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Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller
Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller (born 1959) is a German business executive who has led TRUMPF, the machine-tool and laser group based near Stuttgart, since 2003, succeeding her father Berthold Leibinger.
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.
Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria
Wilhelm V, called the Pious, was Duke of Bavaria from 1579 until his 1597 abdication in favor of Maximilian I; he founded Munich's Hofbräuhaus in 1589.
Duna Aszfalt
Duna Aszfalt is a Hungarian road-construction company based in Tiszakécske, founded and wholly owned by entrepreneur László Szíjj, with most work funded by the state.
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.
E.Leclerc
E.Leclerc, also known as Groupe E.Leclerc, is a French retail cooperative founded by Édouard Leclerc in 1949 and France's leading grocery retailer, with 2025 sales of €51.1 billion.
ebm-papst
ebm-papst is a German family-founded manufacturer of fans and electric motors headquartered in Mulfingen, founded in 1963, agreed in 2026 to a 5.1 billion euro sale to Madison Air.
Édouard Leclerc
Édouard Leclerc (1926–2012) was a French retailer who founded the E.Leclerc movement of independent discount grocery stores, opening his first shop in Landerneau, Brittany, in December 1949.
Eduard Fränckel
Eduard Fränckel (1836–1912) was a Swedish railway engineer who founded AB Atlas in Stockholm in 1873 and led it until 1887; the company later became Atlas Copco.
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.
EG Group
EG Group is an international convenience store, fuel forecourt, and foodservice operator founded in 2001 by the Issa brothers, trading in the UK as EuroGarages.
Elke Hartleif
Elke Hartleif is a German business executive and daughter of VEKA founder Heinrich Laumann, Chief Human Resources Officer of the PVC window-profile maker VEKA AG since 1997.
Emil Škoda
Emil Škoda (1839–1900) was a Bohemian engineer and industrialist who bought the Pilsen machine works in 1869 and built it into the largest arms factory in Austria-Hungary.
Emma – The Sleep Company
Emma – The Sleep Company is a founder-managed German sleep products company based in Frankfurt am Main, selling mattresses and bedding direct to consumers in more than 30 countries.
Emma Bridgewater (businesswoman)
Dame Emma Bridgewater is a British businesswoman who founded the eponymous Stoke-on-Trent pottery company in 1985, known for handmade, hand-decorated spongeware made entirely in Britain.
Enercon
Enercon is a German manufacturer of onshore wind turbines, founded by engineer Aloys Wobben in Aurich, Lower Saxony, in 1984 and known for gearless direct-drive design.
Enric Bernat
Enric Bernat, also known as Enrique Bernat, was a Spanish confectionery entrepreneur who founded Chupa Chups in 1958 and invented the modern lollipop on a plastic stick.
Erling Persson
Erling Persson (1917–2002) was a Swedish businessman who founded the fashion retailer H&M, opening the first Hennes store in Västerås in 1947 after a 1946 trip to the United States.
Ernst Tanner (businessman)
Ernst Tanner is a business executive who has led the Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli since 1993, as CEO until 2016 and since then as executive chairman.
Eugène Schueller
Eugène Schueller (1881–1957) was a French chemist who founded in 1909 the company that became L'Oréal, and who financed the far-right Cagoule during the 1930s.
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.
Fabian Thylmann
Fabian Thylmann is a German entrepreneur who built the holding company Manwin, later MindGeek, into the dominant operator of Pornhub, YouPorn, and Brazzers before selling in 2013.
Ferrovial
Ferrovial is a Spanish-origin infrastructure group founded in 1952, known for operating toll roads like the 407 ETR and airports, and seated in Amsterdam since 2023.
Filip Tysander
Filip Tysander, born 1985, is a Swedish entrepreneur who founded the watch brand Daniel Wellington in Stockholm in 2011 and sold it to Timex in 2026.
Filippo Antonio De Cecco
Filippo Antonio De Cecco, born in 1944 in Abruzzo, is the Italian president and CEO of the De Cecco pasta company, which he has run since 1973.
Francesco Amadori
Francesco Amadori is an Italian businessman who co-founded the Amadori poultry company with his brother Arnaldo in Cesena in 1969, building it into one of Italy's leading poultry businesses.
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.
Francesco Peroni
Francesco Peroni (1818–1894) was an Italian brewer from Galliate who founded the Peroni brewery at Vigevano in 1846, adding a Rome plant in 1864; the company marks 180 years in 2026.
François Pinault
François Pinault, born in 1936 in Brittany, is a French businessman who turned a timber trading firm into the luxury group Kering and owns Christie's auction house.
François Thibault
François Thibault is a French maître de chai, or cellar master, from Cognac who co-created Grey Goose vodka with Sidney Frank in 1997 and still oversees its production.