| REITH | General manager (and later managing director) of the British Broadcasting Company who went on to establish it as the BBC (5) |
| BERG | Henning .... Stabaek manager who played for Blackburn Rovers between 1993 and 2003. later managing the club for 57 days (4) |
| SOLDENE | Emily ___, renowned 19th-century English singer, actress, theatre manager and, later, journalist (7) |
| LYONS | Founder and managing director of SS and Jaguar cars, considered by some as one of the finest automobile stylists of all time (5) |
| SEPOYS | Troops in the service of the British East India Company, who instigated the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (6) |
| TUSA | John ___, Managing Director of the BBC World Service from 1986-92 (4) |
| REPETITEUR | Member of an opera company who coaches the singers and accompanies them on the piano in rehearsal (10) |
| GITA | Gopinath, Deputy Managing Director of the IMF |
| SHAMIT | Managing Director of the West Coast Partnership (6,6) |
| GAIGER | Managing Director of the West Coast Partnership (6,6) |
| KARRENBRADY | Vice-chairman of West Ham United and former managing director of Birmingham City |
| KATESWANN | Former managing director of Homebase and chief executive of WH Smith |
| LILIANBAYLIS | Who was a theatrical manager and the founder of the Old Vic as a centre of Shakespearean productions? |
| RAFFLES | A clerk in the East India Company who founded the modern state of Singapore (7) |
| ROWLAND | Tiny, former chief executive and managing director of Lonrho (7) |
| AVRO | British aviation company who also built cars briefly in the 1920s (4) |
| ASTOR | John Jacob, chairman of the Times Publishing Company who died in 1971 (5) |
| JEHANGIR | Managing director of GoAir (3,5) |
| DAVID | NR's Managing Director of Digital Railway (5, 6) |
| WABOSO | NR's Managing Director of Digital Railway (5, 6) |
