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What is a captain of industry?

What is a captain of industry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A prominent business person who owns or is the highest-ranking executive of one or more major firms, especially one who has considerable wealth and influence.
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The concept of what constitutes a manly image has changed radically over the last three centuries, from the leisured aristocrat to the self-made captain of industry.
Joe is a powerful leader, a straight talker and a seasoned captain of industry.
I've often wondered what it takes to be the wife of a captain of industry.
President Francois Hollande led tributes to France's best known captain of industry.
Walter Bassett was the greatest captain of industry west of the Rockies, and was one of the small group that controlled the nation in everything but name.
It was he who maneuvered a captain of industry, steelmaker Francis Mer, rather than a government mandarin into the finance minister's job.

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