The World CEO Ranking 2025, published by CEO Rankings, recognizes the 10 most influential business leaders worldwide, based on a rigorous methodology combining public votes, professional votes, and verified performance results for the year 2025.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!The CEO Ranking assesses executive performance through a set of high-impact actions, covering value creation, strategic growth, innovation, and governance. These criteria include financial performance, mergers and acquisitions, major fundraising rounds, the securing of large government contracts or grants, and key market milestones such as an IPO. The ranking also rewards the ability to innovate and shape the future through patented inventions, the development of new products or services, technology transfer, and the establishment of R&D or innovation centers. Finally, it integrates the human and reputational dimension through employee engagement, customer satisfaction, media visibility (interviews), and international expansion—each criterion being assigned a specific number of points reflecting its weight in the overall score.
This international ranking celebrates leaders whose strategic impact, innovation capacity, organizational growth, and governance standards are redefining global leadership benchmarks.
Top 10 World CEO Leaders – 2025
1 Wael Aloufi – Future Vision
2 Dr. Rashid Mohammed Zubair Al Farooq – Speedy Comics ME
3 Brian J. Esposito – Esposito Intellectual Enterprises
4 Abdulaziz Almasradi – Al-Masrdi Law Firm
5 Dr. Soleiman I. Al Towyan – Meena Health
6 Farrukh Adeeb – XGroup
7 Achille AGBE – iCapital Ventures | EIC Corporation
8 Fouad Hassoun – Kiwi Beach Resorts
9 Yousef Kamal – Joe 13
10 Abdulaziz Almasradi – Al-Masrdi Law Firm
View the full ranking: https://www.ceorankings.com/classements/
Spotlight | Achille AGBE — 7th World CEO 2025
Among these exceptional leaders, Achille AGBE, CEO of iCapital Ventures and President of EIC Corporation, stands out by ranking 7th worldwide—a major recognition in a highly competitive global economic and financial environment.
This distinction acknowledges a visionary leadership, built through the patient and rigorous construction of a unique financial model, at the intersection of: financial asset digitalization, institutional decentralized finance, OPEX–CAPEX instrument tokenization, and data-driven governance.
iCapital Ventures: From the EIC Foundation to a Global Financial Group
The journey began in 2008 with the creation of the EIC Corporation Foundation, the first platform dedicated to community investment clubs. In 2017, this vision led to the creation of iCapital Ventures, a decentralized, non-custodial private investment bank, now: based in Canada (MSB license), active in more than 50 countries through the G25 governance network.
Since 2018, the Group has built a one-of-a-kind integrated ecosystem, covering the entire financial value chain: LiorBank, LiorCapital, iCapitalior, LiorTrust, iProperty, LiorTrade, LiorLink, LiorS Finance Institute, iCapital Ventures Intelligence, iCapital Ventures Fund,
LiorCard Titanium, LiorShop, Liorpay, and more.
iCapital Ventures is simultaneously: a decentralized bank, a holding company, and an investment SPV, with no equivalent in traditional financial markets.
Exemplary, Audited, and High-Performance Governance
The international recognition of Achille AGBE is also rooted in an uncompromising governance framework: quarterly audits (platforms, human capital, infrastructure), continuous control of LiorS / LiorG, permanent organizational and financial supervision.
This foundation supports a unique economic model: OPEX+ (LiorBank), OPEX++ (iCapitalior), CAPEX (LiorCapital) — long-term value creation, where returns are distributed to accredited members (Silver, Gold, Diamond, NED-G25) who actively contribute to business development—not to the bank itself. This model is built on the Data-Driven Financing Model (DDFM) and LiorS Cash Collateral, currently under patent review.
LiorS: Currency, Governance, and Strategic Asset
LiorS is far more than a token. It is: a payment currency, a governance instrument, a store of value, and the institutional collateral for OPEX/CAPEX financing.
It represents: the gateway to all services, the foundation of shared governance, the core tool for OPEX+/OPEX++ financing, a strategic deflationary asset.
Listed on the Liechtenstein Exchange (LCX):
https://exchange.lcx.com/en/trade/LIORS-EUR
Towards the Pre-IPO and the 2028 IPO
iCapital Ventures is now entering a new era: a Pre-IPO campaign led by iCapital Ventures Fund (SOPARFI – Luxembourg), with an IPO planned for 2028. The iCV Fund becomes the financial backbone of the Group, unifying platforms, investments, and governance into a single scalable structure.
A Vision Recognized Worldwide
With more than 30 institutional and governmental distinctions over 17 years
(Forbes, UNESCO, Ashoka, OIF, CEPS, States, World CEO Rankings), Achille AGBE’s 7th worldwide position confirms: a discreet yet structuring leadership, a long-term vision, and a financial model ready to redefine the future.
The World CEO Ranking 2025 does not merely celebrate executives—it reveals system architects. By ranking Achille AGBE among the Top 10 CEOs worldwide, it recognizes iCapital Ventures as a key global player in the finance of tomorrow.
