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Job van der Voort
Job van der Voort is a Dutch entrepreneur and former neuroscientist who co-founded the global payroll company Remote in 2019 and leads it as chief executive officer.
Jochen Engert
Jochen Engert is a German entrepreneur who co-founded FlixBus in Munich in 2011 with André Schwämmlein and Daniel Krauss, building it into a global mobility group.
Jodi Shelton
Jodi Shelton is an American business executive who co-founded the Global Semiconductor Alliance in 1994, when it was the Fabless Semiconductor Association, and has led it as chief executive officer since.
Joel Bar-El
Joel Bar-El is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Trax, a Singapore-based retail computer vision company, in 2010 and led it as chief executive from 2011 to 2021.
Joel C. Rosenberg
Joel C. Rosenberg is an American-Israeli novelist and journalist who founded the Jerusalem-based news outlets All Israel News and All Arab News on September 1, 2020, and edits both.
Johan Tjarnberg
Johan Tjärnberg is a Swedish payments entrepreneur, founder and chief executive of Bambora, sold to Ingenico in 2017 for about €1.5 billion, and later chief executive of Trustly.
Johannes Aspeby
Johannes Aspeby is a Swedish video-game developer who co-founded Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde in 2010, coded the goat in Goat Simulator, and later served as the studio's CEO.
Johannes Schildt
Johannes Schildt, born in 1988, is a Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded the digital healthcare company Kry and served as its chief executive from 2015 until December 2024.
John Chowning
John Chowning, born 1934, is an American composer and Stanford professor who discovered FM synthesis in 1967; Stanford licensed it to Yamaha, earning over $20 million and powering the DX7.
John Cullinane
John Cullinane is an American software entrepreneur who founded Cullinane Corporation, later Cullinet Software, in Massachusetts in 1968, the first software company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
John E. Kelly III
John E. Kelly III is an American semiconductor and computing executive who spent 40 years at IBM, led IBM Research and Watson, and retired as executive vice president in 2020.
John Lee (business executive)
John Lee is a business executive who co-founded Everex Systems, a Fremont, California personal computer maker, in 1983, and was appointed its chairman in 1993 as the company filed for bankruptcy.
John Moores (BMC Software co-founder)
John Moores is an American software entrepreneur who founded BMC Software in Houston, Texas, in 1980, served as its first CEO, and later founded Peregrine Systems and JMI Equity.
John P. Daane
John P. Daane is an American semiconductor executive who led Altera as president, CEO, and chairman from 2000 until Intel bought the company for about $16.7 billion in 2015.
John S. Chen
John S. Chen is a Hong Kong-born American technology executive who led Sybase's turnaround and served as BlackBerry's Executive Chair and CEO from 2013 to 2023.
John Sall
John Sall is an American software developer and businessman who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976, owns one-third of the analytics company, and founded and leads its JMP statistics subsidiary.
John Tu
John Tu is a Chinese-born engineer who co-founded Kingston Technology with David Sun in 1987, sold 80% to Softbank for $1.5 billion in 1996, and bought it back in 1999.
John Vechey
John Vechey is an American games entrepreneur who co-founded PopCap Games in Seattle in 2000, sold to Electronic Arts in 2011 for up to $1.3 billion.
John Zhong
Zhong Peifeng (钟培峰), also known as John Zhong, is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive, born in 1963, who founded the Shanghai chip designer Amlogic in 2003 and serves as its chairman.
Johnny Ho
Johnny Ho is an American technology executive, cofounder and chief strategy officer of the San Francisco artificial-intelligence answer engine Perplexity, which he cofounded in 2022.
Jon Burton
Jon Burton is a British video game developer who co-founded Traveller's Tales in 1989, built it into the LEGO game maker TT Games, and sold it to Warner Bros. in 2007.
Jonas Rieke
Jonas Rieke is a business graduate who co-founded Personio, the Munich-based HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses, and has served as its Chief Operations Officer since June 2016.
Jonas Ruyter
Jonas Ruyter (born 1991) is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded DataSnipper, an Amsterdam-based audit automation software company, in 2017 with Maarten Alblas and Kai Bakker.
Jonathan Chey
Jonathan Chey, also credited as Jon Chey, is a video game developer who co-founded Irrational Games in 1997 with Ken Levine, managed System Shock 2, and founded Blue Manchu.
Jonathan Levin (economist)
Jonathan Levin is an economist and entrepreneur who co-founded the blockchain data platform Chainalysis in New York in 2014, serving as Chief Strategy Officer before becoming CEO in 2024.
Jonney Shih
Jonney Shih (施崇棠, also romanized Shih Chung-tang), born 1952, is a Taiwanese business executive who has chaired ASUS since 1993, building it into the world's leading motherboard maker.
Jordan Wu
Jordan Wu (吴炳昌) is a Taiwanese semiconductor executive who co-founded Himax Technologies in 2001 and has served as its president and chief executive officer since 2005.
Jose Roberto Nogueira
José Roberto Nogueira, born 1965, is a Brazilian entrepreneur who founded Brisanet in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, and leads it as chief executive; the company listed on B3 in 2021.
Josef Prusa
Josef Prusa, born 1990, is a Czech entrepreneur who founded Prusa Research, a Prague-based 3D printer maker, in 2012, selling over 500,000 printers with no outside investment.
Joseph Cashen
Joseph Cashen (1934–2022) was a co-founder of Prime Computer in 1972, serving as VP Hardware Engineering for 20 years at the Natick, Massachusetts minicomputer maker.