Year end is time for recaps. Time to ponder over the months passed by. As 2010, draws to a close, ever wondered who are top-earning CEOs of the decade? CEOs who over the years have been a constant in the highest paid corporate honchos listings. CEOs who in a decade marred by corporate bankruptcies, accounting scandals, dotcom bust and a severe recession, continued to command high salaries due to the value they bring to their organisations. This despite the severe investors scrutiny faced by these public companies.
I present to you a list of IT CEOS who retained their position in the highest-paid bracket over the past ten years. The list is based on a Wall Street Journal report that listed 25 highest-paid executives of the past decade across industries. Here's over to the highest-paid technology CEOs from the list.
1.Lawrence J Ellison, Oracle
Total realised compensation: $1,835.70 million
Salary: $6.70 million
Bonus: $41.60 million
Restricted stock: $0.00
Gains on options: $1,778.30 million
Other compensation: $9.10 million
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $316.64 million
2.Steve Jobs, Apple
Total realised compensation: $748.80 million
Salary: $0.00
Bonus: $45.80 million
Restricted stock: $646.60 million
Gains on options: $14.60 million
Other compensation: $41.80 million
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $1,171.00 million
3.Terry S Semel, Yahoo
Total realised compensation: $489.60 million
Salary: $2.80 million
Bonus: $0.90 million
Restricted stock: $0.00
Gains on options: $485.80 million
Other compensation: $0.10 million
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $278.69 million
4.Michael S Dell, Dell
Total realised compensation: $453.80 million
Salary: $9.70 million
Bonus: $9.00 million
Restricted stock: $0.00
Gains on options: $429.20 million
Other compensation: $5.90 million
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $33.56 million
5.George David, United Technologies
Total realised compensation: $447.80 million
Salary: $13.60 million
Bonus: $42.10 million
Restricted stock: $11.70 million
Gains on options: $357.10 million
Other compensation: $23.40 million
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $253.36 million
6.Irwin Mark Jacobs, Qualcomm
Total realised compensation: $436.80 million
Salary: $7.10 million
Bonus: $6.00 million
Restricted stock: $0.00
Gains on options: $419.50 million
Other compensation: $4.20 million
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $191.90 million
7.John T Chambers, Cisco Systems
John T Chambers, Cisco Systems
Total realised compensation: $393.20 million
Salary: $2.40 million
Bonus: $14.00 million
Restricted stock: $0.50 million
Gains on options: $376.20 million
Other compensation: $0.00
Return on $100 investment in company stock: $70.86 million
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NEW DELHI: It was the fresh-faced, new occupant of 10, Downing Street, that set the ball rolling. Among David Cameron's first decisions as British PM was an announcement that he would take charge of UK-India relations and promptly set off with a planeload of businessmen and cabinet ministers on a discovery of India. It was a canny move.
Looking at India's heavily loaded diplomatic calendar, Cameron was a trailblazer of sorts. As the year rolls to a close, India's diplomats are busy rolling out the red carpet for the P-5. As a French diplomat observed, we haven't found another instance where all the P-5 nations have visited one country within a space of six months.
Of course, the biggie was the visit of US President Barack Obama, who did his own little discovery of India (but reserved the Taj Mahal for a later sojourn) and found that US presidents facing political pressures at home could be assured of a fun-filled week in India.
In January, the President of Iceland, Dr Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, created a political storm back in Reykjavik over the financial crisis sparked by I-Save, and disappeared to India for a week's state visit, stunning the Icelandics.
For French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who also faces domestic crises, the romance of the Taj and promise of the role of global statesman brought him on a four-city tour of India. He will be followed this week by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who will be on a dual mission — to show that China is actually trying to improve relations with India, and to reaffirm that Pakistan remains its topnotch ally.
And next week, it will be the turn of the annual summit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Russian presidents do an annual routine with India — there is a strong comfort factor there but every year they search for the same thing, how to make themselves more relevant in India beyond the defence sector. For all these heads of state visits, there's been a common thread — at least $20 billion of business deals with India Inc, which generates jobs back home, a strong civil society outreach (a stay at Taj Mahal hotel, Mumbai, is positively de rigueur) — and let's not forget the culture.
Read more: Big powers make beeline for India - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Big-powers-make-beeline-for-India/articleshow/7090255.cms#ixzz17xwpYdqR
