business executive

A business executive is a high-level professional responsible for setting strategic direction, making major organizational decisions, and overseeing the performance and operations of a company or business unit.

Aliases (50)

• entrepreneur ×295
• sports executive ×110
• businessman ×68
• billionaire ×61
• chief executive officer ×59
• investor ×52
• company founder ×31
• businesswoman ×26
• American businessperson ×25
• real estate developer ×25
• financier ×23
• media executive ×23
• technology executive ×15
• venture capitalist ×14
• technology entrepreneur ×12
• American businessman ×10
• railroad executive ×9
• investment banker ×8
• hedge fund manager ×6
• airline founder ×4
• public relations executive ×3
• American business executive ×2
• automotive executive ×2
• boxing promoter ×2
• business manager ×2
• corporate director ×2
• corporate executive ×2
• corporate raider ×2
• industrial executive ×2
• marketing executive ×2
• real estate magnate ×2
• American industrialist ×1
• Bell Labs executive ×1
• Berkshire Hathaway executive ×1
• South African businessperson ×1
• Ukrainian businessperson ×1
• advertising executive ×1
• automobile executive ×1
• business leader ×1
• businesspeople ×1
• businessperson from Switzerland ×1
• businessperson in the ceramics industry ×1
• chief executive ×1
• company director ×1
• corporate leader ×1
• executive ×1
• former corporate executive ×1
• industrial leader ×1
• industrial manager ×1
• insurance executive ×1

Instances (showing first 500 of 1,101)

• Sir Paul Judge ("businessman")
• John Warnock ("company founder")
• Tim Mara ("sports executive")
• Blackstone Inc. ("hedge fund manager")
• Christopher Luxon
• Mary Lou Jepsen ("entrepreneur")
• Frank Mankiewicz ("public relations executive")
• Ajay Banga
• James L. Dolan ("chief executive officer")
• Frank B. Jewett
• Don Garber ("sports executive")
• Fred Trump ("real estate developer")
• Rupert Murdoch ("billionaire")
• Ilya Sutskever ("entrepreneur")
• Reed Jobs ("investor")
• John Mara ("sports executive")
• Snoop Dogg ("entrepreneur")
• Rosemary Leith ("entrepreneur")
• Richard Arkwright ("entrepreneur")
• Steve Tisch ("businessman")
• Mervin J. Kelly
• Andrew Smith Hallidie ("businessman")
• Larry Page ("entrepreneur")
• Hayley Wickenheiser ("sports executive")
• Cohen Private Ventures ("billionaire")
• Edsel Ford
• Dolly Parton ("businesswoman")
• Adam Silver ("sports executive")
• William Rockefeller ("businessman")
• Cam Neely ("sports executive")
• Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. ("investor")
• Marc Seriff ("entrepreneur")
• William Clay Ford Jr. ("corporate executive")
• Neal Mohan
• Rihanna ("businesswoman")
• Elizabeth Arden ("entrepreneur")
• John D. Rockefeller Jr. ("financier")
• Donald ("billionaire")
• Melinda French Gates
• Reid Hoffman ("entrepreneur")
• Jim Farley
• T.H. Chan ("real estate developer")
• Hank Steinbrenner ("sports executive")
• Larry Ellison ("entrepreneur")
• Carl Wilhelm Siemens ("businessman")
• Avram Glazer ("sports executive")
• Josiah Wedgwood I ("entrepreneur")
• Satya Nadella
• Joel Glazer ("American businessperson")
• Carlos Tavares
• Jonathan Kraft ("businessman")
• Sheila Johnson ("sports executive")
• Dan Kan ("entrepreneur")
• Benjamin Graham ("investor")
• P. Diddy ("entrepreneur")
• Magic Johnson ("businessman")
• Maurice Podoloff ("sports executive")
• David Rockefeller
• George Steinbrenner ("sports executive")
• Ricketts family ("American businessman")
• Marshall Field ("entrepreneur")
• Luke Nosek ("entrepreneur")
• Wojciech Zaremba ("entrepreneur")
• Omid Kordestani
• Eduardo Saverin ("entrepreneur")
• Aurelia Chan Zuckerberg ("technology entrepreneur")
• Gerry Cardinale ("investor")
• Hans Kehrl ("industrial manager")
• Louis Jacobs ("American businessperson")
• Thomas Alva Edison ("entrepreneur")
• Dongjin Seo ("entrepreneur")
• John W. Henry ("investor")
• Thomas Tull ("entrepreneur")
• Dustin Moskovitz ("entrepreneur")
• Robert Todd Lincoln ("businessman")
• Walter A. Brown ("sports executive")
• Tony James
• Michael Bloomberg ("billionaire")
• Chris Hughes ("entrepreneur")
• Edward Samuel Rogers Jr. ("media executive")
• Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
• Steve Ross ("chief executive officer")
• Steve Jobs ("entrepreneur")
• Ray Dolby ("entrepreneur")
• Howard Graham Buffett ("businessman")
• Sebastian Thrun ("entrepreneur")
• Klaus Schwab
• Dave Dombrowski ("sports executive")
• Ted Rogers ("media executive")
• Carl Icahn ("investor")
• Florence ("businesswoman")
• Nancy Goodman Brinker ("businesswoman")
• Edward S. Rogers Sr. ("entrepreneur")
• Jon Jashni ("media executive")
• Gordon Getty ("investor")
• Hal Steinbrenner ("sports executive")
• Ted Lerner was managing principal owner of the Washington Nationals ("real estate magnate")
• Robert Nobel ("businessman")
• Carl F. Wallin ("American businessperson")
• Jody Allen ("American businessperson")
• William von Meister ("entrepreneur")
• Guo Guangchang ("investor")
• Stephen A. Schwarzman ("billionaire")
• Philip Fisher ("investor")
• Ronald Wayne ("entrepreneur")
• Reed Hastings ("entrepreneur")
• Ian Wright ("entrepreneur")
• Rich Gotham ("sports executive")
• Joseph E. Sheffield ("railroad executive")
• Leo Beranek ("entrepreneur")
• Steve Chen ("entrepreneur")
• Bill Gates ("billionaire")
• Marc Tarpenning ("entrepreneur")
• Harvey Weinstein ("American businessperson")
• Ludacris ("entrepreneur")
• Barry Diller
• Mario Lemieux ("sports executive")
• Chad Hurley ("entrepreneur")
• Paul Allen ("entrepreneur")
• Robert Newman ("entrepreneur")
• Yuhuai Wu ("entrepreneur")
• Scotty Bowman ("sports executive")
• Kanye West ("entrepreneur")
• Steve Wozniak ("entrepreneur")
• John Attenborough
• T. V. Soong ("financier")
• Greg Kouri ("entrepreneur")
• Ivana Marie Zelníčková ("businesswoman")
• Tim Cook
• Steve Case ("entrepreneur")
• Jawed Karim ("entrepreneur")
• Evan Williams ("entrepreneur")
• Riccardo Mazzucchelli ("entrepreneur")
• Hope Hicks ("public relations executive")
• Ted Sarandos
• Susan Packard Orr
• Matthew Boulton ("entrepreneur")
• Adolf Dassler ("entrepreneur")
• Susan Wojcicki
• David Karp ("entrepreneur")
• Major League Baseball owners ("businesspeople")
• Bob Miner ("entrepreneur")
• James Watt Jr. ("businessman")
• Ken Dryden ("sports executive")
• John D. Rockefeller ("oil magnate")
• Jay-Z ("entrepreneur")
• Leon Rose ("sports executive")
• William F. Hagerty IV (as U.S. Ambassador to Japan) ("businessman")
• Cornelius Vanderbilt ("railroad executive")
• George McCaskey ("sports executive")
• Mitchell Rales ("billionaire")
• J. P. Morgan ("financier")
• Bowie Kuhn ("sports executive")
• Jay Gould ("financier")
• Cindy Parlow Cone ("sports executive")
• Max Levchin ("entrepreneur")
• Gerald Levin
• John Dustin Archbold ("oil executive")
• Moses Taylor ("railroad executive")
• James J. Hill ("financier")
• Tom Coughlin ("sports executive")
• Peter Ueberroth ("sports executive")
• Peter Thiel ("entrepreneur")
• Jeff Bewkes
• Andrew W. Mellon ("financier")
• Ford Frick ("sports executive")
• Fay Vincent ("businessman")
• Ishwara Glassman Chrein ("sports executive")
• Lars Jensen ("entrepreneur")
• Sam Altman ("entrepreneur")
• Bud Selig ("sports executive")
• Roy Vagelos
• Greg Brockman ("technology entrepreneur")
• Abe Pollin ("sports executive")
• Ray Kurzweil ("entrepreneur")
• Archibald Roosevelt ("businessman")
• John Thompson ("financier")
• Rob Manfred ("sports executive")
• Swizz Beatz ("entrepreneur")
• Jack Dorsey ("entrepreneur")
• Robert Darwin ("financier")
• Biz Stone ("entrepreneur")
• Happy Chandler ("sports executive")
• Henry Ford II ("chief executive officer")
• Günther Sabetzki ("sports executive")
• Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt ("businessman")
• Marvin Jacobs ("entrepreneur")
• Steve Yzerman ("sports executive")
• William Wrigley Jr. ("entrepreneur")
• Dick Costolo ("entrepreneur")
• Debby Clarke Belichick ("businesswoman")
• Mary Barra
• Scott Perry ("sports executive")
• John J. Raskob ("financier")
• Frederick W. Smith ("entrepreneur")
• Tom Werner ("businessman")
• Parag Agrawal ("technology executive")
• Paul Warburg ("financier")
• Jeffrey Loria ("businessman")
• Walter Chrysler
• Michael O'Leary ("chief executive officer")
• Henry Ford III
• Cecil H. Green ("entrepreneur")
• Pierre S. du Pont ("corporate executive")
• Khadijah bint Khuwaylid ("businesswoman")
• Eugène Schueller ("entrepreneur")
• Kevin Glazer ("American businessperson")
• Safra Catz
• Patrick E. Haggerty
• Tony Clark ("sports executive")
• Robert N. Noyce ("entrepreneur")
• Warren Buffett ("investor")
• Albert J. Weatherhead III ("business leader")
• Joe Mansueto ("entrepreneur")
• Josiah Wedgwood II ("businessperson in the ceramics industry")
• Warren ("billionaire")
• Tim O'Reilly ("entrepreneur")
• Nils Norman ("company founder")
• Martin Eberhard ("entrepreneur")
• Jean-Paul Agon
• James Clark ("technology entrepreneur")
• Jeremy Jacobs ("billionaire")
• Mitchell ("entrepreneur")
• Mary Seacole ("businesswoman")
• James Park ("entrepreneur")
• Mark Zuckerberg ("entrepreneur")
• Kazuo Inamori ("entrepreneur")
• George William Gordon ("businessman")
• David Sarnoff
• JB Straubel ("entrepreneur")
• Bob Short ("sports executive")
• Michael Jordan ("businessman")
• Bernard M. Baruch ("financier")
• Travis Kalanick ("entrepreneur")
• Tony West
• Nelson Chai
• Joe Gebbia ("entrepreneur")
• Nathan Blecharczyk ("entrepreneur")
• Philip Anschutz ("billionaire")
• Jeff Bezos ("entrepreneur")
• Christian Chabot ("entrepreneur")
• Bill Kramer ("entrepreneur")
• Marcus Garvey ("entrepreneur")
• Brian Chesky ("entrepreneur")
• Jeb Stuart Magruder
• John Schulman ("entrepreneur")
• Frederick William Vanderbilt ("railroad executive")
• Jeffry M. Picower ("investor")
• A. G. Sulzberger ("media executive")
• Bob Iger
• Bridgette Radebe ("entrepreneur")
• Fred Kavli ("entrepreneur")
• Joe Schoen ("sports executive")
• Ernst Göhner ("entrepreneur")
• Christopher Johnson ("sports executive")
• Herb Kelleher ("entrepreneur")
• Rollin King ("entrepreneur")
• Dara Khosrowshahi
• Sloan
• Pat Gelsinger
• Roswell Miller Jr. ("businessman")
• Nelson Rockefeller ("businessman")
• Andy Jassy
• Rick Leary ("public transit executive")
• Asser Malik ("sports executive")
• Johns Hopkins ("investor")
• Charles Geschke ("entrepreneur")
• Isaac Lankershim ("businessman")
• Sam Zussman
• Rick Hahn ("sports executive")
• Steve Cohen ("billionaire")
• Scott Malkin ("investor")
• Jon Ledecky ("investor")
• Lou Lamoriello ("sports executive")
• Johan Nordström ("entrepreneur")
• Julius Lankershim ("real estate developer")
• Sandy Lerner ("entrepreneur")
• Masayoshi Son ("entrepreneur")
• Rick DeVos ("entrepreneur")
• Rocky Wirtz ("sports executive")
• Howie Roseman ("sports executive")
• Dan DeVos ("sports executive")
• Tom Preston-Werner ("entrepreneur")
• Allen Blue ("entrepreneur")
• Konstantin Guericke ("entrepreneur")
• Eric Ly ("entrepreneur")
• Ryan Roslansky – Chief Executive Officer
• Kamen ("entrepreneur")
• John Jacob Astor IV ("real estate magnate")
• Tim Hanson ("entrepreneur")
• Robert Morris ("financier")
• Chris Wanstrath ("entrepreneur")
• PJ Hyett ("entrepreneur")
• Jeff Weiner
• Tyra Banks ("businesswoman")
• Eduard Houdremont
• Lore Harp McGovern ("entrepreneur")
• Bert Bell ("sports executive")
• C. R. Smith
• Fritz J. Russ ("entrepreneur")
• Bryan Glazer ("sports executive")
• Scott Chacon ("entrepreneur")
• Thomas J. Watson
• Benjamin Rapoport ("entrepreneur")
• Neil Bush ("investor")
• Jeffrey Lurie ("businessman")
• J. C. Penney ("entrepreneur")
• Madam C. J. Walker ("entrepreneur")
• R. H. Macy ("entrepreneur")
• Joseph Durst ("real estate developer")
• Durst family ("real estate developer")
• Cammi Granato ("sports executive")
• Woody ("businessman")
• Kevin Systrom ("entrepreneur")
• Donald Fehr ("sports executive")
• Emilio Azcárraga Jean ("media executive")
• Charles Roebling
• Charles Montagu ("financier")
• Douglas Durst ("real estate developer")
• Haviv Ilan
• Heinrich Schliemann ("businessman")
• Christian Heurich ("businessman")
• Frank Winfield Woolworth ("entrepreneur")
• Seymour Durst ("real estate developer")
• William Simon
• Sundar Pichai
• John Templeton ("investor")
• Nicolas Hieronimus
• Brad Stevens ("sports executive")
• Kyle Vogt ("entrepreneur")
• Joe Zee ("media executive")
• Edward Glazer ("businessman")
• Billie Jean Moffitt ("sports executive")
• Ryan Poles ("sports executive")
• Prescott Bush ("investment banker")
• Paloma Picasso ("businesswoman")
• William Colgate ("entrepreneur")
• Noah Glass ("entrepreneur")
• Robert Wood Johnson I ("entrepreneur")
• Demis Hassabis ("entrepreneur")
• Mustafa Suleyman ("entrepreneur")
• Ralph Lauren
• Borys Shefir ("Ukrainian businessperson")
• Mellody Hobson
• Tommy Hilfiger ("entrepreneur")
• David G. Bradley ("media executive")
• Leonard Bosack ("entrepreneur")
• Jean-Luc Vaillant ("entrepreneur")
• Koray Kavukcuoglu
• Glazer family ("businessman")
• Marvin Miller ("sports executive")
• William S. Paley
• Seymour Schulich ("businessman")
• Gene Amdahl ("entrepreneur")
• Akio Morita ("entrepreneur")
• Pharrell Williams ("entrepreneur")
• Dean Kamen ("entrepreneur")
• William May Garland ("real estate developer")
• Paul G. Hoffman
• Lowell family ("American businessman")
• Soyeon Schröder-Kim ("businesswoman")
• Frederick Tudor ("entrepreneur")