UNIT 10: Businesspeople and business leaders

businessman / businesswoman

businessperson / businesspeople

• someone who works in their own business or as a manager in an organisation

• zakenman / zakenvrouw / zakenpersoon

An entrepreneur

• someone who starts or founds or estabilishes their own company

• een ondernemer

a founder

• someone who starts a company

• een oprichter

start-ups

• an entrepreneur may found a series of companies

entrepreneurial

• used in a positive way to describe the risk-taking people who do this, and their activities

• ondernemend

establishment

• used to talk about the act of founding something as well as a particular organization, or part of one

• vestiging

a business empire

• a large group of companies mainly owned by one person or family

• een zakenimperium

business leaders / captains of industry (old-fashioned journalistic)

• successful businesspeople, especially heads of large organizations

• zakelijke leiders / grootindustriëlen

magnates, moguls or tycoons

• media magnate

• property mogul

• software tycoon

• people in charge of big business empires may be referred to

  • magnaat (3)

    • media magnaat

    • vastgoed magnaat

    • software magnaat

leadership skills

leiderschapskwaliteiten

to found

oprichten

to estabilish

oprichten, tot stand komen