Economics and business

John W. Neal

John W. Neal (1865–1940) was an American businessman who co-founded the Cheek-Neal Coffee Company of Nashville, Tennessee, producer of Maxwell House coffee, sold to Postum in 1928.

John W. Sleeman is a Canadian brewing executive who relaunched the dormant family brewing name in Guelph, Ontario, in 1988 and built Sleeman Breweries into Canada's third-largest brewer, selling it to Japan's Sapporo in 2006.

John Walecka

John Walecka is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Redpoint Ventures in 1999, backed companies including Fortinet and Snowflake, and made nine Forbes Midas List appearances.

John Y. Campbell

John Y. Campbell is a Harvard economics professor who co-founded Arrowstreet Capital, a Boston-based quantitative asset manager, in 1999, and is known for the Campbell-Shiller decomposition of stock returns.

John Zhao

John Zhao, also known as Zhao Linghuan, is a Chinese private-equity investor who founded Beijing-based Hony Capital in 2003, backed by Legend Holdings, focusing on state-owned enterprise restructuring.

John Zhong

Zhong Peifeng (钟培峰), also known as John Zhong, is a Chinese-American semiconductor executive, born in 1963, who founded the Shanghai chip designer Amlogic in 2003 and serves as its chairman.

Johnny Ho

Johnny Ho is an American technology executive, cofounder and chief strategy officer of the San Francisco artificial-intelligence answer engine Perplexity, which he cofounded in 2022.

Johnny Morris (retail entrepreneur)

Johnny Morris is an American retail entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Bass Pro Shops, which he started in 1972 from his father's liquor store in Springfield, Missouri.

Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins (1795–1873) was an American Quaker merchant and banker of Baltimore whose $7 million bequest, the largest in US history at the time, founded Johns Hopkins University and Hospital.

Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls is an Irish-domiciled industrial company, founded in Wisconsin in 1885 to make automatic temperature regulators, now focused on commercial HVAC, building controls, security, and fire systems.

Johnson Matthey

Johnson Matthey is a British chemicals company centered on platinum group metals refining, recycling, and emission-control catalysts, with a PGM heritage spanning over 200 years.

Joincare Pharmaceutical Group (健康元)

Joincare Pharmaceutical Group (健康元) is a Chinese pharmaceutical company headquartered in Shenzhen, founded in 1992 and controlled by Zhu Baoguo, listed in Shanghai since 2001.

JOINN Biologics (昭衍生物) (Zhaoyan Biologics)

JOINN Biologics (昭衍生物, Zhaoyan Biologics) is a Chinese biologics contract development and manufacturing organization founded in 2018, headquartered in Beijing with US operations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

JOINN Laboratories (昭衍新药)

JOINN Laboratories (昭衍新药) is a Chinese preclinical contract research organization founded in Beijing in 1995, and by 2019 revenue it was China's largest CRO in non-clinical drug safety evaluation.

Joint audit

A joint audit is a statutory audit performed by two or more independent audit firms that sign a single report, mandatory for listed companies in France.

Joint cost

A joint cost is the cost of a single production process yielding multiple products simultaneously, like refining crude oil or splitting raw milk into cream and skim milk.

Joint venture

A joint venture (JV), also called a temporary partnership, is a business arrangement where two or more independent entities share capital, control, and profits for a project.

Joint-stock company

A joint-stock company, also called a stock corporation, is a company whose capital is divided into transferable shares held only by its shareholders, a form traced to early 17th-century maritime trading companies.

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group

Jointown Pharmaceutical Group (九州通) is China's largest privately owned pharmaceutical distributor, a Wuhan company founded by Liu Baolin in 1999 and listed in Shanghai since 2010.

JollyChic (Zhiyu Information)

JollyChic, legally Jolly Information Technology Co Ltd (执御信息), was a Hangzhou cross-border e-commerce company founded in 2012, selling Chinese goods into Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.

Jon A. Woodruff

Jon A. Woodruff is an American investment banker who began at Salomon Brothers in 1986 and spent 25 years at Goldman Sachs, coheading its global technology department.

Jon Burton

Jon Burton is a British video game developer who co-founded Traveller's Tales in 1989, built it into the LEGO game maker TT Games, and sold it to Warner Bros. in 2007.

Jon McAuliffe

Jon McAuliffe is a statistician and investor, co-founder and Co-Chief Investment Officer of The Voleon Group, a machine-learning quantitative hedge fund founded in 2007, and an adjunct statistics professor at UC Berkeley.

Jon Meade Huntsman Sr.

Jon Meade Huntsman Sr. (1937–2018) was an American chemical-industry entrepreneur and philanthropist who built Huntsman Corporation into the world's largest privately held chemical company and gave away more than $1.4 billion.

Jonah Peretti

Jonah Peretti is an internet entrepreneur known for theories of online virality who co-founded The Huffington Post in 2005 and BuzzFeed in 2006, and became President of BuzzFeed AI in 2026.

Jonas Rieke

Jonas Rieke is a business graduate who co-founded Personio, the Munich-based HR software company for small and mid-sized businesses, and has served as its Chief Operations Officer since June 2016.

Jonas Ruyter

Jonas Ruyter (born 1991) is a Dutch entrepreneur who co-founded DataSnipper, an Amsterdam-based audit automation software company, in 2017 with Maarten Alblas and Kai Bakker.

Jonathan Andic

Jonathan Andic, full name Jonathan Andic Raig, is a Spanish businessman, eldest son of Mango founder Isak Andic, who led Mango Man and became vice-chairman in 2025.

Jonathan Bush

Jonathan Bush is an American healthcare-technology entrepreneur who co-founded athenahealth in 1997, was ousted as CEO in 2018, founded Zus Health, and entered Maine's 2025 governor's race.