1. Jensen Huang

Founder, President, CEO

Nvidia

Huang may have started Nvidia as a provider of specialty silicon for graphics in the 1990s, but the founder has radically expanded the chipmaker’s purview over the past decade and turned the company into the premier provider of accelerated computing solutions for AI, data analytics and beyond. Now he’s embarking on something even more radical: turning the GPU maker into a “full-stack computing company” by expanding its portfolio to CPUs, networking components, enterprise software and purpose-built systems, fueled by his belief that the future of data centers is “accelerated-disaggregated infrastructure.” It’s no wonder Intel is taking notes and formulating its own response