Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook CEOs did not win CEO of the year award like HPE Antonio Neri but the facts in the link below recognize them for Smashing 2Q20 Earnings.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-apple-google-and-facebook-smash-q2-earnings-2020-7
For there innovation, people first approach, Product / Service Offering, Customer, Technologies, that dominate the Markets they also got invites to testify before Congress. This is evidence that these 4 big tech companies are not playing with or using lesser tier'ed groups / Magazines to buy CEO of the year awards...........