WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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