The Singleton Foundation CEO Prize
Designed to reward an exceptional managerial record over a very long period of time.
Celebrating Excellence with the Singleton Foundation CEO Prize.
This is the first prize of its kind to focus on performance. It’s designed to reward an exceptional managerial record over a very long period of time. It’s not based on vague ideas about leadership, charisma and other subjective attributes, but recognizes excellence in business leadership as evidenced by the data, a reflection of talent, vision, focus and achievement.
2023 CEO Prize Jury
Nick Howley
Bob Peck
Will Thorndike
Steve Blass
Kelly Granat
Anne-Marie Peterson
Rob Small
Todd Combs
Mark Leonard
Jury and committee are the 2023 lists from the live site — is there a 2025 list?
Looking to the future, the Singleton Next Generation CEO Prize for Excellence recognizes up and coming CEOs in the mold of Henry Singleton. The Next Generation CEO prize focuses on recognition of extraordinary leaders in business management who have achieved greatly in their initial years as executives, such as Patrick and John Collison, Founders of Stripe and recipients of the inaugural prize.
2023 Next Generation CEO Prize Selection Committee
Bob Peck
Will Thorndike
Alex Wolf
Steve Blass
Patrick O’Shaugnessy
A lifetime achievement award for outstanding management.
A resurgence of American entrepreneurship is critical to ensure economic prosperity. As part of our goal to encourage this renewal, we’ve created the CEO Prize for Excellence in Business Leadership, an annual award which honors a living CEO whose work demonstrates, over a long period of time, a combination of talent, vision, focus and commitment, thereby producing exceptional shareholder returns for decades. By recognizing business leaders we highlight the successes we try to inspire in our users.
Our Inspiration
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success, by Will Thorndike, has resonated powerfully among CEOs and investors. Acclaimed by critics and called by Warren Buffett “an outstanding book,” The Outsiders has been described by Forbes Magazine as one of the most important business books in America. The CEOs profiled are: Tom Murphy of Capital Cities, Henry Singleton of Teledyne, Bill Anders of General Dynamics, John Malone of TCI, Katharine Graham of The Washington Post Co., Bill Stiritz of Post Holdings, Dick Smith of General Cinema, and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.
In the news
- The Singleton Foundation Celebrates Great Business Leadership, Honors Ken Langone and Tony Xu
- DSST Public Schools and Arc Institute Receive Donations as Part of the Singleton Foundation’s 2023 CEO Prize Event
- W. Nicholas Howley Named Recipient of the Singleton Prize for CEO Excellence
New section. The Press page is dropped; these are its three CEO Prize items. The 2023 item is a press release hosted on the old site and would need a home.