List of University of Michigan business alumni

Advertising and marketing

• Leo Burnett, journalism, advertising pioneer; founded the Leo Burnett Company in 1935 with $50,000 of borrowed money
• Utpal Dholakia,, researcher and professor
• Patrick LaForge, President and CEO of the Edmonton Oilers

  Billionaires

• J. Robert Beyster, chairman, president, and CEO of Science Applications International Corporation
• Kenneth B. Dart, businessman and Caymanian billionaire
• William Davidson, finance and entertainment; founder of the William Davidson Institute at the Ross School of Business; his son Ethan, a Michigan graduate, inherits control of his foundation
• Bharat Desai, co-founder, president, and CEO of Syntel; Indian billionaire
• Stanley Druckenmiller, formerly worked with George Soros; co-founded Duquesne Capital
• Henry Engelhardt, founder and Chief Executive of Admiral Group, a British motor insurance company; English billionaire
• Brad Keywell, co-founder and principal of Groupon
• Bobby Kotick, businessman; president and CEO of Activision Blizzard, a member of the S&P 500
• Eric Paul Lefkofsky, serial entrepreneur; angel investor in Groupon; on Forbes 2011 list of billionaires
• Doug Meijer, net worth of $4.2 billion; son of Frederik G. H. Meijer
• Hank Meijer, net worth of $4.2 billion; oldest son of Frederik G. H. Meijer
• Tom S. Monaghan, founder and former owner of Domino's Pizza
• Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway; donated in excess of $25 million for library and Lawyers Club renovations and $110 million for graduate housing and graduate fellowships
• Larry Page, co-founder of Google
• Jorge M. Perez, real estate developer
• Stephen M. Ross, real estate developer; donated $100 million to the Ross School of Business, named in his honor in 2004; donated $200 million in 2013, split evenly between the Ross School of Business and Athletics Department, making him the largest donor in Michigan's history
• Dr. Homer Stryker, founder of medical device company Stryker Corporation
• A. Alfred Taubman, founder of the Taubman Company; his cumulative lifetime donations total roughly $141 million, making him the second largest donor in Michigan's history
• Preston Robert Tisch, chairman of the Loews Corporation; United States Postmaster General ; former owner of 50% of the New York Giants; his wife, Joan Tisch has replaced him on the Forbes 400 list
• Bruce Wasserstein, mergers and acquisitions specialist
• Ralph Wilson was as an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League.
• Sam Wyly, serial entrepreneur; owner of the Bonanza Restaurants chain
• Samuel Zell, real estate developer; founder of EQ Office; former chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
• Niklas Zennström, sold his share of internet telephony company Skype to eBay

  Entrepreneurs

• Dave Barger, President and Chief Operating Officer of JetBlue; CEO as of 2007
• Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, founder and/or part of eight Silicon Valley startups
• Henry W. Bloch, co-founder and former president of H&R Block Inc.
• Louis Borders, co-founded Borders with brother Tom
• Edward Conard, founding partner at Bain Capital
• Donald N. Frey, chairman and CEO of Bell & Howell for 17 years; received the National Medal of Technology in 1990
• Jacques Habra
• James John Hagerman " Haworth, founding chairman of Haworth, Inc., a manufacturer of office environments that grew from a garage-shop venture in 1948 to a $1.4 billion global corporation
• Andrew Heiberger, founder, owner, and CEO of Buttonwood Development and Town Residential
• Elle Kaplan, founder and CEO of LexION Capital Management
• Gregg Kaplan, president and chief operating officer of change-sorting company Coinstar, which now owns Redbox
• Brad Keywell, serial entrepreneur
• John Koza, venture capitalist; consulting professor in the department of electrical engineering at Stanford University; co-founder of Scientific Games Corporation, where he co-invented the scratch-off instant lottery ticket
• Mark Pieloch, pet pharmaceuticals
• Bhargav Sri Prakash, serial entrepreneur, hedge fund manager
• Benjamin D. Pritchard, American Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis; State Treasurer of Michigan ; organizer and first president of the First National Bank of Allegan; founded the First State Bank, which was the first bank in the county to be designated as a state depository, the first savings bank, and the first bank to install safety deposit boxes
• Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr., son of the founder of Walgreens drugstores; took over the company presidency in 1939 at age 33; steered the company through World War II and the post-war boom; in 2005, in acknowledgment of his $10 million donation, the university named its new facility the Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Drama Center
• Gary Wiren, founder of Golf Around the World and inventor of the Impact Bag

  Hospitality and travel industries

• Ralph Bahna, CEO of Cunard Line ; Chairman of Priceline.com ; founder of Club Quarters

  Industrials

• Robert Beverley Evans, automobile industry executive, founder of Evans Industries; chairman of American Motors Corporation
• Edgar N. Gott, co-founder and first president of The Boeing Company; executive at Consolidated Aircraft
• Mark N. Greene, CEO and member of the board of FICO since 2007
• James P. Hoffa, attorney; son of Jimmy Hoffa; president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters since 1999
• C. Robert Kidder, CEO of Borden Chemical 1995-2002; Principal, Stonehenge Partners, Inc., since 2004; appointed chairman of the restructured Chrysler Group LLC in 2009; former lead director of Morgan Stanley; ran 3Stone Advisors, a Columbus, Ohio, investment firm focusing on clean-technology start-ups
• Temel Kotil, CEO of Turkish Airlines
• Jerry W. Levin, businessman
• Timothy M. Manganello, CEO of BorgWarner; member of the Board of BorgWarner
• William J. Olcott, president of the Oliver Iron Mining Company 1909-1928; president of the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway 1901-1909
• Thomas F. Olin, chairman and co-CEO of Archway Cookies; worked in clandestine service for the CIA
• Mervin Pregulman, played for the Wolverines and in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, and New York Bulldogs ; went on to a successful business career as president and CEO of Siskin Steel & Supply Co. in Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Frederic L. Smith ; co-founder of the Olds Motor Works in 1899; co-founder of General Motors Corporation in 1908
• Louis Carlyle Walker, industrialist, philanthropist, political figure; co-founded the Shaw-Walker Company in 1899 and became sole owner in 1902; important figure in history of Muskegon, Michigan benefactor and namesake of the L. C. Walker Arena
• Thomas J. Wilson, Chairman and CEO of Allstate Insurance, Incorporated

  Internet, software, and hardware

• Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist
• Dick Costolo, former CEO of Twitter
• Dean Drako, serial entrepreneur; has started more than five companies; founder, president and CEO of Barracuda Networks
• Kevin O'Connor, co-founder and CEO of DoubleClick Inc.

  Mergers, acquisitions, and turn-arounds

• David A. Brandon, Chairman and CEO of Domino's Pizza
• Ronald L. Olson, name partner at Munger Tolles & Olson; RAND Corporation Chairman, Board of Trustees ; member of the board of Munger, Tolles & Olson Chairman; member of the board of Berkshire Hathaway ; Council on Foreign Relations board of directors
• Bruce Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard Freres, founder of Wasserstein Perella & Co.

  Finance

• Jason DeYonker, founder and Managing Partner of Forté Capital Advisors, a private equity firm; board member of Academi, formerly known as Blackwater
• David S. Evans, Chairman and Chief Investment Office of Glencoe Capital
• Paul Kangas, figure on Nightly Business Report on PBS
• Charles Edward Merrill, co-founder of Merrill Lynch
• Scott Seligman, real estate developer, the founder of the Sterling Bank and Trust, and minority owner of the San Francisco Giants major league baseball team
• Boaz Weinstein, derivatives trader and hedge fund manager; formed Saba Capital Management

  Not-for-profit

• Dale Carlson, first chief communications officer for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• Simeon Djankov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria
• Raynard S. Kington, President of Grinnell College; former Principal Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health, briefly served as acting director of NIH ; elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2006
• William Andrew Paton, first editor of The Accounting Review

  Real estate

• Amy Rose Silverman, real estate developer and Co-President of Rose Associates