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The honorees—including CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and chief product officers—are advancing AI, strengthening cybersecurity, modernizing digital infrastructure, and reshaping how some of the world’s largest organizations operate, compete, and grow. The list launches _TIME Executives of the Year_, a new editorial platform recognizing and convening the influential leaders driving change across the most consequential functions in business. TIME plans to expand _Executives of the Year_ into additional fields in the year ahead. \--See the TIME Executives of the Year: Tech and Data list: [here](https://time.com/collection/executives-of-the-year-tech-data/2026/) _Of the 2026 Executives of the Year: Tech and Data list, TIME editors write:_ “At a moment when emerging technologies are driving both the global economy and the news cycle, business leaders must not only keep up with an industry moving at a breakneck pace—they must look around the corner at what’s next…These leaders and their fellow honorees are the catalysts of some of the most consequential transformations taking place across modern enterprise—translating innovation into meaning.” **Read more** [**here**](https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/how-we-chose-executives-of-the-year-tech-data/). “Some of the most consequential decisions in business today are being made by the executives determining how companies adopt new technologies, protect their systems, use their data, and prepare for what comes next,” said **Dan Macsai**, TIME’s executive editor and chief strategy officer. “_Executives of the Year_ gives TIME a new platform to recognize and bring together these influential leaders. In the year ahead, we look forward to expanding the franchise across more fields and welcoming more of the people shaping the future of business into the TIME community.” TIME’s 2026 EXECUTIVES OF THE YEAR: TECH AND DATA LIST INCLUDES: **Elizabeth Stone**, chief product and technology officer at Netflix **Mikhail Parakhin**, chief technology officer at Shopify **Marco Argenti**, chief information officer at Goldman Sachs **Sean McCormack**, chief information and AI officer at First Student **Suresh Kumar**, executive vice president, global chief technology officer, and chief development officer at Walmart **Dawn Baker**, chief technology officer at Back Market **Franziska Bell**, executive vice president and chief technology officer at The Home Depot **Michael Friedlander**, chief information officer of the Americas at The Magnum Ice Cream Company **Naveen Zutshi**, chief information officer at Databricks **Bartley Richardson**, chief AI and autonomous systems officer at CrowdStrike **Dane Knecht**, chief technical officer at Cloudflare **Fiona Tan**, chief technology officer at Wayfair **Klara Jelinkova**, vice president and university chief information officer at Harvard University **Selena Deckelmann**, chief product and technology officer at Wikimedia Foundation **Dennis Hancock**, chief information officer and executive vice president at Pfizer **Diogo Rau**, executive vice president and chief information and digital officer at Eli Lilly and Company **Mike Bidgoli**, chief product and technology officer at Tubi **David Griffiths**, group head of artificial intelligence at Citi **Seemantini Godbole**, executive vice president and chief information and AI officer at Lowe's **Ogi Redzic**, chief digital officer and senior vice president at Caterpillar Inc. **Monica Caldas**, executive vice president and global chief information officer at Liberty Mutual **Gary Brantley**, senior vice president and chief information officer at the NFL **Bill Pappas**, executive vice president and head of global technology and operations at MetLife **Hannah Poferl**, chief data officer at Universal Music Group **Amala Duggirala**, executive vice president and chief digital and technology officer at Delta Air Lines **Drew Pinto**, executive vice president and chief revenue and technology officer at Marriott International **Keyur Govande**, chief technology officer at Depop **Kathleen Grace**, chief AI officer at Lionsgate **Amit Puntambekar**, chief technology officer at Reddit **Hari Gopalkrishnan**, chief technology and information officer at Bank of America **Lan Guan**, chief AI and data officer at Accenture **John Roese**, global chief technology officer and chief AI officer at Dell Technologies **Matt Madrigal**, chief product and technology officer at Pinterest **Jennifer Hartsock**, executive vice president and chief information and digital officer at Cargill **Tilak Mandadi**, executive vice president of ventures and chief experience and technology officer at CVS Health **Ekta Chopra**, chief technology and AI officer at E.l.f. Beauty **Andy Markus**, senior vice president and chief data and AI officer at AT&T **Bridget Frey**, chief technology officer at Redfin and chief data officer at Rocket **Asmita Dubey**, chief digital and marketing officer at L’Oréal Groupe **Severin Hacker**, co-founder and builder/member of technical staff at Duolingo **Firdaus Bhathena**, executive vice president and chief technology and transformation officer at S&P Global **Charu Jain**, senior vice president of merchandising and innovation at Alaska Airlines **Felix Ike**, co-founder and chief technology officer at Moniepoint **Vijaye Raji**, chief technology officer of applications at OpenAI **Rahul Patil**, chief technology officer at Anthropic **Suthen Thomas Paradatheth**, chief technology officer at Grab **Peter Salanki**, co-founder and chief technology officer at CoreWeave **Sagnik Nandy**, chief technology officer at DocuSign **Matthias Spycher**, chief technology officer at Fanatics Commerce **Sven Gerjets**, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Gap Inc. **TIME TO HOST TIME IMPACT DINNER EXECUTIVES OF THE YEAR: TECH AND DATA** TIME will host the _TIME Impact Dinner - Executives of the Year: Tech and Data_, bringing together influential leaders from across business and technology for an evening of connection, conversation, and celebration. The evening will include honoree remarks and a featured discussion exploring how technology and data are reshaping the modern enterprise and defining what comes next. Featured speakers will include chief product and technology officer of the Wikimedia Foundation **Selena Deckelmann**, senior vice president andchief information officer of the NFL **Gary Brantley,** chief technology officer of Rokt, **Sam Dozor,** and more. TIME Executives of the Year: Tech and Data is presented by premier sponsor **Rokt**, the global leader in ecommerce using AI to make every transaction more relevant and joyful. _++ Through a branded content partnership that will be recognized during the_ TIME Impact Dinner - Executives of the Year: Tech and Data _event, Commvault named the TIME + Commvault CISO of the Year:_ TIME + Commvault CISO OF THE YEAR -- [Alex Levy of BNSF Railway](https://time.com/branded-content/commvault/meet-the-ciso-of-the-year-alex-levy) _In partnership with Commvault_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/time-names-inaugural-list-of-executives-of-the-year-tech-and-data/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/time-names-inaugural-list-of-executives-of-the-year-tech-and-data/"},"headline":"TIME Names Inaugural List of Executives of the Year: Tech and Data","datePublished":"2026-09-22T13:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-09-22T13:14:10.702Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/time-names-inaugural-list-of-executives-of-the-year-tech-and-data/","keywords":["Press Room"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebfc6d8ef861cc98/6ab27650e8ddf8c7ce375080/EXECS-FOR-PR-16-x-9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME PR","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-pr/"}],"articleSection":"Press Room","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltebfc6d8ef861cc98/6ab27650e8ddf8c7ce375080/EXECS-FOR-PR-16-x-9.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"EXECS-FOR-PR-16-x-9.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/press-room/","name":"Press Room"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/press-room/","name":"Press Room"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/09/22/time-names-inaugural-list-of-executives-of-the-year-tech-and-data/","name":"TIME Names Inaugural List of Executives of the Year: Tech and Data"}}]}] ```