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 13Ralph Ungermann1940sRed Whittaker1940sRen Zhengfei1940sRobert Louis-Dreyfus1940sRoland Mack1940sRoy Raymond1940sRussell Artzt1940sRussell Noftsker1940sSteven B. Dodge1940sVivienne Westwood1940sWerner Baldessarini1940sWolfgang Porsche1940sZhang Ruimin1940sShowing 51 to 63 of 63, page 2 of 2.← Previous12Sources1. 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.