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Jeffrey Hyman

Jeffrey Hyman was a London food-industry businessman who founded the original Pret A Manger shop in Hampstead in October 1984, during a long career at Rank Hovis McDougall.

Jeffrey Li

Jeffrey Li (李振福) is a Chinese private equity investor, founder and CEO of GL Capital Group, a China healthcare firm managing over $4 billion; he previously led Novartis China.

Jeffrey Lieberman

Jeffrey Lieberman is a venture capitalist who has been a Managing Director at Insight Partners since 1998, best known for investments in Qualtrics, Divvy, and Udemy.

Jeffrey Paine

Jeffrey Paine is a Singaporean venture capitalist and Founding Managing Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, a seed-stage firm backing Southeast Asian startups including Carousell, GoPay, and BukuWarung.

Jeffrey Sprecher

Jeffrey C. Sprecher is an American businessman, founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange, which he built in Atlanta from 2000 and took to the New York Stock Exchange.

Jeffrey Talpins

Jeffrey Talpins is an investor who founded the New York global macro hedge fund Element Capital Management in 2005, growing it to $18 billion before returning capital.

Jeffrey Tong

Jeffrey Tong is a life-sciences venture capitalist and Partner at Third Rock Ventures, who joined in 2016 and held company-building roles at Delinia, Nora Therapeutics, and Infinity Pharmaceuticals.

Jeffry Picower

Jeffry Picower (1942–2009) was an American accountant, attorney, and investor, the largest beneficiary of Madoff's Ponzi scheme; his estate forfeited $7.2 billion after his 2009 death.

Jehangir Wadia

Jehangir Wadia, known as Jeh Wadia, is an Indian businessman of the Wadia Group who founded GoAir in 2005 and was managing director of Bombay Dyeing from 2011 to 2021.

Jeito Capital

Jeito Capital is a Paris-based private equity firm founded in 2020 by Dr Rafaèle Tordjman. It specializes in European biopharma, achieving exits with Merck & Co and Biogen after raising $1.2 billion.

JEL classification codes

JEL classification codes, developed for the Journal of Economic Literature, are the American Economic Association's lettered system for classifying economics literature, the de facto standard in EconLit since 1969.

Jelle de Boer

Jelle de Boer is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded Bitvavo, the Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange, in 2018 with Tim Baardse and Mark Nuvelstijn; it grew into the world's largest euro spot exchange.

Jen Agg

Jen Agg is a Toronto restaurateur who built restaurants including The Black Hoof and Grey Gardens and wrote the 2017 memoir I Hear She's a Real Bitch.

JenaValve Technology

JenaValve Technology Inc is an Irvine, California medical device company making the Trilogy Heart Valve System, a transcatheter aortic valve that won FDA approval in March 2026 for aortic regurgitation.

Jenna Lyons

Jenna Lyons is an American fashion designer and businesswoman who spent 26 years at J.Crew, rising to President and Executive Creative Director, then co-founded LoveSeen and joined The Real Housewives of New York City.

Jenna Meek

Jenna Meek is a British beauty entrepreneur from Bishop Auckland who founded the glitter brand Shrine in 2016 and co-founded REFY with influencer Jess Hunt in 2020.

Jennifer Iwenjiora Douglas

Jennifer Iwenjiora Douglas, also published as Jennifer Douglas Abubakar, is a Nigerian-born entrepreneur and US citizen who founded the HIV/AIDS nonprofit Gede Foundation in 2002.

Jennifer Makowiec

Jennifer Makowiec, CFA, is a Chicago finance executive who, per PEAK6's 2001 SEC filing, was CEO and President of the options market-making firm founded in 1997.

Jennifer Mariska

Jennifer (Jenn) Mariska is Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Forerunner Ventures in San Francisco, where she announced the firm's $500 million seventh fund in November 2024.

Jennifer Pritzker

Jennifer Natalya Pritzker, formerly James Pritzker, is an American investor and retired Army officer who founded TAWANI Enterprises and became the first openly transgender billionaire in 2013.

Jenny Campbell

Jenny Campbell, born Jennifer Bernice Campbell in 1961, is a British businesswoman who spent 30 years at NatWest and RBS before buying and selling the ATM operator YourCash.

Jenny Chang

Jenny Chang (陳怡蓁) is a Taiwanese business executive who co-founded the Tokyo-headquartered cybersecurity company Trend Micro in 1988 with her husband Steve Chang and sister Eva Chen.

Jenny Huldschiner

Jenny Elisabeth Huldschiner, born 1971, is a Stockholm-based games-industry executive who co-founded Embark Studios in 2018 with Patrick Söderlund, having been Electronic Arts' European communications chief, and serves on Embark's board.

Jenny Johnson (businesswoman)

Jenny Johnson, born Jennifer M. Johnson, is an American businesswoman who became CEO of Franklin Templeton in 2020 and led its $4.5 billion Legg Mason acquisition.

Jenny Just

Jenny Just is an American businesswoman who co-founded PEAK6 in 1997 with Matt Hulsizer, starting with $1.5 million as an options trading firm and building it into a multibillion-dollar fintech company.

Jenny Lee

Jenny Lee is a Singapore-based venture capitalist, Senior Managing Partner of Granite Asia, known for early bets on Xiaomi, Alibaba, and Didi and a top-10 Forbes Midas List rank.

Jens Grede

Jens Grede is a Swedish-born fashion entrepreneur who co-founded Frame in 2012 and is CEO of SKIMS, the shapewear company he co-founded with Kim Kardashian in 2019.

Jens von Bahr

Jens von Bahr, born in 1971, is a Swedish businessman who co-founded the live-dealer casino supplier Evolution in 2006, led it as chief executive, and has chaired its board since 2016.

JEOL

JEOL Ltd. (日本電子株式会社) is a Japanese manufacturer of scientific and metrology instruments, including electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, and NMR spectrometers, founded in Tokyo in 1949 and headquartered in Akishima.

Jeonsigwa

Jeonsigwa (전시과) was the land-grading system of Korea's Goryeo dynasty, under which the state granted officials and soldiers rent rights from fields and firewood lands in grades, from 976.