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Rodrigo Galindo

Rodrigo Calvo Galindo is a Brazilian education executive who was chief executive of Kroton from 2011 and of Cogna Educação from 2019, and has chaired Cogna's board since 2022.

Rodrigo Maroja

Rodrigo Maroja is a Brazilian technology executive from Brasília, co-founder and COO of Daki, the São Paulo quick-commerce grocery platform that became a unicorn in 2021.

Roey Izkovsky

Roey Izkovsky was an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded Simply (formerly JoyTunes), the Tel Aviv music-learning app company, serving as CTO and building its acoustic recognition technology; Simply reached unicorn status in 2021.

Roger Laughlin Carvallo

Roger Laughlin Carvallo is a Venezuelan-born technology entrepreneur who co-founded the Mexican used-car platform Kavak in 2016 and was chief executive of Kavak Brazil from 2020 to 2024.

Rohan Gupta

Rohan Gupta is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded QuillBot, the AI paraphrasing company, at the University of Illinois in 2017 and served as its chief executive.

Rohit Bansal

Rohit Bansal (रोहित बंसल) is an Indian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal in 2010 and serves as its chief operating officer alongside Kunal Bahl.

Rohm

Rohm, also known as ROHM Semiconductor (ローム株式会社), is a Japanese semiconductor and electronic-components manufacturer headquartered in Kyoto. Founded by Kenichiro Sato in 1954, it is a leading supplier of silicon carbide power devices.

Roman Saini

Roman Saini is an Indian physician and former IAS officer who co-founded Unacademy, one of India's largest ed-tech companies, after clearing the AIIMS entrance at 16.

Romero Rodrigues

Romero Rodrigues is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the price-comparison site Buscapé in 1998, ran it until its $342 million sale to Naspers in 2009, and became a venture capital partner.

Romesh Wadhwani

Romesh Wadhwani (रमेश वाधवानी) is an Indian-American software entrepreneur who founded Aspect Development, Symphony Technology Group (STG) in 2002, and SymphonyAI, and chairs SymphonyAI and ConcertAI.

Romi Savova

Romi Savova, also known as Romina Savova, is a Bulgarian-born British fintech entrepreneur who founded the online pension provider PensionBee in 2014 and led its 2021 London Stock Exchange listing.

Ron Gilbert

Ron Gilbert is an American video game designer who created Maniac Mansion and The Secret of Monkey Island at LucasArts and co-founded Humongous Entertainment in 1992.

Ronald Yara

Ronald Yara is an American semiconductor entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded S3 Incorporated in 1989 and Chips & Technologies, later a general partner at Tallwood Venture Capital.

Ronaldo Mouchawar

Ronaldo Mouchawar (رونالدو مشحور) is a Syrian entrepreneur who co-founded Souq.com, the Arab world's largest e-commerce platform, in Dubai in 2005 and led it until Amazon acquired it in 2017.

Ross Freeman

Ross H. Freeman (1948–1989) was an American engineer who invented the field-programmable gate array and co-founded Xilinx in San Jose in 1984, entering the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.

Roy Kusumoto

Roy Kusumoto (楠本) is an American engineer who founded Solectron in Milpitas, California in 1977, growing the circuit-board shop into the dominant electronics manufacturing services firm before its 2007 sale to Flextronics.

Roy Mann

Roy Mann (רוי מן) is an Israeli software entrepreneur who co-founded monday.com in Tel Aviv in 2012 and has served as its Co-CEO since, taking the company public on the Nasdaq in 2021.

Roy Prasad

Roy Prasad is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in semiconductors and EDA software who co-founded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) in 1992, naming it, and led P-CAD, Castelle, and Invarium.

Roy Reznik

Roy Reznik is an Israeli software engineer who co-founded the cloud security company Wiz in 2020, its VP of Research and Development, after co-founding Adallom, sold to Microsoft in 2015.

Roy Zisapel

Roy Zisapel is an Israeli technology executive who co-founded Radware, a Tel Aviv cybersecurity company traded on Nasdaq, and has led it as President and CEO since 1997.

rradar

rradar is a UK legal services and legal technology group headquartered in Hull, England, founded in 2012 by solicitor Gary Gallen, who remains its chief executive.

Ru Weerasuriya

Ru Weerasuriya is a video game developer who co-founded Ready At Dawn in 2003, known for Daxter, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and Lone Echo.

Ruben Bjerg Hansen

Ruben Bjerg Hansen, born 1976 in Holstebro, Denmark, is a Danish designer who co-founded the digital publishing platform Issuu and led its design until 2015.

Rubrik

Rubrik is an American data security company offering backup and recovery software under a Zero Trust banner, founded in 2014 and publicly traded since 2024.

Russell Kay

Russell Kay is a Scottish video game developer and businessman who co-founded DMA Design in Dundee, the studio later renamed Rockstar North, and programmed the PC version of Lemmings.

Ruud Pierik

Ruud Pierik is a Dutch entrepreneur who founded Elektramat, an online electrotechnical wholesaler in Enschede, in 2006, building it to over €160 million in revenue before selling a majority stake in 2023.

Ryan Kelly (technology executive)

Ryan Kelly is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Capital Rx, a pharmacy benefit technology company, in 2017 with AJ Loiacono and serves as its chief technology officer.

Ryo Ogawa

Ryo Ogawa (小川嶺) is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Timee, Inc. in 2017 at age 20 and leads Japan's largest spot-work platform as its CEO.

Ryoga Okunishi

Ryoga Okunishi (奥西 亮賀) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and CEO of IVRy, a Tokyo voice-AI company that automates business phone answering, which he founded in 2019 after leaving Recruit Holdings.

S-MOS Systems

S-MOS Systems was a San Jose semiconductor company founded in 1983 that designed CMOS chips sold in North America and fabricated by Seiko Epson in Japan.