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Business owner search: find the owner, CEO and directors of any company
Search any company by name and see who runs it: the CEO, owner, directors and officers on file, with their job titles and first names, back in seconds. Companies in 190+ countries, free, no signup.
271,172,019 companies with a CEO or director name · November 2026
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What is this business owner search?
271,172,019 companies with a CEO or director name · November 2026 Search now ↑
01 Search a business and see the people behind it: the primary executive with title, plus further directors and officers where the register publishes them. The names come from official register filings, not scraped profiles, so what you see is who is formally responsible for the entity.
02 Knowing the owner or director matters at both ends of a deal: sales teams want the decision maker's name before the first call, and compliance teams must verify who controls a counterparty before onboarding it. One search covers both.
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Owner, director, UBO: who is who?
In short Registers record different roles. A director (or managing director, Geschäftsführer, bestuurder) runs the entity day to day and is named in the trade register. A shareholder owns part of it. The ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) is the natural person who ultimately owns or controls it, often through layers of holdings, and is what AML law cares about.
Good to know A small business usually collapses all three into one person; in a group they diverge quickly. This search surfaces the registered officers per entity; for full ownership chains and UBO resolution across 375 million businesses, the corporate hierarchy data behind the API takes over where the free lookup stops.
Companies with a CEO or director name, by country
How many companies have a named CEO, owner or director on file, per country, counted live.
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