Tom Georgens CEO NetApp

In the storage industry NetApp has become the Pepsi to EMC s Coke, albeit NetApp is far smaller than EMC. Georgens has been CEO since 2009. He studied at EMC s knee, spending 11 years in engineering before becoming CEO of LSI Logic s storage unit Engenio until NetApp bought Engenio for $480 million in 2011. Under Georgens, NetApp has grown revenue from about $4 billion in 2010 to over $6 billion in 2012.