Category: Entrepreneur

Chose groceries over accounting and built the Filipino American chain with a store in Elk Grove.

Built a Sacramento-based Asian supermarket chain with stores from California to Texas and Oregon.

A Sacramento-born developer who became State Treasurer and led the national inquiry into the 2008 financial crisis.

The developer turning 244 acres of old rail yards north of downtown into a new neighborhood, hospital and stadium district.

Developer behind The Cannery, The Barn and the Bridge District, and a key figure in bringing the Kings arena downtown.

Leads the family land company his father, Angelo Tsakopoulos, founded in 1964, one of the region’s largest landholders.

Grew Sacramento’s largest locally based bank from $800 million to more than $6 billion and took it public in 2026.

Has led Five Star Bank since 2003, through its 2021 public listing to $5.6 billion in assets.

Built and sold a $2.3 billion pharmacy-benefits company, then took on Sacramento pro soccer.

The software founder who kept the Kings in Sacramento in 2013 and built Golden 1 Center downtown.

Second generation of a 50-year Sacramento restaurant family: Cafeteria 15L, Iron Horse Tavern, MIX Downtown, Mas Taco Bar and Casa Lola.

A chef and her husband who built a family of Sacramento restaurants: Station 16, three Firehouse Crawfish locations and Daikon Korean BBQ.