Here's what a sample of our experts put in the top half of their voting forms...

Richard Allan, MP and LibDem ICT spokesman

1. Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
2. Steve Linford, founder, SpamHaus
3. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
4. Peter Gershon, head of the UK Office of Government Commerce
5. Greg Dyke, director general, BBC
6. Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple
7. Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
8. Roger Cole, chairman, Risk Management Group of the Basel II Committee on Banking Supervision
9. Hu Jintao, president, China
10. Christian Ude, mayor of Munich

Kate Bulkley, broadcaster and journalist

1. Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft
2. Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple
3. Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
4. Hu Jintao, president, China
5. Arun Sarin, CEO, Vodafone
6. Carly Fiorina, CEO, HP
7. Rupert Murdoch, CEO, News Corp
8. Greg Dyke, DG, BBC
9. Stelios Haji-Ioannou, chairman, easyGroup
10. David Levin, CEO, Symbian

Richard Sykes, consultant and chairman, Morgan Chambers

1. Roger Cole, chairman, Risk Management Group of the Basel II Committee on Banking Supervision
2. Hu Jintao, president, China
3. Peter Gershon, head of the UK Office of Government Commerce
4. Greg Dyke, DG, BBC
5. Christian Ude, mayor of Munich
6. David Levin, CEO, Symbian
7. Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
8. Rod Aldridge, CEO, Capita
9. Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple
10. Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell

David Naylor, partner, Morrison and Foerster

1. Hu Jintao, president, China
2. Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft
3. Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple
4. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, India
5. Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
6. Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell
7. Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
8. Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google
9. Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon
10. Terry Semel, CEO, Yahoo!

Ric Francis, CIO, Safeway

1. Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM
2. Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux
3. Greg Dyke, DG, BBC
4. Ashley Highfield, director, BBC New Media & Technology
5. Hu Jintao, president, China
6. Greg Aharonian, consultant and editor, Internet Patent News Service
7. Stephen Hill, CEO, Betfair
8. Stelios Haji-Ioannou, chairman, easyGroup
9. Sergey Brin, co-founder and CTO, Google
10. Ian Foster, academic and grid pioneer