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Abdou Diop
Abdou Diop, also known as Abdou Soulèye Diop, leads Forvis Mazars in Morocco, a Casablanca audit and consulting firm, and sits on its Group Governing Board.
Adrian Lawrence
Adrian Lawrence, born 1966, is a British chartered accountant and recruitment entrepreneur who founded the London boutique executive search firm Exec Capital and FD Capital.
Ambassador Theatre Group
Ambassador Theatre Group, renamed ATG Entertainment in 2024, is a British live theater operator founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, running about 70 venues worldwide.
Brenda McLeish
Brenda McLeish OBE DL is a British business executive who joined Learning Curve Group in 2008, led it as chief executive from 2015, and stepped down in December 2025.
C. F. Tietgen
Carl Frederik Tietgen (1829–1901) was a Danish banker and industrial financier, managing director of Privatbanken from 1857 and co-founder of the Tuborg brewery, who founded DFDS and the Great Northern Telegraph Company.
Carmen Riu Güell
Carmen Riu Güell (born 1955) is a Spanish hotel executive who was co-CEO of the Mallorca-based family chain RIU Hotels & Resorts from 1998 to 2024.
Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann
Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann, born 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American businesswoman and widow of Peter Dussmann who chairs the governance of the Berlin-based Dussmann Group.
Clare Roberts
Clare Roberts, born 1977, is a British businesswoman who co-founded Kids Planet Day Nurseries with her father in 2008, now the UK's second-largest nursery operator.
CTP
CTP, full name Central Trade Park, is a Netherlands-based developer of industrial and logistics real estate, founded by Remon Vos in 1998 and listed on Euronext Amsterdam.
Dr. Stephanie Mair-Huydts
Dr. Stephanie Mair-Huydts, born 1963, is a German publisher who leads MAIRDUMONT, the family travel-guide house in Ostfildern, and was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023.
Dussmann Stiftung & Co. KGaA
Dussmann Stiftung & Co. KGaA is a Berlin-based services group founded by Peter Dussmann, providing facility management, food services, care, and the KulturKaufhaus media store.
Edward Gold
Edward V. Gold, sometimes Eddie Gold, was an American restaurateur based in Chicago who founded the Wimpy hamburger chain in 1934, naming it after a Popeye character.
Exec Capital
Exec Capital is a London-based executive search practice founded by chartered accountant Adrian Lawrence in 2018, placing C-suite and board-level executives with UK mid-market and growth-stage businesses on retained fees.
Francesco Angelini
Francesco Angelini (1887–1964) was an Italian pharmacist and entrepreneur from Le Marche who founded the family-owned Angelini group, a pharmaceutical company, in Ancona in 1919.
František Hromada
František Hromada (1857–1934) was a Czech lawyer and chamber-of-commerce secretary who served as first chairman of the Czech Joint Stock Brewery, today's Budějovický Budvar, founded in 1895.
Fresenius Kabi
Fresenius Kabi is a German healthcare company, founded in 1999 and headquartered in Bad Homburg, that makes IV drugs, clinical nutrition, and medical technology for critically and chronically ill patients.
General de Galerías Comerciales
General de Galerías Comerciales is a Spanish shopping-center developer founded by Tomás Olivo López in 1995, known for La Cañada in Marbella and Nevada Shopping in Granada.
Gérard Blitz (Belgian businessman)
Gérard Blitz (1912–1990) was a Belgian-born diamond cutter who founded Club Méditerranée, known as Club Med, in 1950 and led its first tent village in Majorca.
Gilbert Trigano
Gilbert Trigano (1920–2001) was a French businessman who led Club Méditerranée from 1963 to 1993, turning the tented holiday club into the pioneer of the all-inclusive resort.
Haley Abivardi
Haley Abivardi is a Swiss dentist and healthcare entrepreneur who co-founded vVARDIS with her sister Goly; the company's drill-free cavity treatment reached a billion-dollar valuation in 2026.
Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth is a Swiss family-owned contemporary art gallery founded in Zurich in 1992 by Iwan and Manuela Wirth, representing over 90 artists and estates.
Hermann Simon (German business academic)
Hermann Simon is a German business academic and management consultant who co-founded the pricing consultancy Simon-Kucher & Partners in Bonn in 1985 and originated the "Hidden Champions" concept.
Imran Hakim
Imran Hakim is a Bolton-born optometrist and entrepreneur who founded Hakim Group, which grew from a 2002 Bolton practice to more than 500 opticians across the UK and Ireland.
Indotek Group
Indotek Group is a privately held real estate investment and development group headquartered in Budapest, Hungary, led by founder and majority owner Dániel Jellinek, with 350+ properties across 12 European countries.
Ivo Valenta
Ivo Valenta, born 1956, is a Czech gaming entrepreneur who founded the SYNOT Group in 1991 with his father and brother, and served as a senator from 2014.
Iwan Wirth
Iwan Wirth, born in Switzerland in 1970, is a Swiss art dealer who co-founded the gallery Hauser & Wirth in Zurich in 1992 and serves as its president.
Jerzy Starak
Jerzy Starak, born in 1947, is a Polish billionaire businessman who took over Polpharma in 2000 and built it into Poland's largest generic drug maker.
Jesús Núñez Velázquez
Jesús Núñez Velázquez is a Spanish education entrepreneur, born in Pecharromán, who founded Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio in 1993, Spain's first private university not affiliated with the Catholic Church.
JobRad Holding AG
JobRad Holding AG, founded by Ulrich Prediger in Freiburg in 2008, leases company bikes to employees through salary arrangements and leads German bike leasing with about 45 percent market share.
Joseph Charles Benziger
Joseph Charles Benziger (Josef Karl Benziger, 1762–1841) was a Swiss Catholic businessman who founded a religious publishing house at Einsiedeln, Switzerland, in 1803; its successor, RCL Benziger, still publishes religious education materials.