List of Italian American business people

A List of Italian American business people.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Italian American business people or must have references showing they are Italian American business people and are notable.

CEOs

• Gil Amelio - former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple
• William Amelio - president and CEO of Lenovo Group Limited
• Richard Belluzzo - businessman who worked as an executive at HP (executive vice president), SGI (as CEO), and Microsoft (as president and COO at one point) before becoming CEO of Quantum Corp. in 2002
• Samuel DiPiazza - CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Nick Donofrio - Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation
• Richard Grasso (1946 - ) former chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange
• Lee Iacocca (1924 - ) former chairman of the Chrysler Corporation
• Angelo Mozilo - founder and CEO of Countrywide Financial
• Robert Nardelli - Chairman & CEO of Chrysler
• Frank Nuovo - head of design at Vertu
• Paul Otellini (1950 - ) Intel Corporation's fifth Chief Executive Officer
• Samuel J. Palmisano (1951 - ) chairman and CEO of IBM
• Neil Pappalardo - founder and CEO of Meditech
• Patricia Russo (1953 - ) CEO of Lucent Technologies
• Peter F. Secchia - former chairman and CEO of Universal Forest Products

Entrepreneurs

• Robert Benedetto - founder of Benedetto Guitars, Inc.
• [v. richard conforti] (1939 - ) retired utility exec -brooklyn boy makes good
• Pat Croce (1954 - ) entrepreneur, once owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team
• Edward J. DeBartolo (1946 - ) billionaire, former owner of the five-time Super Bowl champion San Francisco 49ers
• Fred De Luca - founder of Subway Sandwich
• Giorgio DeLuca - founder of Dean & DeLuca
• Domingo Ghirardelli (1817 - 1894) founder of Ghirardelli Chocolate Company
• Tom Golisano (1942 - ) billionaire founder of Paychex, owner of the Buffalo Sabres, ran for Governor of New York in 1994, 1998 and 2002
• Arthur Edward Imperatore, Sr. (1925-) businessman from New Jersey, and the founder and president of the NY Waterway, a ferry service
• Gennaro Lombardi - opened the first US pizzeria in 1905, Lombardi's
• Lelio Marino (1935 - 2004) entrepreneur
• Robert Mondavi (1913 - ) leading vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California9
• Edmund Nacchio (19 -1947) founder of Federal Pretzel Baking Company first USA mass production of soft pretzels
• Amedeo Obici (1877 - 1947) founder of the Planters Peanut Company in 1906
• Almerindo Portfolio (1877–1966) President of Bank of Sicily (USA), and Treasurer of New York City
• Anthony T. Rossi (1900 - 1993) Italian immigrant who founded Tropicana Products
• Jay Sarno (1922 - 1984) Las Vegas business entrepreneur who owned several high-profile hotels

Finance

• Mario Gabelli (1942 - ) stock investor, investment advisor and financial analyst.
• Amadeo Giannini (1870 - 1949) founder in 1904 of Bank of Italy, which later became Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States
• Frank Quattrone (1956 - ) former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs

Publishing

• Bob Guccione (1930 - ) founder and former publisher of Penthouse Magazine
• Leonard Riggio - owner of Barnes & Noble
• Louis Rossetto (1949 - ) founder and former publisher of Wired Magazine

External links

• List of famous Italian-Americans