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Jean-Philippe Fricker

Jean-Philippe Fricker is a Swiss-trained hardware engineer, EPFL graduate, and co-founder of Cerebras Systems, where he designed the Wafer Scale Engine interconnect as Chief System Architect.

Jean-Pierre Aguilar

Jean-Pierre Aguilar was a French trader who founded the Paris quantitative hedge fund Capital Fund Management in 1991 and led it until his death in 2009.

Jeane Tsutsui

Jeane Tsutsui is a Brazilian cardiologist and business executive who has been CEO of Grupo Fleury since April 2021, after 24 years with the company.

Jed Leidheiser

Jed Leidheiser is an American venture capital investor and Partner at March Capital Partners in Santa Monica, California, where he leads the firm's cybersecurity investing.

Jeff Brody

Jeff Brody is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures whose early investments include Danger, sold to Microsoft for $500 million in 2008, and HomeAway, which went public in 2011.

Jeff Clavier

Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is a French-born venture capitalist in Palo Alto who founded SoftTech VC in 2004, now Uncork Capital, investing in Fitbit, Mint, and Eventbrite.

Jeff Crowe

Jeff Crowe is a managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners, a Bay Area venture capital firm, known for consumer-internet and fintech investments including Lending Club, Jet.com, and RetailMeNot.

Jeff Fagnan

Jeff Fagnan is a Boston-based seed-stage venture capitalist who founded Accomplice in 2015 after being a general partner at Atlas Venture; his exits include Carbon Black and PillPack.

Jeff Goater

Jeff Goater is a Partner at The Column Group, a biotechnology venture capital firm, and former CEO of Surface Oncology, where he led its $120 million IPO in 2018.

Jeff Hawkins

Jeff Hawkins is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Palm Computing in 1992 and created the PalmPilot, then co-founded Handspring, whose Treo shaped the modern smartphone, and Numenta.

Jeff Haywood

Jeff Haywood is a Managing Director at Spectrum Equity, a Boston growth-equity firm he joined in 2007, who co-leads healthcare investing and led the Definitive Healthcare investment from 2015 through its 2021 IPO.

Jeff Horing

Jeff Horing is a venture capital investor who cofounded Insight Venture Partners, now Insight Partners, in 1995, investing in enterprise software companies including AirWatch, Darktrace, Alteryx, and Wiz.

Jeff Huber

Jeff Huber is a technology executive and founding CEO of GRAIL, the cancer blood-test company spun out of Illumina in 2016, after leading Google Ads, Apps, and Maps.

Jeff Immelt

Jeffrey Robert "Jeff" Immelt was CEO and chairman of General Electric from 2001 to 2017, succeeding Jack Welch and leading GE through the 2008 financial crisis.

Jeff Lewis (real estate speculator)

Jeff Lewis is an American real estate speculator, interior designer, and television personality, star of Bravo's Flipping Out and host of a daily SiriusXM show.

Jeff Lieberman

Jeff Lieberman is a New York venture capitalist and managing director at Insight Partners since 1998, known for early growth investments in Qualtrics and Udemy.

Jeff Lovell

Jeff Lovell is a private equity investor who co-founded Lovell Minnick Partners, a Radnor, Pennsylvania financial services buyout firm, in 1999, after co-founding Putnam Lovell Group in 1987.

Jeff Mizrahi

Jeff Mizrahi is a private equity investor who co-founded MFG Partners in New York in 2016, closing its inaugural fund at $299 million in 2024.

Jeff Ransdell

Jeff Ransdell is an American venture capitalist, founding partner of Miami-based Fuel Venture Capital, which he started in 2017 after leading Bank of America Merrill Lynch wealth management.

Jeff Skoll

Jeff Skoll is a Canadian engineer and eBay's first president and full-time employee, who left in 2001 and founded the Skoll Foundation and Participant Media.

Jeff Smith (activist investor)

Jeff Smith, also known as Jeffrey C. Smith, is an American activist hedge fund manager who co-founded Starboard Value in 2011 and led its 2014 Darden Restaurants board takeover.

Jeff Spangenberg

Jeff Spangenberg is an American video game industry executive and studio founder, best known for founding Iguana Entertainment, maker of NBA Jam and Turok, and Retro Studios in Austin, Texas.

Jeff Webb (businessman)

Jeff Webb was an American business executive who founded the Universal Cheerleaders Association in 1974 and built it into Varsity Spirit, the dominant commercial force in American cheerleading.

Jeff Weiner

Jeff Weiner is an American technology executive who was CEO of LinkedIn from 2009 to 2020, negotiating its $26.2 billion sale to Microsoft in 2016.

Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright is an American beverage entrepreneur who co-founded Phusion Projects, the Chicago-based maker of Four Loko, in 2005, and serves as CEO of Phusion International.

Jeff Yass

Jeff Yass, also known as Jeffrey Yass, is an American trader who co-founded Susquehanna International Group in 1987 and holds a stake in ByteDance, TikTok's parent company.

Jefferies Group

Jefferies Group is a full-service investment bank operating in Investment Banking and Capital Markets. It has over 7,800 employees and total assets of $64.36 billion.

Jeffrey Cheah

Jeffrey Cheah is a Malaysian businessman who founded Sunway Group in 1974 as a tin-mining venture and built it into a conglomerate spanning property, healthcare, and education.

Jeffrey Chua

Jeffrey Chua is a venture capital investor at Golden Gate Ventures, a Southeast Asia early-stage firm he joined as an intern in 2015 and made Partner in 2025.

Jeffrey Garten

Jeffrey Garten, born 1946, is an American economist and author who served as Under Secretary of Commerce and dean of the Yale School of Management.