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Adriano Ghelman
Adriano Ghelman is a Brazilian banking executive who co-founded the São Paulo digital bank C6 Bank in 2018 with former BTG Pactual partners, supervising its channels before joining XP Inc. in 2026.
Adriano Olivetti
Adriano Olivetti (1901–1960) was an Italian industrialist who led the Olivetti company from 1932, growing it into an international group that built Italy's first computer.
Advanced Media, Inc.
Advanced Media, Inc. (株式会社アドバンスト・メディア) is a Japanese speech-recognition technology company founded in Tokyo in 1997 by Kiyoyuki Suzuki, known for its AmiVoice engine and Tokyo Stock Exchange listing.
Adwaita Nayar
Adwaita Nayar is an Indian business executive who co-founded Nykaa, founded Nykaa Fashion in 2018, and leads House of Nykaa Brands; she is the daughter of founder Falguni Nayar.
Affirm
Affirm is an American financial technology company founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin in 2012 that lets consumers split purchases into installment loans with no late fees, trading on Nasdaq as AFRM.
Africa Re
Africa Re, formally the African Reinsurance Corporation, is a pan-African intergovernmental reinsurance group established at Yaoundé, Cameroon, in 1976 by 36 African states and the African Development Bank.
Agrosmart
Agrosmart is a Brazilian agricultural technology company founded in 2014 by Mariana Vasconcelos and two cofounders, serving about 100,000 producers across nine countries with data-driven farming advice.
Ahmad AlZaini
Ahmad AlZaini is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who co-founded Foodics in 2014 and leads it as chief executive officer; the Riyadh company raised $198 million and operates in 35 countries.
Ahmed Alsamani
Ahmed Alsamani, also rendered Ahmad Alsamani, is a Saudi technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Riyadh grocery delivery platform Nana and served as its Chief Product Officer until 2022.
Ahmed Hamdan
Ahmed Hamdan is a Saudi software engineer who co-founded Unifonic, a Riyadh-based customer engagement platform, with his brother Hassan, raising $140 million from SoftBank and Sanabil Investments.
Ahmed Mohsen
Ahmed Mohsen is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the fintech company MNT-Halan, which became Egypt's first fintech unicorn in 2023.
Ahmed Sabbah
Ahmed Sabbah is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Swvl in 2017, served as its chief technology officer until 2021, and founded the neobank Telda.
Ahmed Wagueeh
Ahmed Wagueeh is an Egyptian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the fintech company Khazna in 2019 and serves as its chief technology officer, after working at Valeo, Intel, and IBM.
Ahti Heinla
Ahti Heinla, born 1972, is an Estonian software engineer who was chief technical architect of Skype and co-founded Starship Technologies, the sidewalk delivery robot company, in 2014.
Aida Diarra
Aida Diarra is a Senegalese-born payments executive who joined Visa in November 2018 as Senior Vice President and head of Sub-Saharan Africa, after roughly two decades at Western Union.
Aiwujiwu
Aiwujiwu (爱屋吉屋) was a Shanghai internet real estate brokerage founded in 2014 by three former Tudou executives, China's first brokerage without stores, which closed in 2019.
AJ Loiacono
AJ Loiacono is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Capital Rx, a New York-based pharmacy benefits technology company, in 2017; rebranded Judi Health in 2025, it was valued at $3.25 billion.
Ajaykrishnan Jayagopal
Ajaykrishnan Jayagopal is an Indian software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Maximl Labs, an industrial AI SaaS company serving Tata Steel and Indian Oil, and is now building Pramaana in Bengaluru.
Akeem Lawal
Akeem Olujinmi Lawal is a Nigerian fintech executive who has been at Interswitch from its 2002 inception and serves as Managing Director of Payment Processing & Switching (Interswitch Purepay).
Akira Yamamura
Akira Yamamura (山村 章, 1944–2024) was a Japanese business executive who led the semiconductor-equipment group Ferrotec from its 1980 founding, becoming its chairman in 2020.
Akshay Garg
Akshay Garg is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and Group CEO of Kredivo Group (formerly FinAccel), founded around 2015; he previously co-founded the ad-tech company Komli Media in 2006.
Alain El-Hajj
Alain El-Hajj is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Paymob in 2015 and serves as its Chief Operating Officer, building payments infrastructure across the MENA region.
Alain Rossman
Alain Rossman is a French-educated Silicon Valley technology executive who co-founded chipmaker C-Cube Microsystems in 1988, then founded Unwired Planet, known as the father of WAP, and Vudu.
Alakh Pandey
Alakh Pandey is an Indian edtech founder and engineering-college dropout who built Physics Wallah, a Noida test-preparation company, from a YouTube channel and listed it publicly in November 2025.
Alamin Uddin
Alamin Uddin is a software entrepreneur who co-founded NexHealth in 2017 with Waleed Asif, a San Francisco patient experience platform for dental and medical practices.
Alan Mamedi
Alan Mamedi (born 1984) is a Swedish entrepreneur of Kurdish origin who co-founded Truecaller in Stockholm in 2009 and led it as chief executive until January 2025.
Alan Miller (video game designer)
Alan Miller is an American video game designer and businessman, best known as a co-founder of Activision in 1979, the first independent third-party game developer, and later founder of Accolade.
Alan R. Pearlman
Alan R. Pearlman (1925–2019) was an American engineer who founded ARP Instruments in 1969, whose synthesizers outsold Moog by the mid-1970s before the company's 1981 bankruptcy.
Albert An
Albert An is a trading executive who has been Chief Executive Officer of Tower Research Capital, a New York quantitative proprietary trading firm, since 2019.
Albert Wang
Albert Wang (Wang Can) is a Chinese technology entrepreneur from Chongqing who co-founded the children's apparel e-commerce company PatPat in Mountain View, California, in 2014 and has been its chief executive officer since October 2014.