Home›Founder and Executive›Era›By Decade›1970sBrowse By1970sFacts1970sSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonOriginating EraWell-attested1782 11970sFilter Results21 entriesRoleAllChief Executives and Senior Executives (2)Company Founders and Co-founders (15)Industrialists and Business Magnates (1)Investors and Financiers (2)NationalityAllAngola (1)Canada (1)Cyprus (1)England (1)Finland (1)Germany (2)Guatemala (1)Israel (2)Italy (1)Japan (1)Malta (1)Netherlands (1)Russia (1)South Africa (2)United Kingdom (1)United States (11)IndustryAllAerospace Industry (1)Animation Industry (1)Internet Industry (6)Payment Processing Industry (1)Real Estate Industry (1)Retail Industry (1)Software Industry (5)Sports Industry (2)Technology Industry (1)Telecommunications Industry (1)Venture Capital Industry (2)Video Game Industry (1)Companies FoundedAllAkamai Technologies, Inc. (1)Canonical (1)Elastic (1)Google (2)id Software (1)JetBrains (1)Megaupload (1)Netscape Communications Corporation (1)PayPal Holdings, Inc. (1)Rainberry (1)Studio Ponoc (1)Zend (1)Companies LedAllCanonical (1)Elastic (1)Google (1)Juventus FC (1)Megaupload (1)Sonangol E.P. (1)Practice DisciplineAllEntrepreneurship (16)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 21Andrea Agnelli1970sBram Cohen1970sDaniel Lewin1970sElon Musk1970sIsabel dos Santos1970sJawed Karim1970sJohn Carmack1970sJoseph Portelli1970sKim Dotcom1970sLarry Page1970sLuis von Ahn1970sMarc Andreessen1970sMark Shuttleworth1970sMax Levchin1970sSara Blakely1970sSergey Brin1970sSteven Schuurman1970sTony Bloom1970sValentin Kipyatkov1970sYoshiaki Nishimura1970sZeev Suraski1970sSources1. 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.