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Mario Konrad
Mario Konrad is a German entrepreneur who co-founded Ryzon, a premium triathlon, cycling, and running apparel brand in Cologne, in 2016, and serves as its CEO and managing director.
Marios Iliopoulos (Μάριος Ηλιόπουλος) (Greek businessman)
Marios Iliopoulos (Μάριος Ηλιόπουλος) is a Greek businessman who owns the ferry and cruise operator Seajets and, since June 2024, the football club AEK Athens.
Mark Tilbury
Mark Tilbury, born Mark Stephen Tilbury in 1967, is a British entrepreneur and finance content creator posting money advice to young audiences on YouTube and TikTok.
Markus Blocher
Markus Blocher is a Swiss chemicals entrepreneur, son of former Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, who has been chief executive and majority shareholder of Dottikon ES since 2003.
Markus Konrad
Markus Konrad is a German entrepreneur who co-founded Ryzon, a premium sportswear company in Cologne, where he leads product research and development, and won the EY 2024 Audience Award.
Martin Blum
Martin Blum (born 1983) is an Austrian engineer and co-owner of Julius Blum GmbH, the furniture fittings manufacturer in Höchst, Vorarlberg, which he leads in its third generation with his cousin Philipp Blum.
Martin Dickie
Martin Dickie is a Scottish brewer who co-founded the craft beer company BrewDog with James Watt in 2007, taking charge of brewing, and resigned all BrewDog roles in 2025.
Martin Drda
Martin Drda is a Czech owner-manager who owns the defense group STV Group, the Czech Republic's only maker of large-caliber ammunition, half-and-half with his mother Ludmila.
Martin Dürrstein
Martin Dürrstein (born 1971) is a German business engineer and CEO of DÜRR DENTAL SE, the family-owned dental-equipment maker he leads in the third generation since 2004.
Martin Hilti
Martin Hilti (1915–1997) was a Liechtenstein engineer and industrialist who, with his older brother Eugen, founded the construction-technology company Hilti in Schaan, Liechtenstein, in 1941, launching the world's first powder-actuated tool in 1957.
Martin Sorrell
Martin Sorrell, also known as Sir Martin Sorrell, is a British advertising executive who founded WPP in 1985 and built it into the world's largest advertising group.
Matthew Freud
Matthew Rupert Freud, born 1963, is a British public relations executive who founded Freud Communications in London in 1985 and is the great-grandson of Sigmund Freud.
Maurice Dekkers
Maurice Dekkers is a Dutch television journalist and co-founder of Tony's Chocolonely, the Amsterdam chocolate company launched in 2005 after his 2003 cocoa-industry investigation; he financed its first bars.
Maurice Dior
Maurice Dior, full name Alexandre Louis Maurice Dior, was a French fertilizer and chemicals manufacturer in Granville, Normandy, and the father of couturier Christian Dior.
Maurizio Borletti
Maurizio Borletti is an Italian retail entrepreneur and investor who led the buyouts of La Rinascente and Printemps and chaired Grandi Stazioni Retail from 2016 to 2024.
Max Grundig
Max Grundig (1908–1989) was a German entrepreneur who founded the Grundig consumer electronics company in Fürth in 1930 and built it into Europe's largest radio and television maker.
Michael Durach
Michael Durach is a German family-business executive who has led Develey Senf & Feinkost, Germany's largest mustard supplier, since 1999, and was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2019.
Michael Otto (German entrepreneur)
Michael Otto (born 1943) is a German retail entrepreneur who led the Hamburg-based Otto Group as chief executive from 1981 to 2007, building it into a leading online retailer.
Michael Smurfit
Dr Michael Smurfit, born 1936, is an Irish-British packaging industrialist who ran Jefferson Smurfit Group from 1977 to 2002, took it private in a €3.7 billion buyout, and formed Smurfit Kappa.
Michael Sweeney
Michael Sweeney, born 1986, is a British businessman who co-founded Union Technical Services, a Glasgow energy-efficiency and retrofit contractor, in 2014, and won the 2025 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Scottish regional award.
Michal Strnad
Michal Strnad, born in 1992, is a Czech billionaire who owns and leads Czechoslovak Group, a Prague-based defense group that became the largest producer of small-caliber ammunition in the Western world.
Michele Ferrero
Michele Ferrero (1925–2015) was the Italian owner-manager who built the family firm Ferrero SpA into one of the world's largest confectionery groups, creating Nutella, Kinder Surprise, Tic Tac, and Ferrero Rocher.
Mike Heaton
Mike Heaton, born Michael Wayne Heaton, is a British businessman who co-founded the luxury streetwear brand Represent with his brother George in Horwich in 2011.
Mohed Altrad
Mohed Altrad is a Syrian-born French entrepreneur who founded and controls Altrad Group, an industrial services company based in Montpellier, and owns Montpellier rugby club.
Mohsin Issa
Mohsin Issa, born in 1971, is a British businessman from Blackburn, Lancashire, who co-founded EG Group and co-led the £6.8 billion buyout of Asda from Walmart in 2021.
Monks of Scourmont Abbey
The Monks of Scourmont Abbey are the Trappist community near Chimay, Belgium, founded in 1850, who began the Chimay Brewery and brewed its first beer in 1862.
Nathaniel de Rothschild
Nathaniel de Rothschild (1812–1870) was an English-born banker of the Paris house de Rothschild Frères who bought Brane-Mouton at Pauillac in 1853, renaming it Château Mouton Rothschild.
Nicolas Hayek
Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010) was a Beirut-born Swiss management consultant who rescued the Swiss watch industry, merging ASUAG and SSIH into the Swatch Group, which he led until his death in 2010.
Nicole Junkermann
Nicole Junkermann, also known as Nicole Brachetti Peretti, is a German-born entrepreneur and investor based in London, known for the Infront Sports & Media sale and founding NJF Holdings.
Oetker
Oetker is a German family-owned business group founded by pharmacist August Oetker in Bielefeld in 1891, best known for the Dr. Oetker brand of baking ingredients and foods.