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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
- Bibiana Boerio - Managing Director of Jaguar (car)
- Samuel DiPiazza - CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Nick Donofrio - Executive Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the IBM Corporation
- Carly Fiorina (1954 - ) business executive, known as former CEO (1999–2005) and Chairman of the Board (2000–2005) of Hewlett-Packard (HP)
- 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
- Joseph Tucci - CEO of EMC Corp
Entrepreneurs
- Robert Benedetto - founder of Benedetto Guitars, Inc.
- Jerry Colangelo (1939 - ) Arizona businessman and former sports mogul
- 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
- Vincent Fasano (1969 -) New Jersey business entrepreneur who created several Web technologies and founded global Logistics company
- 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
- Joseph Kresivich - founder of the Stella D'Oro in 1930
- 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 California
- Tommy Mottola (1949 - ) head of Sony Music Entertainment until 2003
- Gene Mottola (1969 - ) head of Mottola Entertainment Corp
- Amedeo Obici (1877 - 1947) founder of the Planters Peanut Company in 1906
- Frank Petrini founder of Petrini's Market in San Francisco in 1935
- 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
- Mark Castellani (1981 - )A stock analyst at the middle market wall street investment bank Rodman & Renshaw
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