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Colm Kelleher

Colm Kelleher, born 1957, is an Irish banker who has been chairman of UBS Group AG since April 2022, leading the 2023 takeover of Credit Suisse.

Connor Teskey

Connor Teskey is a Canadian investment executive who became CEO of Brookfield Asset Management in February 2026, after leading Brookfield Renewable Partners and its energy-transition investing franchise.

Cornelius Vanderbilt II

Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) was an American railroad executive, grandson of Commodore Vanderbilt, who served as president of the New York Central Railroad and built The Breakers in Newport.

Dan Katz

Dan Katz is an American financial policy official who served as Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and became the IMF's First Deputy Managing Director in 2025.

Dan Towriss

Dan Towriss is an American actuary and insurance executive who founded Group 1001, built from the 2012 buyout of Sun Life's U.S. annuity business, and leads TWG Motorsports.

Daniel Vorcaro

Daniel Bueno Vorcaro is a Brazilian banker who built Banco Master from a small lender into an R$ 82 billion conglomerate that was liquidated in 2025.

Darla Moore

Darla Dee Moore is an American investor and philanthropist who ran Rainwater, Inc., nearly tripling its value to $1.5 billion, and became the first woman profiled on Fortune's cover.

Dave Fishwick

Dave Fishwick, also known as David Fishwick, is a Burnley entrepreneur who founded Burnley Savings and Loans, the "Bank of Dave", in 2011, lending to local small businesses.

David and Simon Reuben

David and Simon Reuben, known as the Reuben brothers, are British billionaire investors born in Bombay who made their first fortune trading metals in the former Soviet Union.

David Bonderman

David Bonderman (1942 to 2024) was an American private equity investor who co-founded Texas Pacific Group (TPG), built its reputation on the 1993 Continental Airlines turnaround, and brought the Seattle Kraken to the NHL.

David J. Grain

David J. Grain, born in 1962, is an American investment executive who founded Grain Management in 2007, a private equity firm investing in fiber networks, wireless spectrum, and cell towers.

David K Panton

David K Panton is a Jamaican-born American private equity investor who co-founded Navigation Capital Partners, a buyout firm, and chairs the family office Panton Equity Partners.

David M. Solomon

David M. Solomon, also known as DJ D-Sol, is an American investment banker who has led Goldman Sachs as CEO since 2018 and chairman since 2019.

David Malpass

David Malpass is an American economist who served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019 to 2023, after serving in the Trump Treasury Department.

David Mayer de Rothschild

David Mayer de Rothschild, born 1978, is a British adventurer and environmentalist, youngest son of banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, known for sailing the plastic-bottle Plastiki across the Pacific.

David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie

David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie (1926–2023), was a Scottish peer, Scots Guards officer, and merchant banker who chaired Schroders from 1977 to 1984, then served as Lord Chamberlain.

David René de Rothschild

David René de Rothschild (born 1942) is a French banker who rebuilt the family's French bank and led the reunification of the French and English Rothschild houses.

David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller (1915–2017) was an American banker who rose from assistant manager to chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, led its global expansion, and died at 101.

David Rubenstein

David M. Rubenstein is a Baltimore-born American private equity investor who co-founded The Carlyle Group in 1987, bought the Baltimore Orioles in 2024, and is a noted philanthropist.

David Vélez

David Vélez is a Colombian banker and entrepreneur who founded the digital bank Nubank in São Paulo in 2013 and leads it as chief executive.

Dermot Desmond

Dermot Desmond is an Irish billionaire financier and venture investor who founded NCB and IIU, promoted Dublin's International Financial Services Centre, and is the largest shareholder in Celtic FC.

Diana Taylor (superintendent)

Diana L. Taylor is an American financier who served as New York State Superintendent of Banks from 2003 to 2007, appointed by Governor George Pataki and later a Citigroup director.

Dmitry Rybolovlev (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев)

Dmitry Rybolovlev (Дмитрий Евгеньевич Рыболовлев) is a Russian-born billionaire investor who built Uralkali, sold his stake for billions, and became majority owner of the football club AS Monaco.

Do Kwon

Do Kwon, born Kwon Do-hyung (권도형), is a South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur who co-founded Terraform Labs and built the Terra blockchain; its 2022 collapse destroyed over $40 billion and led to his US fraud conviction.

Donna Kelce

Donna Kelce, born Donna Blalock in 1952, is a retired American bank executive known as "Mama Kelce," mother of NFL players Jason and Travis Kelce.

Edmond Safra

Edmond J. Safra (1932–1999) was a Lebanese-born Sephardic Jewish banker who built private banks in Brazil, Geneva, and New York, selling them to HSBC in 1999.

Edward Lloyd (coffee house owner)

Edward Lloyd (c. 1648 to 1713) was a London coffee house keeper whose Lombard Street shop gave its name to Lloyd's of London, the marine insurance market.

Eric Weinstein

Eric Ross Weinstein is a mathematician and financial executive who co-founded the Natron Group hedge fund, served as managing director of Thiel Capital, and proposed Geometric Unity.

Eugene Meyer (financier)

Eugene Meyer, also known as Eugene Isaac Meyer, was an American investment banker who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933 and bought The Washington Post in 1933.

Evelyn de Rothschild

Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (1931–2022) was a British banker who chaired N M Rothschild & Sons from 1976 to 2003, raising £35 billion in British privatizations.