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George Paz
George Paz (1955–2022) was an American executive who led Express Scripts, the largest US pharmacy benefit manager, as chairman and CEO from 2005 to 2016.
George Peabody
George Peabody (1795–1869) was a Massachusetts-born merchant and banker whose London firm sold American state bonds to British investors and became the root of the J.P. Morgan banking firm.
George Perlegos
George Perlegos (Γιώργος Πελέγος) is a Greek-born American semiconductor engineer who pioneered EEPROM memory at Intel, founded Atmel in 1984, and led it until his 2006 ouster.
George Rathmann
George Rathmann (1927–2012) was an American chemist and executive who co-founded Amgen, built it into the world's biggest biotechnology company, and later led ICOS, where Cialis was developed.
George Roberts (financier)
George Roberts is an American financier who co-founded the private equity firm KKR in 1976, led landmark buyouts including RJR Nabisco, and remains its Co-Executive Chairman.
George Robinson (hedge fund manager)
George Robinson, born 1956, is a British hedge fund manager who co-founded Sloane Robinson, a London emerging-markets manager that peaked near $15 billion before closing in 2020.
George Scalise
George Scalise is an American semiconductor executive who led the Semiconductor Industry Association from 1997 to 2010 after senior roles at Apple and National Semiconductor.
George Skakel
George Skakel (1892–1955) was an American industrialist who founded Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, a leading petroleum coke trader, and whose daughter Ethel married Robert F. Kennedy.
George Soros
George Soros, born György Soros in Hungary in 1930, is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist who ran the Quantum Fund and gave over $32 billion to charity.
George Tate (software entrepreneur)
George Tate (c. 1944 – August 1984) was an American software entrepreneur who co-founded Ashton-Tate, the California publisher of the dBASE database program, and was its first president.
George Walbridge Perkins
George Walbridge Perkins was an American financier and junior partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. who negotiated the 1902 International Harvester merger and later managed Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive campaign.
George Warren Brown
George Warren Brown (1853–1921) was an American businessman who founded the Brown Shoe Company in St. Louis in 1878 and served as its president for 35 years.
George Weston Limited
George Weston Limited is a Toronto-based Canadian holding company founded in 1882 by baker George Weston and still controlled by his descendants, holding a majority stake in Loblaw.
George Zachary
George Zachary is an American venture capitalist who spent over 15 years as a General Partner at CRV, best known for leading a $250,000 investment for 1% of Twitter in 2006.
Georges Claude
Georges Claude (1870–1960) was a French chemist-engineer who co-founded Air Liquide in 1902 and created the commercial neon lighting industry, later convicted of collaboration in 1945.
Georges Doriot
Georges Doriot (1899-1987) was a Paris-born financier, Harvard Business School professor, and Army brigadier general who co-founded American Research and Development, widely credited as the first US venture capital firm.
Georges Elhedery
Georges Elhedery is a Lebanese-born banker who became Group Chief Executive of HSBC in September 2024, succeeding Noel Quinn, and announced the bank's biggest restructuring in a decade weeks later.
Georgia Stevenson
Georgia Stevenson is a venture capital investor and Partner at Index Ventures, known for backing consumer, marketplace, and AI-native companies including Granola, Ineffable, and Mirelo.
Georgia Truck Depot
Georgia Truck Depot, Inc. is a licensed Georgia used-motor-vehicle dealer specializing in pre-owned commercial trucks, based in Atlanta and selling dump trucks, box trucks, and vans.
Georgiamune
Georgiamune is a privately held, clinical-stage biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, Maryland, founded by oncologist Samir N. Khleif that develops drugs reprogramming immune signaling for cancer and autoimmune disease.
Georgian Alignment
Georgian Alignment is a pair of Toronto venture capital funds created by Georgian Partners in 2020 and 2021 to make follow-on investments in companies it had already backed.
Georgian kuponi lari
The Georgian kuponi lari, ISO code GEK, was Georgia's interim paper currency from April 1993 to October 1995, replaced by the new lari at one million coupons to one.
Georgian lari
The Georgian lari (Georgian: ლარი) is the currency of Georgia, issued by the National Bank of Georgia and divided into 100 tetri. It replaced the coupon currency in 1995.
Georgian Partners
Georgian Partners is a Toronto-based growth-stage venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Justin LaFayette, Simon Chong, and John Berton, investing in B2B software companies including Shopify.
Georgios Konstantopoulos
Georgios Konstantopoulos is an engineer and venture investor who is Chief Technology Officer and General Partner at Paradigm, a crypto investment firm, and CTO at Tempo, a payments network.
Geotourism
Geotourism is tourism whose main attraction is a destination's geological heritage, defined by Thomas Hose in 1995 and now the principal tourism model of the 241 UNESCO Global Geoparks in 51 countries.
Gerald Ratner
Gerald Ratner is a British jewelry retailer who built the Ratners Group into the UK's dominant jewelry chain, then lost about £500 million after a 1991 speech.
Gerald Yass
Gerald Yass was a certified public accountant and business executive who helped his son Jeffrey Yass start Susquehanna International Group in 1987, working there until his death at 94 in 2024.
Geraldo Thomaz
Geraldo Thomaz, full name Geraldo do Carmo Thomaz Júnior, is a Brazilian software entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform VTEX in Rio de Janeiro in 2000.
Gerard Adriaan Heineken
Gerard Adriaan Heineken (1841) was a Dutch brewer and entrepreneur who bought Amsterdam's De Hooiberg brewery in 1864, at age 22, and built it into the Heineken brewing company.