Country
Business Leaders from USA
71 of 270 profiles published so far.
Finance
Brian Moynihan
The lawyer who took over Bank of America in the wreckage of the financial crisis and spent more than a decade rebuilding it into a steady giant.
Business
Andy Frisella
The blunt St. Louis entrepreneur who built a supplement empire from a tiny store and turned mental toughness into a movement with 75 Hard.
Automotive
Roger Penske
Racing driver turned business magnate, the builder of an automotive empire and the most successful team in Indianapolis 500 history.
Retail
Brian Cornell
The veteran consumer executive who spent more than a decade steadying Target, turning a data breach and a sales slump into one of retail's most studied turnarounds.
Tech
Dara Khosrowshahi
The refugee turned dealmaker who rebuilt Expedia into a travel giant and then was handed the hardest job in tech, cleaning up and steadying Uber.
Sports
Jerry Reinsdorf
The tax lawyer turned sports magnate who has owned the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox for four decades, presiding over a basketball dynasty and a baseball title.
Beauty
Mona Kattan
The fragrance obsessed co-founder of Huda Beauty who built Kayali into a global perfume brand and took full control of it in a landmark deal.
Finance
Todd Boehly
The financier behind Eldridge who assembled a sprawling empire across sports, media and insurance, from the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chelsea Football Club.
Food & Beverage
Will Guidara
The restaurateur who helped make Eleven Madison Park the best restaurant in the world, then turned a philosophy of hospitality into a movement.
Sports
Bob Nutting
The newspaper heir who controls the Pittsburgh Pirates, a media and resort businessman whose frugal stewardship of the team has made him one of baseball's most debated owners.
Finance
Marc Lasry
The Moroccan born distressed debt investor who built Avenue Capital into a Wall Street force and turned a bet on the Milwaukee Bucks into a championship and a fortune.
Sports
Amy Adams Strunk
The daughter of oil and football magnate Bud Adams who stepped out of the background to take firm control of the Tennessee Titans and stamp her own authority on the franchise.
Sports
Hal Steinbrenner
The understated son of George Steinbrenner who inherited the New York Yankees and runs baseball's most valuable franchise with a quieter, more businesslike hand than his father.
Tech
Nikesh Arora
From an engineering graduate in Ghaziabad to one of the highest paid chief executives in America, the rise of the leader of Palo Alto Networks.
Tech
Tom Golisano
The son of Italian immigrants who founded Paychex with a few thousand dollars, built a payroll giant, owned an NHL team and gave away billions.
Beauty
Aerin Lauder
The granddaughter of Estee Lauder who grew up inside the beauty dynasty and turned her own name into AERIN, a lifestyle brand built on understated luxury.
Tech
Alon Cohen
The engineer who turned a frustrating home renovation with his wife into Houzz, the platform that connected millions of homeowners with designers and contractors.
Crypto
Arthur Hayes
The former derivatives trader who helped invent modern crypto trading at BitMEX, then reinvented himself as an investor and market provocateur.
Sports
Cal McNair
The son of Texans founder Bob McNair who inherited the Houston franchise and now serves as its principal owner, steering one of the NFL's most valuable teams.
Logistics
Carol Tome
The longtime Home Depot finance chief who became the first outsider to run UPS, bringing a disciplined, value over volume philosophy to the global delivery giant.
Media
Jay Penske
The son of motorsport magnate Roger Penske who built his own empire in media, assembling Variety, Rolling Stone and Billboard under the banner of Penske Media.
Retail
Marvin Ellison
The man who started as a part time Target security guard and rose to run Lowe's, becoming one of the very few Black executives to lead two Fortune 500 companies.
Health
Robert Ford
The Abbott insider who climbed through the medical device ranks to run one of healthcare's most diversified giants, steering it through a pandemic in his first months as chief executive.
Tech
Amit Yoran
The West Point trained cybersecurity leader who helped launch America's national cyber defense, founded pioneering security firms and led Tenable, until his death in early 2025.
Media
Bob Chapek
The Disney lifer who rose from home video to run the parks empire and then the whole company, only to be ousted as CEO after a turbulent and short lived tenure.
Crypto
Chris Larsen
The serial fintech founder who built online lending pioneers before co-founding Ripple, the company behind XRP, briefly becoming one of the richest people in crypto.
Finance
David Blitzer
The Blackstone dealmaker who built a multibillion dollar investment business and then assembled a sports empire so broad he became the first person to own equity across all five major US leagues.
Tech
Dylan Field
How a college dropout and his co-founder turned a browser based design tool into one of the most influential software companies of the decade.
Food & Beverage
James Quincey
The British engineer turned beverage executive who rose through Coca-Cola's global ranks to run the company, broadening it well beyond its famous namesake soda.
Tech
Sriram Krishnan
The Chennai born engineer who helped build products at Microsoft, Twitter and Meta, became a prominent venture investor at a16z, and then took an artificial intelligence policy role in the White House.
Food & Beverage
Steve Ells
The classically trained chef who opened a single burrito shop to fund a fine dining dream and instead created Chipotle, redefining fast food and becoming a burrito billionaire.
Finance
David Einhorn
The value investor and championship poker player who built Greenlight Capital, famously bet against Lehman Brothers before its collapse, and became one of Wall Street's sharpest voices.
Sports
Greg Penner
The investor who chairs Walmart's board and leads the ownership group that bought the Denver Broncos, bridging the world's largest retailer and the NFL.
Tech
Jayshree Ullal
The networking veteran who left a top job at Cisco to lead Arista Networks, took it public, and built a cloud networking powerhouse that made her a self-made billionaire.
Sports
Jody Allen
The sister of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who, as executor of his vast estate, controls the Portland Trail Blazers, the Seattle Seahawks and a sprawling philanthropic empire.
Sports
John Sherman
The self-made energy entrepreneur who built and sold a major propane and midstream business, then bought his hometown Kansas City Royals to keep the team in the city.
Food & Beverage
Laxman Narasimhan
The globe-trotting executive who ran the consumer goods group Reckitt and then briefly led Starbucks, becoming one of the most prominent Indian-born leaders in global business.
Sports
Mark Attanasio
The credit investing billionaire who co-founded Crescent Capital and turned his boyhood love of baseball into ownership of the Milwaukee Brewers and an English football club.
Sports
Steve Phelps
The sports marketing veteran who rose to become NASCAR's president and then its first ever commissioner, steering the stock car racing series through a period of reinvention.
Finance
Charlie Scharf
The banking veteran and protege of Jamie Dimon who ran Visa and BNY Mellon before being brought in to clean up Wells Fargo after its scandals.
Finance
Chase Coleman
The most successful of Julian Robertson's Tiger Cubs, who founded Tiger Global and turned an early bet on technology stocks and startups into a multibillion dollar fortune.
Energy
Darren Woods
The engineer who rose through ExxonMobil's refining ranks to run the oil giant, defending its fossil fuel core while navigating the energy transition and investor pressure.
Tech
George Kurtz
The cybersecurity entrepreneur and racing driver who co-founded CrowdStrike, built it into a security giant, and became a billionaire even as he co-owns a Formula One team.
Tech
Javier Olivan
The Spanish engineer who quietly drove Facebook's growth to billions of users and rose to become the chief operating officer of Meta, one of tech's most powerful operators.
Pharma
Joaquin Duato
The Spanish-born pharmaceutical executive who spent his career at Johnson & Johnson and rose to lead it, steering the healthcare giant through a historic split and major legal battles.
Finance
Joe Mansueto
The investor who started Morningstar in his apartment to bring transparency to mutual funds, built it into a financial data powerhouse, and later bought a soccer club.
Energy
Mike Wirth
The chemical engineer who spent his whole career at Chevron and rose to run it, steering the oil major through price crashes, record profits and the politics of the energy transition.
Finance
Peter Orszag
The economist who ran the federal budget office under President Obama and then crossed to Wall Street, rising to lead the investment bank Lazard as its chief executive.
Food & Beverage
Ramon Laguarta
The Spanish-born executive who climbed PepsiCo's international ranks over decades to become its chief executive, the first Spaniard to lead a major American multinational.
Fintech
Ryan McInerney
The former JPMorgan consumer banking chief who became president and then chief executive of Visa, steering the world's largest payments network through the era of digital money.
Real Estate
Spencer Rascoff
The serial entrepreneur who co-founded Hotwire and Zillow, reshaping how people book travel and buy homes, and later returned to lead Zillow and take over Match Group.
Tech
Sridhar Ramaswamy
The engineer who built Google's vast advertising business, left to launch a privacy-focused search startup, and then became chief executive of the data giant Snowflake.
Sports
Tom Ricketts
The financier and son of the TD Ameritrade founder who led his family's purchase of the Chicago Cubs and presided over the end of a century-long championship drought.
Fintech
Anthony Noto
The West Point graduate who went from Goldman banker to NFL finance chief to Twitter operator, then took over SoFi and turned it into a fast-growing digital bank.
Retail
Corie Barry
The Minnesota accountant who joined Best Buy as a financial analyst and rose over two decades to become its chief executive, steering the electronics retailer through a turbulent era.
Food & Beverage
David Gibbs
The finance executive who spent more than three decades at Yum Brands and rose to lead it, overseeing the global growth of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell before stepping down.
Real Estate
Don Peebles
The Washington-born developer who built one of the largest Black-owned real estate firms in America, creating luxury projects across major cities and championing diversity in the industry.
Finance
Gunjan Kedia
The Indian-American banker who rose through State Street, BNY Mellon and US Bancorp to become the bank's first woman chief executive, a leader of a top US lender.
Crypto
Jed McCaleb
The serial technologist behind Mt. Gox, Ripple and Stellar who became a crypto billionaire, then turned his fortune toward building a private space station.
Real Estate
Jeff Greene
The real estate billionaire who made a fortune betting against the subprime mortgage market before the 2008 crash, then turned to Florida property and politics.
Finance
Jennifer Piepszak
The JPMorgan lifer who ran the bank's biggest businesses and became its first woman chief operating officer, one of the most powerful figures in American finance.
Finance
Michael Moritz
The Welsh journalist turned legendary venture capitalist who backed Google, Yahoo and PayPal at Sequoia Capital, becoming one of the most successful investors in history.
Retail
Roz Brewer
The chemist turned executive who ran Sam's Club, served as Starbucks operating chief, and became one of the few Black women ever to lead a Fortune 500 company at Walgreens.
Retail
Apoorva Mehta
The former Amazon engineer who failed at twenty startups before founding Instacart, building the grocery delivery giant into a public company and becoming a billionaire.
Fintech
Iqram Magdon-Ismail
The immigrant entrepreneur who co-founded Venmo after struggling to pay back a friend, helping turn peer-to-peer payments into a verb for a generation.
Real Estate
Miguel McKelvey
The architect who co-founded WeWork and shaped its design and culture, riding the company to a paper fortune before its dramatic collapse reshaped his wealth.