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Alx Preston

Alx Preston is an American video game designer who founded the Los Angeles studio Heart Machine in 2013, directing Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash, and Hyper Light Breaker.

Amar Shah

Amar Shah is a British machine-learning researcher who co-founded the autonomous driving company Wayve and served as its first chief executive from 2017 to 2020.

Ambarish Mitra

Ambarish Mitra (born 1977) is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded and led Blippar, the British augmented reality unicorn that collapsed into administration in December 2018.

Amdahl Corporation

Amdahl Corporation was an American computer manufacturer founded in 1970 by IBM mainframe designer Gene Amdahl, based in Sunnyvale, California, to build plug-compatible IBM mainframe rivals.

AMEC

AMEC (中微公司) is a Shanghai semiconductor equipment maker founded in 2004 by Gerald Yin Zhiyao, known for plasma etch tools serving chip lines down to 3nm.

Ami Luttwak

Ami Luttwak is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded the cloud security company Wiz and is its Chief Technology Officer; he was previously CTO of Adallom, sold to Microsoft in 2015.

Amin Oumhamdi

Amin Oumhamdi is a German software entrepreneur who co-founded MARKT-PILOT in Esslingen in 2020 with Tobias Rieker and serves as the company's chief technology officer.

Amir Averbuch

Amir Averbuch is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, emeritus professor at Tel Aviv University, who co-founded the AI financial crime compliance company ThetaRay in 2013.

Amir Ben Yahmed

Amir Ben Yahmed is a media executive, CEO of Jeune Afrique Media Group and founder of the Africa CEO Forum, the largest annual gathering of Africa's private sector.

Amir Shinar

Amir Shinar is an Israeli entrepreneur who co-founded the navigation app Waze in 2008 and was its vice president of R&D until Google bought it in 2013.

Amit Bareket

Amit Bareket is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Tel Aviv cybersecurity firm Perimeter 81 in 2018 and sold it to Check Point in 2023.

Amit Chaudhary

Amit Chaudhary is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded Lenskart, India's largest organized retailer of prescription eyeglasses, serving as Executive Director and Global Head of Expansion.

Amod Malviya

Amod Malviya is an Indian engineer and entrepreneur who was Chief Technology Officer at Flipkart before co-founding Udaan, India's largest business-to-business e-commerce platform, in 2016.

An Wang

An Wang (王安) was a Chinese-American engineer who invented magnetic-core memory and founded Wang Laboratories in Boston in 1951, building it into a $3 billion company.

Anand Rajaraman

Anand Rajaraman is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded the comparison-shopping company Junglee, acquired by Amazon in 1998, and later Kosmix, Rocketship.vc, and Milliways Ventures.

Anand Subbaraj

Anand Subbaraj is a technology executive who leads Zuper, a field service management software company, as CEO since 2020 after 13 years at Microsoft, where he led Azure Data product work.

Anas Zaidan

Anas Zaidan is a Saudi payments entrepreneur who co-founded YAP, the Dubai digital banking platform launched in 2021, and earlier founded payroll card provider C3 Card in 2007.

Andela

Andela is a global talent marketplace connecting technologists in emerging markets with enterprises hiring remote software engineers. It was founded in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014 and valued at $1.5 billion in 2021.

Andre Penha

André Penha is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded QuintoAndar, the São Paulo rental platform, led its product and engineering until 2024, and now runs IBBX.

André Street

André Street is a Brazilian payments entrepreneur who co-founded StoneCo in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, chaired it through its 2018 Nasdaq IPO, and earlier founded Braspag and Pagafacil.

Andrea Pessino

Andrea Pessino is a video game technology executive who co-founded Ready At Dawn in 2003, building the technology behind Daxter, The Order: 1886, and Lone Echo.

Andrea Wong

Andrea Wong is an American television executive who developed The Bachelor and Dancing With the Stars at ABC and later led Sony Pictures Television's international production.

Andrés Bzurovski

Andrés Bzurovski Bay is a Uruguayan fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company dLocal in 2016, Uruguay's first unicorn in 2020 and the first Uruguayan company to go public in the United States.

Andrew Bassat

Andrew Bassat is an Australian technology founder and investor who co-founded SEEK, the Melbourne-based online employment marketplace, and led it as chief executive until 2021.

Andrews McMeel Universal

Andrews McMeel Universal is a family-owned media company in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1970 as Universal Press Syndicate, known for Doonesbury and Calvin and Hobbes.

Andrzej J. Strojwas

Andrzej J. Strojwas is an electrical engineer and Carnegie Mellon professor emeritus who co-founded PDF Solutions, the semiconductor yield-analytics company, and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

Andrzej Poznański

Andrzej Poznański is a Polish video-game developer who co-founded the Warsaw studio People Can Fly in 2002 with Adrian Chmielarz and Michał Kosieradzki, leaving in 2012 after Epic Games acquired the studio.

Andy Arenas

Andy Arenas, full name Andres Arenas, is a Peruvian business executive who co-founded Kitopi, the Dubai-based food technology company, in January 2018 as chief property officer.

Andy Gavin

Andy Gavin is an American video game programmer who co-founded Naughty Dog with Jason Rubin and, as its chief technology officer until 2004, built the Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter games.

Andy Hopper

Andy Hopper is a British computing entrepreneur and Cambridge academic who was Research Director at Acorn Computers and co-founded 13 companies, including Virata and RealVNC.