Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber Named Top CEO

June 29, 2021  by Laurie Northington in Business Strategy, Industry   

This year’s list focused on leaders who according to Barron’s, “met the challenge of COVID head on and positioned their companies to thrive well into the future.” Barron’s praised Williams-Sonoma, Inc. for navigating the pandemic with, “the right products and a robust e-commerce operation” under Alber’s leadership as well as the company’s commitments to gender equity and the environment highlighting a recent announcement of carbon neutrality for its operations by 2025.

The Barron’s Top CEOs 2021 list appears on the cover of the June 28, 2021 issue and includes the following top performing executives and organizations (in alphabetical order):

• Laura J. Alber, Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
• Craig Arnold, Eaton
• Stéphane Bancel, Moderna
• Mary Barra, General Motors
• Albert Bourla, Pfizer
• Tim Cook, Apple
• H. Lawrence Culp Jr., General Electric
• Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase
• Marvin Ellison, Lowe's
• Larry Fink, BlackRock
• Henry Fernandez, MSCI
• Adena Friedman, Nasdaq
• Tricia Griffith, Progressive
• Reed Hastings, Netflix
• Jensen Huang, Nvidia
• Aaron Jagdfeld, Generac
• Craig Jelinek, Costco Wholesale
• Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber Technologies
• Tobias Lütke, Shopify
• C. Douglas McMillon, Walmart
• Brian Moynihan, Bank of America
• Elon Musk, Tesla
• Satya Nadella, Microsoft
• Brian Niccol, Chipotle Mexican Grill
• James L. Robo, NextEra Energy
• Dan Schulman, PayPal
• Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices
• Michael Wirth, Chevron
• Eric Yuan, Zoom Video Communications
• Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

For Barron’s full article, click here.