I never know when a person or a company takes me for an exhilarating ride. This list offers potential for that.


above: head on, by Cai Guo-Qiang

The order is not mine but taken from FastCompany latest issue, so late in fact that this was compiled the old fashioned way, no cut and paste.

1) Jonathan Ive senior vice president of industrial design. Apple
Melinda Gates cochair, trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Shai Agassi chief executive officer, Better Place
Reed Hastings chief executive officer, Netflix
5) Rich Ross president, Disney Channels Worldwide
Sandy Bodecker vice president global design, Nike
Tero Ojanpera executive vice president, Nokia
Michele Ganeless president, Comedy Central
Jon Rebinstein executive chairman, Palm
10) Jame Schamus chief executive officer, Focus Features
Prith Banerjee director, HP Labs
John Garing chief information officer, Defense Information Systems
Stella McCartney, fashion designer
J.J. Abrams founder, Bad Robot Productions
15) Thom Mayne design director, Morphosis
Dave Morin senior platform manager, Facebook
Stephen Chau product manager, Google Maps and Google Earth
Susan Athey chief economist, Microsoft
Trish Adams senior vice president of merchandising, Target
20) Dawn Danby sustainable design program manager, Autodesk
Tyler Perry owner, Tyler Perry Studios
Damien Hirst artist
Ed Leonard chief technology officer, DreamWorks Animation
Jil Sander designer – creative director, Uniglo
25) Dietrich Mateschitz chief executive officer, Red Bull
Sheila Bair chairman, FDIC
Brenda L. Dietrich vice president, business analytics and mathmatical sciences, IBM
Kazunori Yamauchi president, Polyphony Digital
Alexandra Patsavas owner, Chop Shop Music Supervision
30) George Whitesides inventer – cofounder, Nano-Terra
Hayao Miyazaki cofounder, Studio Ghibli
Lee Clow global director of media arts, TBWAWorldwide
Padmasree Warrior chief technology officer, Cisco
Evan Williams chief executive officer, Twitter
35) Peter Senge founding chairman, Society for Organization Learning
Pharrell Williams musician, producer, cofounder, Billionaire Boys Club
Shai Reshef founder, University of the People
Norman Foster principal, Foster + Partners
Greg Hahn executive creative director, BBDO
40) Neil Gaiman author, screenwriter
Maurice Sendak writer, illustrator, producer
Marc Jacobs fashion designer, LVMH
Neri Oxman presidential fellow, MIT Media Lab
Jean-Georges Vongerichten chef
45) Genevieve Bell director of user experience, Intel Digital Home Group
Jim Jannard chief executive officer, Red Digital Cinema
A.R. Rahman composer
Jimmy Lovine chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records
Tyra Banks founder, Bankable Enterprises
50) Lisa Ellis partner, Fireman Capital
Blaise Aguera Y Arcas partner architect, MSN and Microsoft Virtual Earth
Kyle Cooper president, Prologue Films
Sherilyn McCoy worldwide chairman pharmaceutical group
Masamichi Katayama principal, Wonderwall
55) Greg Gillis ( aka Girl Talk ) mashup artist
Charles Rivkin president, chief executive officer, W!ldbrain
Susan Wu chief executive officer, Ohai
June Arunga equity partner, Black Star Lines
Noah Brier head of strategic planning, Barbarian Group
60) Josh Schwartz television producer, writer
Nora Ephron author, director, producer
Hussein Chalayan creative director, Puma
Henrik Werdelin chief creative officer, Joost
Bart Decrem chief creative officer, Tapulous
65) Consuelo Castiglioni creative director, Marni
Bonnie Hammer president, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment
Julieanne Kost senior digital-imagin evangelist, Adobe
Zaha Hadid principal, Zaha Hadid Architects
Dave Stewart musician and record producer
70) Brian Donnelly ( aka Kaws ) artist, designer, owner, OriginalFake
Dr. Anthony Atala director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Saul Griffith inventor, cofounder, Makani Power
Dan Barber executive chef, co-owner, Blue Hill Restaurants
Gary Hustwit director, founder, Plexifilm
75) Sam Houser cofounder, Rockstar Games
Piet Oudolf garden designer, Future Plants
Joy Mangano president, Ingenious Designs
David Wiley professor, Brigham Young University
Ed Ulbrich executive vice president of production, Digital Domain
80) Jane McGonigal director of game R&D, Institute of the Future
Karin Hibma and Michael Cronan chief financial officer, chief executive officer, Cronan
Brian Eno musician
Jessica Buttimer director, green works, Clorox
85) Dr. Pier Giulianotti chief of minimally invasive, general, and robotic surgery
Cai Guo-Qiang artist
Joseph Coughlin director, MIT AgeLab
Karin Fong creative director, Imaginary Forces
90) Thom Beers, chief executive officer, producer, Original Productions
Will Allen, chief executive officer, Growing Power
Simon Collins, dean of fashion, Parsons The New School for Design
Bill Bensley, principal, Bensley Design Studios
Kevin Adams, lighting designer
95) Kohei Nishiyama, chief executive officer, Elephant Design
John Swanson, light-rail designer, Parsons Brinkerhoff
Richard Gelfond, chief executive officer, Imax
Scott Schuman, blogger, The Sartorialist
Jenova Chen, creative director, Thatgamecompany
Chris Ferguson, founder, Full Tilt Poker