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James E. Solomon
James E. Solomon (born 1936) is an American analog integrated-circuit engineer who founded SDA in 1983, which merged with ECAD in 1988 to form Cadence Design Systems.
James Goodnight
James Goodnight, born in 1943, is an American software executive and statistician who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976 and has served as its CEO ever since.
James Liang
James Liang, also known as Liang Jianzhang (梁建章), is a Chinese entrepreneur and economist who co-founded Ctrip in 1999 and leads its successor, Trip.com Group.
James McCoy (businessman)
James McCoy, known as Jim McCoy, is an American disk-drive executive who co-founded Quantum in 1980 and Maxtor in 1982, serving as Maxtor's president and later chairman.
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, born 1962, is a Kenyan banker and Group CEO of Equity Group Holdings, which he led from a failing building society to a major African bank.
James North-Hearn
James North-Hearn is a British video game industry businessman who co-founded Sumo Digital in Sheffield in 2003, was its chief executive, and later led Foundation 9 Entertainment.
James Reed (software engineer)
James Reed is an American software engineer who co-founded Fireworks AI in October 2022 after working on PyTorch at Meta, leading the company's multimedia inference work.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is an American semiconductor engineer who co-founded Altera in 1983, served as its Vice President of Technology until 1999, and pioneered the fabless chip model.
James V. Barnett II (Xilinx)
James V. Barnett II, known as Jim Barnett, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Xilinx in 1984, the company that created the field-programmable gate array.
Jamie Walker (video game executive)
Jamie Walker is a video-game executive who co-founded Rocksteady Studios in London in 2004, serving as studio director through the Batman: Arkham games until leaving at the end of 2022.
Jan Møller
Jan Møller is a Danish software engineer who co-founded Chainalysis, the New York-based blockchain-analysis company, in 2014 and was its chief technology officer until October 2019.
Jane Helwig
Jane T. Helwig was one of the four co-founders of SAS Institute, the private software company incorporated in 1976, and co-authored A User's Guide to SAS-76.
Janus Friis
Janus Friis is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Skype with Niklas Zennström, sold to eBay in 2005 for about $2.6 billion, and later founded Rdio and co-founded Starship Technologies.
Jaroslaw Kutylowski
Jaroslaw "Jarek" Kutylowski is a Polish-born, Germany-raised computer scientist who founded the machine-translation company DeepL in Cologne in 2017 and has been its chief executive since 2019.
Jason Boehmig
Jason Boehmig is an American technology founder and former corporate attorney who co-founded Ironclad, a San Francisco contract lifecycle management company, in 2014 and led it as CEO until 2025.
Jason Chang (ASE Technology Holding)
Jason Chang, born Zhang Qiansheng in 1944, is a Taiwanese businessman who co-founded ASE in Kaohsiung in 1984 and chairs ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest chip assembly and testing provider.
Jason Cong
Jason Cong (Jingsheng Cong) is a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA who directs the VAST Laboratory and founded five EDA startups, all acquired, three by Xilinx.
Jason Kapalka
Jason Kapalka is a Canadian game designer and entrepreneur who co-founded the Seattle casual-game studio PopCap Games in 2000, co-created Bejeweled, and later founded Blue Wizard Digital.
Jason Njoku
Jason Njoku (Jason Chukwuma Njoku) is a Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and leads iROKOtv, the Nollywood streaming platform often called the "Netflix of Africa", launched from the UK in 2011.
Jason Rubin
Jason Rubin is an American video game designer who co-founded Naughty Dog, creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter, and later led virtual reality content at Oculus and Meta.
Jason West
Jason West is a video game designer who co-created the Call of Duty franchise at Infinity Ward, then co-founded Respawn Entertainment with Vince Zampella in 2010.
Jay Patel
Jay Patel is a video game programmer who was part of Interplay Productions' founding team in 1983, programming titles like Battle Chess, and later worked at Blizzard Entertainment.
Jayshree Ullal
Jayshree Ullal, born 1961, is an American business executive who has led Arista Networks as CEO since 2008, taking the company public in 2014 after fifteen years at Cisco.
JB Straubel
JB Straubel is an American engineer who co-founded Tesla and served as its chief technology officer from 2005 to 2019, then founded Redwood Materials, a Nevada battery recycling company, in 2017.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Hoerni (1924–1997) was a Swiss-born physicist who invented the planar process for manufacturing silicon transistors, co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957, and later founded the chip maker Intersil.
Jean-Philippe Fricker
Jean-Philippe Fricker is a Swiss-trained hardware engineer, EPFL graduate, and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, where he designed the Wafer Scale Engine interconnect as Chief System Architect.
Jeff Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Palm Computing in 1992 and created the PalmPilot, then co-founded Handspring, whose Treo shaped the modern smartphone, and Numenta.
Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll is a Canadian engineer and eBay's first president and full-time employee, who left in 2001 and founded the Skoll Foundation and Participant Media.
Jeff Spangenberg
Jeff Spangenberg is an American video game industry executive and studio founder, best known for founding Iguana Entertainment, maker of NBA Jam and Turok, and Retro Studios in Austin, Texas.
Jelle de Boer
Jelle de Boer is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded Bitvavo, the Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, in 2018 with Tim Baardse and Mark Nuvelstijn; it grew into the world's largest euro spot exchange.