entrepreneur

A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks.

Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.

A person who organizes concerts, plays, or other entertainments; the manager of a theatre or similar venue; an impresario.

A person who serves as an intermediary; a middleman; a go-between.

Chicago, it was, by way of compensation, beginning to take on the cosmopolitan cast of culture that it has worn ever since, as entrepreneur between the Old World and the New.

A person who manages an artist or performer; an agent.