TIME names 50 Tech and Data Executives of the Year—but where are the leaders beyond the spotlight?
TIME has unveiled its inaugural Executives of the Year: Tech and Data list, recognising 50 senior leaders influencing how major organisations adopt AI, use data, strengthen cybersecurity and modernise their technology.
The list includes executives from Netflix, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, OpenAI, Anthropic, Reddit, Bank of America, Dell Technologies, Pfizer, CrowdStrike and Accenture.
Among those recognised are Elizabeth Stone, chief product and technology officer at Netflix; Suresh Kumar, global CTO at Walmart; Lan Guan, chief AI and data officer at Accenture; Rahul Patil, CTO at Anthropic; and Vijaye Raji, CTO of Applications at OpenAI.
It is an impressive collection—but also one dominated by enormous global businesses and technology’s increasingly familiar “celebrity CXOs”.
Some of the most revealing transformation stories are happening outside that spotlight: inside organisations where budgets are finite, legacy systems are real and meaningful change depends on leadership, judgement and persistence.
Those are the stories Digital Edge exists to tell.
We go inside the organisations being transformed by technology and meet the leaders making it happen—not simply to discuss the announcement or polished result, but the decisions, challenges and human judgement behind it.
Technology. Leadership. What Comes Next?
Source: TIME PR. Published 22 September 2026.
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