Some of the reasons behind the FT’s panel’s decision were:
More than two thirds of Apple's sales come from products that didn't exist eight years ago. And they come from markets that barely existed, if at all, until Jobs breathed life into them, such as digital media players, touchscreen smartphones and tablet computers.
No other CEO of a company the size of Apple - nearly 50,000 employees - has moulded an organisation to his own imaginative vision like Jobs has.
If the iPod helped to create a business for digital music and the iPhone turned the mobile phone world on its head, the iPad promises to reinvent the industry where Jobs got his start - personal computing.
The iPad's development and launch were the culmination of an approach that Jobs has spent his career perfecting - and he pulled it off less than a year after a liver transplant that sidelined him for six months.
