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Gordon R. Parker

Gordon R. Parker is a business executive notable for leading the Gold Fields unit of Toronto-based Iamgold corporation.

John Hillen

John Hillen (born 3 February 1966) is an American business executive and the former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, nominated by President George W. Bush, who served from October 11, 2005 until January 11, 2007.

Lloyd Levitin

Professor Lloyd A. Levitin (born 1932) is an American businessman, former business executive, and currently professor of clinical finance and business economics at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

Paul S. Allen

Paul Stephen Allen (born 19 November 1951) is a British business executive, formerly President of Cognis Corporation and Executive Vice President Functional Products.

Tom Mboya

They had five children, including daughters Maureen Odero, a high court judge in Mombasa, and Susan Mboya, a Coca-Cola executive who continues the education airlift program initiated by Tom Mboya.


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Abdul Malik Jaber

Abdul Malik Al-Jaber was a recipient of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum “Best Arab Manager Award for Excellence in Management” in 2001, as the leading business executive in Palestine.

Alan Daniels

Alan F. Daniels (born 1968), American real estate business executive

Alan Wilson

Alan Herries Wilson (1906–1995), British mathematician and business executive

Albert Williams

Albert Lynn Williams (1911–1982), American business executive; president of IBM in the 1960s

Bill Lacy

Bill Lacy is a former political operative and business executive who is the current Director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, and was the campaign manager for Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign.

Bruce Gordon

Bruce S. Gordon (born 1946), American business executive and former NAACP president

Brynn Thayer

Thayer was born in North Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Margery (Schwartz) and William Paul Thayer, a former naval officer and business executive who was Deputy Secretary of Defense (1983-1984) in the Reagan Administration.

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Henry Ingersoll (1865–1948), American entrepreneur and business executive who, with his older brother, Robert (1860–1929), co-founded, in 1892, Ingersoll Watch Company, which produced forty million "dollar watches"

Damodaran

M. Damodaran, thought leader, business executive and former government official

Darin Pastor

Darin Richard Pastor (born February 19, 1971) is an American business executive from Buffalo, New York.

Edward R. Stettinius

They had four children, among them Stettinius's namesake, Edward Stettinius, Jr., who also worked as a business executive, and was Secretary of State for a time.

Enomoto

Daisuke Enomoto (born 1971), Japanese business executive and space tourist

Eric Kriss

Eric Arthur Kriss (born 1949) is a musician and business executive who served as Secretary of Administration and Finance in Massachusetts Governor Romney's cabinet (January 2003 – October 2005), and as assistant A&F secretary under Governor William Weld (January 1991 – February 1993).

Frank Cooper

Frank Cooper III, business executive, global Chief Marketing Officer for PepsiCo, Inc.

Franz Kneisel

In 1938, she married retired banker and business executive Felix E. Kahn (b Mannheim, Germany, 25 January 1873; d Blue Hill, Maine, 25 July 1950), who had been a director of the Paramount Pictures Corporation and was a noted collector of violins, as well as a brother of banker and philanthropist Otto H. Kahn and composer Robert Kahn

Grant King

Grant King is an Australian engineer and business executive, currently Managing Director of Origin Energy.

Greater Baltimore Urban League

Baltimore business executive Raymond V. Haysbert was chairman of the board of directors at the time of his death on May 24, 2010.

Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation

The foundation administers the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize (German: Hanns Martin Schleyer-Preis), an award established by automobile manufacturer Daimler AG in 1982 in honor of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, a former business executive of the BDA and BDI.

Harbord

James Harbord, a General in the U.S. Army and business executive

Hitler's War

Lance Morrow wrote in Time that Irving's picture of the "Führer as a somewhat harried business executive too preoccupied to know exactly what was happening in his branch offices at Auschwitz and Treblinka" was hard to accept.

Ian Herbert White

Ian Herbert White (born November 22, 1949) is an Australian business executive currently based in Canada with the Canadian Wheat Board.

Italo Zanzi

Italo Zanzi, born May 18, 1974 in New York, is a sports business executive and attorney, currently CEO of Serie A team AS Roma.

J. Clifford Hudson

Clifford Hudson (born 1954, Dallas) is an American business executive best known for serving as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Oklahoma City-based Sonic Corp. He also serves as a trustee of the Ford Foundation and was a past chairman of the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Jack Ford

John Gardner Ford (born 1952), American business executive, nicknamed "Jack"; the second son of President Gerald R. Ford

James Adamson

James B. Adamson, business executive and former CEO of Burger King

Jessica Capshaw

Capshaw was born in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw, and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive, and high school principal.

John Culligan

John W. Culligan (November 22, 1916, Newark, New Jersey – December 11, 2004, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey) was an American business executive at American Home Products (now owned by Wyeth) makers of Advil, Anacin and Preparation H.

John H. Rubel

John H. Rubel (born April 27, 1920) was a business executive in the early post-World War II years of the defense electronics industry, later serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy administration.

John Randolph Hearst

John Randolph Hearst (1909–1958) was an American business executive and the third son of William Randolph Hearst.

Laplanche

Renaud Laplanche (born 1970), French American entrepreneur and business executive

Mavis Adjei

Adjei lives in the Netherlands with longtime boyfriend Geoffrey Osei-Bonsu, a popular TV Director/Business Executive with whom she has a daughter Tyra.

Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship

Founded in 1987 by business executive and entrepreneur Steve Mariotti, while he was a public high school teacher in New York City’s South Bronx, NFTE was started up as a program to prevent high school dropout and improve academic performance among at-risk urban students.

Nitish Katara murder case

Nitish Katara was a 24-year-old Indian business executive in Delhi, who was murdered in the early hours of 17 February 2002, by Vikas Yadav the son of influential criminal-politician D. P. Yadav.

Oscar Solbert

The qualities which had made for Solbert's successful career as an officer and a business executive proved to be equally applicable to this career as the first Director of George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.

Oscar Nathaniel Solbert (January 22, 1885 – April 16, 1958) was an American general, business executive and the first director of George Eastman House.

Raymond Bloomfield

Raymond Bloomfield (b. October 30, 1956 in London) is a British business executive and entrepreneur with activities in real estate investment and development in the UK, and Eastern Europe including Russia and CIS.

Rechcigl

Miloslav Rechcigl, Sr. (1902 - 1973), a Czech politician, miller, business executive

Secret Intelligence Branch

He was succeeded in 1943 by the business executive and international relations expert, Whitney Shepardson.

Simon Brett

He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System (1984) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion.

Sue Naegle

Sue Naegle is an American business executive.

Susan Ershler

Susan Ershler (Susan Ellerman; born in March) is a public speaker, business executive, climber of Mount Everest, and author.

Tex Thornton

November 24, 1981) was an American business executive who was the founder of Litton Industries.

Watson Escarpment

The escarpment was more closely observed in December 1934 by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition geological party under Quin Blackburn, and was named by Byrd for Thomas J. Watson, American business executive, a patron of this expedition.

William A. Graham

William Adolphus Graham IV (born 1940), American business executive, known as Bill Graham

William Coe

William Robertson Coe (1869–1955), English-born American insurance and railways business executive and philanthropist

Winberg

Claes-Ulrik Winberg (1925–1989), Swedish industrialist and business executive

Wurzelbacher

Robert Wurzelbacher, a business executive involved in the Savings and Loan Scandal