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JAL Ventures
JAL Ventures Ltd. is an Israeli venture capital firm based in Herzliya, founded by Gilat Satellite Networks co-founders Amiram and Joshua Levinberg, investing in early-revenue B2B technology startups.
Jama Software
Jama Software is a Portland, Oregon enterprise software company whose Jama Connect platform manages requirements and traceability for engineering teams building complex, regulated products.
Jamaica Accords
The Jamaica Accords are the IMF's January 1976 decisions that formalized the post-Bretton Woods monetary order, legalizing floating exchange rates and abolishing gold's official price.
Jamaica Stock Exchange
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is the national securities exchange of Jamaica, incorporated in 1968 and trading since 1969, and named the world's best-performing bourse in 2019.
Jamaican dollar
The Jamaican dollar (JMD) is the national currency of Jamaica, issued solely by the Bank of Jamaica since decimal adoption in 1969, with polymer notes and a floating exchange rate.
Jamaican financial crisis 1996
The Jamaican financial crisis of 1996 was the collapse of most of Jamaica's domestically owned banks and life insurers between 1994 and 1998, resolved through the government rescue agency FINSAC.
James Altucher
James Altucher is an American entrepreneur, author, and former hedge fund manager at Formula Capital known for bestselling books and a podcast with over 70 million downloads.
James Andersen (private equity investor)
James Andersen is an American private equity investor who co-founded Clearview Capital, a lower middle-market investment firm in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1999 and serves as its Managing Partner.
James Andrews (syndicate editor)
James F. Andrews (1936–1980) was an American publishing executive who co-founded Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City in 1970, shaped Doonesbury from a Yale student strip, and died in 1980.
James Ax
James Ax, also known as Jim Ax, was an American mathematician and quantitative trader who won the 1967 Cole Prize in Number Theory and founded Axcom.
James Bradford DeLong
James Bradford DeLong, known as J. Bradford DeLong or Brad DeLong, is an American macroeconomist and economic historian, emeritus professor at Berkeley and a former Clinton Treasury official.
James Buchanan Duke
James Buchanan Duke, known as Buck Duke, was an American industrialist who built the American Tobacco Company into a monopoly, founded Duke Power, and endowed Duke University.
James Burgum
James Burgum is an American venture capital and agribusiness executive who co-founded Arthur Ventures, a firm investing in B2B software outside Silicon Valley, and leads The Arthur Companies.
James C. Morgan
James C. Morgan is an American business executive who was CEO of Applied Materials from 1977 to 2003, growing it into the world's largest semiconductor equipment maker.
James Cash Penney
James Cash Penney (1875–1971) was an American retail businessman who founded the J. C. Penney chain, growing one Wyoming store into America's first nationwide department store chain.
James Chiu
James Chiu is a quantitative trader and the founder and CEO of Vatic Investments, a New York systematic trading firm he started in 2014 after leaving Jump Trading.
James Detweiler
James Detweiler is a General Partner at Felicis, a San Francisco venture capital firm, known for building its AI portfolio with investments including RunwayML, Skild AI, and Mercor.
James Ding
James Ding, also known as Jian Ding (丁健), is a Chinese-American venture capitalist at GSR Ventures who co-founded AsiaInfo, the first Chinese company on NASDAQ.
James E. Solomon
James E. Solomon (born 1936) is an American analog integrated-circuit engineer who founded SDA in 1983, which merged with ECAD in 1988 to form Cadence Design Systems.
James E. Stowers
James E. Stowers Jr., a Kansas City businessman (1924–2014), founded Twentieth Century mutual funds and co-founded the Stowers Institute for Medical Research using an earnings-driven investment method.
James Evangelista
James Philip Evangelista is a venture capital executive serving as Partner and Chief Financial Officer of The Column Group, a San Francisco life-science venture firm he joined in 2012.
James Ford Bell
James Ford Bell (1879–1961) was an American businessman who created General Mills in Minneapolis in 1928, building it from the Washburn Crosby flour company he led.
James Gamble (soapmaker)
James Gamble (1803–1891) was an Irish-born soapmaker who emigrated to America in 1819 and co-founded Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati in 1837, running manufacturing while William Procter handled sales.
James Goldsmith
James Goldsmith, also known as Jimmy Goldsmith, was a Franco-British financier who made billions buying undervalued companies and selling their parts, then fought British EU membership.
James Goldstein
James (Jimmy) Goldstein, American real estate investor and NBA superfan with Lakers and Clippers courtside season tickets, 100+ games a year; wealth from California mobile home parks and rent-control litigation; Sheats-Goldstein Residence bequeathed to LACMA.
James Goodnight
James Goodnight, born in 1943, is an American software executive and statistician who co-founded SAS Institute in 1976 and has served as its CEO ever since.
James H. Stock
James H. Stock, also known as James Stock, is an American econometrician at Harvard known for work on cointegration and the social cost of carbon.
James Hardie Industries
James Hardie Industries is an Irish-domiciled building materials company, founded in 1888, that makes fiber cement siding and has paid over A$2.5 billion to asbestos victims.
James Hardiman
James Hardiman is a venture capital investor who has been a General Partner at Data Collective (DCVC), a San Francisco Bay Area deep-tech firm, since 2013.
James Heckman
James Joseph Heckman is an American economist at the University of Chicago who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on selection bias and policy evaluation.