Ajay Banga, Satya Nadella among world’s top 50 business leaders: Fortune




MasterCard’s Ajay Banga and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella have been named among the top 50 global business leaders by Fortune magazine, a list that is topped by Nike’s Mike Parker. Both Banga and Nadella are India-origin CEOs. While global payment solutions provider MasterCard’s Banga is ranked at the fifth position, software giant Microsoft’s Nadella is placed at the 47th spot.

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is at the second place,followed by Electronic Arts’ CEO Andrew Wilson (3), Apple’sTim Cook (4), Ulta Beauty’s Mary Dillon (6), Xiaomi’s Lei Jun(7), Uber’s Travis Kalanick (8), Chipotle’s Steve Ells andMontgomery Moran (9) and Biogen’s George Scangos (10). All of them are Chief Executive Officers.

Cognizant’s India-origin chief Francisco D’Souza is at the 16th spot. Others in the list include Alphabet’s LarryPage (11), Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz (12), Alibaba’sChairman Jack Ma (25) and Priceline CEO Darren Huston (44).

Sports apparel maker Nike’s Parker has been named as’Business Person of 2015′.

The rankings are based on ten metrics including financial results — which formed the backbone of the analysis — along with stock performance and total shareholder returns over thesame periods and factored in each’s ratio of debt to capital,Fortune said.