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Gulf and Western Industries

Gulf and Western Industries, commonly written Gulf + Western, was an American conglomerate built by Charles G. Bluhdorn from a Michigan auto-parts business through more than a hundred acquisitions.

Gulf Development

Gulf Development is a Thai listed energy and telecommunications group formed on 1 April 2025 through the amalgamation of Gulf Energy Development and Intouch Holdings, led by Sarath Ratanavadi.

Guming Holdings

Guming Holdings (古茗控股有限公司) is a Chinese freshly-made tea company that franchises the Good me (古茗) brand, founded in 2010 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025.

Gundbert Scherf

Gundbert Scherf is a German technology executive who co-founded Helsing in Munich in 2021, a defense startup that raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation in 2026.

Gunjan Kedia

Gunjan Kedia is an Indian-born American banking executive, chief executive officer of U.S. Bancorp since April 2025 and the first woman to lead the company.

Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut

Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut (กัลกุล ดำรงปิยวุฒิ์) is a Thai businessman who founded Gunkul Engineering in 1982 and chairs the SET-listed renewable power producer, worth an estimated $750 million.

Gunkul Engineering

Gunkul Engineering is a Bangkok-based Thai engineering and renewable-power group founded in 1982 by Gunkul Dhumrongpiyawut, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 2010.

Gunma Bank

Gunma Bank (株式会社群馬銀行) is a Japanese regional bank headquartered in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture. Founded in 1932, it held total assets of about 10.9 trillion yen as of March 2026.

Günther Laukien

Günther Laukien, also spelled Gunther Laukien, was a German physicist who founded Bruker Physik in Karlsruhe in 1960, building it into a leading maker of NMR instruments.

Günther Quandt

Günther Quandt (died 1954) was a German industrialist who built a fortune on batteries, armaments, and coal, used some 50,000 forced laborers under the Nazis, and whose heirs held 46.7 percent of BMW.

Guo Chuan

Guo Chuan (郭川) is a Chinese automotive executive and chairman of Zhejiang Konghui Auto Technology, which in June 2021 became China's first OEM mass-production supplier of air suspension.

Guo Fansheng

Guo Fansheng (郭凡生), born in 1955, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Huicong, now HC Group, one of China's first B2B e-commerce companies, in Beijing in 1992.

Guo Guangchang

Guo Guangchang (郭广昌) is a Chinese entrepreneur, born in 1967, who founded Fosun International in Shanghai in 1992 and chairs the investment group, which acquired Club Med in 2015.

Guo Haozhan

Guo Haozhan (郭昊展, born 1991) is a Chinese business executive who leads Zhejiang Southeast Net Frame Group and, since 2026, chairs its listed subsidiary.

Guo Jiangang (Guangdong Xinbao Electrical (Donlim, 新宝电器))

Guo Jiangang (郭建刚), born 1966, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Guangdong Xinbao Electrical Appliances (Donlim) in Shunde, Foshan, in 1995 and chairs the company.

Guo Jianhui

Guo Jianhui (郭建辉), also listed as Jeffrey Yang Guo, was a tenured NIH scientist who co-founded Shanghai Allist Pharmaceuticals in Shanghai in 2004 and died of illness in 2012.

Guo Jianqiang

Guo Jianqiang (郭建强, born 1968) is a Chinese businessman and vice chairman of Guangdong Xinbao Electrical Appliances, a small-appliance exporter in Shunde, Foshan, and the younger brother of Xinbao's founder and chairman Guo Jian'gang.

Guo Miaobo

Guo Miaobo (郭妙波) is a Chinese shareholder and the wife of He Qiqiang, controlling shareholder of Guangdong Changqing Group, holding 11,861,200 shares, about 1.38%, with no company position.

Guo Wei

Guo Wei (郭为, born 1963) is a Chinese technology executive who joined Legend, now Lenovo, in 1988 and has led Digital China Holdings since its 2001 listing in Hong Kong.

Guo Wengui (郭文贵)

Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Guo, is a Chinese-born real estate developer sentenced in the United States to 30 years in prison for fraud.

Guo Yihong

Guo Yihong (过以宏, English name Young Guo) is a senior partner at IDG Capital in Beijing since 1999, an early backer of Baofeng, Meitu, and Qihoo 360.

Guodong Wang

Guodong Wang, also known as Jason Wang, is a partner at Lightspeed China Partners, an early-stage venture firm, where he joined in 2016 and was promoted to partner in 2021.

Guoke Hengtai

Guoke Hengtai (国科恒泰), full name Guoke Hengtai (Beijing) Medical Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese medical-device distributor founded in Beijing in 2013 and listed on Shenzhen ChiNext since 2023.

Guoke Ion Medical Technology (国科离子医疗科技有限公司)

Guoke Ion Medical Technology (国科离子) is a Chinese medical-device company founded in 2018 to industrialize heavy-ion cancer therapy equipment developed at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Guoneng Fund (国能基金)

The Guoneng Fund (国能基金) is a RMB10.02 billion (about USD 1.4 billion) new-energy investment fund initiated by state-owned CHN Energy, signed in Beijing in January 2021 to buy and build wind and solar capacity.

Guoqing Chen

Guoqing Chen (陈国庆) is a Chinese businessman who, per his Committee of 100 biography, co-founded Hainan Airlines in 1993 and chairs HNA Group North America in New York.

Guosen Securities

Guosen Securities Co., Ltd. (国信证券股份有限公司) is a full-license Chinese securities firm headquartered in Shenzhen, founded in 1994 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2014.

Guotai Junan Securities

Guotai Junan Securities (国泰君安) was a Shanghai state-controlled Chinese brokerage formed in 1999 by merging Guotai Securities and Junan Securities, and merged into Guotai Haitong in 2025.

Gupta family

The Gupta family, also known as the Gupta brothers, is an Indian-South African business family whose business empire was examined by South Africa's Zondo Commission on state capture.

Gupy

Gupy is a Brazilian human-resources technology company founded in São Paulo in 2015 by Mariana Dias and three co-founders, selling AI-based recruitment and employee-lifecycle software to more than 4,000 enterprises.