Business Tycoon Famous Names Starting with Letter E

Is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.[3] He also s

Is Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc.[3] He also sits on the Princeton University Board of Trustees.[4] He lives in Atherton, California with his wife Wendy.[5]

Was a British-Indian merchant and financier.He was the son of George Hebberd Cable, a superintendent

Was a British-Indian merchant and financier.He was the son of George Hebberd Cable, a superintendent with the Indian Customs and Excise Service, and Emily Maria Pickersgill. He was educated privately and at the University of Calcutta, and then joined Bird & Co, a merchant house in Calcutta which had interests in many different areas of commerce, especially labour contracting (in which it had started), coal and jute. In 1886 he became a partner in the company. By 1896 the company directly employed 15,000 people and contracted 15,000 more. Much of this expansion was due to Cable's business acumen and his knowledge of India and good relations with its people. He also set up a subsidiary in the City of London to ease British investments in the company. By 1914 he was senior partner of Bird & Co.

Was a French civil engineer and entrepreneur. He was responsible for building a number of metal brid

Was a French civil engineer and entrepreneur. He was responsible for building a number of metal bridges in France and abroad, for instance the Margaret Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, and later for railroad building projects. The company he founded in 1846, Ernest Goüin & Cie. changed its name in 1871 to Compagnie de Construction des Batignolles; it still exists today under the name Spie Batignolles and claims to be the fourth largest construction company in France.

Was an American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the de

Was an American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the development of guitar-related products. He began as a club and local television musician and small business entrepreneur, building an international business in guitars and accessories that would eventually gross US$40 million a year.While still in his early teens, Ball began playing professionally in South Central Los Angeles beer bars. By age 19 he joined the Tommy Duncan Band playing pedal steel guitar. Duncan, the former lead singer with Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, took the band on tour through the Southwestern United States. During the Korean War, he did a tour of duty in the United States Air Force Band, playing guitar and bass drum.[4] After the military he returned to Los Angeles and continued playing in barrooms and lounges, until landing a job on the 1950s “Western Varieties” program at KTLA television.[5] The position soon gained him wider recognition in the Los Angeles music scene and led to studio work and teaching jobs.

Founded In-N-Out Burger, with her husband Harry Snyder.They had two sons, Harry Guy Snyder and Richa

Founded In-N-Out Burger, with her husband Harry Snyder.They had two sons, Harry Guy Snyder and Richard Snyder. Esther Snyder outlived her husband, who died in 1976 and both of her sons, one of whom died in a plane crash and the other succumbed to a drug overdose.She died on August 4, 2006, aged 86, from undisclosed causes. She is survived by her only grandchild, Lynsi Martinez (née Snyder), who is now the heir to the In-N-Out Burger company.

Was a Japanese engineer and founder of Nakamichi Corporation, a high-end audio electronics company b

Was a Japanese engineer and founder of Nakamichi Corporation, a high-end audio electronics company based in Tokyo in Japan. The company is most famous for its very high quality sounding cassette decks.Etsuro Nakamichi founded Nakamichi Research in 1948. Brother of Niro Nakamichi he was an acoustic engineering officer in the Japanese Navy doing sonar research. After the war he started Nakamichi Research by researching in electromagnetism, magnetic recording, acoustics and communications[1].

Was a prominent Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Mo

Was a prominent Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation.[2] In February 2008 he was laureated with the Business Social Responsibility Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a nonpartisan institution created by the U.S. Congress within the Smithsonian Institution.

Was a prominent Greek shipping magnate of the 20th century. Shortly after his graduation, he secured

Was a prominent Greek shipping magnate of the 20th century. Shortly after his graduation, he secured for himself a position with a large British shipping house Doro's Brothers and in 1904, aged 24, he became the general manager of the commercial shipping agency Reppen and only a little later an associate of the agency, focusing on lumber trading and his cooperation with the Swedish shipping company Broström Conzern. During that time he created his own shipyard in the Golden Horn bay.

Was a Greek businessman born in the city of Agrinio in the Etoloakarnania prefecture. He was born in

Was a Greek businessman born in the city of Agrinio in the Etoloakarnania prefecture. He was born in Amfilochia in the Aetolia-Acarnania prefecture. He was the first of the brothers of his family and he was educated with the cigarette factory. The cigarettes of Papastratiou Brothers became the most famous in Greece until the rise in foreign cigarettes in the 1970s and the 1980s. The family had made many gifts across Agrinio. Papastratos also wrote a book called I douleia kai o kopos tis (? d???e?? ?a? ? ??p?? t??).

Was a Greek-Romanian[3] businessman and philanthropist. He is recognized today as a founder of the O

Was a Greek-Romanian[3] businessman and philanthropist. He is recognized today as a founder of the Olympic Games, who sponsored the Olympic Games of 1859, 1870, and 1875, and preceded the Olympic Games that came under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee.[1][4] These Games, known at the time simply as Olympics, came before the founding of the International Olympic Committee. The legacy of Evangelis Zappas, as well as the legacy of his cousin Konstantinos Zappas, was also used to fund the Olympic Games of 1896.[5]

Is a Dutch journalist, director-general and spokesman.Brouwers started his career as journalist at t

Is a Dutch journalist, director-general and spokesman.Brouwers started his career as journalist at the Nieuwe Provinciale Groninger Courant and then as news presenter at Regionale Omroep Noord en Oost, AVRO, NOS Studio Sport, NOS and NOS Journaal.