bankruptcy to a global leadership position.• Built the Ford brand by emphasizing the critical ingredients that make a Ford a Ford• Ford opened one assembly plant in China, expanded another, and started building a third.• In India, Ford tripled sales in 2010.3.Steve Jobs: CEO and Founder of AppleCompany profile: Apple designs and creates iPod and iTunes, Mac laptop and desktop computers, the OS X operating system, and the revolutionary iPhone and iPad. Apple move from strength to strengthAchievements in 2010:• Introduced the game-changing iPad months • Apple's 50% stock appreciation this year took it soaring past Microsoft to become the most valuable technology company on earth and second largest in capitalization only to Exxon Mobile.4.Mark Zuckerberg: CEO and Founder of Facebook.Company profile: The website Mark Zuckerberg founded six years ago in his Harvard dorm room has now registered more than 500 million users globally, and half of them log in every single day. Achievements in 2010:• Extended this capability to mobile platforms as well. • For example, users can now check in with Facebook Places, a feature that notes their locations as status updates• Facebook gained $1.3 billion in 2010, mostly from display advertising.5.Ellen Kullman: CEO and Founder of Facebook.Company profile: Dupont is one of the third largest chemical factory in the world. Nearly 40% of DuPont's 2009 revenues came from products that were introduced in the past five years…Kullman expects the 70 research centers the company operates around the world to keep the new stuff coming.Achievements in 2010:• Her innovative techniques increased DuPont stock is up 41% this year• She made one year ago to increase earnings over the next three years by an annual compound rate of 20%. She's on pace to shatter that mark this year,.• Her earnings per share will probably increase by more than 50%.6. Robin Li: CEO of Baidu.Company Profile: It's a Hong-kong based search engine company. When Google stopped censoring its search results in China and redirected Chinese searchers to its Hong Kong site, the company's market share began tanking -- and there to take up the slack was Robin Li's Baidu. Baidu, which already led the Chinese market, is now a juggernaut. Achievements in 2010:• Its end-of-2009 market share of 58% is now up to an amazing 73%. • With some 8.5 billion search requests a month, it's poised to overtake Yahoo as the world's second-largest search outfit.7.Larry Ellison: CEO and Founder of OracleCompany Profile: Oracle is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.Achievements in 2010:• Oracle is doing well $12 billion in cash, $1.9 billion in operating income.• In November he announced plans to buy Art Technology Group for $1 billion8.Warren Buffett,:CEO and founder of Berkshire Hathaway: Company Profile: A diversified company with major interest in GEICO, life insurance, annuity sales and sales of jewelry. Headquartered in Omaha,