List of corporate leaders

Here follows an annotated list of corporate leaders. They are typically known for their leadership of businesses, usually large corporations. The list appears in alphabetical order of last name. To facilitate reading, only personal names are hyperlinked.

Corporate Leaders:

• William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Lord Beaverbrook - newspaper magnate
• John Jacob Astor, fur trading and real estate
• Percy Barnevik - investor
• Bernard Baruch - financier, investor, Presidential advisor
• Andy Bechtolsheim - Sun Microsystems
• Silvio Berlusconi - Italian media
• Liliane de Bettencourt, L'Oreal cosmetics
• Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
• William Boeing - Boeing Aircraft
• Matthew Boulton - metal products
• Richard Branson - Virgin
• Samuel Bronfman, distilling
• Warren Buffett - investor, Berkshire Hathaway
• Michael Capellas -- Compaq, Worldcom
• Andrew Carnegie - American Steel
• Samuel Cunard, passenger ships
• Michael Dell - Dell Computers
• Walt Disney - Disney
• Larry Ellison - Oracle Corporation
• Friedrich Engels - textiles
• Lars Magnus Ericsson - Ericsson
• Pablo Escobar - cocaine distribution
• Carly Fiorina -- Hewlett-Packard
• Henry Ford - Ford
• Bill Gates - Microsoft
• Lou Gerstner - IBM
• J. P. Getty - Getty Oil
• King C. Gillette - Gillette Razors
• Andy Grove - Intel
• William Randolph Hearst - media magnate
• Soichiro Honda - Honda
• Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster
• Howard Hughes - Hughes Aircraft
• H. L. Hunt, oilman
• Lee Iacocca - Chrysler
• Yotaro Isawaki - Mitsubishi
• Steve Jobs - Apple
• Steve Jurvetson - Hotmail
• Herb Kelleher - Southwest Airlines
• Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr, investor
• Denis Kozlowski - Tyco
• Henry Kravis, financier
• Ray Kroc - McDonalds
• Alfred Krupp - Krupp
• John Law, banking
• Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, ship building
• Daniel Ludwig, cargo ship building
• Guglielmo Marconi - Marconi
• Scott McNealy - Sun Microsystems
• Andrew Mellon - banking, steel, oil, ship building
• Michael Milken, junk-bond king
• John Pierpont Morgan - J. P. Morgan Bank
• Akio Morita - Sony
• Rupert Murdoch - News Corporation
• Pierre Omidyar - e-Bay
• Aristotle Onassis, shipping
• Tony O'Reilly - INM
• Kerry Packer - Australian media
• John S. Pemberton - Coca-Cola
• Paul Julius Baron von Reuter - Reuters
• Cecil Rhodes - mining, etc
• John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil
• Anita Roddick - Body Shop
• Mayer Amschel Rothschild - banking
• David Sarnoff - RCA
• John Sculley - Apple
• Alfred Sloan - G.M.
• Martha Stewart - Omni Media
• E. P. Taylor, Argus Corrporation, Windfields Farm
• Cornelius Vanderbilt, shipping
• William Henry Vanderbilt, shipping, railroads
• Peter Wallenberg - investor
• Sam Walton - Walmart
• John Wanamaker - Wanamaker Department Stores
• Jack Welch - G.E.
• Eli Whitney - American System
• Jerry Yang - Yahoo!

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