Home›Founder and Executive›Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryFacts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonOriginating EraWell-attested1782 120th centuryFilter Results250 entriesRoleAllChief Executives and Senior Executives (58)Company Founders and Co-founders (149)Industrialists and Business Magnates (19)Inventor-Entrepreneurs (3)Investors and Financiers (11)NationalityAllAngola (1)Australia (1)Austria (7)Bangladesh (1)Brazil (2)Bulgaria (1)Canada (8)China (7)Croatia (1)Cyprus (1)Denmark (1)England (3)Finland (1)France (7)Georgia (1)Germany (27)Guatemala (1)Hong Kong (1)Hungary (1)India (5)Ireland (2)Israel (3)Italy (6)Japan (6)Lebanon (1)Malaysia (1)Malta (1)Mexico (1)Netherlands (1)Nigeria (1)Poland (2)Russia (2)Serbia (1)Singapore (2)South Africa (4)Sweden (2)Switzerland (2)Taiwan (1)Turkey (1)Ukraine (1)United Arab Emirates (1)United Kingdom (19)United States (137)Wales (1)IndustryAllAdvertising Industry (3)Aerospace Industry (8)Airline Industry (4)Amusement Park Industry (1)Animation Industry (4)Apparel Industry (6)Automotive Industry (21)Banking Industry (4)Broadcasting Industry (1)Cloud Computing Industry (1)Conglomerate Industry (1)Construction Materials Industry (1)Consumer Electronics Industry (6)Cosmetics Industry (1)E-commerce Industry (2)Electric Power Industry (1)Electronics Industry (8)Engineering Industry (2)Fast Food Industry (1)Film Industry (6)Financial Services Industry (3)Financial Technology Industry (1)Food and Beverage Industry (2)Footwear Industry (1)Furniture Industry (1)Healthcare Industry (3)Hedge Fund Industry (1)Household Products Industry (2)Industrial Gas Industry (1)Information Technology Industry (21)Insurance Industry (1)Internet Industry (9)Luxury Goods Industry (1)Media and Entertainment Industry (2)Mining Industry (1)Music Industry (2)News Media Industry (4)Payment Processing Industry (1)Perfume Industry (1)Petroleum Industry (1)Pharmaceutical Industry (1)Publishing Industry (4)Railroad Industry (2)Real Estate Industry (7)Real Estate Investment Trust Industry (1)Restaurant Industry (3)Retail Industry (9)Semiconductor Industry (4)Shipping and Logistics Industry (2)Software Industry (30)Space Industry (4)Sporting Goods Industry (2)Sports Industry (4)Supermarket Industry (2)Technology Industry (13)Telecommunications Equipment Industry (1)Telecommunications Industry (7)Tire Industry (1)Trucking Industry (1)Venture Capital Industry (6)Video Game Industry (3)Video Streaming Industry (1)Weapons Industry (1)Companies FoundedAllAcorn Computers (2)Adobe Inc. (2)Akamai Technologies, Inc. (1)Alexa Internet (1)Amazon (1)America Movil (1)American Radio Systems (1)Amstrad (1)Amway Corp (2)Apollo Computer (1)Apple Inc. (2)Astrobotic Technology (1)Asylum Records (1)Atari Corporation (1)Atari, Inc. (2)AutoNation (1)Baidu, Inc. (1)BBN Technologies (2)Beechcraft (2)Berkeley Software Design (4)Billa (1)BlackBerry Limited (1)Blue Origin (1)Boston Properties, Inc. (1)British Leyland (1)Brown Bag Films (1)Canonical (1)Christian Dior SE (1)Cisco Systems, Inc. (1)Claris (1)Commodore International (2)Computer Associates (2)Convergent Technologies (1)Cosworth (2)Cray (1)Dangote Group (1)DGC Records (1)Digital Equipment Corporation (2)Digital Research (2)DreamWorks Pictures (1)DreamWorks Records (1)Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (2)Elastic (1)Embraer (1)Engineering Research Associates (1)Enron Corporation (1)Europa-Park (1)Gap Inc. (1)Garmin Ltd. (2)Geely Holding Group (1)Geffen Film Company (1)Geffen Records (1)General Magic (3)Givenchy (1)Google (2)Grameen Bank (1)Hanna-Barbera (2)HealthSouth (1)Heckler & Koch (1)Hewlett-Packard (2)id Software (1)IKEA (1)Ilmor (1)Inmos (1)Internet Archive (1)JetBrains (1)KX Systems (1)Laura Ashley (company) (1)Lidl (1)Lotus Cars (1)MathWorks (1)McDonald's Corporation (3)Megaupload (1)Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (2)Microsoft (2)MIPS Technologies (1)National Instruments (1)Netscape Communications Corporation (1)NeXT (1)O'Reilly Media (1)Osborne Computer Corporation (1)Otto Group (1)Palantir Technologies Inc. (1)Palm, Inc. (1)PayPal Holdings, Inc. (2)PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (2)ProQuest (1)Rainberry (1)RealNetworks (1)Relativity Space (1)Reliance Industries (1)Robinhood Markets (1)Robinson Helicopter Company (1)SAS Institute (3)Sony (2)Sun Microsystems (4)The Charles Schwab Corporation (1)Thinking Machines Corporation (2)Wolfram Research (2)Zilog (2)Showing the 100 most common of 121 options.Companies LedAll21st Century Fox (1)A.P. Moller-Maersk (1)Adidas AG (2)Adobe Inc. (2)Air Liquide S.A. (1)Amazon (1)America Movil (1)American Radio Systems (1)Amway Corp (2)Apple Inc. (1)Astrobotic Technology (1)Asylum Records (1)Audi AG (1)Baidu, Inc. (1)Beechcraft (1)Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (1)Bertelsmann (1)Billa (1)BlackBerry Limited (1)Blue Origin (1)BMW Group (2)Boston Properties, Inc. (1)Brown Bag Films (1)Bugatti Automobiles (1)Canonical (1)Chrysler Corporation (1)Claris (1)Commodore International (2)Continental AG (1)Cosworth (2)Cray (1)Dangote Group (1)Deutsche Bahn AG (1)Deutsche Bank (1)Digital Equipment Corporation (1)DreamWorks Animation (1)Elastic (1)Embraer (1)Emirates (1)Enron Corporation (1)Europa-Park (1)Fox Corporation (1)Fresenius SE (1)G4S (1)Gap Inc. (1)Garmin Ltd. (2)Geely Holding Group (1)Geffen Records (1)Google (1)Grameen Bank (1)Hanna-Barbera (2)HealthSouth (1)Hugo Boss (1)IBM (1)IKEA (1)Internet Archive (1)JPMorgan Chase & Co. (1)Juventus FC (1)KUKA (1)L'Oreal (1)Lidl (1)Los Angeles Lakers (1)Lufthansa (1)McDonald's Corporation (1)Megaupload (1)Mercedes-Benz Group AG (1)Microsoft (1)National Instruments (1)Nestle (2)News Corp (1)Novartis (1)Novell (2)O'Reilly Media (1)Olivetti (2)Oracle Corporation (1)Otto Group (2)PACCAR (1)PayPal Holdings, Inc. (1)Petrobras (1)Pirelli (1)PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (2)PolyGram N.V. (1)Porsche AG (3)Porsche SE (1)RealNetworks (1)Relativity Space (1)Reliance Industries (1)Robinhood Markets (1)Robinson Helicopter Company (1)Sabanci Holding (1)Sanyo (1)SAP SE (1)SAS Institute (1)Satyam Computer Services (1)Siemens (2)Silicon Graphics (1)Sony (3)The Charles Schwab Corporation (1)Volkswagen Group (4)Volvo Cars (2)Showing the 100 most common of 119 options.Theories DevelopedAllSocial Entrepreneurship (1)Practice DisciplineAllAccounting (5)Entrepreneurship (124)Finance (15)Leadership (11)Management (22)Marketing (6)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Isabel dos Santos20th centuryJ. Presper Eckert20th centuryJack Ma20th centuryJack Tramiel20th centuryJames Goodnight20th centuryJames Truchard20th centuryJawed Karim20th centuryJay Van Andel20th centuryJeff Bezos20th centuryJeff Hawkins20th centuryJeffrey Katzenberg20th centuryJerry Buss20th centuryJohn C. Bogle20th centuryJohn Carmack20th centuryJohn L. Hennessy20th centuryJohn Mauchly20th centuryJohn P. Thornton20th centuryJohn Sall20th centuryJohn Warnock20th centuryJordan Noone20th centuryJoseph Barbera20th centuryJoseph Portelli20th centuryKarl Wlaschek20th centuryKeith Bostic20th centuryKeith Duckworth20th centuryKen Olsen20th centuryKenneth Lay20th centuryKim Dotcom20th centuryKlaus Kleinfeld20th centuryKwok Tak-seng20th centuryLarry Clarke20th centuryLarry Ellison20th centuryLarry Page20th centuryLaura Ashley20th centuryLeo Beranek20th centuryLi Ka-shing20th centuryLi Shufu20th centuryLindsay Owen-Jones20th centuryLuis von Ahn20th centuryLuiza Trajano20th centuryMærsk Mc-Kinney Møller20th centuryMarc Andreessen20th centuryMarc Porat20th centuryMarco Tronchetti Provera20th centuryMario Illien20th centuryMark Pigott20th centuryMark Shuttleworth20th centuryMark Zuckerberg20th centuryMarshall Kirk McKusick20th centuryMartin Winterkorn20th centuryShowing 101 to 150 of 250, page 3 of 5.← Previous12345Next →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.