Home›Founder and Executive›Era›By Decade›1940sBrowse By1940sFacts1940sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonOriginating EraWell-attested1782 11940sFilter Results63 entriesRoleAllChief Executives and Senior Executives (18)Company Founders and Co-founders (37)Industrialists and Business Magnates (2)Inventor-Entrepreneurs (2)Investors and Financiers (1)NationalityAllAustria (3)Bangladesh (1)Brazil (1)Canada (1)China (3)England (1)France (2)Germany (7)India (1)Italy (2)Lebanon (1)Mexico (1)Russia (1)Switzerland (1)Taiwan (1)United Kingdom (6)United States (35)IndustryAllAdvertising Industry (1)Aerospace Industry (1)Amusement Park Industry (1)Apparel Industry (2)Automotive Industry (4)Broadcasting Industry (1)Consumer Electronics Industry (3)Cosmetics Industry (1)Electric Power Industry (1)Electronics Industry (3)Film Industry (3)Financial Services Industry (1)Food and Beverage Industry (1)Healthcare Industry (1)Information Technology Industry (6)Media and Entertainment Industry (1)Music Industry (1)Real Estate Industry (1)Retail Industry (4)Semiconductor Industry (2)Software Industry (12)Space Industry (2)Sporting Goods Industry (1)Technology Industry (1)Telecommunications Equipment Industry (1)Telecommunications Industry (5)Tire Industry (1)Venture Capital Industry (1)Video Game Industry (1)Companies FoundedAllAcorn Computers (1)Adobe Inc. (1)America Movil (1)American Radio Systems (1)Amstrad (1)Astrobotic Technology (1)Asylum Records (1)Atari, Inc. (1)Claris (1)Computer Associates (2)Convergent Technologies (1)DGC Records (1)Digital Research (2)DreamWorks Pictures (1)DreamWorks Records (1)Enron Corporation (1)Europa-Park (1)Garmin Ltd. (1)Geffen Film Company (1)Geffen Records (1)General Magic (1)Grameen Bank (1)Ilmor (1)Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (2)National Instruments (1)PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (2)SAP SE (1)SAS Institute (3)Scaled Composites (1)Sinclair Research (1)Symbolics (1)Victoria's Secret (1)Vivienne Westwood Ltd (1)WorldCom (1)Zilog (2)Companies LedAllAdidas AG (1)Adobe Inc. (1)America Movil (1)American Radio Systems (1)Asylum Records (1)BMW Group (1)Claris (1)Enron Corporation (1)Europa-Park (1)Garmin Ltd. (1)Geffen Records (1)Grameen Bank (1)Hugo Boss (1)L'Oreal (1)National Instruments (1)Nestle (1)Otto Group (1)Pirelli (1)PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (2)PolyGram N.V. (1)Porsche AG (1)Porsche SE (1)SAP SE (1)SAS Institute (1)Siemens (1)Silicon Graphics (1)Telecom Italia S.p.A. (1)United Space Alliance (1)Vivienne Westwood Ltd (1)Volkswagen Group (2)Wipro Limited (1)WorldCom (1)Theories DevelopedAllSocial Entrepreneurship (1)Practice DisciplineAllAccounting (2)Entrepreneurship (29)Finance (1)Leadership (3)Management (7)Marketing (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 50Alain Levy1940sAlan Sugar1940sAllen Michels1940sAnita Roddick1940sAnthony James Barr1940sAzim Premji1940sBernard Ebbers1940sBernd Pischetsrieder1940sBill Campbell1940sBill Drayton1940sBoris Berezovsky (businessman)1940sBurt Rutan1940sCarlos Slim1940sCharles B. Wang1940sClive Sinclair1940sDavid Geffen1940sDennis Kozlowski1940sDietmar Hopp1940sDorothy McEwen Kildall1940sEd McCracken1940sEd Roberts1940sEdward Linde1940sFederico Faggin1940sForrest Mims1940sGary Kildall1940sHeinrich von Pierer1940sHermann Hauser1940sJames Goodnight1940sJames Truchard1940sJohn Sall1940sJohn Warnock1940sKenneth Lay1940sLarry Ellison1940sLindsay Owen-Jones1940sLuiza Trajano1940sMarc Porat1940sMarco Tronchetti Provera1940sMario Illien1940sMartin Winterkorn1940sMichael J. McCulley1940sMichael Kuhn1940sMichael Otto (businessman)1940sMin Kao1940sMo Ibrahim1940sMuhammad Yunus1940sNeil Pappalardo1940sNolan Bushnell1940sPeter Brabeck-Letmathe1940sPeter Guber1940sPeter Norton1940sShowing 1 to 50 of 63, 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.