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Jenny Chang

Jenny Chang (陳怡蓁) is a Taiwanese business executive who co-founded the Tokyo-headquartered cybersecurity company Trend Micro in 1988 with her husband Steve Chang and sister Eva Chen.

Jenny Huldschiner

Jenny Elisabeth Huldschiner, born 1971, is a Stockholm-based games-industry executive who co-founded Embark Studios in 2018 with Patrick Söderlund, having been Electronic Arts' European communications chief, and serves on Embark's board.

Jens von Bahr

Jens von Bahr, born in 1971, is a Swedish businessman who co-founded the live-dealer casino supplier Evolution in 2006, led it as chief executive, and has chaired its board since 2016.

JEOL

JEOL Ltd. (日本電子株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of scientific and metrology instruments, including electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and NMR spectrometers, founded in Tokyo in 1949 and headquartered in Akishima.

Jeppe Rindom

Jeppe Rindom is a Danish technology founder, co-founder and CEO of Pleo, a Copenhagen-based spend-management fintech founded in 2015 and valued at $4.7 billion in 2021.

Jérémy Caussade

Jérémy Caussade is a French aerospace engineer and glider pilot who co-founded the aircraft manufacturer Aura Aero in 2018 and serves as its president and chief executive.

Jeremy Hodara

Jeremy Hodara is a French entrepreneur and former McKinsey consultant who co-founded the pan-African e-commerce company Jumia in 2012, leading it as Co-CEO until stepping down in November 2022.

Jerry Guo

Jerry Guo is a Chinese-American technology executive who founded Casa Systems, a broadband and 5G networking equipment company in Andover, Massachusetts, in 2003, leading it through its 2017 IPO until stepping down as CEO in 2023.

Jerry Kent

Jerry Kent, formally Jerald L. Kent, is an American cable television and technology entrepreneur from St. Louis who co-founded Charter Communications in 1993 and leads Cequel III and TierPoint.

Jerry Rao

Jerry Rao, also known as Jaithirth Rao (जेरी राव), is an Indian businessman and writer who founded and led the IT services firm MphasiS and later the affordable-housing builder VBHC.

Jerry Rogers

Jerry Rogers, born Gerald Dean Rogers (1944–2020), was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded chip designer Cyrix in 1988 and led it as CEO until 1996.

Jerry Sanders (semiconductor executive)

Jerry Sanders III, also known as W. J. Sanders III, is an American semiconductor executive who co-founded AMD in 1969 and served as its chief executive for 33 years until 2002.

Jessie Chen

Jessie Chen (陈媛, Chen Yuan) is a Chinese education executive who describes herself as a co-founder of VIPKid, the Beijing online English-education company founded in 2013.

Jet Jie Li

Jet Jie Li, also known as Li Jie (李杰), is the founder, chairman, and CEO of J&T Express, which he started in Indonesia in 2015 after years at OPPO.

Jeune Afrique Media Group

Jeune Afrique Media Group is a privately held pan-African media and events company based in Paris, led by Amir Ben Yahmed, son of founder Béchir Ben Yahmed.

Ji Qi

Ji Qi (季琦, born 1966) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur who co-founded Ctrip, co-founded Home Inns, and founded Huazhu (H World Group), where he is executive chairman and CEO.

Jia Jiaya

Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚), born 1978, is a Chinese computer-vision researcher and chair professor at HKUST who founded SmartMore, a Hong Kong industrial AI unicorn, in 2019.

Jiang Weiping

Jiang Weiping (蒋卫平) is the founder of Tianqi Lithium, the Sichuan lithium producer he led as chairman from 2007 until handing the role to his daughter in 2024.

Jiang Xueming

Jiang Xueming (蒋学明), born 1961, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur and former Jiangsu textile magnate who founded the Shanghai memory chip designer Dosilicon in 2014.

Jiao Ge Waimai

Jiao Ge Waimai (叫个外卖) was a Chinese food-delivery O2O venture founded in Changsha, Hunan in 2014, which sold its own standardized fast food and closed in 2015–2016.

Jide Odunsi

Jide Odunsi is a British-born Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility-fintech company launched in Lagos in 2020 that finances vehicles for ride-hailing drivers.

Jim Levy

Jim Levy is a business executive who co-founded Activision in 1979 and led it as chairman and CEO until 1986, growing it to over $157 million in annual sales.

Jim Ovia

Jim Ovia is a Nigerian banker who founded Zenith Bank in Lagos in 1990, led it for 20 years as CEO, and returned as chairman from 2014 to 2026.

Jim Rafferty

Jim Rafferty is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded C-Cube Microsystems, the Milpitas, California, semiconductor company that pioneered MPEG encoder and decoder silicon before its 2001 acquisition by LSI Logic.

Jimmy Treybig

Jimmy Treybig, also known as James G. Treybig, is an American technology entrepreneur who founded Tandem Computers in 1974, builder of the first commercial fault-tolerant computers.

Jinghai Company

Jinghai (京海) was a Beijing computer-room engineering company founded by Wang Hongde, a Chinese Academy of Sciences engineer, in 1982, and one of the four best-known firms of Zhongguancun's first wave.

Jingjia Micro

Jingjia Micro (景嘉微) is a Chinese fabless chip designer in Changsha, Hunan, founded in 2006, whose JM5400 of 2014 was China's first fully self-owned GPU chip.

Jitendra Mohan

Jitendra Mohan is an Indian-American semiconductor executive who co-founded Astera Labs in 2017 and serves as its chief executive officer, leading its 2024 Nasdaq IPO.

Joachim Ante

Joachim Ante, known as Joe Ante, is a German programmer who co-founded Unity Technologies in Copenhagen in 2004 and served as its chief technology officer.

João Del Valle

João Del Valle is a Brazilian software engineer turned fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of EBANX, a cross-border payments company founded in Curitiba in 2012.