Zach Nelson

NetSuite was founded in 1998, the brainchild (at least in part) of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, before people understood cloud computing or software as a service. Nelson has been its CEO for most that time (since 2002). He s walking a fine line now between Ellison s other company, Oracle, which has recently launched into the cloud, and Oracle s biggest competitor, SAP. Nelson is helping mid sized companies use the cloud. He s making progress, too. NetSuite logged a record $308.8 million in revenue for 2012.