Directory
Entrepreneur Directory
Sacramento-region founders and business leaders, starting with Asian American and Pacific Islander entrepreneurs: where they started, what they built and the numbers behind it. Search by name or filter by industry and community.
Legal Services
Anh Phoong
Grew up in Antelope and built Phoong Law into a 13-office injury firm across California, Nevada and Texas.
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Food & Beverage
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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Grocery
Hieu Tai Tran
Built a Sacramento-based Asian supermarket chain with stores from California to Texas and Oregon.
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Banking
James Beckwith
Has led Five Star Bank since 2003, through its 2021 public listing to $5.6 billion in assets.
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Food & Beverage
Kevin Fat
Third generation of the family behind Frank Fat’s, Sacramento’s oldest family-owned restaurant, open since 1939.
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Sports & Entertainment
Kevin Nagle
Built and sold a $2.3 billion pharmacy-benefits company, then took on Sacramento pro soccer.
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Real Estate Development
Kyriakos Tsakopoulos
Leads the family land company his father, Angelo Tsakopoulos, founded in 1964, one of the region’s largest landholders.
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Real Estate Development
Larry Kelley
The developer turning 244 acres of old rail yards north of downtown into a new neighborhood, hospital and stadium district.
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Food & Beverage
Mai Pham
Left TV news in 1988 to open Lemon Grass, then took Vietnamese and Thai cooking to a national audience.
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Real Estate Development
Mark Friedman
Developer behind The Cannery, The Barn and the Bridge District, and a key figure in bringing the Kings arena downtown.
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Food & Beverage
Mason Wong
Second generation of a 50-year Sacramento restaurant family: Cafeteria 15L, Iron Horse Tavern, MIX Downtown, Mas Taco Bar and Casa Lola.
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Food & Beverage
Mini Nguyen & Trinh Le
A chef and her husband who built a family of Sacramento restaurants: Station 16, three Firehouse Crawfish locations and Daikon Korean BBQ.
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Grocery
Niño Jefferson Lim
Chose groceries over accounting and built the Filipino American chain with a store in Elk Grove.
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Real Estate Development
Phil Angelides
A Sacramento-born developer who became State Treasurer and led the national inquiry into the 2008 financial crisis.
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Banking
Steve Fleming
Grew Sacramento’s largest locally based bank from $800 million to more than $6 billion and took it public in 2026.
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Food & Beverage
Taro Arai
Built Mikuni from one Fair Oaks restaurant in 1987 into a 10-location sushi brand with more than 1,000 employees.
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Sports & Entertainment
Vivek Ranadivé
The software founder who kept the Kings in Sacramento in 2013 and built Golden 1 Center downtown.
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