People whose cited article describes them chiefly as the chief executive, chairman, president or managing director of an established company, often one they did not found. A person belongs here when the article names running the company as the main role. It excludes people the article describes mainly as the founder of a company, an industrialist, an inventor or an investor. Some of these executives led companies through rapid growth, others through crisis, and the article for each person states which company they ran and in what years.
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Wikipedia, Ray Kroc
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Kroc served as president of McDonald's from 1955 to 1968, as chairman of the board from 1968 to 1977, and as senior chairman from 1977 until his death in 1984.
Azim Premji (Wikipedia)
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Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the chairman of Wipro.
Wikipedia, Luiza Trajano
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She is chair of the retailer Magazine Luiza and associated companies.
Wikipedia, Elon Musk
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Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman, industrialist and former public official who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX.
Howard Schultz (Wikipedia)
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Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, and from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023.
Wikipedia, Dennis Kozlowski
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Leo Dennis Kozlowski (born November 16, 1946) is the former CEO of Tyco International, convicted in 2005 of crimes related to his receipt of $81 million in unauthorized bonuses, the purchase of art for $14.725 million and the payment by Tyco of a $20 million investment banking fee to Frank Walsh, a former Tyco
Wikipedia: Edward R. McCracken
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Edward Ray McCracken (born December 1943) is an American businessman who was CEO of Silicon Graphics (SGI) from 1984 to 1997.
Wikipedia: Ray Noorda
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He was CEO of Novell between 1982 and 1994.
Wikipedia: Eric Schmidt
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Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.
Wikipedia: Robert Frankenberg
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He is best known for serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Novell during the mid-1990s and for his earlier leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard, where he helped develop numerous computer, networking, and personal computing technologies.
Wikipedia: George Harriman
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In 1961 he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the British Motor Corporation having taken over many of the responsibilities of Leonard Lord some years earlier.
Wikipedia: Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes
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He was the managing director of Leyland Motors from 1962 to 1968 and the chief executive of its successor British Leyland from 1968 to 1975.
Wikipedia: Mark Pigott
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He has been executive chairman of Paccar since April 2014.
Wikipedia: Tom Krause (business executive)
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Tom Krause (born 1977 or 1978) is an American business executive who was the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from February to June, 2025 and chief executive officer of the Cloud Software Group.
Wikipedia: Bill Campbell (business executive)
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William Vincent Campbell Jr. (August 31, 1940, April 18, 2016) was an American businessman and chairman of the board of trustees of Columbia University and chairman of the board of Intuit.
Wikipedia: Steve Sakoman
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Steve Sakoman is an American computing executive.
Wikipedia: William Norris (CEO)
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He was the CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world.
Wikipedia: David Sarnoff
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He led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of his career in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.
Wikipedia: Håkan Samuelsson
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Håkan Samuelsson (born 19 March 1951) is a Swedish businessman who is chairman of the executive board (CEO) of Volvo Cars Corporation AB from October 2012 to January 2022.
Wikipedia: Paul Drennan Cravath
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presiding partner of the New York law firm
Wikipedia, Dave Limp
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is the CEO of Blue Origin as of 2024
Wikipedia, Michael J. McCulley
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president and chief executive officer (CEO) of United Space Alliance
Wikipedia, John P. Thornton
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He is CEO of Astrobotic Technology Inc.
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