founder | Founder | "Hayk" by Mkrtum Hovnatanian (1779–1846). The legendary founder of the Armenian nation, standing next to the tomb of Bel, with Hayk's arrow still in Bel's chest. The map depicts the Lake Van | Giambattista della Porta, founder of the ''Academia Secretorum Naturae'' | Founder's Green | Founder's Day (Scouting) | Founder's Day | Founder's Building | Founder effect | 2000 Founder's Cup |
Its significant business entrepreneurs included men such as Henry Wells, founder of American Express and Wells Fargo, whose operations created new express mail and banking services that spanned New York state and reached to the developing state of California.
Richard Branson, founder of Virgin group of companies, commonly called Beardy by Jeremy Clarkson
Robert (Bob) M. Frankston (born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.
Bradley Inman, Internet entrepreneur and founder of several companies
Byrne Piven (September 24, 1929 – February 18, 2002) was an influential American stage actor, director, and co-founder of the Playwrights Theatre Club, a forerunner of The Second City.
Her grandfather was the famous bullfighter Cayetano Ordóñez, known as El Niño de la Palma, the founder of the Ordóñez bullfighting dynasty.
During the 1950s the club changed leagues several times; they were members of the Delphian League between 1951–52 and 1954–55, rejoined the London League in 1955 and then left to become founder members of the Aetolian League in 1959.
He is also the founder of GoodGuide, an online consumer tool for retrieving information about the supply chain of consumer products such as toys, food, and detergents.
Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.
The homage to him, held at the Teatro Español, a few days after his death, was attended by, among others, the founder of Triunfo, José Ángel Ezcurra; the journalist Fernando Delgado; the former and current editors of El País, Juan Luis Cebrián and Joaquín Estefanía, respectively; the president de PRISA, Jesús de Polanco; the actors Diego Galán and Núria Espert, and the then mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón.
Edward Francis Hutton (September 7, 1875 in New York City – July 11, 1962 in Westbury, Long Island, New York) was an American financier and co-founder of E. F. Hutton & Co.
Leaker of U.S. diplomatic cables Chelsea Manning was charged with (but ultimately acquitted of) "communicating with the enemy," implying that U.S. military prosecutors considered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, to whom Manning leaked the documents, an enemy of the US government.
Prominent architect William Sidney Pittman built his home on Eastern Avenue; his wife, Portia, was the daughter of Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute.
The book was edited by Jann S. Wenner, co-founder and publisher of Rolling Stone, and a friend of Thompson.
:For the founder and head of the Independent Financial Centre of the Americas, see Gaetan Bucher
After being rebuffed by ABC, NBC, and CBS, he turned to Vic Piano, founder of the Mizlou Television Network, then a fledgling independent TV network.
Among the early Presidents of the Board of Directors were famed orthopedic surgeon Russell A. Hibbs, Edward Pulling (founder of the Millbrook School), and Arthur W. Butler.
Colleague, shareholder, manager, and fellow co-founder of the company is Matthias Valentin Rahmel, from Dormagen.
Mark Hanis, Co-Founder, Board member, & Founding President of United to End Genocide
His brother Joseph Oliver Carter (1835–1909) married Mary Ladd (1840–1908), daughter of the founder of early trading company Ladd & Co. William Ladd (1807–1863).
The Human Resource Development Network (HRDN) was conceived by eight like-minded HRD professionals in 1997 (they are called Founder members), it has grown steadily over the years.
It was published in "Flensburg, Schleswig and Leipzig" in 1789 (the same year as Seyler's death), and was dedicated to the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, a long-time friend and collaborator of Seyler and her husband Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler theatrical company (see also Seyler family).
He is co-founder and chief-editor of the Revue d'Histoire Nordique since 2005, a bilingual French-English historical review dedicated to the history and civilisation of both Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, and director of the Centre of Excellence Jean Monnet of the University of Toulouse II-Le Mirail.
Professor Grundfest is also a co-founder and director of Financial Engines, Inc., chairman of the board nominating committee of the NASDAQ Stock Market, and was formerly a director of Oracle Corporation
It was named after the pre-1936 name of the town of Tunceli (its founder's birthplace), but also means "Surviving Music" in Turkish.
Leopold II of Belgium (1835–1909), second king of the Belgians and founder and owner of the Congo Free State
Robert Cock, a "first settler" who accompanied Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo, and for whom Cox's Creek was named, has been reported as founder of the malting business.
The launches are judged by admired 'Connoisseurs' including: Joan Burstein CBE (Co-founder of Browns); Gurinder Chadha OBE (Director and Producer); Professor Wendy Dagworthy (Royal College of Art’s Head of Fashion); Nadav Kander (Photographer); Sir John Hegarty (Founder. Creative. BBH); and Luke Johnson (Chairman of Royal Society of Arts).
On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.
Moishe Rosen (1932–2010), founder of the organization Jews for Jesus
Matt Nahorn is a 2008 graduate of Lake Ridge Academy who has held the title of museum founder and curator since his youth.
Bill Gothard, founder of "The Institute In Basic Life Principles", IBLP
One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (ISBN 1586481797) is the first book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America.
In May 2008, Pep Boys CEO Jeff Rachor left the company after 13 months to pursue a luxury automotive dealership venture with Michael Dell (founder of Dell).
Pär Johansson, Swedish theatre chief, well known as founder of Glada Hudik-teatern
Burrell served as the sixth supreme (national) president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity from 1907 to 1914, and along with fraternity founder Ossian E. Mills has been credited by fraternity historians with encouraging the early expansion of and formulating the basic philosophies and spiritual values espoused by the fraternity.
Jack Dreyfus, founder of the Dreyfus Fund, became a major proponent of phenytoin as a means to control nervousness and depression when he received a prescription for Dilantin in 1966.
However the more popular name of Gresham Ship was introduced when the guns on board the vessel revealed a grasshopper insignia, which was the motif made by Sir Thomas Gresham, founder of the Royal Exchange.
Richard Rogers Bowker (September 4, 1848 – November 12, 1933) was a journalist, editor of Publishers Weekly and Harper's Magazine, and founder of the R.R. Bowker Company.
In 1949 he met with Thomas J. Watson, the founder of IBM, and was able to persuade him to sponsor the Index Thomisticus.
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, has compared the experience of seeing the earth from space, also known as the overview effect, to savikalpa samadhi.
Don Schechter, filmmaker and composer, founder of Charles River Media Group
The abbey church was the place of burial of the founder, Welf VI, who died in 1191, and his son Welf VII, who predeceased his father in 1167.
In 2011, he started a large-scale sculpture collaboration with artist Fernando Mastrangelo, commissioned by Napster and Facebook founder, Sean Parker under the name, MLHQ Studio.
The Battle of Love's Return is a 1971 comedy film written, directed, produced, and starring Lloyd Kaufman, the co-founder of Troma Entertainment, his first major film after his student production The Girl Who Returned.
In April 2009 the new line up, lead by the founder of the group Primož Oberžan, premiered their latest project Cymaticon at Kinodvor movie theater in Ljubljana.
Thomas Whittemore (1871–1950) was a scholar, archaeologist and the founder of the Byzantine Institute of America.
According to CTO and co-founder Anant Agarwal, Tilera will target the chip at networking equipment and digital video markets where the demands for computing processing are high.
(Atatürk is the founder of modern Turkey, Çankırı is the name of a city to the north of Ankara, Cumhuriyet means Republic and Anfartalar was the location of a critical battle during the Gallipoli Campaign.)
There is no evidence in the parish registers or other documents pertaining to Walton to support the popular notion the family of William Henry Smith the founder of W H Smith came from Walton.
By November, the two had brought in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and comedian Drew Carey as investors and MLS had announced Seattle as the next expansion team.
Victor Roos, a co-founder of the 1921 Roos-Bellanca Aircraft Company in Omaha, Nebraska, had left a management position with the Swallow Aircraft Company in 1928, and was tapped to head the American Eagle-Lincoln Aircraft Corporation.
Anson Stager (April 20, 1825 - March 26, 1885) was the co-founder of Western Union, the first president of Western Electric Manufacturing Company and Union Army general, where he was head of the Military Telegraph Department during the Civil War.
Baruti is the co-founder of the Atelier de Création et de l'Initiation à l'Art (Creative Workshop for an Initiation to Art) to encourage talented youth in Kinshasa.
Christopher Rheinlander Robert (Brookhaven, Long Island, New York, 23 March 1802, Paris, France, 28 October 1878) was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Robert College later known as Boğaziçi University.
In case of Mail.ru group another co-founder was current company's CEO Dmitry Grishin.
Also in 2009, after many years of rumors as to the possibility of a new CD, Emitt once again entered the recording studios with a new band and all-new material, joined by the co-founder of The Grass Roots and The Merry-Go-Round drummer Joel Larson, co-founder and former bassist for Counting Crows, Matt Malley, and guitarists Jim Rolfe and Dan Mayer.
Levinson is best known for being co-founder (with Jerry S. Rawls) of Finisar Corporation.
He currently serves as Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners, a director of eBay, Yelp, Move, Inc., and Sonos.
Braniff co-founder Thomas Elmer Braniff was an insurance magnate and now the third major owner (Senator William A. Blakley was the second largest owner of Braniff after 1954) of Braniff was also an insurance executive.
On February 2, 2013 Jim did a live audio podcast with Co-Founder of Guys From Andromeda LLC, Chris Pope.
She was a co-founder of New York's Ninth Avenue Food Festival under then-Mayor Abraham Beame.
Josh James, entrepreneur, founder of Domo and co-founder of Omniture
It was founded in 1994 by "Jugi" Tandon—the inventor of the double-sided floppy disk drive and founder of Tandon Corporation—and Tom Mitchell, a co-founder of Seagate and former president and Chief Operating Officer of both Seagate and Conner Peripherals.
She later was a co-founder of the Royal Württemberg Court Bank, which, after many fusions, resulted in the Deutsche Bank in the 1920s.
Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is an Australian writer, member of the Society of Women Writers and is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.
He is the co-founder, with his brother Craig Kielburger, of Free the Children, an international development and youth empowerment organization, and the co-founder and co-CEO of Me to We, its partner social enterprise.
Norina Matchabelli, Italian actress and co-founder of Prince Matchabelli perfume line
Prominent employees and consultants to the company included musicologist Dr. Robert Gjerdingen, psychologist Daniel Levitin and record producer/e-music.com co-founder Sandy Pearlman.
In 1903 the Cary house and the land surrounding it were purchased by William Procter, grandson of the Procter & Gamble co-founder, in order to give them in trust to the Traders.
The construction of the museum was made possible by a donation from alumnus and co-founder of Texas Instruments, Inc., Patrick E. Haggerty, and his wife, Beatrice, for whom the museum is named.
Previous speakers include Michael D. Griffin, former NASA administrator and John Gedmark, co-founder of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and Purdue alumnus.
Reality distortion field (RDF) is a term coined by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs' charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.
Richard L. Simon (1899–1960), American businessman and co-founder of the publishing house Simon & Schuster
She is the facilitator of the Forest Movement Europe (FME) and the co-founder of the NGO FERN, of which she is currently the campaigns coordinator.
On September 16, 2006, Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of the online payments system PayPal, announced that he is pledging $3.5 million to the Methuselah Foundation "to support scientific research into the alleviation and eventual reversal of the debilities caused by aging" (SENS research).
The co-founder of Specsavers, Mary Perkins, was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2007 in recognition of her services to business and the community in Guernsey.
The first tag clouds on a high-profile website were on the photo sharing site Flickr, created by Flickr co-founder and interaction designer Stewart Butterfield in 2004.
Thomas Byrne (industrialist), (1822–1884) Irish born engineer for Waring Brothers (railway construction in Luxembourg), co-founder of SA Hauts-Fourneaux de Rodange, mine owner.
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Scotti (born December 22, 1939) is an American actor, television and film producer, and co-founder of Scotti Brothers Records.
TransferWise has received seed funding amounting to $1.3 million from a consortium including leading venture firms IA Ventures and Index Ventures, as well as individual investors such as PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, former Betfair CEO David Yu, and Wonga.com co-founder Errol Damelin.
He was the chairman of the Confederation of Swedish Conservative and Liberal Students, opposed the occupation of the Student Union Building in Stockholm in 1968 and was a co-founder of Borgerliga Studenter – Opposition '68 later in the same year.
Among the passengers were Broadway theatre impresario Earl Carroll and his girlfriend, actress Beryl Wallace; Henry L. Jackson, men's fashion editor of Collier's Weekly magazine and co-founder of Esquire Magazine; and Venita Varden Oakie, the former wife of actor Jack Oakie.
Vicente González Lizondo (1942-1996), Spanish politician and co-founder of the regional party Valencian Union
Her interest in history has resulted in painting many historic murals, illustrating local histories, and she is co-founder of Cranberry House, a historical museum on Great Cranberry Island, Maine.
He is co-founder of the Whistler Theatre Project, and also writer and director of the CBC adaptation of Othello.
Among the speakers were Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia and Jonathan Zittrain, one of the principal investigators of the Open Net Initiative.