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James Watt (entrepreneur)
James Watt is a Scottish entrepreneur who co-founded the brewer BrewDog with Martin Dickie, built it on Equity for Punks crowdfunding, and led it until 2024.
James Wolfensohn
James Wolfensohn, also known as Jim Wolfensohn, was an Australian-born investment banker who served as the ninth President of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005.
Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon, also known as James L. Dimon, is an American banker who has led JPMorgan Chase as chief executive since 2006 and as chairman since 2007.
Jamie Kern Lima
Jamie Kern Lima is an American entrepreneur who co-founded IT Cosmetics in 2008 and sold it to L'Oréal for $1.2 billion in 2016, later becoming a bestselling author.
Jamie Lin
Jamie Lin (林之晨), born 1978, is a Taiwanese venture capitalist who co-founded the AppWorks accelerator in Taipei and has been General Manager of Taiwan Mobile since 2019.
Jamie Montgomery
Jamie Montgomery is an American venture capitalist, co-founder and Managing Partner of March Capital, previously founder of investment bank Montgomery & Co. and the annual Montgomery Summit conference in Santa Monica.
Jamie Walker (video game executive)
Jamie Walker is a video-game executive who co-founded Rocksteady Studios in London in 2004, serving as studio director through the Batman: Arkham games until leaving at the end of 2022.
Jamin Ball
Jamin Ball is a Partner at Altimeter Capital who joined in January 2021 after five years at Redpoint Ventures, investing in companies including Airbyte, ClickHouse, Deel, and dbt Labs.
Jamnalal Bajaj
Jamnalal Bajaj (1889–1942) was a Marwari businessman and industrialist from Wardha who founded the Bajaj Group and served as treasurer of the Indian National Congress.
Jamsetji Tata
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (1839–1904) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Tata group in 1868, building cotton mills and the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.
Jan Antonín Baťa
Jan Antonín Baťa (1898–1965) was a Czech shoe manufacturer, half-brother of founder Tomáš Baťa, who led the Baťa company in Zlín from 1932 to 1939 and spent his final years in Brazil founding towns.
Jan Boomaars
Jan Boomaars is a Dutch financial executive and Chief Executive Officer of Optiver, the Amsterdam-based global market maker, since January 2018, after 21 years at Goldman Sachs.
Jan Boone Sr.
Jan Boone Sr. was a Belgian baker who in 1932 co-founded the Lotus Bakeries speculoos bakery in Lembeke, East Flanders, with his brothers Henri and Emiel Boone.
Jan Gotlib Bloch
Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836–1902) was a Polish banker and railway financier known as the "King of Railways" who wrote a study predicting modern war's economic exhaustion.
Jan Habermann
Jan Habermann is a Czech venture capital investor and founding partner of Credo Ventures, a Prague firm he co-founded in 2009 that backs pre-seed startups from Central and Eastern Europe.
Jan Hammer (investor)
Jan Hammer is a Czech-born partner at Index Ventures who joined in 2010, invests in data, financial services, and SaaS, and topped the 2018 Forbes Midas List Europe.
Jan Jenisch
Jan Jenisch is a Swiss construction-materials executive who was CEO of Sika from 2012 to 2017 and of Holcim from 2017 to 2024, and now leads Amrize, Holcim's North American spin-off, as Chairman and CEO.
Jan Kemper
Jan Kemper is a German finance executive, business angel, and honorary professor at RWTH Aachen who has been chairman and investor at the Cologne endurance-sports apparel maker Ryzon since 2016.
Jan Marsalek
Jan Marsalek is an Austrian former payments executive who was chief operating officer of Wirecard from 2010 to 2020 and is wanted by Munich prosecutors on fraud charges.
Jan Møller
Jan Møller is a Danish software engineer who co-founded Chainalysis, the New York-based blockchain-analysis company, in 2014 and was its chief technology officer until October 2019.
Jan Tinbergen
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) was a Dutch economist who shared the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969 and built the world's first econometric macroeconomic model.
Jan van Kuijk
Jan van Kuijk (born 1966) is a Dutch trader who co-founded Flow Traders, the Amsterdam market maker in exchange-traded products, serving as co-CEO from 2004 until January 2014.
Jan-Willem de Gier
Jan-Willem de Gier, born 1967 in Amsterdam, is a Dutch biochemist and professor at Stockholm University who co-founded the biotechnology company Xbrane Biopharma, developing engineered E. coli strains for protein production.
Jana Partners
Jana Partners is a New York-based activist investment firm founded by Barry Rosenstein in 2001, known for campaigns at Whole Foods, Qualcomm, Safeway, and Lamb Weston.
Jane Fraser (businesswoman)
Jane Fraser is a British-born banking executive who has been chief executive officer of Citigroup since 2021, the first woman to lead a major Wall Street bank.
Jane Helwig
Jane T. Helwig was one of the four co-founders of SAS Institute, the private software company incorporated in 1976, and co-authored A User's Guide to SAS-76.
Jane Street Capital
Jane Street Capital is a private, employee-owned quantitative trading firm founded in 2000 that trades equities, bonds, options, and currencies as a global market maker.
Jane Uogel Yogurt (简爱酸奶)
Jane Uogel Yogurt (简爱酸奶, Jian'ai) is a Chinese chilled yogurt brand launched in 2015, known for a no-additives formula of raw milk, sugar, and lactic acid bacteria.
Janet Truncale
Janet Truncale is an American accountant who has served as Global Chair and CEO of EY since 2024, the first woman to run a Big Four firm.
Janie Murrell
Janie Murrell is an American businesswoman who co-founded the Five Guys burger chain with her husband Jerry Murrell, opening the first restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, in 1986.