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Arundhati Bhattacharya (অরুন্ধতী ভট্টাচার্য)
Arundhati Bhattacharya (অরুন্ধতী ভট্টাচার্য) is an Indian banker who joined the State Bank of India in 1977 and became its first woman chairperson in October 2013.
Ava Alice Muriel Astor
Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–1956) was an American heiress and daughter of John Jacob Astor IV, who left her a $5 million trust after he died in the 1912 Titanic sinking.
Behdad Eghbali (بهداد اقبالی)
Behdad Eghbali (بهداد اقبالی) is an Iranian-American private equity investor who co-founded Clearlake Capital in 2006 and, through the firm, took full control of Chelsea Football Club in 2026.
Ben Navarro
Ben Navarro, also known as Benjamin Navarro, is an American financier who founded Sherman Financial Group, built around Credit One Bank, and owns the Charleston and Cincinnati Open tennis tournaments.
Benjamin de Rothschild
Benjamin de Rothschild (1963–2021) was a French-born banker who led the Geneva-based Edmond de Rothschild group from 1997, growing it to CHF 173 billion in assets.
Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch, also known as Bernard Mannes Baruch, was an American stock-market speculator who built a fortune before World War I and advised presidents for four decades.
Beth M. Hammack
Beth M. Hammack is an American central banker and former Goldman Sachs executive who became the twelfth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in August 2024.
Bilal Bin Saqib
Bilal Bin Saqib is a British-Pakistani social entrepreneur and MBE recipient who in 2025 became Pakistan's crypto adviser and chairman of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.
Bill Chisholm (businessman)
Bill Chisholm, also known as William Chisholm Jr., is an American private equity investor who co-founded STG and bought the Boston Celtics for a record $6.1 billion in 2025.
Bill Gurley
Bill Gurley is a venture capitalist and general partner at Benchmark Capital since 1999, best known as the early Uber investor who led the 2017 push to remove Travis Kalanick as CEO.
Brad Katsuyama
Brad Katsuyama (Bradley Katsuyama) is a Canadian financial executive who, while at Royal Bank of Canada, identified high-frequency traders front-running large orders, then co-founded IEX, the Investors Exchange, in 2012.
Brian Moynihan
Brian T. Moynihan is an American banker who has served as chief executive officer of Bank of America since 2010 and as chair of the board since 2014.
Brock Pierce
Brock Pierce is an American former child actor turned cryptocurrency entrepreneur and investor, known as a co-founder of Tether and Block.one and a 2020 independent candidate for US President.
Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is an American investor and former Olympic rower who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, where he is president alongside his identical twin Tyler; he first became known for a Facebook lawsuit.
Camillo Castiglioni
Camillo Castiglioni (1879–1957) was an Austrian financier and industrialist, born in Trieste, who rose from rubber salesman to briefly the richest man in Central Europe and financed BMW's early growth.
Carter Reum
Carter Reum is an American venture capital investor, co-founder of the Los Angeles firm M13, which he started in 2016 with his brother Courtney after selling VEEV Spirits.
Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts is an American former investment banker and HUD official turned financial commentator, known for her Hamilton Securities dispute with HUD and claims about $21 trillion in undocumentable government transactions.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capital investor and former Facebook executive who leads Social Capital, founded in 2011, and sponsored a series of SPACs during the 2020–2021 boom.
Chanda Kochhar (चंदा कोचर)
Chanda Kochhar (चंदा कोचर) is an Indian banker who became the first woman to head ICICI Bank as managing director and chief executive in 2009, retiring in 2018.
Changpeng Zhao (赵长鹏)
Changpeng Zhao (赵长鹏), known as CZ, is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded Binance in 2017 and built it into the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange within a year.
Charles Keating
Charles H. Keating Jr. was an American financier and lawyer whose ownership of Lincoln Savings produced the costliest failure of the 1980s savings and loan crisis.
Charles R. Schwab
Charles Robert Schwab is an American businessman who founded discount brokerage Charles Schwab & Co. in 1971, pioneering low-cost trading, and remains Co-Chairman of the Charles Schwab Corporation.
Charles Rothschild
Charles Rothschild, also known as Nathaniel Charles Rothschild, was a British banker and naturalist who founded the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves in 1912.
Charlie Javice
Charlie Javice is an American fintech founder who built the college-aid startup Frank, sold it to JPMorgan Chase for $175 million in 2021, and was convicted of fraud in 2025.
Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner, also known as Christopher Gardner, is an American stockbroker and entrepreneur who went from homelessness with his young son to founding the Chicago brokerage Gardner Rich & Co.
Chris Sacca
Chris Sacca is an American venture capital investor who founded Lowercase Capital in 2010, investing early in Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Stripe, and later the climate fund Lowercarbon Capital.
Christian Angermayer
Christian Angermayer is a German entrepreneur and billionaire investor who backs life sciences, psychedelics, and crypto companies through Apeiron Investment Group, and co-founded atai Life Sciences.
Christian Garrett
Christian Garrett is a venture capital investor at 137 Ventures, a $6 billion firm, and co-founder of the Hill & Valley Forum with Jacob Helberg and Delian Asparouhov.
Christopher Nixon Cox
Christopher Nixon Cox (born 1979) is an American investor and lawyer, the grandson of President Richard Nixon and chief executive of the private equity firm Lightswitch Capital since 2021.
Christopher O'Neill
Christopher Paul O'Neill, born 1974 in London, is an American-British financier who co-founded the hedge fund Noster Capital and married Princess Madeleine of Sweden in 2013, declining a royal title to keep his business career.