Home›Founder and Executive›Era›By Century›19th centuryBrowse By19th centuryFacts19th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonOriginating EraWell-attested1782 119th centuryFilter Results89 entriesRoleAllChief Executives and Senior Executives (2)Company Founders and Co-founders (47)Industrialists and Business Magnates (20)Inventor-Entrepreneurs (9)Investors and Financiers (3)NationalityAllAustria (1)Denmark (1)France (7)Germany (19)India (1)Italy (2)Japan (6)South Africa (1)Sweden (1)Switzerland (5)United Kingdom (7)United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1)United States (44)IndustryAllAerospace Industry (20)Airline Industry (1)Animation Industry (1)Apparel Industry (3)Automotive Industry (16)Banking Industry (2)Beer Industry (1)Broadcasting Industry (2)Chemical Industry (3)Coal Industry (1)Consumer Electronics Industry (1)Cosmetics Industry (2)Diamond Industry (1)Electrical Equipment Industry (2)Electronics Industry (1)Engineering Industry (1)Film Industry (1)Footwear Industry (1)Forestry Industry (1)Glass Industry (1)Gold Mining Industry (1)Hotel Industry (1)Information Technology Industry (2)Insurance Industry (1)Jewelry Industry (1)Legal Services Industry (1)Medical Device Industry (1)Mining Industry (3)News Media Industry (1)Paper and Forest Products Industry (1)Perfume Industry (1)Personal Care Industry (1)Petroleum Industry (1)Pharmaceutical Industry (2)Pharmacy Industry (2)Publishing Industry (1)Railroad Industry (4)Shipbuilding Industry (1)Shipping and Logistics Industry (1)Sporting Goods Industry (1)Steel Industry (4)Technology Industry (1)Telecommunications Equipment Industry (1)Telecommunications Industry (2)Textile Industry (1)Trading Company Industry (1)Trucking Industry (1)Companies FoundedAllA.P. 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(1)Newmont Corporation (1)Nieuport (1)Nissan Motor Company (2)Oldsmobile (1)Olivetti (1)Pan American World Airways (1)Panasonic (1)Peugeot (1)Piper Aircraft (2)Pratt & Whitney (3)RCA Corporation (1)Robert Stephenson and Company (1)RWE AG (1)Röhm Gesellschaft (1)Saurer (1)Siemens (1)Sperry Corporation (1)Standard Oil (1)Studebaker (2)Swarovski (1)Tata Group (1)The Gillette Company (2)ThyssenKrupp (1)U.S. Steel (1)Walter Lantz Productions (1)Warner Bros. Pictures (1)Weyerhaeuser Company (1)Yasuda zaibatsu (1)Companies LedAllA.P. Moller-Maersk (1)Adidas AG (1)Anglo American plc (1)Bath Iron Works (1)Bayer (2)Beechcraft (1)Beiersdorf (1)Borsig (1)Carnegie Steel Company (2)Cessna (1)Chanel (1)Chrysler Corporation (1)Dassault Aviation S.A. (1)De Beers (1)Douglas Aircraft Company (1)Ericsson (1)Ford Motor Company (1)General Electric (1)Handley Page (1)Heinkel (1)JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1)Messerschmitt (1)Miller Brewing Company (1)Mitsui & Co., Ltd. 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Pictures (1)Weyerhaeuser Company (1)Theories DevelopedAllCravath System (1)Fordism (1)Practice DisciplineAllEntrepreneurship (42)Finance (6)Legal and Compliance (1)Management (3)Marketing (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Adolf Dassler19th centuryAndrew Carnegie19th centuryArmand Peugeot19th centuryArnold Peter Moller19th centuryArnold von Siemens19th centuryAugust Borsig19th centuryAugust Thyssen19th centuryAugustus Moore Herring19th centuryCamille Dreyfus19th centuryCamillo Olivetti19th centuryCarl Duisberg19th centuryCarl Friedrich von Siemens19th centuryCecil Rhodes19th centuryCharles Richard Fairey19th centuryClarence Gilbert Taylor19th centuryClaude Dornier19th centuryClement Studebaker19th centuryClessie Cummins19th centuryClyde Cessna19th centuryCoco Chanel19th centuryDaniel Swarovski19th centuryDavid Sarnoff19th centuryDen Kenjiro19th centuryDonald Wills Douglas Sr.19th centuryÉdouard Nieuport19th centuryEdward Andrew Deeds19th centuryEdward G. Budd19th centuryElmer Ambrose Sperry19th centuryErnest Oppenheimer19th centuryErnst Heinkel19th centuryEttore Bugatti19th centuryFranz Saurer19th centuryFrederick Handley Page19th centuryFrederick Miller19th centuryFrederick Rentschler19th centuryFriedrich Bayer19th centuryFriedrich Weyerhäuser19th centuryFritz Hoffmann-La Roche19th centuryGeoffrey Faber19th centuryGeorg Wilhelm von Siemens19th centuryGeorge J. Mead19th centuryGlenn Curtiss19th centuryHarry Warner19th centuryHenry Clay Frick19th centuryHenry Ford19th centuryHenry Villard19th centuryHomer Stryker19th centuryHorace Elgin Dodge19th centuryHugo Boss (businessman)19th centuryJ.P. Morgan19th centuryShowing 1 to 50 of 89, page 1 of 2.12Next →Sources1. Wikipedia: Chief executive officertier 2WikipediaChief executive officer, Etymology sectionQuote, Chief executive officer, Etymology sectionThe term 'chief executive officer' is attested as early as 1782, when an ordinance of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States used the term to refer to governors and other leaders of the executive branchesView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.