People whose cited article describes them chiefly as the chief executive, chairman, president or managing director of an established company, often one they did not found. A person belongs here when the article names running the company as the main role. It excludes people the article describes mainly as the founder of a company, an industrialist, an inventor or an investor. Some of these executives led companies through rapid growth, others through crisis, and the article for each person states which company they ran and in what years.
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Wikipedia: Paul Drennan Cravath
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presiding partner of the New York law firm known today as Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Safra Catz (Wikipedia)
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She is the executive vice chair and former CEO of Oracle Corporation.
Kristine Belson (Wikipedia)
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is a film producer and the president of Sony Pictures Animation
Clark Spencer (Wikipedia)
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serving as President of Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2019
David Ellison (Wikipedia)
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the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Skydance Corporation
Jane Friedman (Wikipedia)
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President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide
Peter Guber (Wikipedia)
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chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment
Michael Kuhn (Wikipedia)
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in 1991 he set up the subsidiary PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE)
Alain Levy (Wikipedia)
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Levy was promoted to worldwide President and CEO of PolyGram N.V.
Ian Robertson (Wikipedia)
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to become chairman and chief executive of BMW's subsidiary Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
Derk Haank (German Wikipedia)
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Er war von 1998 bis 2004 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) des niederländischen Verlages Elsevier
Brink's Appoints Mark Eubanks as President and CEO (Brink's press release, SEC Form 8-K exhibit 99.1)
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has been appointed president and chief executive officer (CEO), effective May 6, 2022
Petco Announces CEO Transition (Petco press release, 13 March 2024)
Has Member: Mike Mohan, RoleQuote, Has Member: Mike Mohan, Role
Michael (Mike) Mohan to serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective today.
Triple Canopy Announces Leadership Change (PR Newswire, 27 June 2014)
Has Member: Ignacio Balderas, RoleQuote, Has Member: Ignacio Balderas, Role
After almost three decades of military service, and over 10 years with Triple Canopy, current Chairman and CEO
Amazon combines air, ground operations teams (Supply Chain Dive)
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an exceptional leader for Amazon Air
Werner Baldessarini (Wikipedia)
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He was formerly chairman of Hugo Boss
Andrea Agnelli (Wikipedia)
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Agnelli served as chairman of Italian association football club Juventus
Susan Wojcicki (Wikipedia)
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chief executive officer of YouTube from 2014 to 2023
Jeffrey Katzenberg (Wikipedia)
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He served as chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Wikipedia)
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he was the CEO of the Nestlé Group
David Rockefeller (Wikipedia)
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who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation
Martin Winterkorn (Wikipedia)
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who served as chairman of the board of management (CEO, Vorstandsvorsitzender in German) of Volkswagen AG, the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, as well as chairman of the supervisory board of Audi
Robert Louis-Dreyfus (Wikipedia)
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who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Adidas (then Adidas Salomon) and Saatchi & Saatchi
Ashley Almanza (Wikipedia)
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who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of G4S plc since 1 June 2013
Mitchell Baker (Wikipedia)
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She is a former chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications
Norio Ohga (Wikipedia)
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who was the president and chairman of Sony Corporation
Frank Appel (Wikipedia)
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was CEO of Deutsche Post from 2008 to 2023
Klaus Kleinfeld (Wikipedia)
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He worked as the CEO of businesses including Siemens AG, Alcoa Inc, and Arconic
Fujio Cho (Wikipedia)
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was formerly honorary chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation
Güler Sabancı (Wikipedia)
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the former chair of the family-controlled Sabancı Holding, the second-largest industrial and financial conglomerate in Turkey
Benoît Potier (Wikipedia)
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who was CEO of the French multinational industrial gas company Air Liquide from 2006 to 2022, and is now chairman
Paul Achleitner (Wikipedia)
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who served as chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank from 2012 to 2022
Michael Otto (businessman) (Wikipedia)
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is the honorary chairman of the supervisory board of Germany's Otto Group, one of the world's largest mail order companies, with €15
Daniel Vasella (Wikipedia)
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who was CEO and chairman of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, the world's fifth largest drug company
Wendelin Wiedeking (Wikipedia)
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is the former president and chief executive officer of the German car manufacturer, Porsche AG, a post he held from 1993 through July 23, 2009
Lindsay Owen-Jones (Wikipedia)
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was the chairman and CEO of the cosmetics and beauty company L'Oréal from 1988 to 2011
Rüdiger Grube (Wikipedia)
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who served as the chairman of the board of Deutsche Bahn from 2009 until 2017 and as the chairman of EADS from 2007 until 2009
Guillaume Pepy (Wikipedia)
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currently serves as president of the SNCF, the French national rail authority
Christoph Franz (Wikipedia)
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was chief executive officer of Lufthansa from 2011 until 2014
Ulf Mark Schneider (Wikipedia)
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He was CEO of Nestlé from January 2017 to August 2024, and before that, CEO of the healthcare group Fresenius SE
Philip Clarke (businessman) (Wikipedia)
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He served as the chief executive officer of Tesco plc until 1 September 2014
Carl Hahn (Wikipedia)
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head of the Volkswagen Group from 1982 to 1993
Reinhard Mohn (Wikipedia)
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Under his leadership, Bertelsmann
Thomas J. Watson Jr. (Wikipedia)
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he was the second IBM president (1952-71)
Tony O'Reilly (Wikipedia)
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as CEO and chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company
Robert Ng (Wikipedia)
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the chairman of Hong Kong property development conglomerate Sino Group since 1991
Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum (Wikipedia)
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was the chairman and CEO of the Emirates airline and the Emirates Group
Ferdinand Piëch (Wikipedia)
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held the positions of chairman of the executive board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of the Volkswagen Group from 1993 to 2002
Wolfgang Porsche (Wikipedia)
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chairman of the Supervisory Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE
Dieter Zetsche (Wikipedia)
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was the chairman of the board of management at Daimler AG
Heinrich von Pierer (Wikipedia)
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he was CEO of Siemens AG
Marco Tronchetti Provera (Wikipedia)
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was the CEO of the Italian tire manufacturer Pirelli
Wikipedia, Ray Kroc
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Kroc served as president of McDonald's from 1955 to 1968, as chairman of the board from 1968 to 1977, and as senior chairman from 1977 until his death in 1984.
Azim Premji (Wikipedia)
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Azim Hashim Premji (born 24 July 1945) is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist who was the chairman of Wipro.
Wikipedia, Luiza Trajano
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She is chair of the retailer Magazine Luiza and associated companies.
Wikipedia, Elon Musk
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Elon Reeve Musk ( EE-lon; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman, industrialist and former public official who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX.
Howard Schultz (Wikipedia)
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Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, and from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023.
Wikipedia, Dennis Kozlowski
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Leo Dennis Kozlowski (born November 16, 1946) is the former CEO of Tyco International, convicted in 2005 of crimes related to his receipt of $81 million in unauthorized bonuses, the purchase of art for $14.725 million and the payment by Tyco of a $20 million investment banking fee to Frank Walsh, a former Tyco
Wikipedia: Edward R. McCracken
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Edward Ray McCracken (born December 1943) is an American businessman who was CEO of Silicon Graphics (SGI) from 1984 to 1997.
Wikipedia: Ray Noorda
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He was CEO of Novell between 1982 and 1994.
Wikipedia: Eric Schmidt
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Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.
Wikipedia: Robert Frankenberg
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He is best known for serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Novell during the mid-1990s and for his earlier leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard, where he helped develop numerous computer, networking, and personal computing technologies.
Wikipedia: George Harriman
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In 1961 he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the British Motor Corporation having taken over many of the responsibilities of Leonard Lord some years earlier.
Wikipedia: Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes
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He was the managing director of Leyland Motors from 1962 to 1968 and the chief executive of its successor British Leyland from 1968 to 1975.
Wikipedia: Mark Pigott
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He has been executive chairman of Paccar since April 2014.
Wikipedia: Tom Krause (business executive)
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Tom Krause (born 1977 or 1978) is an American business executive who was the Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from February to June, 2025 and chief executive officer of the Cloud Software Group.
Wikipedia: Bill Campbell (business executive)
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William Vincent Campbell Jr. (August 31, 1940, April 18, 2016) was an American businessman and chairman of the board of trustees of Columbia University and chairman of the board of Intuit.
Wikipedia: Steve Sakoman
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Steve Sakoman is an American computing executive.
Wikipedia: William Norris (CEO)
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He was the CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world.
Wikipedia: David Sarnoff
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He led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) for most of his career in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.
Wikipedia: Håkan Samuelsson
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Håkan Samuelsson (born 19 March 1951) is a Swedish businessman who is chairman of the executive board (CEO) of Volvo Cars Corporation AB from October 2012 to January 2022.
Wikipedia, Dave Limp
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is the CEO of Blue Origin as of 2024
Wikipedia, Michael J. McCulley
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president and chief executive officer (CEO) of United Space Alliance
Wikipedia, John P. Thornton
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He is CEO of Astrobotic Technology Inc.
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