The region’s most renowned businesses, entrepreneurs and leaders
This business and entrepreneur directory features the founders, CEOs, team owners and locally owned businesses that shaped the Sacramento region: the owner of the Sacramento Kings, bank CEOs, a former State Treasurer, restaurant and grocery empire builders, and neighborhood favorites rated by thousands of customers.
Faces behind the region’s best-known names
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Who is in the directory
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7 heritage communities are represented among the entrepreneurs, plus API-, Hispanic-, Black-, women- and veteran-owned businesses.
Since 1939
Milestones from the profiles
Highest-rated businesses
Ranked by Google rating, then number of reviews (Google, Nov. 4, 2026).
★ 5.0 · 68 reviewsPomegranate Boutique
A clothing boutique run by two sisters.
★ 4.9 · 183 reviewsAt Ease Brewing Company
A Sacramento brewery founded by a retired Army colonel.
★ 4.9 · 52 reviewsCasa de Español
A Spanish-language school and cultural center downtown.
★ 4.8 · 106 reviewsNaija Cuisine
Nigerian food, catering and events in Midtown Sacramento.
★ 4.8 · 56 reviewsTEAMride Studios
An indoor cycling studio founded by four sisters in 2012.
★ 4.8 · 20 reviewsTeneral Cellars
A women-owned winery and tasting room in Midtown.
Renowned entrepreneurs and leaders
From sports owners and bank CEOs to the chefs who put Sacramento on the national map.
Vivek Ranadivé
The software founder who kept the Kings in Sacramento in 2013 and built Golden 1 Center downtown.
Kevin Nagle
Built and sold a $2.3 billion pharmacy-benefits company, then took on Sacramento pro soccer.
Phil Angelides
A Sacramento-born developer who became State Treasurer and led the national inquiry into the 2008 financial crisis.
Mai Pham
Left TV news in 1988 to open Lemon Grass, then took Vietnamese and Thai cooking to a national audience.
Taro Arai
Built Mikuni from one Fair Oaks restaurant in 1987 into a 10-location sushi brand with more than 1,000 employees.
Billy Ngo
Opened Kru at 23 in 2005, grew it into a restaurant group and became a 2024 James Beard finalist.
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