Top 5 Highest Paid CEOs in the World

4. Jeff Green

Average Total and Realized Compensation in 2021 & 2022: $420 million

Jeff Green heads the software company The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD). The firm enables advertisers to run campaigns and monitor their efficacy through data analysis. He has had an illustrious career in the software industry, having first set up a firm that was eventually acquired by the technology giant Microsoft. However, green would leave his role at Microsoft to set up The Trade Desk, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTD) in 2009.