the Tasman there is Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian), Greg Goodman (Goodman Group), Alan Joyce (...

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