American business biography stubs

John Utendahl was the owner of the Utendahl Group, one of the largest African American-owned investment banking groups in the United States. In 2010, Utendahl joined Deutsche Bank Americas as the Vice Chairman. In 2016, John Utendahl joined Bank of America as Executive Vice Chairman of Global Corporate and Investment Banking.

Janis Annie Hansen (June 14, 1940 – November 30, 2021) was an American talent agent and actress.

John Casablancas (December 12, 1942 – July 20, 2013) was an American modeling agent and scout who founded Elite Model Management. Casablancas is remembered for his development of the supermodel concept and has been criticised for having sexual relations with young clients. He was the father of The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas.

Debra Antney is the founder and CEO of Atlanta-based management and recording company "Mizay Entertainment" (home to Gucci Mane, Nicki Minaj, Waka Flocka, OJ Da Juiceman, French Montana. She is also Waka's mother. She is recognized as the individual who started Gucci Mane's and Nicki Minaj's rap careers along with her team marketing and promotions executives Portia Kirkland and India Graves.

Jerral Wayne Jones, Jr. (born September 27, 1969) is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of the Dallas Cowboys. Since 1996, Jones was the guiding force behind the now defunct Dallas Desperados.

Noah Tepperberg (born August 15, 1975) is an American businessman and co-founder of several New York nightclub and restaurant brands including Marquee, Tao, Avenue and Lavo.

Michael Raymond Burns (born August 21, 1958) is an American entertainment executive and Vice Chairman of Lionsgate, a film studio and global content platform. He joined Lionsgate's Board of Directors in 1999 and became Vice Chairman of the studio in March 2000. During his 17-year tenure, Lionsgate has grown from a fledgling independent studio into a diversified global entertainment company.

Baruch Yehudah Shemtov (born September 22, 1987) is a television host, journalist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. He currently is the New York Correspondent for Young Hollywood, a freelance reporter for WNYW, and a Special Correspondent for Extra. Shemtov founded a line of ties that currently sell in Japan at Journal Standard's TRISECT, and online at Zozotown.

Georgette Mosbacher (born Georgette Paulsin; January 16, 1947) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, political activist, and author. Also chairman of the Green Beret Foundation advisory board, she is known in the media as a Fox News contributor. On November 19, 2015, it was announced the President Obama had nominated her as a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Mosbacher started her career as an executive in 1987 when she purchased the struggling cosmetics firm La Prairie, outbidding companies such as Revlon, Avon, and Estee Lauder. After selling La Prairie in 1991 to Beiersdorf for a profit, in the 1990s she founded Georgette Mosbacher Enterprises, her own business and finance consulting company. From 2000 to circa 2015 she served as CEO of Borghese, a cosmetics manufacturer based in New York City. Mosbacher authored two motivational books for women in the 1990s: Feminine Force through Simon & Schuster and It Takes Money Honey through HarperCollins.

Robert H. "Rob" Reid (born October 2, 1966) is an American author and entrepreneur. He is the author of two cyberthriller novels, Year Zero: A Novel, and After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, as well as a non-fiction book, Architects of the Web, about the rise of the internet business. Reid is the founder of Listen.com Inc., which created the Rhapsody digital music service.