The CMO list: From A to Z

Chief marketing officers are more important to the success of global businesses - and more powerful - than ever before. They not only executing on corporate strategy, but are also often among the key shapers of it.

So, with marketers' positions within their organizations becoming more important than ever, Business Insider is celebrating the best and the brightest global marketers with our inaugural ranking of the 50 most innovative CMOs.

To see the full ranking and analysis, along with our criteria, please click here.

Here is the list of top CMOs in alphabetical order:

Dana Anderson of Mondelez (No. 6)

Björn Annwall of Volvo (No. 36)

Lisa Baird of US Olympics Committee (No. 42)

Kelly Bennett of Netflix (No. 2)

Linda Boff of GE (No. 5)

Gary Briggs of Facebook (No. 28)

Emily Culp of Keds (No. 38)

Suzy Deering of Ebay (No. 41)

Andy Donkin of Under Armour (No. 29)

Seth Farbman of Spotify (No. 27)

Alan Gellman of Esurance (No. 31)

Julia Goldin of Lego (No. 21)

Marie Gulin-Merle of L'Oreal USA (No. 13)

Rand Harbert of State Farm (No. 39)

Greg Hoffman of Nike (No. 22)

Craig Inglis of John Lewis (No. 4)

Jon Iwata of IBM (No. 17)

Omar Johnson of Beats by Dre (No. 11)

Joe Jordan of Domino's (No. 20)

Seth Kaufman of PepsiCo (No. 15)

Allie Kline of AOL (No. 30)

Kristin Lemkau of JP Morgan/Chase (No. 12)

Alison Lewis of Johnson & Johnson (No. 32)

Ann Lewnes of Adobe (No. 8)

Antonio Lucio of HP (No. 16)

Marc Mathieu of Samsung USA (No. 24)

Marc Mentry of Capital One (No. 44)

Rebecca Messina Beam Suntory (No. 50)

Jonathan Mildenhall of Airbnb (No. 7)

Geoff Morrell of BP (No. 49)

Ann Murkherjee of SC Johnson (No. 25)

Diana O'Brien of Deloitte LLP (No. 47)

Miguel Patricio of AB Inbev (No. 48)

Marc Pritchard of Procter & Gamble (No. 9)

Karen Quintos of Dell (No. 46)

David Roman of Lenovo (No. 34)

Philip Schiller of Apple (No. 14)

Diego Scotti of Verizon (No. 35)

Darren Serraro on Conagra Brands (No. 40)

Andrew Sherrard of T-Mobile (No. 19)

Roger Solé of Sprint (No. 33)

Leonid Sudakov of Mars Petcare (No. 45)

Nuno Teles of Heineken (No. 23)

Jennelle Tilling of KFC (No. 26)

Lorraine Twohill of Google (No. 1)

Deborah Wahl of McDonald's (No. 3)

Karen Walker of Cisco (No. 43)

Ted Ward of Geico (No. 18)

Keith Weed of Unilever (No. 10)

Michelle Wilson of WWE (No. 37)