Akio Toyoda is a Japanese business executive who is the chairman of Toyota. He was previously the company’s president and chief executive officer. Toyoda is the great-grandson of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda, and grandson of Toyota Motor Corporation founder Kiichiro Toyoda.
Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, a prominent conversational answer engine designed to challenge traditional search models. Born on 7 June 1994 in Chennai, India, he has quickly emerged as a leading figure in generative AI and one of India’s youngest tech billionaires.
Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault is a French businessman. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of LVMH, the world’s largest luxury goods company.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Brian Thomas Moynihan is an American lawyer and banker. He is the chairman, president, and CEO of Bank of America, having been promoted to these positions in 2010. Moynihan is a member of the Council on Competitiveness board and Partnership for Rhode Island board, among other boards.
Che-Chia Wei is a Taiwanese business executive and electrical engineer who is the president, chairman, and chief executive officer of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer.
Chey Tae-won is a South Korean billionaire businessman and the chairman of SK Group, the country’s second largest conglomerate, that includes 186 subsidiaries such as SK Telecom, SK Hynix, and SK Innovation. Chey has been the chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) since March 2021.
Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Prior to that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
David Ferris Ellison is an American film producer, media proprietor, and former actor serving as chairman and chief executive officer of Paramount Skydance since August 2025.
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, as well as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs. Hassabis is also a UK Government AI Adviser.
Carl Douglas McMillon is an American businessman who was the president and chief executive officer of Walmart from 2014 to 2026 when he retired. He also sits on the retailer’s board of directors.
Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur, business magnate, and investor who serves as the CEO of both Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX. Following the highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, Musk briefly became the world’s first official paper trillionaire. He effectively controls and holds primary ownership of X, as an indirect subsidiary of SpaceX through xAI.
Eric Emerson Schmidt is an American businessman and former computer engineer who was the chief executive officer of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company’s executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.
Evan Thomas Spiegel is an American businessman who is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015.
Gregory Edward Abel is a Canadian-American businessman who has been president and chief executive officer of the American multinational conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway since January 2026. Berkshire Hathaway announced in May 2025 that Abel would succeed Warren Buffett as CEO following Buffett’s retirement in late 2025.
Gregory Brockman is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became CTO in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015 to co-found OpenAI, where he also served as CTO.
Ma Yun, also known as Jack Ma, is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of the Jack Ma Foundation, and co-founder of Alibaba Group and Yunfeng Capital. He is one of the richest men in China with a net worth of approx US$27.5 billion.
James Rupert Jacob Murdoch is an American and British businessman. He is the younger son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and the former chief executive officer of 21st Century Fox from 2015 to 2019. He currently operates as the founder and CEO of the private investment firm Lupa Systems which acquired New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network, and Vox.com.
James Dimon is an American businessman who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase since 2006. Dimon began his career as a management consultant at a consulting firm in Boston.
Dame Jane Fraser DBE is a British-American banking executive who has been chief executive officer of Citi since March 2021 and chair since October 2025. She is the first woman to head a major U.S. bank. Fraser was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, and Harvard Business School.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American businessman, and the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company. As of 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.
Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire business magnate, lawyer, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and chairman of the Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group.
John Furner is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Walmart Inc. He was president and CEO of Walmart U.S. from 2019 to 2026, and CEO of Sam’s Club from 2017 to 2019. Furner succeeded Doug McMillon, who retired in January 2026.
John Ternus is an American engineer and business executive who has been the senior vice president of hardware engineering at Apple Inc. since 2021. On September 1, 2026, he will succeed Tim Cook as the CEO of Apple.
Julie Terese Sweet is an American business executive and attorney. She is chair and chief executive officer of Accenture, a multinational professional services company.
Kevin Maxwell Warsh is an American financier and attorney who has served as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 2026. Warsh served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011.
Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova is a Bulgarian economist who has served as the 12th managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. She is the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the institution. She began her career by teaching economics.
Kwak Noh-jung is the Co-President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SK hynix, one of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers. He is widely recognized as a top semiconductor technology expert who has played a vital role in establishing the company’s dominance in the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) market for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
Lachlan Keith Murdoch is a businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation.
Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American businessman. He co-founded the software company Oracle Corporation, and was its CEO from 1977 to 2014. He now serves as its CTO and executive chairman.
Laurence Douglas Fink is an American billionaire businessman. He is a co-founder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management corporation. BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than US$10 trillion in assets under management.
Lei Jun is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and computer engineer. He is known for being the founder, chairman, and CEO of the consumer electronics company Xiaomi. He also is the chairman of Kingsoft and Shunwei Capital.
Liang Wenfeng is a Chinese entrepreneur and businessman who is the co-founder of the quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer, as well as the founder and CEO of its artificial intelligence company DeepSeek. Liang attended Zhejiang University, and began his career by applying machine learning methods to quantitative finance.
Lin Bin is a Chinese-American billionaire tech entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and vice chairman of Xiaomi Corporation, one of the world’s largest consumer electronics and smartphone manufacturers. As of 2026, he holds an estimated net worth of $10.3 billion, placing him among the top global billionaires.
Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su is a Taiwanese and American business executive, computer scientist, and electrical engineer who has been the president and CEO of the American semiconductor company AMD since 2014. Su was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States with her family as a young child.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He is its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.
Mary Teresa Barra is an American businesswoman who has been the chair and chief executive officer of General Motors since January 15, 2014. She is the first female CEO of a ‘Big Three’ automaker. In December 2013, GM named her to succeed Daniel Akerson as CEO.
Masayoshi Son is a Japanese entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. A Zainichi Korean, he is the founder, chairman and chief executive of SoftBank Group, a technology-focused investment holding company, as well as chairman of UK-based Arm Holdings and US-based Stargate LLC.
Michael Rubens Bloomberg is an American businessman and politician. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P., and was its CEO from 1981 to 2001, and again from 2014 to 2023. He served as the 109th mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian businessman. He is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, the largest public company in India by market capitalisation in 2025. As of June 2026, he is the richest person in Asia and the 22nd richest in the world, with a net worth of US$91.8 billion.
Olaf Caspar Hendrik Marie Sleijpen is a Dutch economist, academic, and central banker. Since 1 July 2025, he has served as President of De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank, succeeding Klaas Knot.
Ma Huateng, also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Tencent, a Shenzhen-based conglomerate in technology, gaming, entertainment, and financial services.
Ren Zhengfei is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, which is located in Shenzhen, China, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones and Huawei Chinese Electric Cars.
Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American billionaire business magnate, investor, and media mogul who built one of the most powerful global media empires in history. Through his holding companies, News Corp and Fox Corporation, he has heavily shaped public discourse, political landscapes, and media practices across Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford University for two years before he dropped out and co-founded Loopt, a smartphone geosocial networking application.
Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.
Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian–American business executive who has been the CEO of Google since 2015 and the CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. since 2019. Pichai began his career as a materials engineer.
Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who has served as the chief executive officer of Apple since 2011. He had previously been the company’s chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs.
Wang Chuanfu is a Chinese chemist, billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder, chairman and CEO of the BYD Company. Wang was born in Anhui to a poor farmer family. He then studied metallurgy and earned a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree.
Warren Edward Buffett is an American investor and philanthropist who is the chairman and former CEO of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. As a result of his success, Buffett is one of the best-known investors in the world.
Zhu Yiming is the billionaire tech entrepreneur, engineer, and current Chairman and CEO of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s leading producer of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in China’s semiconductor industry. He founded GigaDevice in 2005 and led its team in successfully developing China’s first domestically produced mobile high-speed storage chip.
