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Gérard Blitz (Belgian businessman)

Gérard Blitz (1912–1990) was a Belgian-born diamond cutter who founded Club Méditerranée, known as Club Med, in 1950 and led its first tent village in Majorca.

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, known as William, was a French-American businessman who chaired the Louis Dreyfus commodities group from 1969 and was the father of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Gérard Mulliez

Gérard Mulliez, born in 1931 in Roubaix, is a French retail entrepreneur who founded the Auchan hypermarket chain in 1961 and leads the Mulliez family holding.

Gerard Philips

Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips (1858–1942) was a Dutch mechanical engineer who founded Philips & Co. in Eindhoven in 1891, building it into Europe's third-largest lamp maker by 1911.

Gérard Wertheimer

Gérard Wertheimer is a French billionaire businessman, born in Paris in 1951, who co-owns the luxury fashion and fragrance house Chanel with his elder brother Alain.

Gerdau (Cosigua)

Cosigua, formally the Companhia Siderúrgica da Guanabara, is a scrap-based long-steel plant in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, owned by Gerdau since 1979 and supplying rebar and wire rod to construction.

Gerding Edlen Green Cities

Gerding Edlen Green Cities is a series of four sustainable urban real estate private equity funds, run from Portland, Oregon, that raised $1.4 billion in equity.

Geregu Power Plc

Geregu Power Plc is a Nigerian electricity generation company operating a 435 megawatt gas-fired plant in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, listed on the Nigerian Exchange in 2022.

Gerhard Blum

Gerhard Blum, born 1954, is an Austrian family-business executive who led furniture-fittings maker Julius Blum GmbH in Höchst, Vorarlberg, from 1983 to 2019, growing revenue from about €74 million to €1.888 billion.

Gerhard Sturm

Gerhard Sturm (born 1934) is a German industrialist who co-founded Elektrobau Mulfingen in 1963 and led it for over 40 years as it grew into ebm-papst, a leading fan and motor maker.

German debt brake

The German debt brake (Schuldenbremse) is a constitutional fiscal rule added to the Basic Law in 2009 that caps federal structural net borrowing at 0.35% of GDP.

German Labour Front

The German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) was the Nazi mass organization that replaced Germany's trade unions after May 1933, claiming 25 million members by 1942.

Germán Larrea Mota Velasco

Germán Larrea Mota Velasco is a Mexican businessman who has led Grupo México, the country's largest mining corporation, since 1994, and is known as the copper king.

German Nuclear Waste Management Fund (KENFO)

KENFO, the German Nuclear Waste Management Fund, is a public-law foundation established in 2017, capitalized with €24.1 billion paid by utilities E.ON, RWE, EnBW, and Vattenfall.

Geronimus Hatt

Geronimus Hatt, also known as Jérôme IV Hatt, was a Strasbourg cooper-brewer who became a master brewer in 1664 and founded the brewery that became Kronenbourg.

Gerry Cardinale

Gerry Cardinale is an American private equity investor and former Goldman Sachs partner who founded RedBird Capital Partners in 2014, buying AC Milan in 2022 and taking stakes in Fenway Sports Group and other sports franchises.

Gerry Ford

Gerry Ford is a British-based businessman who founded the Caffè Nero coffee house chain in 1997 and has run it as chairman and chief executive ever since.

Gerry Giacoman Colyer

Gerry Giacoman Colyer is a Mexican technology entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Clara, the corporate spend-management fintech founded in Mexico City in 2020 that became Latin America's fastest unicorn.

Gerry Kingen

Gerry Kingen is an American Pacific Northwest restaurateur who bought a Seattle tavern in 1969 and built it into the Red Robin gourmet burger chain, later founding the Salty's waterfront restaurants.

Gerson Lehrman Group

Gerson Lehrman Group is a privately held expert-network firm founded in New York City in 1998 that created the expert-network industry, connecting clients with experts through paid one-on-one consultations.

Gervais Koffi Djondo

Gervais Koffi Djondo is a Togolese businessman who co-founded Ecobank in 1985 with Adeyemi Lawson and later launched Asky Airlines; Ecobank reached $34.5 billion in assets across 39 countries by 2025.

Gesaite Diagnostics (思路迪科技(上海)有限公司) (思路迪诊断)

Gesaite Diagnostics (思路迪诊断) is a Shanghai-based molecular-diagnostics company focused on tumor precision diagnosis, founded in 2010 as part of the 3D group; its ANDiS400 won NMPA approval in 2019 as the world's first closed library-preparation device.

Gestala (格式塔科技)

Gestala (格式塔科技), also known as Gestalt Technology, is a Chinese startup founded in January 2026 in Chengdu and Shanghai developing non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interfaces, led by founder and CEO Peng Lei.

Get's Bet

Get's Bet (GetsBet) is a Romanian sports betting and online casino brand run by Malta-registered Get's Bet Online LTD, licensed by Romania's ONJN (L1173107W000815), with retail agencies and getsbet.ro offering betting, casino, and live casino games.

GetHarley

GetHarley is a London-based skincare telehealth startup founded in 2019 by Charmaine Chow, connecting patients with skincare clinicians by video consultation and delivering personalized medical-grade products.

Getsafe

Getsafe is a German insurtech in Heidelberg, founded in 2015, that sells digital insurance through a single app and operates as an underwriting agent on its MGA platform.

Getting Things Done

Getting Things Done (GTD) is a personal productivity method created by David Allen and published in his book of the same name, built on a five-step workflow of capture, clarify, organize, reflect, and engage.

Getty family

The Getty family is an American business dynasty built on J. Paul Getty's oil fortune, best known for the 1973 kidnapping of his grandson and the Getty Trust.

GF Securities

GF Securities (广发证券) is one of China's largest full-service securities firms, based in Guangdong province and dual-listed on the Shenzhen and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

GFL Environmental

GFL Environmental Inc. is a Canadian waste management and environmental services company founded by Patrick Dovigi in 2007, operating across Canada and 18 U.S. states.