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Marco Thrush

Marco Thrush is a video game executive who co-founded Bluepoint Games in Austin, Texas in 2006 and led the remake studio until Sony shut it down in 2026.

Marcos Galperin

Marcos Galperin is an Argentine businessman, born in Buenos Aires, who co-founded MercadoLibre in 1999, led it as CEO for 26 years, and became Executive Chairman in 2026.

Maree Isaacs

Maree Isaacs is an Australian technology executive who co-founded the Sydney-based logistics software company WiseTech Global with Richard White in 1994 and remains an Executive Director.

Mariana Dias

Mariana Ramos Dias is a Brazilian technology executive who co-founded the AI recruitment platform Gupy in São Paulo in 2015 and serves as its chief executive officer.

Mariana Vasconcelos

Mariana Vasconcelos is a Brazilian entrepreneur and chief executive of Agrosmart, a digital agriculture company she co-founded in 2014 that monitors water use, carbon emissions, and crop disease.

Mariano Gomide de Faria

Mariano Gomide de Faria is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the VTEX digital commerce platform in 2000 and took it public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021.

Marina Budiman

Marina Budiman is an Indonesian technology entrepreneur who co-founded DCI Indonesia in 2011, the country's largest data-center operator and first Tier IV-certified in Southeast Asia, making her Indonesia's richest woman.

Marina Sylvia Caprotti

Marina Sylvia Caprotti (born 1978) is an Italian business executive who has led Esselunga, one of Italy's largest supermarket chains, as executive chairman since 2020 and chief executive since 2021.

Marius Nacht

Marius Nacht (Hebrew: מריוס נחט, born 1962) is an Israeli businessman who co-founded Check Point Software Technologies in 1993 and later co-founded the healthtech venture fund aMoon.

Mariusz Gralewski

Mariusz Gralewski is a Polish technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of DocPlanner, the Warsaw-based doctor appointment booking platform including Znany Lekarz, and previously founded the networking site GoldenLine.pl.

Mark Chahwan

Mark Chahwan is a Lebanese entrepreneur who co-founded Sarwa, an Abu Dhabi-based investing and personal finance platform, in December 2017 and serves as its Group CEO.

Mark Durcan

Mark Durcan is an American semiconductor executive who was CEO of Micron Technology from 2012 to 2017, leading the Elpida acquisition and winning the industry's Robert N. Noyce Award.

Mark Gazit

Mark Gazit is an Israeli-American technology entrepreneur who co-founded the financial-crime detection company ThetaRay in 2013 and served as its chief executive for a decade, until 2023.

Mark Horowitz (electrical engineer)

Mark Horowitz is an American electrical engineer and Stanford professor, chair of its electrical engineering department since 2023, who co-founded Rambus in 1990 and served as its chief scientist.

Mark Leonard (Canadian businessman)

Mark Leonard is a Canadian business executive who founded Constellation Software in Toronto in 1995 and, called Canada's Warren Buffett, acquired over 1,000 software companies before resigning in 2025.

Mark Nuvelstijn

Mark Nuvelstijn is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded the Amsterdam-based crypto exchange Bitvavo in 2018 and served as its CEO until resigning in July 2025.

Mark S. Ain

Mark S. Ain (1943–2025) was an American software entrepreneur who founded Kronos Incorporated in 1977, led it as chief executive until 2005, and built it into a workforce management company.

Markafoni

Markafoni was a Turkish e-commerce company, an invitation-based private shopping club for fashion founded in Istanbul in 2008 by Sina Afra, which Naspers shut down in 2017.

Markit

Markit was a financial information company founded in London in 2003 by Canadian banker Lance Uggla to provide credit default swap pricing data, merging with IHS in 2016.

Markku Koskela

Markku Koskela is a Finnish engineer and physicist who co-founded Oura, the Oulu-based maker of the Oura Ring sleep tracker, in 2013, leading its research and development.

MARKT-PILOT

MARKT-PILOT is a German software company, founded in Stuttgart in 2020 by Tobias Rieker and Amin Oumhamdi, selling price-management software for machine manufacturers' spare parts.

Markus Fuhrmann

Markus Fuhrmann is an entrepreneur who co-founded the Berlin-based food delivery group Delivery Hero in 2011, and later founded Cavalry Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures, and Gropyus.

Markus Villig

Markus Villig (born 1993) is an Estonian technology founder and CEO of Bolt, the Tallinn mobility company he started in 2013 at age 19 with a €5,000 loan.

Martin Litschel

Martin Litschel is a German engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Vector Informatik in Stuttgart in 1988 with Eberhard Hinderer and Helmut Schelling, after contributing to CAN bus development at Bosch.

Martín Palombo

Martín Palombo is an Argentine technology entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform Tiendanube, known in Brazil as Nuvemshop, in Buenos Aires in 2011, serving as Chief Product Officer.

Martin van den Brink

Martin van den Brink, born 1957, is a Dutch engineer who joined ASML in 1984 and led its technology as CTO until retiring in 2024.

Martin Wood (physicist)

Sir Martin Wood (1927–2021) was a British physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 with his wife Audrey, Oxford University's first spin-out company.

Martin Zielinski

Martin Zielinski is a German software engineer and co-founder of Yaak Technologies, a Berlin startup whose driver-coaching and AI driving-data platform he built as chief technology officer.

Marvell Technology

Marvell Technology, also known as Marvell Semiconductor, is an American fabless semiconductor company founded in 1995 that supplies data infrastructure chips, especially for data centers and AI.

Marwan Hachem

Marwan Hachem is a Lebanese payments executive who co-founded YAP, a Dubai-based digital banking company, serving as group chief executive after 20 years in payments.