Finance

• Driss Ben-Brahim
  Driss Ben-Brahim
  Driss Ben-Brahim is a Moroccan-Austrian proprietary trader, employed by London-based GLG Partners, since 2008.-Career:Ben-Brahim was educated at the École centrale Paris and INSEAD....
  
  , Former Head of Proprietary Trading, Goldman Sachs
  Goldman Sachs
  The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
  
  , Special Situations, GLG Partners
  GLG Partners
  GLG Partners, Inc. is an American global hedge fund sponsor that, as of 14th October 2010, is a wholly owned subsidiary of British alternative investment manager Man plc...
  
  
• John Burgess, Co-founder, BC Partners
  BC Partners
  BC Partners is a private equity firm specialising in buyouts and acquisitions financing in Europe and the United States. The firm invests across all industries...
  
  
• Craig Butcher, Co-founding Partner, Mid Europa Partners
  Mid Europa Partners
  Mid Europa Partners is a private equity player in Central and Eastern Europe. Mid Europa Partners is an independent private equity investment firm focused on Central and Eastern Europe with approximately €2.2 billion of assets under management....
  
  
• Yoav Chelouche, Managing Partner, AVIV Ventures
• Kenneth Courtis, Former Managing Director & Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
  Goldman Sachs
  The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...
  
   Asia
• Henry Engelhardt
  Henry Engelhardt
  Henry Allan Engelhardt is the founder and Chief Executive of Admiral Group, one of the United Kingdom's leading insurers.-Career:Chicago-born Henry Engelhardt was educated at the University of Michigan...
  
  , CEO, Admiral Group
  Admiral Group
  Admiral Group plc is a motor insurance company with its head office in Cardiff, Wales. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:...
  
  
• Frederick M. Goltz, Member, KKR; Board Member Energy Future Holdings Corporation
• Walter Gubert, Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase
• Philip Hampton
  Philip Hampton
  Sir Philip Roy Hampton is the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Originally he joined RBS as the deputy chairman on the 19th of January 2009 and was promoted to chairman on the 3rd of February the same year...
  
  , Chairman, J Sainsbury
  J Sainsbury
  J. Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's, the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a share of the UK supermarket sector of 16.5%....
  
  ; Chairman, Royal Bank of Scotland Group
• Daniel Labrecque, President and Chief Executive Officer, N M Rothschild & Sons
  N M Rothschild & Sons
  N M Rothschild & Sons is a private investment banking company, belonging to the Rothschild family...
  
   Canada Limited
• Andrew Large
  Andrew Large
  Sir Andrew McLeod Brooks Large was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and a member of its Monetary Policy Committee from September 2002 to January 2006....
  
  , Deputy Governor, Bank of England
  Bank of England
  The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...
  
  
• Paul Marshall
  Paul Marshall (financier)
  Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall is a British investor and philanthropist.He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School....
  
  , co-founder and Chairman of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe's largest hedge fund groups.
• Alain Miquelon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Montreal Exchange
  Montreal Exchange
  The Montreal Exchange or MX is a derivatives exchange, located in Montreal, that trades futures contracts and options on equities, indices, currencies, ETFs, energy and interest rates. Since 1965, it has been located in the Tour de la Bourse , Montreal's third-tallest building...
  
  
• Heinz-Joachim Neubürger, Former Senior Advisor, KKR
• Andrea Orcel, Executive Chairman of Global Banking and Markets, Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch
  Merrill Lynch is the wealth management division of Bank of America. With over 15,000 financial advisors and $2.2 trillion in client assets it is the world's largest brokerage. Formerly known as Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., prior to 2009 the firm was publicly owned and traded on the New York...
  
  
• António Horta Osório
  António Mota de Sousa Horta Osório
  António Mota de Sousa Horta Osório is a Portuguese businessman who is Group Chief Executive of Lloyds Banking Group...
  
  , CEO, Lloyds Banking Group
  Lloyds Banking Group
  Lloyds Banking Group plc is a major British financial institution, formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. As at February 2010, HM Treasury held a 41% shareholding through UK Financial Investments Limited . The Group headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in London, with...
  
  
• Miguel Pais do Amaral, Entrepreneur, Quifel Holdings
• John Singer, Chairman, Europe, Advent International
  Advent International
  Advent International is a global private equity firm focused on buyouts of middle market growth companies in Western and Central Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia...
  
  
• David Stevens, COO, Admiral Group
  Admiral Group
  Admiral Group plc is a motor insurance company with its head office in Cardiff, Wales. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, it is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:...
  
  

Industry

• André Almeida
  André Almeida
  André Gomes Magalhães de Almeida is a Portuguese footballer who plays for U.D. Leiria on loan from S.L. Benfica, as a midfielder.-External links:**...
  
  , Executive Board Member and CMO, ZON Multimédia
• Samir Arora
  Samir Arora
  Samir Arora is best known as the founder, CEO and Chairman of the web design pioneering company NetObjects, Inc. from 1995 to 2001, and also as the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Glam Media since 2003. Samir Arora holds 13 US software patents as co-inventor.- Education :Samir Arora grew up in New...
  
  , CEO & Chairman, NetObjects
  NetObjects
  NetObjects, Inc. is a software company founded in 1995 by Samir Arora, David Kleinberg, Clement Mok and Sal Arora. The company is best known for the development of NetObjects Fusion, a web design application....
  
  
• Yves Carcelle, Chairman & CEO, Louis Vuitton
  Louis Vuitton
  Louis Vuitton Malletier – commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton , or shortened to LV – is a French fashion house founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton. The label is well known for its LV monogram, which is featured on most products, ranging from luxury trunks and leather goods to ready-to-wear, shoes,...
  
  
• Patrick Cescau, Former Group CEO, Unilever
  Unilever
  Unilever is a British-Dutch multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products....
  
  
• Claudio Cocorocchia (full-time MBA, 2002), Media Executive
• Breon Corcoran, CEO, Betfair
  Betfair
  Betfair is the world's largest Internet betting exchange. The company is based in Hammersmith in West London, England. Since Betfair was launched in June 2000 it has become the largest online betting company in the UK and the largest betting exchange in the world. Betfair claim to have over 3...
  
  
• Paul Desmarais, Jr.
  Paul Desmarais, Jr.
  Paul Desmarais, Jr., OC, OQ is a Canadian businessman in his hometown of Montreal.He is the eldest son of Paul Desmarais, Sr. Currently he is the chairman and co-chief executive officer of Power Corporation of Canada....
  
  , Chairman and Co-CEO, Power Corporation of Canada
• Reinhold Geiger, President, L'Occitane International
• Simba Gill, CEO & President, moksha8; Entrepreneur-in-residence, TPG Ventures
• Adam Goldstein, President and CEO, Royal Caribbean International
  Royal Caribbean International
  Royal Caribbean International is a Norwegian and American cruise line brand based in Miami, Florida and owned by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.. With 42 ships in service under 5 different brands and one more under construction, it controls a 25.6% share of the world cruise market...
  
  
• Franz Humer, Chairman, Hoffmann–La Roche; Chairman, Diageo
  Diageo
  Diageo plc is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine....
  
  
• Robert Keane, Founder, President & CEO, Vistaprint
  VistaPrint
  Vistaprint is a large online supplier of printed and promotional materials as well as marketing services to micro businesses and consumers. In the 26th annual Graphic Arts Monthly 101 listing, the company is the 40th largest and the 4th fastest growing printing company in North America...
  
  
• Marius Kloppers
  Marius Kloppers
  Dr Marius Kloppers is CEO of BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company. He is presently the group president of BHP's non ferrous metals division.- Education :...
  
  , CEO, BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton
  BHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
  
  
• Barbara Kux, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens
  Siemens
  Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
  
  
• Helge Lund
  Helge Lund
  Helge Lund is a Norwegian businessman who is the Chief Executive Officer for the Statoil group, and former CEO of Aker Kværner....
  
  , CEO, Statoil
  Statoil
  Statoil ASA is a Norwegian petroleum company established in 1972. It merged with Norsk Hydro in 2007 and was known as StatoilHydro until 2009, when the name was changed back to Statoil ASA. The brand Statoil was retained as a chain of fuel stations owned by StatoilHydro...
  
  
• Rafi Maor, President & CEO, ECI Telecom
  ECI Telecom
  ECI Telecom Ltd is a global telecom networking infrastructure provider headquartered in Petah Tikva, Israel. It provides communications platforms and solutions to carriers and service providers, cable/multiple system operators, wireless/cellular service providers, utilities and carrier of carriers,...
  
  
• Colin Matthews, CEO, BAA Limited
• Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones
  Lindsay Owen-Jones
  Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, KBE, , born in Wallasey, Cheshire to a Welsh family, was the Chairman and CEO of the cosmetics and beauty company L'Oréal.- Education :...
  
  , Former Chairman and current non-executive chairman, L'Oreal
  L'Oréal
  The L'Oréal Group is the world's largest cosmetics and beauty company. With its registered office in Paris and head office in the Paris suburb of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France, it has developed activities in the field of cosmetics...
  
  
• Antonio M. Perez
  Antonio M. Perez
  Antonio M. Pérez is a Spanish businessman, the current CEO of Eastman Kodak Company, based in Rochester, USA.Pérez was born at Vigo, Spain and studied electronic engineering, marketing and business in Spain and France....
  
  , Chairman and CEO, Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak
  Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
  
  
• Benoît Potier
  Benoît Potier
  Benoît Potier is a French businessman and economist. Potier is a graduate of the École Centrale Paris, a prominent engineering school, has been CEO of the French multinational industrial gas company Air Liquide since 2001. Potier also holds an MBA from INSEAD....
  
  , CEO, Air Liquide
  Air Liquide
  L'Air Liquide S.A., or Air Liquide , is a major French company supplying industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers. Founded in 1902, it is first in the world market in its field, now operating in over 80 countries. It is...
  
  
• Antoine Rostand
  Antoine Rostand
  -Biography:A graduate of École Polytechnique and INSEAD, Rostand started his career with Schlumberger over 23 years ago as a wireline field engineer. He now serves as president of Schlumberger Business Consulting and has led SBC since its formation in 2004, playing a key role in the...
  
  , President Schlumberger
  Schlumberger
  Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
  
   Business Consulting
• Kevin P. Ryan
  Kevin P. Ryan
  Kevin P. Ryan is an Internet executive and entrepreneur in New York City's Silicon Alley. He serves as the Founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe and prior to November 2010, he was the company's Executive Chairman....
  
  , Co-Founder & CEO, DoubleClick
  DoubleClick
  DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google that develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Its clients include agencies, marketers and publishers who serve customers like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oréal, Palm, Inc., Apple Inc., Visa USA, Nike, Carlsberg among others...
  
  
• Haim Shany, Former CEO, Nice Systems
  NICE Systems
  NICE Systems Ltd. , together with its subsidiaries, provides solutions that enable enterprises and security organizations to extract insight from interactions, transactions and surveillance....
  
   (NASDAQ: NICE)
• Lord Simon of Highbury, Former Chairman and CEO, BP
  BP
  BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
  
  
• Tidjane Thiam
  Tidjane Thiam
  Tidjane Thiam is a French-Ivorian businessman, currently the Chief Executive of Prudential plc. He studied engineering in France before joining the management consultants McKinsey & Company in 1986; from 1994 to 1999 he worked in Côte d'Ivoire first as a senior civil servant and later as the...
  
  , CEO, Prudential plc
  Prudential plc
  Prudential plc is a multinational financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.Prudential's largest division is Prudential Corporation Asia, which has over 15 million customers across 13 Asian markets and is a top-three provider of life insurance in mainland China, Hong...
  
  
• Noel Tata
  Noel Tata
  Noel Tata an Indian businessman, who is the Chairman of Trent Ltd.Noel Tata is the son of Naval Tata and Simone Tata. He is married to Aloo Mistry, the daughter of Pallonji Mistry, who is the largest single shareholder in Tata Sons...
  
  , Managing Director, Tata International
• Antonio Viana-Baptista, Former Executive Chairman and CEO, Telefónica
  Telefónica
  Telefónica, S.A. is a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America. Operating globally, it is the third largest provider in the world...
  
   España and O2

Nonprofit, law and government

• William Hague
  William Hague
  William Jefferson Hague is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001...
  
  , Former Leader, Conservative Party (UK)
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
  , current First Secretary of State
  First Secretary of State
  First Secretary of State is an occasionally used title within the Government of the United Kingdom, principally regarded as purely honorific. The title, which implies seniority over all other Secretaries of State, has no specific powers or authority attached to it beyond that of any other Secretary...
  
   and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
  The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commonly referred to as the Foreign Secretary, is a senior member of Her Majesty's Government heading the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and regarded as one of the Great Offices of State...
  
   of the UK.
• Will Hutton
  Will Hutton
  William Nicolas Hutton is an English writer, weekly columnist and former editor-in-chief for The Observer. He is currently Principal of Hertford College, Oxford and Chair of the Big Innovation Centre , an initiative from The Work Foundation , having been Chief Executive of The Work Foundation from...
  
  
• Jusuf Kalla
  Jusuf Kalla
  is an Indonesian politician who was the 10th Vice President of Indonesia from 2004 to 2009 and Chairman of the Golkar Party during the same period. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the 2009 presidential election.-Early life:...
  
   Vice President of Indonesia
• Najib Mikati
  Najib Mikati
  Najib Azmi Mikati is a Lebanese politician, billionaire and is the current Prime Minister of Lebanon since 13 June 2011. From April 2005 to July 2005 he was Prime Minister of Lebanon in a caretaker government...
  
   Prime Minister of Lebanon
• Prince Jean of Luxembourg
  Prince Jean of Luxembourg
  Prince Jean of Luxembourg was born on 15 May 1957 at Betzdorf Castle, the second son of Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium. He is the twin brother of Princess Margaretha. His godparents are Prince Felix of Luxembourg and Princess Margrethe of Denmark...
  
  
• Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
• Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
  Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
  Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands is the third and youngest son of Queen Beatrix and the late Prince Claus of the Netherlands. His godparents are King Constantine II of Greece, Prince Aschwin zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Max Kohnstamm, and Mrs. C...
  
  

Other

• Philip Hampton
  Philip Hampton
  Sir Philip Roy Hampton is the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Originally he joined RBS as the deputy chairman on the 19th of January 2009 and was promoted to chairman on the 3rd of February the same year...
  
  , Chairman, J Sainsbury
  J Sainsbury
  J. Sainsbury plc is the parent company of Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, commonly known as Sainsbury's, the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom with a share of the UK supermarket sector of 16.5%....
  
   former Group Finance Director, Lloyds TSB, BT Group, and British Steel

Fictional

• Largo Winch
  Largo Winch
  Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis.The principal character is Largo Winch whose birth name is Largo Winczlav. Other important characters include Nerio Winch , senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E...
  
  , fictional billionaire and graphic novel hero
• Elmira Gulzhan, investor, from the Robert Harris novel The Fear Index