List of University of Cambridge Members - Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders and Philanthropists

Entrepreneurs, Business Leaders and Philanthropists

• Marcus Agius (Trinity Hall) Financier and businessman, chairman of Barclays bank
• Immad Akhund (Clare) Internet entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Heyzap
• Lord Robert Alexander (King's) Chairman of the NatWest bank
• Simon Ambrose (Magdalene) Business entrepreneur, winner of The Apprentice
• Sir Hugh Barton (Trinity) Chairman and Managing Director of Jardine, Matheson & Co
• Peter Bazalgette (Fitzwilliam) Media expert, Creative Director figure at the global TV firm Endemol
• Sir Max Bemrose (Clare) Noted industrialist
• Karan Bilimoria (Sidney Sussex) Entrepreneur, Co-founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer
• Lee Bollinger (Clare Hall) Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York board of directors
• John Browne (St John's) Chief Executive of BP
• Sir Egbert Cadbury (Trinity) Managing Director of Cadbury, the British confectionery firm
• Dame Elizabeth Cadbury (Unknown) Philanthropist, founder of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital
• Peter Cadbury (Trinity) Entrepreneur, founder and first chairman of Westward Television
• David Cleevely (Unknown) Entrepreneur and international telecoms expert, co-founder and Chief Executive of Abcam plc
• Lord David Cobbold (King's) Proprietor of Knebworth House and founder of the Knebworth Rock Festival
• Simon Murray (Jesus) Director of Operations of the National Trust and Chief Party Starter
• Gerald Corbett (Unknown) Chief Executive of Railtrack, chairman Moneysupermarket.com and formerly Woolworths
• Charles "Nick" Corfield (St John's) Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, inventor of Adobe FrameMaker
• Sir Andrew Crockett (Queens') General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, member of JPMorgan Chase & Group of Thirty
• Gavyn Davies (St John's) Managing Director of Goldman Sachs investment bank and Chairman of the BBC
• Sir C. D. Deshmukh (Jesus) Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1943–1949)
• Dinesh Dhamija (Fitzwilliam) Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of the pioneering online travel agency Ebookers
• Ray Dolby (Pembroke) Audio technologies inventor and founder of Dolby
• Mohamed A. El-Erian (Queens') Chief Executive of PIMCO investment firm
• Jude Gomila (Caius) Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of Heyzap gaming website
• Andrew Gower (Fitzwilliam) Video game developer, co-founder of Jagex Ltd and founder of RuneScape
• Sir Brandon Gough (Jesus) Business leader, Chairman of Yorkshire Water, Coopers & Lybrand, and De La Rue plc
• Clive Fiske Harrison (Trinity Hall) Investment Banker, Chairman of Fiske plc.
• Hermann Hauser (King's) Electronics entrepreneur, co-founder of Acorn Computers
• Andy Hopper (Corpus Christi) Electronics entrepreneur, academic
• Michael Johns (Caius) Healthcare executive, former White House speechwriter
• Sir Paul Judge (Trinity) Businessman and entrepreneur, Director of Standard Bank Group
• Sir Henry Keswick (Trinity) Chairman of Jardine Matheson Holdings
• Raymond Kwok (Jesus) Hong Kong property billionaire
• Randy Lerner (Clare) American sports entrepreneur, owner of Cleveland Browns and Aston Villa F.C.
• Edward Lewis (Trinity) Founder of Decca Records
• Sir David Li (Selwyn) Chairman and Chief Executive of the Bank of East Asia
• Paddy Lowe (Sidney Sussex) Engineering Director of the McLaren Formula One racing team
• Michael Lynch (Christ's) Software and internet entrepreneur. Co-founder and Chief Executive of Autonomy Corporation
• Paul Mellon (Clare) Philanthropist, owner of Mellon Financial Corporation
• Zia Mody (Selwyn) Founding Partner of AZB & Partners, India's second largest law firm
• Nigel Newton (Selwyn) Founder and Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Edwin Nixon (Selwyn) Successively Managing Director, Chairman and Chief Executive of IBM, then Chairman of Amersham
• Archie Norman (Emmanuel) Chairman of ITV plc and formerly Kingfisher plc and Asda
• Nathan Myhrvold (Unknown) Formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures
• Christian Purslow (Fitzwilliam) Managing Director of Liverpool Football Club and Founder of MidOcean Partners private equity firm
• Sir Michael Rake (Unknown) Chairman of BT Group and formerly director of Barclays, McGraw-Hill and the Financial Reporting Council
• Sir Benegal Rama Rau (King's) Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1949–1957)
• Sir Harry Ricardo (Trinity) Pioneering engine designer, founder of Ricardo plc (1927)
• Charles Rolls (Trinity) Co-founder of Rolls-Royce, the automobile and aviation company
• Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (Trinity) Managing Partner of N M Rothschild & Sons, art collector and race horse breeder
• Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (Trinity) Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons, art collector and noted horticulturalist
• Sir Evelyn Robert de Rothschild (Trinity) Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons and Director of IBM United Kingdom Holdings Limited
• Leopold de Rothschild (Trinity) Banker, art collector and thoroughbred race horse breeder
• Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (Trinity) Banker, Conservative politician and creator and manager of Exbury Gardens
• Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (Magdalene/Trinity) Banker, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and race horse owner
• Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild (Trinity) Managing Partner of N M Rothschild & Sons and funder of the Suez Canal construction
• Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (Trinity) Chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons and biologist
• Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (Magdalene) Banker, Liberal politician and pioneering zoologist
• David Sainsbury (King's) Sainsbury's supermarket fortune heir; philanthropist
• Sir Robert Sainsbury (Pembroke) Chairman of Sainsbury's supermarket (1967–1969)
• Simon Sainsbury (Trinity) Director and Deputy Chairman of Sainsbury's supermarket
• Rod Smallwood (Trinity) and Andy Taylor (Trinity) Music entrepreneurs, managers of Iron Maiden, founders of Sanctuary Records
• Martin Sorrell (Christ's) Founder of WPP, the world's largest advertising group
• John Sperling (King's) For-profit education entrepreneur, founder of the University of Phoenix
• Lord Dennis Stevenson (King's) Director BSkyB (1994–2001) a Chairman of HBOS (1999-)
• Stephen B. Streater (Trinity) Electronics entrepreneur, founder of Eidos
• Roger Tamraz (Unknown) International banker and oil industry entrepreneur, Director of Intra Bank
• Dorabji Tata (Caius) Indian industrialist and philanthropist, Chairman of the Tata Group
• Kenneth Thomson (St John's) & David Thomson (Selwyn) Canada's wealthiest family, Thomson Corp. (information services)
• Sam Toy (Fitzwilliam) Chairman of Ford Motor Company
• Geoff Travis (Churchill) Founder of Rough Trade Records and Rough Trade Music Store
• Lord David Triesman (King's) Business leader, Labour life peer and disgraced ex-chairman of The FA
• Sir John Tusa (Trinity/Wolfson) Managing Director of the Barbican Arts Centre (1995–2007) and the BBC World Service (1986–1993), Chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum (2007)
• Tim Waterstone (St Catharine's) Founder of Waterstone's (1982), the largest specialist bookseller in the UK
• Samuel Whitbread (St John's) Early owner of Whitbread & Co Ltd brewing firm, Whig politician
• William Henry Whitbread (Trinity) Managing Partner of Whitbread & Co Ltd brewing firm, Whig and Liberal politician
• Tony Wilson (Jesus) Music and youth culture entrepreneur, Founder of Factory Records and owner of The Haçienda nightclub
• Daniel Yergin (Unknown) Founder of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and Pulitzer Prize winner
• Xin Zhang (Unknown) Founder and CEO of SOHO China