Founders
Company Founders
746 founder profiles — backgrounds, founding stories, and legacy.
72 local businessmen of Santander
Banco Santander, S.A.
Émile Pereire
BNP Paribas SA
Aaron Burr
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Aaron Swartz
Reddit, Inc.
Abraham Anderson
Campbell Soup Company
Adam Neumann
WeWork Inc.
Adelbert Delbrück
Deutsche Bank AG
Adolf Dassler
Adidas AG
Adolph Coors
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Adolph Godeffroy
Hapag-Lloyd AG
Adolph Zukor
Paramount Global
Adolphus Green
Mondelez International, Inc.
Adrian Dalsey
DHL Group
Akio Morita
Sony Group Corp.
Akira Murata
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Al Avery
Equinix, Inc.
Al Copeland
Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Alan Shugart
Seagate Technology Holdings plc
Albert Butz
Honeywell International Inc.
Alexander Graham Bell
AT&T Inc.
Alexander Karp
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Alexander Y. Malcomson
Ford Motor Company
Alexis Lê-Quôc
Datadog, Inc.
Alexis Ohanian
Reddit, Inc.
Alfredo Egydio Arruda Botelho and Mário Wallace Simonsen
Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A.
Alice Sheets Marriott
Marriott International
Allen Adham
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Alva Kinney
Conagra Brands, Inc.
Alvin B. Phillips
Western Digital Corporation
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Bank of America Corporation
Amancio Ortega
Inditex, S.A.
Amory Houghton Sr.
Corning Incorporated
Andrew McCollum
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Andrew Viterbi
Qualcomm Inc.
Andy Fang
DoorDash, Inc.
Aneel Bhusri
Workday, Inc.
Antonio Swad
Wingstop Inc.
Arash Ferdowsi
Dropbox, Inc.
Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay
NatWest Group plc
Arnold Peter Møller
A.P. Moller - Maersk
Arthur Andersen Consulting Partners
Accenture PLC
Arthur B. Modine
Modine Manufacturing Company
Arthur Banker
CBRE Group, Inc.
Arthur Blank
The Home Depot, Inc.
Arthur del Prado (ASMI founder and ASML co-founder)
ASML Holding NV
Arthur F. Hall
Lincoln National Corporation
Arthur Guinness
Diageo plc
Arthur J. Schmitt
Amphenol Corporation
Arthur Taubman
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
Asa Griggs Candler
The Coca-Cola Company
Asa Griggs Candler
The Coca-Cola Company
Ashok Arora
Infosys Limited
Assar Gabrielsson
Volvo Car AB, AB Volvo
Astra AB Consortium
AstraZeneca PLC
Aubrey Pilgrim
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
August Horch
Audi AG
August Kuehne
Kuehne+Nagel International AG
Austin Ligon
CarMax, Inc.
B. Wayne Hughes
Public Storage
Baiju Bhatt
Robinhood Markets, Inc.
Banco de Bilbao Founders
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.
Bank of America
Visa Inc.
Bank of Toronto Founders (1855)
The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Barbara Novick
BlackRock, Inc.
Barney Dubinsky
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.
Barney Kroger
The Kroger Co.
Barry Babcock
Charter Communications
Ben Golub
BlackRock, Inc.
Ben Huston
Carvana Co.
Benjamin Holt
Caterpillar Inc.
Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Inc.
Beom-soo Kim
Kakao Corp.
Bernard Arnault
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE
Bernard Cammarata
The TJX Companies, Inc.
Bernard Tse
Lucid Group, Inc.
Bernie Marcus
The Home Depot, Inc.
Bill Amos
Aflac Incorporated
Bill Bowerman
NIKE, Inc.
Bill Gates
Microsoft Corporation
Bill Stiritz
Post Holdings, Inc.
Biz Stone
X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Bobby Murphy
Snap Inc
Bow Ruggeri
ServiceNow, Inc.
Brad Jacobs
XPO, Inc.
Brian Armstrong
Coinbase Global
Brian Chesky
Airbnb, Inc.
Brian Halligan
HubSpot, Inc.
C. David Molina
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
C. Norman Winningstad
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
Cadwallader C. Washburn
General Mills, Inc.
Cal Turner Sr.
Dollar General Corporation
Carl Buchan
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Carl von Thieme
Allianz SE
Carl Wallin
Nordstrom, Inc.
Carlos Tavares
Stellantis N.V.
Carlyle Fraser
Genuine Parts Company
Cecil H. Green
Texas Instruments Inc.
Charles A. McKesson
McKesson Corporation
Charles Albert Coffin
General Electric Company
Charles D. Dickey
Morgan Stanley
Charles Dolan
AMC Networks Inc.
Charles Erhart
Pfizer Inc.
Charles F. O'Reilly
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.
Charles Geschke
Adobe Inc.
Charles H. O'Reilly
O'Reilly Automotive, Inc.
Charles Henry Robinson
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
Charles Lachman
Revlon, Inc.
Charles Le Bègue de Germiny
BNP Paribas SA
Charles Page
Nestlé SA
Charles Pfizer
Pfizer Inc.
Charles R. Lee
Verizon Communications Inc.
Charles R. Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation
Charles R. Walgreen Sr.
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Charles Ranlett Flint
International Business Machines Corporation
Charles Revson
Revlon, Inc.
Charles S. Davis
BorgWarner Inc.
Charles T. Hollabird
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.
Charles Taubman
Advance Auto Parts, Inc.
Charles Trimble
Trimble Inc.
Charlie Morrison
Wingstop Inc.
Chris Hughes
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Chris Maguire
Etsy, Inc.
Chris Malachowsky
NVIDIA Corporation
Chris Sorensen
Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Chung Ju-yung
Hyundai Motor Company, SK Hynix Inc.
Claude Bébéar
AXA SA
Claude Ryan
United Parcel Service, Inc.
Clessie Lyle Cummins
Cummins Inc.
Clinton F. Bristol
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Colbert Coldwell
CBRE Group, Inc.
Collett Everman Woolman
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Colonel Eli Lilly
Eli Lilly and Company
Colonel Jacob Schick (Historical Brand Founder)
Edgewell Personal Care Company
Conrad Nicholson Hilton
Hilton Worldwide Holdings
Conrad Schlumberger
SLB Limited
Consortium of Founding Banks
Mastercard Incorporated
Cristina Helena Zingaretti Junqueira
Nu Holdings Ltd.
Curtis Priem
NVIDIA Corporation
Cyrus Rowlett Smith
American Airlines Group
D.G. Scofield
Chevron Corporation
Dan Drake
Autodesk, Inc.
Dan Macklin
SoFi Technologies, Inc.
Daniel Best
Caterpillar Inc.
Daniel Ek
Spotify Technology S.A.
Daniel Katz
A24 Films, LLC
Daniel Tellep
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Daniel Vasella
Novartis AG
Daniel Weinand
Shopify Inc.
Danny Meyer
Shake Shack Inc.
Dave Duffield
Workday, Inc.
David A. Jones Jr.
Humana Inc.
David Baszucki
Roblox Corporation
David Fenkel
A24 Films, LLC
David Habben
Flexport, Inc.
David Loo
ServiceNow, Inc.
David Margolese
Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
David Schlessinger
Five Below, Inc.
David Vélez Osorno
Nu Holdings Ltd.
Debra A. Cafaro
Ventas, Inc.
Dee Hock
Visa Inc.
Derrick Rossi
Moderna, Inc.
Dharmesh Shah
HubSpot, Inc.
Dhirubhai Ambani
Reliance Industries Limited
Dietmar Hopp
SAP SE
Dmitri Alperovitch
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
Dmitriy Zaporozhets
GitLab Inc.
Dominion Bank Founders (1869)
The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Don Goodliffe
ServiceNow, Inc.
Don Weston
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
Donald Fisher
Gap, Inc.
Donald Flynn
LKQ Corporation
Donald M. Kendall
PepsiCo, Inc.
Doris F. Fisher
Gap, Inc.
Doug Pitman
Micron Technology, Inc.
Dr. Austin Church
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
Dr. Christoph Huber
BioNTech SE
Dr. Paul A. Brown
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated
Dr. Seiuemon Inaba
Fanuc Corporation
Dr. Thomas Frist Jr.
HCA Healthcare, Inc.
Dr. Thomas Frist Sr.
HCA Healthcare, Inc.
Dr. W. Gill Wylie
Duke Energy Corporation
Dr. Yogoro Kato
TDK Corporation
Drew Houston
Dropbox, Inc.
Duncan Stirling
NatWest Group plc
Dustin Moskovitz
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Dwight Merriman
MongoDB, Inc.
Earl Congdon
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
Eduard Crüsemann
Hapag-Lloyd AG
Eduardo Saverin
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Edward A. Oates
Oracle Corporation
Edward C. Hutcheson Jr.
Crown Castle International Corp.
Edward C. Johnson II
Fidelity Investments
Edward Dobkin
American Tower Corporation
Edward Dubinsky
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.
Edward H. Rollins
Principal Financial Group, Inc.
Edward L. Kaplan
Zebra Technologies Corporation
Edward Lybrand
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Edward Mead Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
Edward Robinson Squibb
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
Edward Ross
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Edward Wible
Nu Holdings Ltd.
Edwin Turney
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Elias Fife
Standard Motor Products, Inc.
Eliot Horowitz
MongoDB, Inc.
Eliphalet Terry
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Elliot Handler
Mattel, Inc.
Elon Musk
OpenAI, SpaceX, Tesla, Inc.
Emilio Botín y López
Banco Santander, S.A.
Endel Phillips
PVH Corp.
Energizer Holdings (Corporate Spin-off)
Edgewell Personal Care Company
Energizer Holdings, Inc. (via spin-off)
Edgewell Personal Care Company
Eric Yuan
Zoom Video Communications
Erik Cassel
Roblox Corporation
Erle P. Halliburton
Halliburton Company
Erling Persson
H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB
Ernest Garcia III
Carvana Co.
Ernest Mercier
TotalEnergies SE
Estée Lauder
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Eugene A. Cook
The Southern Company
Eugene Markel
Markel Corporation
Eugène Schueller
L'Oréal SA
Evan Spiegel
Snap Inc
Evan Williams
X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Ezra Cornell
The Western Union Company
Fakir Chand Kohli
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Ferdinand Porsche
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Fernand Renault
Renault S.A.
Ferruccio Lamborghini
Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
Ferry Porsche
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
Finis Conner
Seagate Technology Holdings plc
Ford Motor Company
Visteon Corporation
Founding Physicians of Standard Homeopathic Medicine Company
Assurant, Inc.
FPL Group Corporate Restructuring
NextEra Energy, Inc.
Francisco D'Souza
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
François Coty
Coty Inc.
François Pinault
Kering SA
Frank A. Shattuck
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Frank and Dan Carney
Yum! Brands, Inc.
Frank Giustra
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.
Frank Little
Conagra Brands, Inc.
Frank Phillips
Phillips 66
Fred Bauer
Gentex Corporation
Fred Ehrsam
Coinbase Global
Fred Luddy
ServiceNow, Inc.
Frederick Rentschler
RTX Corporation
Frederick Taylor
Chevron Corporation
Frederick W. Smith
FedEx Corporation
Friedrich Bayer
Bayer AG
Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
Furukawa Zaibatsu
Fujitsu Limited
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
Chanel S.A.
Gardiner Greene Hubbard
AT&T Inc.
Garrett Camp
Uber Technologies, Inc.
Gary A. Moore
Prologis, Inc.
Gary Burrell
Garmin Ltd.
George A. Hormel
Hormel Foods Corporation
George Archer
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
George B. Rathmann
Amgen Inc.
George Conrad Westervelt
The Boeing Company
George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
George Dayton
Target Corporation
George Garvin Brown
Brown-Forman Corporation
George Kurtz
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
George Merck
Merck & Co., Inc.
George Shaheen
Accenture PLC
George Touche
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
George W. Borg
BorgWarner Inc.
Georges Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier SAS
Gerard Adriaan Heineken
Heineken N.V.
German Labour Front
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
Getúlio Vargas
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
Glen Bell
Yum! Brands, Inc.
Gordon Bowker
Starbucks Corporation
Gordon Moore
Intel Corporation
Goro Yoshida
Canon Inc.
Gottlieb Daimler
Daimler Truck Holding AG, Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Government of Norway (Storting)
Equinor ASA
Graeme Ferguson
IMAX Corporation
Graham Stanton
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
Grand Metropolitan Board
Diageo plc
Greg Brockman
OpenAI
Gregg Marston
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.
Gustaf Larson
Volvo Car AB, AB Volvo
Gustav Otto
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
H. J. Heinz
The Kraft Heinz Company
H.J. Lamb
Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc.
Haim Schoppik
Etsy, Inc.
Hamid R. Moghadam
Prologis, Inc.
Hans Christian Hagedorn
Novo Nordisk A/S
Harald Pedersen
Novo Nordisk A/S
Harland Sanders
Yum! Brands, Inc.
Harold Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Harry Schiff
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
Harry Warner
Warner Bros. Discovery
Hartford Investors (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company)
The Cigna Group
Hasmukhbhai Parekh
HDFC Bank Limited
Hasso Plattner
SAP SE
Heinrich Nagel
Kuehne+Nagel International AG
Henri Deterding
Shell plc
Henri Nestlé
Nestlé SA
Henri Ziegler
Airbus SE
Henrique Lage
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
Henry Hassenfeld
Hasbro, Inc.
Henry Nicholas III
Broadcom Inc.
Henry S. Morgan
Morgan Stanley
Henry S. Terry
MetLife, Inc.
Henry Samueli
Broadcom Inc.
Henry Wells
American Express Company, Wells Fargo & Company
Herb Kelleher
Southwest Airlines
Herbert Simon
Simon Property Group, Inc.
Herman W. Lay
PepsiCo, Inc.
Hermann Henrich Meier
Hapag-Lloyd AG
Hiram Sibley
The Western Union Company
Hisao Kushi
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
Hisashige Tanaka
Toshiba Corporation
Hitoshi Yanai
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
Hoshiar Singh
HCL Technologies Limited
Hospital Corporation of Indiana Organizers
Elevance Health, Inc.
Howard R. Hughes Sr.
Baker Hughes Company
Howard Wood
Charter Communications
Hugh Frater
BlackRock, Inc.
Hugh Panero
Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
Ian Brady
SoFi Technologies, Inc.
Ian Wright
Tesla, Inc.
Ichisuke Fujioka
Toshiba Corporation
Ilya Sutskever
OpenAI
Indiana Hospital Service Directors
Elevance Health, Inc.
Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
ICICI Bank Limited
Ingvar Kamprad
IKEA Group (INGKA Holding B.V.)
Interbank Card Association
Mastercard Incorporated
Irene Rosenfeld
Mondelez International, Inc.
Irene Werner
Werner Enterprises, Inc.
Irwin Jacobs
Qualcomm Inc.
Isaac Carasso
Danone S.A.
Isaac Pereire
BNP Paribas SA
Ivan Seidenberg
Verizon Communications Inc.
J. Michael Pearson
Bausch Health Companies Inc.
J. Perry Smith
Dollar Tree, Inc.
J. Willard Marriott
Marriott International
Jack C. Massey
HCA Healthcare, Inc.
Jack Dorsey
Block Inc, X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Jack Green
The Progressive Corporation
Jack Ma (Ma Yun)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Jack Northrop
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jack Schiff
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
Jacques Saadé
CMA CGM S.A.
Jacques-Théodore le Carpentier
AXA SA
Jae-won Lee
Kakao Corp.
James A. Gatton
Landstar System, Inc.
James Bowen Ramsey
Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc.
James Buchanan Duke
Duke Energy Corporation
James D. Sinegal
Costco Wholesale Corporation
James Daugherty
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
James E. Casey
United Parcel Service, Inc.
James Finnigan
SoFi Technologies, Inc.
James G. Batterson
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
James Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company, Procter & Gamble Co.
James L. Kraft
The Kraft Heinz Company
James Luther Turner
Dollar General Corporation
James McLamore and David Edgerton
Restaurant Brands International Inc.
James O. McKinsey
McKinsey & Company
James Powell
Labcorp Holdings Inc.
James Schiff
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
James Wood Johnson
Johnson & Johnson
Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
Tata Motors Limited
Jan Den Hoorn (Historical)
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Jared Tarbell
Etsy, Inc.
Jason Citron
Discord Inc.
Jay Adelson
Equinix, Inc.
Jay Chaudhry
Zscaler, Inc.
JB Straubel
Tesla, Inc.
Jean Madar
Interparfums, Inc.
Jean-François Dehecq
Sanofi S.A.
Jeff Lawson
Twilio Inc.
Jeffrey Barbakow
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Jeffrey H. Brotman
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Amazon.com, Inc.
Jensen Huang
NVIDIA Corporation
Jerald Kent
Charter Communications
Jerry Baldwin
Starbucks Corporation
Jerry Moyes
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.
Jerry Sanders
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Jesse L. Lasky
Paramount Global
Jim Levy
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Jim McKelvey
Block Inc
Joe Gebbia
Airbnb, Inc.
Joe Lonsdale
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Joe Tsai (Tsai Chung-hsin)
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Johann Friedrich Weskott
Bayer AG
Johann Georg Halske
Siemens AG
Johann Peter Gottlieb Bunge
Bunge Global SA
John A. Kimberly
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
John A. Poor
Unum Group
John Amos
Aflac Incorporated
John C. Bogle
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
John Collison
Stripe, Inc.
John Crosby
General Mills, Inc.
John D. Rockefeller
ExxonMobil Corporation
John Deere
Deere & Company
John Dwan
3M Company
John Dwight
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
John Elkann
Stellantis N.V.
John F. Baugh
Sysco Corporation
John Fairfield Dryden
Prudential Financial Inc.
John Foley
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
John Freame
Barclays PLC
John G. Williams
Valero Energy Corporation
John Harvey Kellogg
Kellanova
John Hendricks
Warner Bros. Discovery
John Hodges
A24 Films, LLC
John Molson
Molson Coors Beverage Company
John Pierpont Morgan
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
John Stith Pemberton
The Coca-Cola Company
John Stith Pemberton
The Coca-Cola Company
John Taylor
Lloyds Banking Group plc
John W. Daniels
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
John W. Nordstrom
Nordstrom, Inc.
John W. Stanton
T-Mobile US, Inc.
John W. Tyson
Tyson Foods, Inc.
John Walker
Autodesk, Inc.
John Warnock
Adobe Inc.
John Warren Butterfield
American Express Company
John Wolthuis
Twilio Inc.
John Zimmer
Lyft Inc
Johnnie Bryan Hunt, Sr.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Jorge Paulo Lemann (Modern Architect)
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
Joseph A. Campbell
Campbell Soup Company
Joseph Lauder
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Joseph Lewis
The Progressive Corporation
Joseph Nathan
GlaxoSmithKline plc
Joseph Revson
Revlon, Inc.
Josh Oppenheimer
Remitly Global, Inc.
Joshua Boger
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
JRD Tata
Tata Motors Limited
K. Dinesh
Infosys Limited
Kailash Kailash
Zscaler, Inc.
Karl Benz
Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Karl Rapp
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
Ken Murray
Biogen Inc.
Ken Xie
Fortinet, Inc.
Kenji Kawai
TDK Corporation
Kenneth Chien
Moderna, Inc.
Kenneth Volk Jr.
Public Storage
Kenneth Woolley
Extra Space Storage Inc.
Kent J. Thiry
DaVita Inc.
Kevin Clark
Aptiv PLC
Kevin Knight
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc.
Kevin Ryan
MongoDB, Inc.
Kiichiro Toyoda
Toyota Motor Corporation
Kim Chul-ho
Kia Corporation
King Abdulaziz Al Saud
Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Kirk Kerkorian
MGM Resorts International
Klaus Werner
Werner Enterprises, Inc.
Kristo Käärmann
Wise plc
Kumar Mahadeva
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
Kunihiko Iwadare
NEC Corporation
Lachlan Murdoch
Fox Corporation
Lakshmi Narayanan
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation
Larry Fink
BlackRock, Inc.
Larry Hillblom
DHL Group
Larry Page
Alphabet Inc.
Laurence Marshall
Raytheon Technologies Corp., RTX Corporation
Lawrence Joseph Ellison
Oracle Corporation
Lee Byung-chul
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Lee Hae-jin
Naver Corporation
Lee Holloway
Cloudflare, Inc.
Lee Raymond
ExxonMobil Corporation
Lee Roy Mitchell
Cinemark Holdings, Inc.
Lei Jun
Xiaomi Corp.
Leonard Bosack
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Leonard S. Schleifer, M.D., Ph.D.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Leroy Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Liang Rubo
ByteDance Ltd., TikTok
Lihong Qin
NIO Inc.
Lillian Cahn
Tapestry, Inc.
Lillian Congdon
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc.
Lin Bin
Xiaomi Corp.
Logan Green
Lyft Inc
Lonnie 'Bo' Pilgrim
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation
Louis Renault
Renault S.A.
Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Malletier SAS
Lowry Mays
iHeartMedia, Inc.
Lucius Ordway
3M Company
Lucius Smith Lowe
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Luis von Ahn
Duolingo, Inc.
M. Kent Wories
Trimble Inc.
Macon Brock
Dollar Tree, Inc.
Malcolm Fraser
Genuine Parts Company
Malcolm Wilson
GXO Logistics, Inc.
Marc Randolph
Netflix, Inc.
Marc Russell Benioff
Salesforce, Inc.
Marc Tarpenning
Tesla, Inc.
Marcel Ospel
UBS Group AG
Marcel Renault
Renault S.A.
Marcel Schlumberger
SLB Limited
Marcin Żukowski
Snowflake Inc.
Marcus Goldman
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Marcus Samuel Jr.
Shell plc
Mark C. Honeywell
Honeywell International Inc.
Mark Rosati
Shake Shack Inc.
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Markus U. Diethelm
Novartis AG
Martin Daum
Daimler Truck Holding AG
Martin Eberhard
Tesla, Inc.
Martin Lorentzon
Spotify Technology S.A.
Marvin Bower
McKinsey & Company
Marvin Sands
Constellation Brands, Inc.
Masaru Ibuka
Sony Group Corp.
Masayoshi Son
SoftBank Group Corp.
Matthew Oppenheimer
Remitly Global, Inc.
Matthew Prince
Cloudflare, Inc.
Maurice James McDonald
McDonald's Corporation
Max Levchin
Affirm Holdings, Inc., PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Maxwell Kohl
Kohl's Corporation
Melvin Simon
Simon Property Group, Inc.
Merchants Bank of Halifax Founders
Royal Bank of Canada
Michael Day
Chewy, Inc.
Michael Dell
Dell Technologies Inc.
Michael L. Riordan
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Michael Neidorff
Centene Corporation
Michael Xie
Fortinet, Inc.
Michelle Zatlyn
Cloudflare, Inc.
Miguel McKelvey
WeWork Inc.
Mike Cagney
SoFi Technologies, Inc.
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Atlassian Corporation Plc
Mike Ford
Autodesk, Inc.
Mike Payne
PTC Inc.
Miles Cahn
Tapestry, Inc.
Milton S. Hershey
The Hershey Company
Min H. Kao
Garmin Ltd.
Mohamed Hasham Premji
Wipro Limited
Monroe Milstein
Burlington Stores, Inc.
Morris Chang
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Morris Dubinsky
AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc.
Moses Phillips
PVH Corp.
Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector
ON Semiconductor Corporation
Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries Limited
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Infosys Limited
N. S. Raghavan
Infosys Limited
Namihei Odaira
Hitachi, Ltd.
Nandan Nilekani
Infosys Limited
Nathan Blecharczyk
Airbnb, Inc.
Nathaniel C. Deering
Unum Group
Nationale-Nederlanden and NMB Postbank Merger Committee
ING Group N.V.
Niklas Adalberth
Klarna Group plc
Nir Zuk
Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
Niraj S. Shah
Wayfair Inc.
Noah Glass
X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Norman Augustine
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Norman B. Larsen
WD-40 Company
North Carolina Natural Gas
Dominion Energy, Inc.
Noubar Afeyan
Moderna, Inc.
Ole Kirk Christiansen
The LEGO Group
Oliver Chace
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Olivier Pomel
Datadog, Inc.
Oral Roberts
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Orlando McLean Scott
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company
Pantas Sutardja
Marvell Technology, Inc.
Parker Harris
Salesforce, Inc.
Pat Farrah
The Home Depot, Inc.
Patrick Casey
ServiceNow, Inc.
Patrick Collison
Stripe, Inc.
Patrick E. Haggerty
Texas Instruments Inc.
Paul Allen
Microsoft Corporation
Paul Amos
Aflac Incorporated
Paul E. James
Realty Income Corporation
Paul Pigott
PACCAR Inc
PECO Energy Company and Commonwealth Edison
Exelon Corporation
Peter Mærsk Møller
A.P. Moller - Maersk
Peter Thiel
Palantir Technologies Inc., PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Phil Knight
NIKE, Inc.
Philadelphia Merchants (Insurance Company of North America)
The Cigna Group
Philip Futterer
The Southern Company
Philippe Benacin
Interparfums, Inc.
Philips Electronics (institutional founder)
ASML Holding NV
Pierre Omidyar
eBay Inc.
Pitt Hyde Jr.
AutoZone, Inc.
Prof. Ozlem Tureci, M.D.
BioNTech SE
Prof. Ugur Sahin, M.D.
BioNTech SE
R. Calvin Burns
Trimble Inc.
Rahul Sud
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
Ralph Hoagland
CVS Health Corp.
Ralph J. Roberts
Comcast Corporation
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Ralph Schlosstein
BlackRock, Inc.
Ralph Van Allen
Standard Motor Products, Inc.
Ray Capece
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
Ray Dolby
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Ray Kroc
McDonald's Corporation
Rebekah Neumann
WeWork Inc.
Red McCombs
iHeartMedia, Inc.
Reed Hastings
Netflix, Inc.
Ren Zhengfei
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
René Sautier
Sanofi S.A.
Reuben C. Baker
Baker Hughes Company
Richard A. Gonzalez
AbbVie Inc.
Richard J. Blumberg
Prologis, Inc.
Richard James McDonald
McDonald's Corporation
Richard L. Sharp
CarMax, Inc.
Richard T. Burke
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
Robert "RJ" Scaringe
Rivian Automotive
Robert D. Walter
Cardinal Health, Inc.
Robert F. Gower
Valero Energy Corporation
Robert Kalin
Etsy, Inc.
Robert Langer
Moderna, Inc.
Robert Lurie
Welltower Inc.
Robert Lynn
DHL Group
Robert Nimrod Miner
Oracle Corporation
Robert Noyce
Intel Corporation
Robert S. Kapito
BlackRock, Inc.
Robert Wood Johnson I
Johnson & Johnson
Robin Saxby
Arm Holdings
Roche Holdings
Labcorp Holdings Inc.
Roger Béteille
Airbus SE
Rollin King
Southwest Airlines
Ron Brill
The Home Depot, Inc.
Ron Joyce
Restaurant Brands International Inc.
Ronald M. Lombardi
Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc.
Ronald Wayne
Apple Inc.
Rosalía Mera
Inditex, S.A.
Rowland Hussey Macy
Macy's, Inc.
Roy O. Disney
The Walt Disney Company
Rudolf Dassler
Adidas AG
Rupert Murdoch
Fox Corporation
Ruth Handler
Mattel, Inc.
Ryan Cohen
Chewy, Inc.
Ryan Keeton
Carvana Co.
Ryan Petersen
Flexport, Inc.
S. D. Shibulal
Infosys Limited
S. Gopalakrishnan
Infosys Limited
Sakichi Toyoda
Toyota Motor Corporation
Sam Altman
OpenAI
Sam Walton
Walmart Inc.
Sam Zell
Welltower Inc.
Sampson Lloyd
Lloyds Banking Group plc
Samuel Lowell Price
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Samuel Markel
Markel Corporation
Samuel Osgood
Citigroup Inc.
Samuel P. Geisberg
PTC Inc.
Samuel Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Samuel van den Bergh
Unilever PLC
Sandy Corrigan
VICI Properties Inc.
Sandy Lerner
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Sanford I. Weill
Citigroup Inc.
Scott Farquhar
Atlassian Corporation Plc
Scott Lake
Shopify Inc.
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
The Allstate Corporation
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Klarna Group plc
Sehat Sutardja
Marvell Technology, Inc.
Sergey Brin
Alphabet Inc.
Several small oil companies
Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Severin Hacker
Duolingo, Inc.
Sheaupyng Lin
Lucid Group, Inc.
Shiv Nadar
HCL Technologies Limited
Sid Sijbrandij
GitLab Inc.
Sidney Goldstein
CVS Health Corp.
Siemens & Halske
Fujitsu Limited
Silas M. Smith
GlaxoSmithKline plc
Silvanus Bevan
GlaxoSmithKline plc
Soichiro Honda
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Sophie Wilson
Arm Holdings
Stan Vishnevskiy
Discord Inc.
Stanley Goldstein
CVS Health Corp.
Stanley Tang
DoorDash, Inc.
Steve Ells
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
Steve Furber
Arm Holdings
Steve Huffman
Reddit, Inc.
Steve Jobs
Apple Inc.
Steve Wozniak
Apple Inc.
Steven H. Collis
Cencora, Inc.
Steven K. Conine
Wayfair Inc.
Steven Markoff
American Tower Corporation
Stuart Moldaw
Ross Stores, Inc.
Subhash Arora
HCL Technologies Limited
Susan Wagner
BlackRock, Inc.
Sydney Zacks
The TJX Companies, Inc.
Taavet Hinrikus
Wise plc
Tadashi Yanai
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.
Takemitsu Takizaki
Keyence Corporation
Takeo Fujisawa
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Takeshi Mitarai
Canon Inc.
Tata Sons
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Ted Burch
Crown Castle International Corp.
Terrence R. Curtin
TE Connectivity Ltd.
Thierry Cruanes
Snowflake Inc.
Thierry Hermès
Hermès International
Thomas Alva Edison
General Electric Company
Thomas Gould
Barclays PLC
Thomas Sanders
AT&T Inc.
Thomas Sutherland
HSBC Holdings plc
Tim Sweeney
Epic Games, Inc.
Tobias Lütke
Shopify Inc.
Tom Cortese
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
Tom Monaghan
Domino's Pizza, Inc.
Tom Vellios
Five Below, Inc.
Tony Xu
DoorDash, Inc.
Travis Kalanick
Uber Technologies, Inc.
Trip Hawkins
Electronic Arts Inc.
Tristan Pollock
Remitly Global, Inc.
Valery Sizov
GitLab Inc.
Vannevar Bush
Raytheon Technologies Corp.
Vern C. Gorst
United Airlines Holdings
Victor Jacobsson
Klarna Group plc
Victor Markel
Markel Corporation
Virginia Electric and Power Company (VEPCO)
Dominion Energy, Inc.
Vlad Tenev
Robinhood Markets, Inc.
W. H. Lawrence
Energizer Holdings, Inc.
Walt Disney
The Walt Disney Company
Walter T. Varney
United Airlines Holdings
Wang Chuanfu
BYD Company Ltd
Ward Parkinson
Micron Technology, Inc.
Warren Edward Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Weili Dai
Marvell Technology, Inc.
Wendell Cherry
Humana Inc.
Werner von Siemens
Siemens AG
Wilhelm von Finck
Allianz SE
Wilhelm von Philipsborn
Deutsche Bank AG
Will Keith Kellogg
Kellanova
William 'Bill' Martin
Genuine Parts Company
William B. Butler
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
William C. Durant
General Motors Company
William Colgate
Colgate-Palmolive Company
William Cooper
PricewaterhouseCoopers
William E. Boeing
The Boeing Company
William E. Brown
Central Garden & Pet Company
William E. Clark Jr.
Realty Income Corporation
William Ewing
Morgan Stanley
William Fargo
American Express Company, Wells Fargo & Company
William Hesketh Lever
Unilever PLC
William K. Bowes Jr.
Amgen Inc.
William Knox D'Arcy
BP plc
William L. Luddy
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
William Li
NIO Inc.
William Pigott Sr.
PACCAR Inc
William Procter
The Procter & Gamble Company, Procter & Gamble Co.
William R. Berkley
W. R. Berkley Corporation
William Shaw
IMAX Corporation
William States Lee
Duke Energy Corporation
William Welch Deloitte
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Willoughby McCormick
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
World Bank and Government of India consortium
ICICI Bank Limited
Yony Feng
Peloton Interactive, Inc.
Zeneca Group (ICI Pharmaceuticals)
AstraZeneca PLC
Zev Siegl
Starbucks Corporation
Zhang Yiming
ByteDance Ltd., TikTok