The 30 Most Highly Compensated Executives Of Publicly Held Solution Provider Companies In Fiscal 2022
Accenture had five executives in the top 10 on CRN’s list of the top 30 most highly compensated solution provider executives of publicly held companies in Fiscal Year 2022, including Chairperson and CEO Julie Sweet.
Accenture, the $61.6 billion solution provider behemoth that is No. 1 on the 2023 CRN Solution Provider 500, took five of the top 10 positions in CRN’s Top 30 Most Highly Compensated Executives of Publicly Held Solution Provider’s in Fiscal Year 2022 list.
The Accenture top executives on the CRN list include Accenture Chairperson and CEO Julie Sweet with $33.70 million in total compensation, the No. 1 most highly compensated executive on the list; Accenture North America CEO James Etheredge with $11.19 million in total compensation, No. 5 on the CRN list; Accenture Chairman of Growth Markets Gianfranco Casati with $11.06 million in total compensation, No. 7 on the CRN list; Accenture CFO KC McClure with total compensation of $11.02 million, No. 8 on the list; Accenture Europe CEO Jean-Marc Ollagnier with total compensation of $11.01 million, No. 9 on the list.
In Fiscal Year 2022, Accenture reported a 17 percent increase in earnings per share to $10.71 on a 26 percent increase in sales in local currency to $61.6 billion.
Sweet’s total compensation was $4.99 million higher than the No. 2 executive on the list, DXC Technology President and CEO Michael Salvino with $28.71 million in total compensation.
The third-highest-paid executive on the list, former Cognizant CEO Brian Humphries, was far below Sweet and Salvino with $17.93 million in total compensation.
CDW had four executives on the list led by CDW Chairperson, President and CEO Christine Leahy, No. 6 on the list with total compensation of $11.15 million. The other CDW executives on the list were:Chief Commercial and Operating Officer Christina Corley, No. 23 on the list with $4.72 million in total compensation; CDW Chief Growth and Innovation Officer Sona Chawla, No. 24 on the list with $4.72 million in total compensation; and CDW Senior Vice President and CFO Albert Miralles, No. 30 on the list with $4.03 million in total compensation.
30. Albert Miralles, CDW: $4,034,562
Position: SVP, CFO
Salary: $650,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $1,099,917
Option Award: $1,111,551
Nonequity Incentive: $1,160,000
Other Compensation: $13,094
As CFO at solution provider giant CDW, Miralles is responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, tax, investor relations, risk management, internal audit and real estate operations, according to his biography on the CDW website.
Miralles joined CDW in 2021 with 30 years of financial and operating experience. Before going to work at CDW he was senior vice president and CFO at CNA Financial, and earlier held various positions within CNA Insurance Companies. Prior to joining CNA in 2011, he was CFO of nationwide investments at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.
29. Todd Probert, CACI: $4,092,828
Position: President, National Security and Innovative Solutions
Salary: $545,833
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $3,100,420
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $425,260
Other Compensation: $21,315
Probert has been president of national security and innovative solutions at defense-focused solution provider CACI since July 2020 after finishing a brief stint as group president for defense and security at defense contractor CAE.
Prior to that, Probert was an executive at defense contract giant Raytheon for nearly 10 years. His positions at the company included vice president and COO for mission operations solutions; vice president of engineering and technology; and, most recently, vice president of C2, space and intelligence. He worked for Honeywell Technology Solutions for the previous 12 years.
In a January 2023 interview, Probert called the Ukraine war a “dramatically different threat landscape than we’ve seen in the last 20 years” and said CACI is “well positioned to navigate the increasingly adversarial space” due to its focus on electronic warfare, cyber capabilities and space.
28. Gregory Hyttenrauch, Cognizant: $4,147,087
Position: Former EVP, President, Americas
Salary: $319,443
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $2,622,381
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: N/A
Other Compensation: $1,205,263
Cognizant fired Gregory Hyttenrauch, the company’s former top Americas executive, on June 28, 2022, due to “behavior inconsistent with company policy.”
The company declined to specify what actions led to his termination and said a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which disclosed his termination, speaks for itself.
Hyttenrauch joined Cognizant in December 2019 as president of digital systems and technology. He was then appointed to the role of president of Americas in January 2021.
27. William Deckelman Jr., DXC Technology: $4,194,093
Position: EVP, General Counsel
Salary: $619,231
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $3,055,400
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $495,000
Other Compensation: $24,462
As executive vice president and general counsel at DXC Technology, Deckelman has been with the global solution provider since 2017, when his previous longtime employer, CSC, merged with HPE Enterprise Services to form DXC. Prior to joining CSC in 2008, he had the same titles for a total of 14 years at Affiliated Computer Services, a solution provider acquired by Xerox in 2010.
DXC itself has been the subject of takeover interest in recent years. Atos made a bid to acquire the company and then rescinded that offer in early 2021. In March 2023, DXC said it terminated talks with another potential buyer after months of speculation that it could be acquired by a private equity firm.
Most recently, DXC CEO Mike Salvino said the company has several initiatives in place to continue growth into its 2024 fiscal year. Salvino outlined DXC’s growth strategy a couple months after the company agreed to an $8 million fine from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly making misleading disclosures related to non-GAAP financial performance between 2018 and 2020.
26. Surya Gummadi, Cognizant: $4,434,154
Position: EVP, President, Americas
Salary: $522,417
Bonus: $647,989
Stock Award: $3,256,748
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: N/A
Other Compensation: $7,000
In June 2022, Cognizant named Gummadi as interim leader of Cognizant Americas after Gregory Hyttenrauch was terminated in response to what the company called “behavior inconsistent with company policy” without detailing which policies.
“Gummadi has been with the company since 2000 and most recently served as senior vice president and head of the company’s Healthcare and Life Sciences business,” the filing said at the time.
Gummadi officially took over the role in January of this year.
The company also named Infosys former president Ravi Kumar as CEO in January.
“Cognizant is well-positioned for growth, and I’m excited to unlock the company’s significant potential for our employees, clients, investors and other stakeholders,” said Kumar in a statement at the time.
In late 2022, Cognizant acquired Utegration, a solution provider specializing in SAP services and products and digital transformation consulting specialist AustinCSI in November to expand capabilities for helping customers with their digital strategies.
25. Dee Burger, Insight: $4,509,876
Position: President, Insight North America
Salary: $417,500
Bonus: $250,000
Stock Award: $3,086,558
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $746,490
Other Compensation: $9,328
Burger joined Insight in May 2022 after almost 30 years at Capgemini. As president of all of Insight’s North America business, he’s responsible for North American business operations, including heading up partner management, Insight Public Sector, commercial and enterprise sales and solutions delivery.
“Through our wealth of technical expertise, high-impact solutions and broad partner resources, Insight is well-positioned to drive the transformation initiatives that are most critical to our clients’ futures,” he said at the time of joining the company. “I am excited to join Insight and work with our teammates and partners to build on Insight’s impressive track record of client success.”
At Capgemini, he most recently served as executive vice president of global business lines in North America covering cloud infrastructure, insight and data, business services, and consulting and engineering. He also led the company’s transformation program for its North American businesses and oversaw its digital and cloud practices.
In a May earnings call, Insight Enterprises reported growth in many of its IT services and solutions, such as cloud, cybersecurity and AI, but a dip in hardware sales in the first quarter.
Despite the drop, it has its eyes set on acquisitions in this year due to $1.5 billion in M&A financing and could acquire another Microsoft channel partner in 2023.
24. Sona Chawla, CDW: $4,723,955
Position: Chief Growth, Innovation Officer
Salary: $645,577
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $1,425,045
Option Award: $1,439,969
Nonequity Incentive: $1,196,250
Other Compensation: $17,114
Chawla leads CDW’s growth and innovation team, which includes product and partner management, strategy and marketing, operations and IT and e-commerce organizations.
CDW has gained a lot of recognition this year through awards and accolades from others in the channel. Aside from landing on the Fortune 500 list, CDW received three awards at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2023 Partner Growth Summit by being named Global Solution Provider of the Year and North America Solution Provider of the Year and Consulting Partner of the Year by Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
The solution provider was also recognized by Pure Storage as its Americas Partner of the Year during the organization’s annual Global Partner Forum and was named Arctic Wolf’s National Solution Provider Partner of the Year for 2023.
In June, it acquired Enquizit, a provider of AWS cloud services that will give CDW access to designing, developing and managing mission-critical applications.
Prior to joining CDW in 2020, Chawla previously worked at Kohl’s where she served as president, and prior to that, COO. She also previously served in a variety of senior leadership roles at Walgreens, Dell and Wells Fargo.
23. Christina Corley, CDW: $4,727,861
Position: Chief Commercial, Operating Officer
Salary: $645,577
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $1,425,045
Option Award: $1,439,969
Nonequity Incentive: $1,196,250
Other Compensation: $21,020
In her more than a decade at CDW, Corley became member of the C-suite in early 2019 after initially joining the company as a senior vice president in 2011.
Key duties for Corley include oversight of CDW’s entire customer-facing operation, comprising units that serve corporate, public sector and small-business customers. She also spearheads the company’s divisions that focus on integrated technology solutions and services, as well as its sales operations and international business units.
During Corley’s tenure as COO, CDW’s revenue has risen to $23.75 billion in 2022 from $16.24 billion in 2018.
22. Timothy McGrath, Connection: $4,787,929
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $1,176,539
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $2,165,200
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $1,437,040
Other Compensation: $9,150
After joining a subsidiary in 2005, McGrath needed just five years to rise through the executive ranks at Connection and become CEO of the company, which was then known as PC Connection, in 2011.
Since then, the company’s revenue has grown from $2.1 billion in 2011 to $3.12 billion in 2022, and the company has bolstered its expansion with moves such as the acquisition of $200 million solution provider Softmart in 2016.
More recently, Connection has doubled down on enabling digital transformation projects including through focusing its service offerings on areas including data and automation, cybersecurity, cloud and workplace transformation.
21. Mark Marron, ePlus: $4,900,118
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $846,154
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $1,999,964
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,050,000
Other Compensation: $4,000
An 18-year veteran of ePlus, Marron initially joined the company as senior vice president of sales in 2005 before being named COO in 2010 and then ascending to president and CEO in August 2016. During his tenure, ePlus has seen significant growth both organically and inorganically. The company has closed nine acquisitions since Marron became CEO, and revenue has climbed from $1.14 billion in the company’s Fiscal Year 2015, ended March 31, to $2.07 billion in its Fscal Year 2023. Major investments for ePlus under Marron’s leadership have included the expansion of its service offerings and going deeper in key areas such as cybersecurity and cloud.
20. Mary Finch, DXC: $4,991,850
Position: EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer
Salary: $722,436
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $3,681,222
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $577,500
Other Compensation: $10,692
DXC Technology was formed in 2017 from the merger of CSC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s enterprise services business. DXC is a Fortune 500 global IT services provider with over 130,000 people in over 70 countries providing services for business process outsourcing, analytics and engineering, applications, security, cloud, IT outsourcing and modern workplace.
Finch, who provides DXC with human resources and employee engagement including talent development and training, employee retention and recruitment, policy and benefits, and staffing and training, joined the company in late 2019 after spending four years in a similar role at AECOM. Prior to that, she spent nearly 15 years with Accenture, leaving that company as a senior managing director.
19. DeEtte Gray, CACI: $5,864,876
Position: President, Business, Information Technology Solutions
Salary: $638,342
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $4,300,245
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $760,880
Other Compensation: $165,409
CACI is a $6.2 billion company whose mission and enterprise technology and expertise are focused on U.S. national security, safeguarding the country’s troops, and enabling the U.S. government to deliver cost-effective and high-quality support for its citizens. The company provides technology for C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), cybersecurity; digital transformation services; engineering services; enterprise IT; and mission support.
Gray is a six-year veteran of CACI, and a well-rounded executive in the government services business. She joined the company in 2017 in her current role. Prior to that, she served as president of the intelligence and security sector of BAE Systems after a 13-year stint at Lockheed Martin.
18. Clifford Skelton, Conduent: $5,865,878
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $826,808
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $4,249,995
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $789,075
Other Compensation: N/A
Digital business solutions and services provider Conduent, ranked no. 22 on the CRN Solution Provider 500, provides business process outsourcing solutions to help enhance the performance, experience and value of commercial and government clients. The company has three primary business lines, including a $1.99 billion commercial business, a $1.15 billion government business and a $709 million transportation business.
Skelton, who was a 20-year Navy veteran and a pilot with the Navy’s Blue Angels, joined Conduent in June 2019 after serving seven years at Fiserve, including two years as president of that company’s Output Solutions.
17. Joyce Mullen, Insight: $6,217,650
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $850,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $3,258,530
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,093,550
Other Compensation: $15,570
Mullen took up the mantle as president and CEO of Insight Enterprises, a $10.4 billion Fortune 500 company, in January 2022. Since then, she’s led the company in becoming one of Microsoft’s largest global channel partners. Under her leadership, Insight has its sights on acquisitions in 2023 thanks to its $1.5 billion in M&A financing, with the potential of buying another Microsoft channel partner.
Mullen joined Insight in October 2020 as president of North America. With her at the helm, the company’s net sales in North America increased 14 percent to $7.5 billion in 2021 amid a global pandemic and a volatile market. Prior to her time with Insight, Mullen served as president of Dell Technologies’ global channel, embedded and edge solutions. She had an impressive 21-year tenure with the tech giant in which she held a variety of executive positions leading different business units including sales, operations, supply chain, partner strategy, services delivery and logistics.
16. Kenneth Sharp, DXC: $6,218,999
Position: EVP, CFO
Salary: $722,436
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $4,908,371
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $577,500
Other Compensation: $10,692
Sharp has led the financial charge for DXC, the $16.3 billion solution provider giant, for more than two years and in May, he stepped down from his position with the company, citing personal reasons. Prior to his time with DXC, Sharp served as vice president and CFO of Defense Systems for multinational aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman for two and a half years. A financial veteran, before that, he was senior vice president of finance for another aerospace and defense company, Orbital ATK.
DXC, ranked No. 10 on CRN’s 2023 Solution Provider 500, was formed in 2017 by the merger of former solution provider CSC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services division. The company in February said it was in discussions about a possible acquisition by a “financial sponsor,” but ended takeover talks in March.
15. Arkadiy Dobkin, EPAM Systems: $6,453,257
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $775,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $2,166,810
Option Award: $2,500,047
Nonequity Incentive: $1,000,000
Other Compensation: $11,400
Dobkin founded EPAM Systems 30 years ago. Under his guidance as president, CEO and chair, the company has transformed from a startup to the formidable, global IT solution provider it is today, leading the pack in software product engineering and IT services. Dobkin is known as an instrumental force in opening up the software talent pool of the Central and Eastern European regions to the international business community.
EPAM, ranked No. 21 in the 2023 CRN Solution Provider 500, cut its fiscal outlook both its second fiscal quarter 2023 and its full-year 2023 based on an uncertain demand environment. However, the company, which has focused on digital transformation in recent years, in June revealed a global partnership and Google Cloud to develop and deploy AI-first Google Cloud solutions for businesses.
14. Jan Siegmund, Cognizant: $6,837,502
Position: CFO
Salary: $850,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $5,322,032
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $656,320
Other Compensation: $9,150
Siegmund was the second-highest-compensated executive at Cognizant in 2022. His role at Cognizant includes leading the company’s financial planning and analysis, accounting and controllership, tax, treasury and internal audit functions.
Prior to joining Cognizant in 2020, Siegmund worked for ADP as a corporate vice president and CFO. He also previously worked for McKinsey & Company.
In 2022, Cognizant generated $19.4 billion in revenue, up about 5 percent year over year. The company reported $2.6 billion in net cash from operating activities and $2.2 billion in free cash flow.
Announced acquisitions in 2022 include digital transformation consultancy AustinCSI, SAP solution provider Utegration and the professional services and application management practices of Workday partner OneSource Virtual. Last year, Cognizant sold integrated content agency Mustache.
13. Jeff Davis, Perficient: $7,058,060
Position: CEO, Chairman; Former President
Salary: $650,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $5,849,940
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $494,000
Other Compensation: $64,120
In 2022, under Davis’ watch, Perficient, No. 56 on CRN’s 2023 Solution Provider 500, grew its multishore delivery capabilities with the acquisitions of Inflection Point Systems and Ameex Technologies.
Inflection Point, a $15 million revenue software consulting and product development firm, added nearshore operations in Mexico to Perficient’s capabilities. Ameex, a $19 million revenue digital experience consultancy, gave Perficient more delivery locations in India. Together, they added about 600 strategists and technologists to Perficient’s head count.
The solution provider reported $905.1 million in revenue for 2022, up 19 percent year over year.
Davis, 58, has served as CEO of Perficient since 2009 and chairman since 2017. He became COO of Perficient in 2002 with the acquisition of Vertecon.
12. John Mengucci, CACI: $8,363,317
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $1,000,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $5,500,180
Option Award: N/A
Non-equity Incentive: $1,306,500
Other Compensation: $556,637
Mengucci led CACI—No. 20 on the CRN Solution Provider 500—through a $6.20 billion revenue 2022 fiscal year, up about 3 percent year over year but slightly below the $6.26 billion target.
Some of CACI’s biggest wins in 2022 include a five-year, single-award task order potentially worth $514 million to provide network modernization of outside plantinfrastructure and facilities across major U.S. Army locations within the continental U.S.
In 2022, the solution provider also won a $258 million task order related to enterprise technology support and modernization efforts at the Defense Agencies Initiative program office and a $174 million contract related to the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command’s naval ship machinery, systems, equipment and structural performance.
Mengucci has been CACI’s president and CEO since 2019.
11. George Schindler, CGI: $10,666,012
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $1,320,805
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $5,959,979
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $3,312,713
Other Compensation: $72,515
Schindler was appointed president and CEO of CGI in October 2016 and serves on the company’s board of directors. He has led the development and implementation of CGI’s profitable “Build and Buy” growth strategy to strengthen the company’s market position as one of the world’s leading global business and strategic IT consulting services providers, according to his biography.
Schindler was previously president and COO at the company from May 2015 until his appointment as CEO. Before that he held numerous management positions within the company including president of CGI Federal from 2006 to 2011. He joined CGI in 2004 when it acquired American Management Systems.
CGI is No. 12 on the CRN 2023 Solution Provider 500. For its fiscal 2022 ended Sept. 30, 2022, CGI reported revenue of CAN$12.87 billion (U.S.$9.77 billion), up 6.1 percent from the previous year.
Note: CGI is based in Montreal, Canada, and the executive compensation figures in the company’s fiscal 2022 proxy statement are in Canadian dollars. The figures presented here for Schindler have been converted to U.S. dollars for an accurate comparison.
10. Serge Godin, CGI: $10,801,062
Position: Founder, Executive Chairman
Salary: $1,019,126
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $7,044,421
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,647,413
Other Compensation: $90,100
Godin founded CGI in 1976, and he remains the company’s chairman. CGI, No. 12 on the CRN 2023 Solution Provider 500, is one of the world’s largest IT and business consulting firms.
Godin previously led CGI as its president and CEO from its founding until 2006. He is also the company’s controlling shareholder, according to his biography on the company’s website.
Note: CGI is based in Montreal, Canada, and the executive compensation figures in the company’s fiscal 2022 proxy statement are in Canadian dollars. The figures presented here for Godin have been converted to U.S. dollars for an accurate comparison.
9. Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Accenture: $11,011,145
Position: CEO Europe
Salary: $1,058,495
Bonus: $350,000
Stock Award: $7,466,180
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,116,989
Other Compensation: $19,481
Ollagnier has one of the biggest jobs at Accenture with management and oversight of Europe, which accounts for $14.4 billion in revenue.
He was named to the job in March 2020. Prior to that role, Ollagnier was group chief executive of Accenture’s Resources group for nine years. In that role he worked with energy, utility, chemical, forestry, metals and mining industries.
Ollagnier left Telecom Paris with an engineering degree in 1985 and joined Accenture in 1986. He was named partner in 1997. He frequently writes guest blogs for online magazines such as Forbes and European Business Review.
From 2011 to 2020, Ollagnier was co-chair of the Global Energy Board, which pairs C-level executives and policy makers, as well as thought leaders from the global energy industry.
8. KC McClure, Accenture: $11,026,597
Position: CFO
Salary: $1,068,750
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $7,887,317
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,062,688
Other Compensation: $7,842
McClure has been Accenture’s CFO since 2019, when the company’s revenue was $43.2 billion. Since then the company has grown to annual revenue of $61.6 billion, with McClure charting that growth during her appearance on the company’s quarterly earnings calls.
During her time in charge of the company’s investor relations office from 2010 to 2016 it was ranked No. 1 in Institutional Investor’s annual survey of the sector’s equity analysts and institutional investors.
McClure has been an Accenture employee since 1988 when she was fresh from Penn State with a degree in accounting. She continues to work for the school with appointments to the Board of Visitors as well as the Accounting External Advisory Board for the Smeal College of Business at Penn State.
McClure has also worked throughout the company in several finance leadership roles in the past 30 years. She was finance director for the Communications, Media and Technology Group and the Health and Public Service Group. In both cases she was a member of the leadership teams and responsible for financial operations worldwide, including sales, contracting and delivery of client engagements.
7. Gianfranco Casati, Accenture: $11,067,701
Position: Chairman, Growth Markets
Salary: $1,141,816
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $7,644,180
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,283,633
Other Compensation: $176,072
Casati advises client teams across Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
In July of last year he stepped away from his position as CEO of growth markets, where he had been since 2014, to take on the role of chairman where he will work closely with account teams and serve Accenture clients.
Accenture CEO Julia Sweet praised Casati’s work as CEO of that division. He doubled the size of Accenture’s growth markets business during his time in the role.
“Gianfranco has been a force in our business for nearly four decades and a role model for how to care for our people and clients,” said Sweet. “With his deep understanding of our business and connections across every area of our company, he led the design, creation and implementation of our growth model—making an enduring contribution and lasting imprint on Accenture.”
Prior to his role in growth markets Casati was chief executive of Accenture’s Product’s group, and managing director of Accenture’s product group in Europe.
Gianfranco, who has an economics degree from Pavia University in Italy, has worked at Accenture since 1984.
6. Christine Leahy, CDW: $11,115,822
Position: Chair, President, CEO
Salary: $985,288
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $3,500,002
Option Award: $3,536,819
Nonequity Incentive: $2,900,000
Other Compensation: $193,713
Leahy’s goal is to amplify CDW’s energy and support its workers across the globe to thrive in a life career at the company. Leahy has been with the solution provider superstar for over 20 years, becoming president and CEO in 2019 after serving in various leadership roles at CDW such as CRO.
Under her leadership, CDW has continuously outpaced market growth with sales growing from $16 billion in Fiscal Year 2018 to approximately $23.7 billion by Fiscal Year 2022. She was appointed board chairperson this year as she drives her company’s purpose-driven customer focus and innovation road map.
5. James Etheredge, Accenture: $11,194,389
Position: CEO, North America
Salary: $1,068,750
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $7,887,317
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,137,500
Other Compensation: $100,822
Etheredge leads all of Accenture’s North America, the company’s largest market, which generated $29 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. He is one of Accenture’s longest-tenured leaders after first joining the company in 1985, then becoming a partner in 1997.
Etheredge is in charge of nearly 80,000 employees. His mission is to create a culture of compassion, Accenture says, as Etheredge continuously strives to create a workplace where everyone can be who they are, feel respected and experience a sense of belonging. His commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion has helped Accenture become a DEI leader.
4. Roger Krone, Leidos Holding: $13,548,892
Position: Former Chair, CEO
Salary: $1,266,308
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $8,365,863
Option Award: $1,950,017
Nonequity Incentive: $1,932,404
Other Compensation: $34,300
Krone was critical in nearly tripling revenue at Leidos over the past nine years from roughly $5 billion in 2014 to over $14 billion as of 2022. One of Krone’s most talented traits over his tenure was being able to adapt and change his company via a combination of acquisitions and internal innovation.
He also oversaw one of Leidos’ largest acquisitions with the purchase of Lockheed Martin in 2016.
Krone was chairman and CEO of Leidos Holding until he handed off the reins to Thomas Bell in May 2023. Krone, who will officially retire this year, is currently in an adviser position for Leidos to help to facilitate a smooth transition.
3. Brian Humphries, Cognizant: $17,943,894
Position: Former CEO
Salary: $1,144,855
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $14,761,593
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $1,767,978
Other Compensation: $269,468
Humphries led solution provider Cognizant as CEO for nearly four years until January 2023, and his total compensation for fiscal 2022 ended Dec. 31, 2022, ranks him third among the solution provider executives on this list.
On Jan. 9, 2023, Humphries was asked by the company’s board of directors to step down from the CEO job, according to a company form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. No reason was given for Humphries’ sudden removal. Humphries remained with Cognizant as a “special adviser” until March 15 and was compensated through that “separation date”—all within the company’s fiscal 2023.
Humphries previously held executive posts at Hewlett Packard and Dell Technologies and was the CEO of Vodaphone Business before joining Cognizant as CEO in April 2019. During his term Cognizant’s revenue grew from $16.78 billion in 2019 to $19.43 billion in 2022.
2. Michael Salvino, DXC Technology: $28,716,680
Position: President, CEO
Salary: $1,365,064
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $25,087,727
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $2,025,000
Other Compensation: $238,889
Salvino became CEO of DXC Technology in September 2019 following the retirement of president and CEO Mike Lawrie, who had served in that role since DXC’s creation in 2017 through the merger of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s enterprise services business and Computer Sciences Corp.
Before joining DXC, Salvino had retired from Accenture in 2016 as group chief executive of Accenture Operations after 22 years with that company. During the intervening three years he was a managing director at Carrick Capital Partners.
Salvino has faced the challenge of spurring growth at DXC. For fiscal 2023 ended March 31, the company reported revenue of $14.43 billion, down from $16.27 billion the previous year and $17.73 billion in fiscal 2021. He has overseen cost-cutting initiatives and the sale of DXC assets and businesses that are considered noncore to the company’s business.
1. Julie Sweet, Accenture: $33,701,108
Position: Chairperson, CEO
Salary: $1,475,000
Bonus: N/A
Stock Award: $25,490,513
Option Award: N/A
Nonequity Incentive: $5,900,000
Other Compensation: $835,595
Sweet has been CEO of IT services giant Accenture since September 2019 and its chairperson since September 2021. Before that she was CEO of Accenture North America for more than four years. Sweet has been with Accenture for more than 13 years.
During Sweet’s term as CEO, Accenture’s revenue has increased 39 percent from $44.3 billion in fiscal 2020 to $61.6 billion in fiscal 2022. (The company concludes its fiscal 2023 in August.) Some of that growth is organic, but some comes from Accenture’s aggressive acquisition strategy that has seen the company buy dozens of companies in recent years to expand its services portfolio, its areas of technology and vertical industry expertise, and its geographic reach.
Under Sweet’s direction Accenture, ranked No. 1 on the CRN Solution Provider 500 for the last three years, plans to invest $3 billion over the next three years in its data and AI practice as a way to help clients quickly leverage AI within their own businesses.
In March, Accenture said it would lay off 19,000 employees —about 2.5 percent of its workforce—after a year during which 25 acquisitions and a hiring spree increased its employee head count by 39,000.
Before joining Accenture, Sweet, whose background is in corporate law, worked as a partner for the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.