industrialist

industrialist
    n 1: someone who manages or has significant financial interest
         in an industrial enterprise
    

68 Moby Thesaurus words for "industrialist":
      ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author,
      banker, baron, begetter, beginner, big boss, big businessman,
      builder, business leader, businessman, captain of industry,
      conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser,
      director, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, enterpriser,
      entrepreneur, executor, executrix, father, financier, founder,
      generator, grower, inaugurator, initiator, instigator, institutor,
      introducer, inventor, journeyman, king, little businessman,
      magnate, maker, man of commerce, manager, manufacturer, master,
      master craftsman, mother, organizer, originator, past master,
      planner, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer,
      shaper, sire, smith, top executive, tycoon, wright