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Keith Barish

Keith Barish is an American film producer and businessman who co-founded Planet Hollywood with Robert Earl in 1991, chairing it until 1998, and produced Sophie's Choice and The Fugitive.

Keith Crandell

Keith Crandell is a co-founder and Managing Director of ARCH Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that builds companies around life science therapeutics, tools, and diagnostics.

Keith G. Cramer

Keith G. Cramer was a Florida restaurateur who, with partner Matthew Burns, founded Insta-Burger King in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953, the direct precursor of Burger King.

Keith Gill

Keith Patrick Gill, known online as Roaring Kitty, is an American investor and former MassMutual educator who sparked the January 2021 GameStop short squeeze.

Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois is a technology executive and venture capitalist, a managing director at Khosla Ventures who held senior roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square and co-founded Opendoor.

Keith Wong

Keith Wong is a Singaporean businessman who co-founded the footwear brand Charles & Keith with his brother Charles in 1996 and serves as its chief operating officer.

Keiyo Bank

Keiyo Bank, Ltd. is an independent, Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime-listed commercial bank headquartered in Chiba City, Japan, serving about 1.8 million retail and small-business customers across Chiba Prefecture.

Keld van Schreven

Keld van Schreven is a British technology entrepreneur and investor who co-founded KR1 plc, a digital asset company listed in London, in March 2016, and serves as its Managing Director.

Kellanova

Kellanova was the snacks-led food company created in October 2023 when Kellogg Company split its snacking and cereal businesses, headquartered in Chicago and acquired by Mars in 2025.

Keller Williams Realty

Keller Williams Realty is an American residential real estate franchise company founded in Austin, Texas, in 1983, and the largest US real estate franchise by agent count.

Kellogg School of Management

The Kellogg School of Management is Northwestern University's graduate business school, offering full-time, one-year, and joint-degree MBA programs and known for a team-based, marketing-rooted management culture.

Kelly Chen (investor)

Kelly Chen is a China-born, San Francisco-based venture capitalist who was a Partner at DCVC and a founding partner of the NATO Innovation Fund, backed by 24 nations.

Kelly Granat

Kelly Granat is an investor who was co-CIO of Lone Pine Capital, a Greenwich, Connecticut hedge fund, joining in 2007 and leaving in 2026 for Atreides Management.

Kelly Ortberg

Kelly Ortberg, also known as Robert K. Ortberg, is an American aerospace executive who became president and CEO of Boeing in August 2024 after leading Rockwell Collins.

Kelso & Company

Kelso & Company is a partner-owned, New York-based middle-market private equity firm founded in 1971 by Louis Kelso, the inventor of the Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Kelun-Biotech (科伦博泰)

Kelun-Biotech (科伦博泰), formally Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd., is a Chengdu-based biopharmaceutical company focused on antibody–drug conjugates, founded in 2016 and listed in Hong Kong since 2023.

Kelvin Teo

Kelvin Teo is a Singapore-based fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and Group CEO of Funding Societies | Modalku, an SME digital financing platform operating across Southeast Asia since 2015.

Kelvin Wong

Kelvin Wong is a Singaporean co-owner of Charles & Keith, the homegrown women's footwear and accessories label, where he heads bag design and technology as the youngest of three brothers.

Kemei Diagnostic (科美诊断)

Kemei Diagnostic (科美诊断), also known as Chemclin Diagnostics, is a Beijing-based in vitro diagnostics company specializing in chemiluminescence immunoassay, founded in 1999 and listed on Shanghai's STAR Market since 2021.

Kemei Diagnostics (Beijing Kemei Biotechnology)

Kemei Diagnostics, also known as Chemclin Diagnostics, is a Chinese in vitro diagnostics company in Beijing, founded in 1999, that makes chemiluminescence immunoassay reagents and analyzers.

Kemei Diagnostics (科美诊断)

Kemei Diagnostics, also known as Chemclin Diagnostics Co., is a Chinese in vitro diagnostics company headquartered in Beijing that makes chemiluminescence immunoassay reagents and instruments, listed on the STAR Market since 2021.

KemPharm

KemPharm, Inc. was a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Celebration, Florida, that developed prodrugs for ADHD and rare diseases; it was renamed Zevra Therapeutics in 2023.

Kempinski

Kempinski Hotels S.A. is a privately held European luxury hotel group founded in 1897 and headquartered in Geneva; in 2024 it operated 82 hotels in 34 countries, making it Europe's oldest luxury hotel brand.

Ken Chu

Ken Chu (Chu Ding-kai, 朱鼎健) is a Hong Kong-born businessman who took over Mission Hills Group, the world's largest golf resort operator, on his father's death in 2011.

Ken Elefant

Ken Elefant is an American venture capital investor who co-founded and leads Sorenson Ventures, formed in 2017, after earlier roles at Intel Capital, Opus Capital, Lightspeed, and Battery Ventures.

Ken Goldin

Ken Goldin is an American sports memorabilia and trading-card dealer who founded Goldin Auctions in 2012, sold over $2 billion in memorabilia, and stars in Netflix's King of Collectibles (2023).

Ken Howery

Ken Howery (Kenneth A. Howery) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded PayPal and Founders Fund and served as US Ambassador to Sweden and Denmark.

Ken Kinzler

Kenneth W. Kinzler is an American cancer geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who co-invented digital PCR, pioneered liquid biopsy methods, and co-founded Haystack Oncology with Bert Vogelstein.

Ken Kutaragi

Ken Kutaragi (久多良木健) is a Japanese engineer and former Sony executive known as the "Father of the PlayStation", who led Sony Computer Entertainment before retiring in 2007.

Ken Levy

Ken Levy is an American semiconductor entrepreneur who co-founded KLA Instruments, the Silicon Valley leader in automated chip inspection, and led it as chief executive for about 25 years.