Bill McDermott

McDermott was born to be a CEO. The native New Yorker bought his first company at the age of 16 (a delicatessen on Long Island). He s been co CEO of SAP AG since February 7, 2010 the U.S. partner to his Danish born counterpart, co CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe. McDermot is SAP s strategy and sales guru. He s fending off countless upstarts trying to break SAP s steady hold on the financial software market.