Business Tycoon Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Was a high flying French civil servant who in 1955 became a top businessman. Between 1947 and 1955,

Was a high flying French civil servant who in 1955 became a top businessman. Between 1947 and 1955, he occupied senior administrative positions in the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, becoming in 1951 'directeur de cabinet' at the ministry. He combined his civil service duties with the vice-presidency of the newly nationalised Renault auto business between 1948 and 1955, and was appointed Renault CEO, following the death on February 11, 1955, in a road accident of Pierre Lefaucheux, the previous incumbent. He retained the position until his own retirement from the company in 1975.

Is a member of Angola's delegation to UNESCO, and holds the rank of Minister Counsellor.[1] French p

Is a member of Angola's delegation to UNESCO, and holds the rank of Minister Counsellor.[1] French prosecutors accused Falcone and Gaydamak[who?] of selling arms to the Angolan government from 1993 to 2000 in violation of the Lusaka Protocol. The sales are part of the Angolagate scandal.

Was the CEO of EDF from 2004 to 2009. Pierre Gadonneix, who has a Doctorate in Business Economics fr

Was the CEO of EDF from 2004 to 2009. Pierre Gadonneix, who has a Doctorate in Business Economics from the Harvard Business School, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (1962) and of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs, and has a degree in Economics.

Was a blacksmith who furnished parts for the carriage trade in Paris during the 1850s and 1860s. He

Was a blacksmith who furnished parts for the carriage trade in Paris during the 1850s and 1860s. He started building bicycles with pedals in the early 1860s. He, or his son Ernest, may have been the inventor of this machine, by adapting cranks and pedals on the front wheel of a draisine. In 1868 he formed a partnership with the Olivier brothers under his own name, Michaux et Cie ("Michaux and company"), which was the first company to construct bicycles with pedals on a large scale, a machine which was called a velocipede at the time, or "Michauline" [1].

Is the CEO and co-founder of Sopra Group, as well as the chairman of its subsidiary, Axway. He has b

Is the CEO and co-founder of Sopra Group, as well as the chairman of its subsidiary, Axway. He has been instrumental in building and developing Sopra Group into a systems and solutions integration company, and he has some 40 years’ experience in executive management and development of IT services.

Was a Québécois businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media company centere

Was a Québécois businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media company centered in the province of Quebec.Péladeau was born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of the Mega-City of Montreal) in 1925. He completed a degree from the Université de Montréal, and in 1950 completed a law degree at McGill University. His first purchase was a struggling community paper Le Journal de Rosemont, which he bought with a $1,500 loan from his mother. Péladeau later went on to pursue bigger and better companies through acquisition.

Was an unconventional French oil executive who was the first to develop the use of scenario planning

Was an unconventional French oil executive who was the first to develop the use of scenario planning in the private sector, at Royal Dutch Shell’s London headquarters in the 1970s. So successful was he that the Anglo-Dutch oil giant was able to anticipate not just one Arab-induced oil shock during that decade, but two. His article Scenarios: Shooting the Rapids Harvard Business Review, 1985 is considered one of the first articles that bring the thoughts and theories of futurist Herman Kahn into business strategy.

Was a French businessman. In 1924, Pierre Wertheimer and his brother Paul became Coco Chanel's partn

Was a French businessman. In 1924, Pierre Wertheimer and his brother Paul became Coco Chanel's partners in the House of Chanel perfume business. Two years before, in 1922, the Chanel No. 5 perfume had been introduced and Ms Chanel needed the Wertheimers' extensive experience in commerce, their American business connections, and their capital to fully develop and market the product. During their partnership, Wertheimer owned 70% of the Chanel perfume company. Chanel owned 10% and Chanel's friend, Théophile Bader, owned the remaining 20%.

Was the founder in the 1840s of the French firm Jumeau, that produced bisque dolls and china dolls.

Was the founder in the 1840s of the French firm Jumeau, that produced bisque dolls and china dolls. His second son Emile-Louis Jumeau, born in 1843, began assuming management of the company in the 1870s.

Was a French engineer and business leader. He directed Citroën as a vice-president and as chairman

Was a French engineer and business leader. He directed Citroën as a vice-president and as chairman from 1935 until his death in a car accident. He was known to colleagues as PJB. Some, including the man who designed Citroëns for him, called him 'the imaginative tyrant'.

Is a serial entrepreneur. Gerbeau started out in 1984 as a professional ice hockey player, playing i

Is a serial entrepreneur. Gerbeau started out in 1984 as a professional ice hockey player, playing in several championships and becoming a member of the French national team,[3] before a severe ankle injury curtailed his sports career in 1989.[2][4] On an edition of the BBC's 'The Daily Politics Show' PY revealed that he had been suspended from the French Olympic Organisation because he supported London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.[1]

Was a Dutch businessman who founded Center Parcs. A devout Catholic, he was also a philanthropist do

Was a Dutch businessman who founded Center Parcs. A devout Catholic, he was also a philanthropist donating all his fortune to various causes.His father thought he was reading too much, so he said to his son that he should go play tennis. Pieter listened to the advice of his father, but he generally saw the economical aspect of tennis. He borrowed money from his family and built a tennis court near Kralingen with it.

Was a Dutch accountant who started a practice that after several mergers would grow into the interna

Was a Dutch accountant who started a practice that after several mergers would grow into the international accounting firm KPMG.Klijnveld was the son of Pieter Klijnveld Sr. and Maria Christina Klijnveld and married Cristina Johanna Royaards on August 2, 1906 in Amsterdam[1]. After working at the Amsterdam office of the Twentsche Bank (a precursor of ABN Amro), he opened a small accountancy practice in 1917 in his home on the Viottastraat. It would take a few years before a second office was in use on the Tesselschadestraat. Amsterdam was a bustling trade and investment hub for European and Asian industrialists. Many foreign enterprises, including royalty, governments, and even the Bank of England, traded extensively in Holland at the time, making it an active market for financiers as well as importers and exporters of virtually everything.

An authority on the impact of technology[1] on globalization[2], on strategy, on knowledge managemen

An authority on the impact of technology[1] on globalization[2], on strategy, on knowledge management [3], on corporate social responsibility [4], on comparative and cross-cultural ethics, and on management[5] and leadership issues [6]. Widely known as a speaker and broadcaster, he is or has been Chairman, Director or Board Member of various companies and organisations [7]. As Executive Director, Organisation Development, at Wolfsberg - The Platform for Business and Executive Development [8] (a subsidiary of UBS, one of the largest banks in the world), he is responsible for the Wolfsberg Think Tanks on a wide variety of market and global issues. A Freeman of the City of London, and of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; he is Fellow: of the Institute of Directors, of the Royal Commonwealth Society

One of the largest healthcare conglomerates of India, is one of the pioneer businesswomen of India i

One of the largest healthcare conglomerates of India, is one of the pioneer businesswomen of India in the segment of healthcare industry.Currently, the Apollo Group has more than 6,400 beds and 16,500 employees, and has emerged as an integrated global healthcare provider, attracting patients from all over India, the other countries of the Indian subcontinent like Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan, the Middle East and the Gulf states. A report indicates that the Apollo has “acquired the status of the leading private hospital chain in Asia and one among the largest in the World.”[citation needed]

He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and of Batoul Khanoum.He studied petr

He was the sixth son of Prince Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and of Batoul Khanoum.He studied petroleum engineering at Birmingham University in England before returning to Iran. On his return he joined the military rising to the rank of second lieutenant and left in the weeks surrounding January 1943.He went on to work in the Ministry of Finance until he was appointed to become the director general of Petroleum, Concessions, and Mines in April 1949.

Was a Sicilian chef.[1] Billing himself as a modern Procopius, he founded in 1686 what has become th

Was a Sicilian chef.[1] Billing himself as a modern Procopius, he founded in 1686 what has become the oldest extant cafe in Paris, Café Procope.[2] It became the first literary coffeehouse. For over 200 years the cafe-restaurant attracted notables in the world of arts, politics, and literature.[3]

Was one of the first to succeed in the mail order business.He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire,

Was one of the first to succeed in the mail order business.He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was apprenticed to a local draper, John Davies, and took over Davies's business in 1856. In the same year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris of Newtown. Pryce-Jones started with his own little shop selling drapery just off Broad Street. Renamed the Royal Welsh Warehouse, the business flourished. Newtown had always had a woollen industry and it was the local Welsh flannel which formed the mainstay of Pryce-Jones' business.