http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/leadership/default.aspx
http://www.samsung.com/uk/aboutsamsung/management/boardofdirectors.html
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/executive/index.html
http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/corporate-governance/group-executive-board
http://www.canon.com/corp/executive.html
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html
And take a look at this list of founding CEOs from Ben Horowiz’s blog:
Acer—Stan Shih
Adobe—John Warnock
Amazon – Jeff Bezos
AMD—Jerry Sanders III
Apple – Steve Jobs
DEC—Ken Olsen
Dell—Michael Dell
EA—Trip Hawkins
EDS —Ross Perot
Hewlett-Packard—Dave Packard
IBM—Thomas Watson, Sr. (*)
Intel—Andy Grove (*)
Intuit—Scott Cook
Microsoft —Bill Gates
Motorola—Paul Galvin
nVidia—Jen-Hsun Huang
Oracle—Larry Ellison
Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield
Salesforce.com—Marc Benioff
Seagate—Al Shugart
Siebel—Tom Siebel
Sony—Akio Morita
Sun—Scott McNeely
VMware—Diane Greene
While, I agree with the sentiment, don’t you think that the jobs that you pointed to would be more likely to go to people with business degrees. Not necessarily degrees in some IT field.
I take your point — and I also realise this is a problem for all sectors, not just IT.