New York:
Google's Larry Page has emerged as the 'business person
of the year' for 2014, edging past the likes of Alibaba co-founder Jack
Ma and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to Fortune magazine.
Page,
who is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of Google, came on
top in the 20 global corporate leaders' list compiled on the basis of
various factors including company's performance, leadership style and
total shareholder returns, the magazine said while bringing out its
list.
Apart from Jack Ma and Zuckerberg, others in the race
included Apple's Tim Cook and fast food chain Chipotle co-CEOs --
Montgomery Moran and Steve Ells-- and Fedex chairman & CEO Fred
Smith.
Besides,
five women have made the cut to the top 20 list. Interestingly,
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, who led Fortune list in 2012, failed to make in to
the top 20 list.
As Google's core business continues to thrive,
Page, who topped the list, is making "huge bets on new technology
-ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband- that could
define the future," the magazine noted.
Page and his company have packed a lot of evolution into just over 15 years of existence, it added.
The
women contenders were Ultra Beauty CEO Mary Dillon, ITT CEO and
President Denise Ramos, TJX Cos CEO Carol Meyrotwiz, Theranos Founder
and CEO Elizabeth Holmes and Williams-Sonoma President and CEO Laura
Alber.
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