List of Jewish American businesspeople

Advertising and public relations

Aerospace

• Henry Crown, founder of the Material Service Corporation
• Jesse Itzler, co-founder of Marquis Jet, a private jet card company, and minority owner of NBA's Atlanta Hawks
• Abraham Karem, Iraqi-born founder of Karem Aircraft, Inc., UAV technology pioneer
• Si Ramo, co-founder of TRW Inc.
• Bernard L. Schwartz, CEO of Loral Space & Communications Inc.
• Al Schwimmer, American-Israeli founder of Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd.

  Cosmetics

Energy and mining

• Guma Aguiar, Brazilian-born energy industrialist, co-founder of Leor Energy L.P.; disappeared in June 2012
• Arthur Belfer, Polish-born founder of the Belco Petroleum Company, one of the precursor companies of Enron Corporation
• Louis Blaustein, Lithuanian-born co-founder of the American Oil Company
• Marvin Davis, chairman of the Davis Petroleum Corp., brief owner of 20th Century Fox and the Beverly Hills Hotel; member of the :Category:Davis family|Davis family
• Robert Friedland, American-Canadian co-founder of Ivanhoe Energy Inc. and chairman of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
• Avram Glazer, former chairman and CEO of Zapata Corp., co-chairman of family-owned EPL's Manchester United F.C.; member of the :Category:Glazer family|Glazer family
• Joseph S. Gruss, Ukrainian-born founder of Gruss & Company
• Jack J. Grynberg, Polish-born oil and natural gas developer, founder of Oceanic Exploration Co.
• Meyer Guggenheim, Swiss-born mining magnate; member of the Guggenheim family
• Armand Hammer, long-time CEO and president of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, co-founder of Isramco
• Leon Hess, founder of the Hess Corporation and former owner of NFL's New York Jets
• Adolph and Leonard Lewisohn, German-born mining magnates, founders of Lewisohn Bros.
• George Lindemann, chairman and CEO of the Southern Union Company
• Benedict I. Lubell, founder of the Lubell Oil Company
• Samuel Newhouse, mining magnate; developed Newhouse, Utah
• Andrew Perlman, co-founder of GreatPoint Energy
• Samuel Ruben, co-founder of Duracell Inc.
• Charles Schusterman, Russian-born founder of the Samson Investment Company

  Financial services

Food

Manufacturing and distribution

Miscellaneous

• Juval Aviv, Israeli-American founder of corporate investigations firm Interfor International
• Larry Baer, CEO of MLB's San Francisco Giants
• Henry and Richard Bloch, founders of tax preparation company H&R Block, Inc.
• Al Davis, long-time owner of NFL's Oakland Raiders
• Orit Gadiesh, Israeli-American corporate strategist, chairwoman of global management consultancy Bain & Company
• Jonathan Greenstein, founder of auction house J. Greenstein & Company
• Ami James, Israeli-American entrepreneur, owner of the Miami-based Love Hate Tattoo Studio, and nightclub Love Hate Lounge
• Jules Kroll, founder of corporate investigation firm Kroll, Inc.
• Terry Lenzner, founder of Investigative Group International
• Moishe Mana, Israeli-born founder of Moishe's Moving Systems, GRM Information Management and MILK Studios
• Barry Minkow, founder of carpet-cleaning company ZZZZ Best Co.
• Morris Mirkin, founder of Budget Rent-a-Car
• Abraham Saperstein, British-born founder of the Harlem Globetrotters; former owner of NLB's Chicago Brown Bombers and the Birmingham Black Barons
• Louis Sloss, co-founder of the Alaska Commercial Company
• Mark Weinberger, CEO and chairman of multinational professional services firm Ernst & Young
• Sheldon Yellen, CEO of BELFOR Property Restoration

  Music industry

Newspapers and publishing

Pharmaceuticals and healthcare

• Arie S. Belldegrun, Israeli-American founder of Kite Pharma and biotechnology companies Agensys, Allogene Therapeutics
• Howard Birndorf, co-founder of biotechnology companies Hybritech, Inc., Gen-Probe and IDEC Pharmaceuticals
• Phillip Frost, entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of OPKO Health, former Vice chairman of Teva
• Alex Grass, founder of the Rite Aid Corporation
• Bennett Greenspan, co-founder of gene testing company Gene by Gene, Ltd.
• Rachel Haurwitz, co-founder of gene editing company Caribou Biosciences
• Joel Landau, co-founder of nursing home operator company The Allure Group and healthcare services company AlphaCare
• Jeremy Levin, South African-born chairman of Ovid Therapeutics Inc., former CEO of Teva
• Arthur D. Levinson, CEO of biotechnology company Calico, former chairman of Genentech
• Al Mann, founder of biotechnology companies Pacesetter Systems and the MannKind Corporation
• Stewart Rahr, founder of Kinray Inc.
• Shlomo Rechnitz, health care magnate, co-founder of TwinMed LLC
• Richard Roberts, former owner of URL Pharma
• Martine Rothblatt, founder of biotechnology company United Therapeutics, co-founder of Sirius Satellite Radio
• Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, former owners of Purdue Pharma ; members of the Sackler family
• Leonard Schleifer, founder of biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
• Cheryl Shuman, founder of the Beverly Hills Cannabis Club
• Daniel E. Straus, founder of CareOne LLC and minority owner of NBA's Memphis Grizzlies
• Samuel D. Waksal, French-born founder of ImClone Systems, Kadmon Corporation
• Herbert Wertheim, founder of eye care products manufacturing company Brain Power Incorporated
• Ron Zwanziger, Israeli-American founder of diagnostic testing devices manufacturing company Alere, Inc.

  Real estate

Retail

Technology and software

• Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap, co-founder of the MAKO Surgical Corp.
• Leonard Adleman, co-founder of RSA Security LLC
• Beny Alagem, Israeli-American co-founder of Packard Bell, owner of the Beverly Hilton hotel
• Kobi Alexander, Israeli-American co-founder of Comverse Technology
• Steve Ballmer, former long-time CEO of the Microsoft Corporation, founder of USAFacts and owner of NBA's Los Angeles Clippers
• Julian A. Brodsky, co-founder of the Comcast Corporation
• Safra Catz, Israeli-born CEO of the Oracle Corporation
• Alon Nisim Cohen, Israeli-born co-founder of CyberArk
• Bram Cohen, author of the BitTorrent protocol, co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc.
• Jared Cohen, CEO of technology incubator company Jigsaw
• Michael Dell, founder of DELL
• Larry Ellison, co-founder of the Oracle Corporation
• David Frankel, South African-born co-founder of Internet Solutions, the largest ISP in Africa
• Gideon Gartner, Mandatory Palestine-born founder of Gartner, Inc.
• Levy Gerzberg, Israeli-American founder of the Zoran Corporation
• Rob Glaser, founder of RealNetworks, Inc., partner at Accel
• Andrew Grove, former COO, chairman and CEO of Intel
• Andi Gutmans, Swiss-American co-founder of Zend Technologies, co-creator of PHP, General Manager at Amazon Web Services
• Eli Harari, Israeli-American co-founder of the SanDisk Corporation
• David and Orion Hindawi, founders of cybersecurity firm Tanium Inc.
• Irwin M. and Paul E. Jacobs, Qualcomm Incorporated
• Philippe Kahn, French-born creator of the camera phone, co-founder of the Borland Software Corporation
• Dan Kaminsky, co-founder of cybersecurity firm White Ops
• Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Software, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Phil Katz, founder of PKWARE, Inc., creator of the Zip file format; died of alcoholism in 2000 at age 37
• Steve Kirsch, founder of OneID, co-founder of the Frame Technology Corp.
• Edwin H. Land, founder of the Polaroid Corporation
• Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems and cosmetics brand Urban Decay
• Daniel Lewin, American-Israeli co-founder of Akamai Technologies Inc.; 9/11 victim
• Joseph Lubin, Canadian-American founder of blockchain software technology company ConsenSys, co-founder of Ethereum
• Ken Oshman, former CEO of the Echelon Corporation, co-founder of the ROLM Corporation
• Brian L. and Ralph J. Roberts, the Comcast Corporation
• Lior Ron, Israeli-American co-founder of self-driving truck company Otto, former Product Lead for Google Maps
• Ben Rosen, founding investor and former chairman of the Compaq Computer Corporation, co-founder of venture capital firm Sevin Rosen Funds
• Andy Rubin, co-developer of the Android operating system, co-founder of Android, Inc., Danger Inc. and Playground Global
• Michael G. Rubin, founder of eBay Enterprise, Inc.
• Henry Samueli, co-founder of the Broadcom Corporation, owner of NHL's Anaheim Ducks
• Steve Sarowitz, founder of the Paylocity Corporation
• Dan Schulman, president and CEO of PayPal, and chairman of the Symantec Corporation, former CEO of Virgin Mobile
• Ivan Seidenberg, former chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, partner at Perella Weinberg Partners
• Charlie Shrem, co-founder of BitInstant and Intellisys Capital, former Vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation
• Joel Spolsky, co-founder of the Stack Exchange Network, founder of Fog Creek Software, creator of Trello
• Kirill Tatarinov, Russian-born former CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc., former Executive VP of Microsoft Business Solutions
• Jack Tramiel, Polish-born founder of Commodore International and the Atari Corporation
• Alan Trefler, founder of Pegasystems
• Kenneth D. Tuchman, founder of TeleTech
• Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm Incorporated, inventor of the Viterbi algorithm
• Gary Winnick, founder of telecommunications company Global Crossing
• Stephen Wolfram, British-American founder of Wolfram Research
• Amit Yoran, former president of RSA Security LLC, former CEO of network security company Netwitness, co-founder of Riptech
• Charles Zegar, co-founder of Innovative Market Systems
• John Zimmer, co-founder of on-demand transportation company Lyft
• Nir Zuk, Israeli-American co-founder of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks

  New media

• Robert A. Altman, co-founder of ZeniMax Media
• Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator and co-founder of OpenAI
• Amir Ashkenazi, Israeli-American co-founder of Adap.tv and Shopping.com
• Scott Belsky, founder of Behance
• Marc Benioff, co-founder of cloud computing company Salesforce
• Sergey Brin, Russian-born co-founder of Google, Inc., president of Alphabet Inc., director at X
• Jay Cohen, online gambling pioneer, co-founder of WSEX
• Dan Doctoroff, chairman and CEO of urban innovation organization Sidewalk Labs, former president of Bloomberg L.P.
• Greg Fischbach, co-founder of Acclaim Entertainment
• Mark Ghermezian, Canadian-American co-founder of mobile marketing company Braze, Inc.
• Craig Taro Gold, co-founder of eVoice and Teleo
• Justin Hartfield, founder of the Ghost Group and Weedmaps
• Jonathan Klein, South African-born co-founder of Getty Images
• Josh Kopelman, founder of Half.com, First Round Capital, chairman of Philadelphia Media Network, LLC
• Jan Koum, Ukrainian-American co-founder of WhatsApp, Inc.
• Jon Kraft, co-founder of Pandora Media, Inc. and Thrively
• Gary Kremen, founder of Match.com; first registrant of Sex.com
• Eric Lefkofsky, co-founder of Groupon
• Max Levchin, Ukrainian-born co-founder of PayPal and financial technology company Affirm; member of the "PayPal Mafia"
• Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box Inc.
• Joey Levin, CEO of media and Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp
• David Litman, co-founder of Hotels.com
• Talmon Marco, Israeli-American co-founder of Viber, founder of Juno
• Andrew Mason, co-founder of Groupon
• Yuri Milner, Russian-born Israeli-American tech investor, co-founder of DST Global, former chairman and CEO of Mail.Ru
• Michael Morhaime, co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment
• Ilya Movshovich, Russian-American founder of CARMAnation
• Adam and Rebekah Neumann, co-founders of WeWork
• Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist
• Shaul Olmert, Israeli-American co-founder of online publishing platform EX.CO, former VP of digital products for MTV Networks
• Jon Oringer, founder of Shutterstock
• Larry Page, co-founder of Google, Inc., CEO of Alphabet Inc.
• Andrew Paulson, co-founder of SUP Media
• Mark Pincus, co-founder of social game developing company Zynga
• Ruth Porat, British-American CFO of Alphabet Inc.
• Jeff Pulver, VoIP pioneer, co-founder of Vonage
• Sean Rad, co-founder of Tinder
• Bob Rosenschein, American-Israeli founder of Curiyo, co-founder of Answers.com
• David O. Sacks, South African-born co-founder of Yammer, CEO of Zenefits, founding COO of PayPal
• Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, Inc., former VP of global online sales and operations at Google
• Terry Semel, former chairman and CEO of both Yahoo! and Warner Bros.
• Jeremy Stoppelman, co-founder of Yelp
• Aaron Swartz, co-creator of RSS and Reddit
• Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn
• Devin Wenig, former president and CEO of eBay Inc.
• Rus Yusupov, Tajik SSR-born co-founder of video hosting service Vine, and HQ Trivia
• Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, Inc.

  Television, film and video

Tourism and hotels

• Micky Arison, Israeli-American chairman of Carnival Corporation & plc, the world's largest travel leisure company and owner of NBA's Miami Heat; member of the Arison family
• Mel Bernstein, Colorado-based paintball park and military museum owner
• Paul Binder, co-founder of the Big Apple Circus
• Ernie Blake, German-born founder of Toas Ski Valley
• Alan Faena, Argentine-American Miami Beach-based hotelier, owner of the Faena Hotel Buenos Aires
• Heidi Fleiss, "Hollywood Madam"
• Gene Freidman, Russian-born founder of Taxi Club Management
• Rande Gerber, nightlife industry entrepreneur, founder of the Gerber Group, co-founder of tequila label Casamigos
• Dan Gilbert, founder of Detroit-based Jack Entertainment LLC and co-owner of NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers
• Joe Gold, founder of Gold's Gym International, Inc. and World Gym International
• Bernie Goldstein, founder of Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc.
• David Grutman, Miami-based nightlife mogul, co-founder of the Miami Marketing Group
• Efrem Harkham, Israeli-born Beverly Hills-based hotelier, owner of the Luxe Rodeo Drive Hotel
• Jeremy Jacobs, chairman of hospitality company Delaware North, owner of NHL's Boston Bruins
• Alfred Kaskel, Polish-born founder of Doral Hotels and Resorts and Carol Management
• Bill Miller, Russian-born former night club and casino operator
• Sam Nazarian, Iranian-American founder of SBE Entertainment Group ; member of the :Category:Nazarian family|Nazarian family
• Ben Novack, former developer and owner of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach
• Eli Ostreicher, British-American founder of Regal Wings, a B2B luxury air service provider; brother of investor Jacob Ostreicher
• Alberto Perlman, Colombian-American co-founder of Zumba Fitness, LLC
• Jason Pomeranc, hotelier, co-founder of the SIXTY Collective and the Thompson Hotels Group
• Jay Pritzker, co-founder of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation ; member of the Pritzker family
• Eugene Remm, Russian-born co-founder of the EMM Group
• Harris Rosen, Florida-based founder of Rosen Hotels & Resorts
• Ed Savitz, former Philadelphia-based amusement arcade owner
• Izak Senbahar, Turkish-born hotelier, co-founder of the Alexico Group
• David A. Siegel, founder of Westgate Resorts; featured in the 2012 documentary film The Queen of Versailles
• Gordon Sondland, founder of Provenance Hotels
• Noah Tepperberg, NYC-based co-founder of Strategic Hospitality Group
• Jonathan Tisch, chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels, co-chairman of family-owned Loews Corporation; treasurer of NFL's New York Giants; member of the :Category:Tisch family|Tisch family

  Restaurants

• Burt Baskin, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain
• George Cohon, American-born Canadian founder of McDonald's of Canada and Russia
• Nathan Handwerker, Polish-born co-founder of Nathan's Famous, Inc.
• Rich Melman, co-founder of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises restaurants
• Danny Meyer, founder of the Union Square Hospitality Group
• Arnie Morton, co-founder of Morton's The Steakhouse
• Clifford S. Perlman, co-founder of Lum's restaurant chain and former owner of Las Vegas' Caesars Palace luxury hotel
• Howard Schultz, Executive Chairman and former CEO of Starbucks, former owner of NBA's Seattle SuperSonics
• Daniel Schwartz, Executive Chairman of Restaurant Brands International Inc.
• Zev Siegl, co-founder of the Starbucks Corporation