Business Tycoon Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Is a French businessman. He is the founder and former CEO of AXA.[1][2] He graduated from the École

Is a French businessman. He is the founder and former CEO of AXA.[1][2] He graduated from the École Polytechnique. In 1996, he acquired Union des Assurances de Paris. He helped oust Jean-Marie Messier from Vivendi. He was involved in the ouster of the chairman of Rhodia.[3]

Was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Rac

Was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner who co-founded Oak Tree Racing Association.In 1936, Clement Hirsch founded the Dog Town Packing Company in Vernon, California which became a highly successful pet food producer he later renamed Kal Kan Foods, Inc. In 1968, Mars, Incorporated acquired the company and today it forms part of their Pedigree Petfoods division. He also was the founder of Stagg Foods of Costa Mesa which he built into the a major producer of canned chili. He sold Stagg Foods in 1996 to Hormel Foods.

Is a South African-born and UK based (resident in Cayman Islands for tax purposes) record executive

Is a South African-born and UK based (resident in Cayman Islands for tax purposes) record executive and businessman.He was the founder of the Zomba Music Group which he sold in 2002 for $1.8bn to the German-based media group Bertelsmann.

Is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as the chai

Is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as the chairman of the Rabobank of the Rotterdam district. He also is the director of the Efteling and a member of the Economic Development Board Rotterdam. Before joining the Rabobank in the Rotterdam district he was the chairman of the Rabobank in the Eindhoven district. As a member of the board of directors at Feyenoord he is responsible for the financial portfolio.

Was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain.

Was an American hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel chain.

Were brothers from Alsace. Their inventions in the area of geophysics and well logging were the begi

Were brothers from Alsace. Their inventions in the area of geophysics and well logging were the beginnings of Schlumberger Well Services and the entire well logging industry. Conrad and Marcel were two of six children of an affluent French Protestant family. Their father, Paul, was descended from a wealthy cotton weaving family. Their mother, Marguerite Witt was a political activist. When the brothers were born, their native province Alsace was part of Germany. Their parents decided to send the brothers to Paris to be educated. Conrad became a physicist, and graduated from École Polytechnique (France) in 1900. Marcel became an engineer graduated from École Centrale Paris in 1907).

Is a Greek shipowner and a successful banker in the United States.[1] He is also the owner of Greek

Is a Greek shipowner and a successful banker in the United States.[1] He is also the owner of Greek Super League side Panionios after acquiring 85% of the club in the summer of 2006. One of his first actions was to alter the name of Panionios to its original name Panionios GSS (which stands for "?a??????? G?µ??st???? S??????? Sµ?????" or Panionios Gymnastic Club of Smyrna) and hire Ewald Lienen as first team manager.

Is mainly known as president of the Board of Directors of Philips (1996 - 2001).At the age of 16, he

Is mainly known as president of the Board of Directors of Philips (1996 - 2001).At the age of 16, he quit his study at the Hogere burgerschool and started to work for Unilever. In 1974 he started to work for Sara Lee, where he ultimately became the president of the Board of Directors.

Was a Dutch businessman who ran several import/export companies in the United States from the 1920s

Was a Dutch businessman who ran several import/export companies in the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.During his career in the United States, Lievense was the President or director of a number of import/export companies and banks, most notably the Union Banking Corporation, whose assets were seized by the United States government in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act and the Domestic Fuel Corporation, which was blacklisted by the Canadian government in 1940 for similar suspicions.[1]

Was an Anglo-Welsh industrialist.Though by now a major ironmaster he far-sightedly bought up large a

Was an Anglo-Welsh industrialist.Though by now a major ironmaster he far-sightedly bought up large areas of coal-rich land, at their agricultural value too, in the Rhondda Valleys, at Mountain Ash and Aberaman and was prepared to sit on these assets for nearly nine years before developing them as some of the richest coal and iron ore deposits in the world.

An Iranian-American cable television executive currently serving as the president of Nickelodeon and

An Iranian-American cable television executive currently serving as the president of Nickelodeon and MTV Networks' Kids & Family Group.Zarghami was born in Iran to an Iranian father, Ghoram, and a Scottish mother, Catherine. The family later moved to Canada and finally to Englewood,New Jersey in the United States. Zarghami has stated that as a child she "played a lot of sports, lacrosse mostly." [1][2]In 1980, Zarghami entered The University of Vermont in Burlington as an elementary education major, but later changed her major to English. She ultimately did not complete her degree, but was later awarded an honorary diploma by the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services in 2000.[3]

Was a Welsh industrialist and racing driver who produced Formula 3 cars in the 1950s.

Was a Welsh industrialist and racing driver who produced Formula 3 cars in the 1950s.