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Kerridge Commercial Systems

Kerridge Commercial Systems (KCS) is a British ERP software company based in Hungerford, Berkshire, serving distributors and wholesalers; CapVest bought it in 2023 for over $1 billion.

Kerry Packer

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer (1937–2005) was an Australian media proprietor who controlled the Nine Network, created World Series Cricket, and died as Australia's richest man.

Kerry Stokes

Kerry Matthew Stokes is an Australian media and mining-services businessman who built Seven Group Holdings and chaired Seven West Media, owner of the Seven Network, for 17 years.

Kerry Tyler

Kerry Tyler is an American investment-firm executive, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the hedge fund Lone Pine Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut, which she joined in 1997.

Kerry Wang

Kerry Wang is a venture capitalist who joined Accel as an early-stage partner in 2025, investing in AI, SaaS, and consumer companies after selling her startup Searchlight to Multiverse in 2024.

Keshav Bansal

Keshav Bansal is an Indian technology executive, a director of the electronics maker Intex Technologies and the son of its founder, and the former owner of the IPL's Gujarat Lions.

Keshub Mahindra

Keshub Mahindra (1923–2023) was an Indian industrialist who chaired the Mahindra Group from 1963 to 2012, and was convicted of negligence in the 1984 Bhopal gas leak case.

Kesko

Kesko is a publicly listed Finnish retail group operating grocery, building and technical, and car trade across eight countries, with about 1,700 stores and 2025 net sales of €12,475 million.

Kessel Medical

Kessel Medical, also rendered Kossel Medtech, is a Chinese pan-vascular interventional medical device company founded in 2013 and headquartered in Suzhou, best known for the Octoparms vena cava filter.

Kestra Medical Technologies

Kestra Medical Technologies is a Kirkland, Washington wearable medical device company founded in 2014, known for its FDA-approved ASSURE wearable defibrillator; it went public on Nasdaq in 2025.

Ketan Malkan

Ketan Malkan is an Indian business executive who co-founded Medikabazaar, the Mumbai-based B2B marketplace for medical devices and hospital supplies, in 2015, serving as chief financial officer until 2023.

Ketan Parekh (કેતન પરેખ)

Ketan Parekh (કેતન પરેખ) is a Mumbai stockbroker and chartered accountant who ran the brokerage NH Securities, was the central figure in the 2001 Indian stock market scam, and was convicted in 2014.

Kevan Parekh

Kevan Parekh is a finance executive who became Apple's chief financial officer on January 1, 2025, succeeding Luca Maestri after 11 years at Apple, where he joined in 2013 from Thomson Reuters.

Kevin Bhatt

Kevin Bhatt is a growth-equity investor who has been Managing Partner at Long Ridge Equity Partners since 2010, investing in fintech companies including Drawbridge, Ripjar, and TRUE.

Kevin Bitterman

Kevin Bitterman is an American venture capitalist and partner at Atlas Venture in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who founded biotech companies including Editas Medicine, Morphic Therapeutic, and Visterra.

Kevin Bruner

Kevin Bruner is an American game developer and executive who co-founded Telltale Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead's episodic adventure games, and led it as chief executive from 2015 to 2017.

Kevin Comolli

Kevin Comolli is an American venture capitalist who joined Accel in 2000 as founding partner of its London office, best known for his early Supercell investment.

Kevin Dunlap

Kevin Dunlap is an American venture capitalist and co-founder and managing partner of Calibrate Ventures, a Pasadena, California seed-stage firm backing deep-tech companies in software, AI, and robotics.

Kevin Efrusy

Kevin Efrusy is an American venture capitalist at Accel who sourced the firm's Facebook investment and appeared on the Forbes Midas List from 2011 to 2016.

Kevin Guo

Kevin Guo is a technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Hive AI, a San Francisco artificial-intelligence company he started with Dmitriy Karpman, providing content moderation and AI-detection APIs.

Kevin Harrington (entrepreneur)

Kevin Harrington is an American direct-response TV marketer who began buying overnight airtime in 1984 and was an original Shark on ABC's Shark Tank, 2009 to 2011.

Kevin Harvey (venture capitalist)

Kevin Harvey is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Benchmark Capital in 1995 after selling two software companies, and invested in MySQL, Proofpoint, and Zimbra.

Kevin Hu

Kevin Hu is a digital-asset investor who was a general partner at Dragonfly Capital and is Chief Investment Officer of the Nova Fund at Brevan Howard Digital.

Kevin Li, M.D

Kevin Li, M.D. is a partner at Frazier Life Sciences, promoted in January 2026, who invests in biotechnology companies through the firm's public fund, FLSPF.

Kevin Maxwell

Kevin Maxwell, born in 1959, is a British businessman and son of Robert Maxwell who chaired Maxwell Communication Corporation and Macmillan and was acquitted in 1996 of defrauding the Maxwell pension funds.

Kevin O'Leary

Kevin O'Leary, born Terence O'Leary, is a Canadian businessman and television investor who co-founded SoftKey, sold The Learning Company to Mattel in 1999, and stars as "Mr. Wonderful" on Shark Tank.

Kevin Parker (biotechnology executive)

Kevin Parker is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who co-founded Cartography Biosciences in 2020 with Ansu Satpathy and Howard Chang, and as its chief executive officer has raised over $124 million and partnerships with Gilead and Pfizer.

Kevin Robbins

Kevin Robbins is an American venture capitalist who co-founded Blue Delta Capital Partners in 2009, a growth equity firm focused on US federal government services companies.

Kevin Spain

Kevin Spain is a General Partner at Emergence Capital Partners since 2011, known for leading the firm's investments in Doximity, Blend, and Augmedix, after roles at Electronic Arts and Microsoft.

Kevin Ulrich

Kevin Ulrich is an American investor who co-founded Anchorage Capital Group in New York in 2003, growing it into a leading distressed-debt manager with over $30 billion.