INNOV ATIVE LEADERS HALL OF FAME

Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt conceived of Forbes’ Most Innovative Leaders list when they were doing research for their book Innovation Capital, published earlier this year. Back then they identified four great innovators who have had to be omitted from our final list because either they no longer lead their firms or their firms have become subsidiaries, but who clearly merit recognition: Indra Nooyi (she stepped down last year after 12 years as CEO of Pepsico), Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn (his company was absorbed into Microsoft), Jim Whitehurst of Red

Hat (acquired by IBM), and Sundar

Pichai of Google (we list Larry Page and Sergey Brin of parent company Alphabet instead). All rank high on any long-term list of creative leaders.