Sentences with phrase «leading pioneers of»

Newton and Helen Harrison, a collaborative team often referred to simply as «the Harrisons,» are among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement.

Often simply referred to as «The Harrisons», the husband and wife team are leading pioneers of the Ecological Art movement.

Josef and Anni Albers, lifelong artistic adventurers, were among the leading pioneers of twentieth - century modernism.

VALIE EXPORT (born 1940 in Linz, Austria, as Waltraud Lehner) is one of the leading pioneers of feminist Video Art of the 1960s and 1970s.

VALIE EXPORT (born 1940 in Linz, Austria, as Waltraud Lehner) is one of the leading pioneers of feminist Video Art...

With 13 fantastic, state - of - the - art ships in its fleet, Norwegian Cruise Line is a leading pioneer of cruise holidays with a difference.

Russian painter and designer Kasimir Malevich was born in Kiev in 1878 and became a leading pioneer of abstract art.

Nancy Spero (1926 — 2009) was a leading pioneer of feminist art, and throughout her 50 - year career, she created a vibrant visual language constructed from the histories and mythologies of past and present cultures.

One of the most innovative figures in abstract art in America during the mid-20th century, the Latvian - born, Jewish - American painter, Mark Rothko (Marcus Rothkowitz) was the leading pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, a movement triggered by the collapse in moral values following World War II.

He has been the leading pioneer of digital photography becoming the first to publish a digital photograph in American Vogue in 1982.

An important and influential figure in American art, and one of the most successful 20th century painters, Johns, together with Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008) and the composer John Cage (1912 - 92), was a leading pioneer of Pop Art during the 1950s.

The Hungarian - born, French abstract painter, sculptor and graphic designer Victor Vasarely, was the leading pioneer of the Op - Art movement.

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They're already convincing investors — New Millennium just received close to $ 1 million in a round of financing led by Toronto - based venture capital fund Hedgewood Inc. — and a burgeoning array of early adopters, including pioneering chefs, adventurous retailers and corporate partners that could soon include Google.

Shares of pioneering CRISPR gene - editing firm Editas fell 7 % in early Tuesday trading after the company announced that it would delay an initial FDA filing for clinical trials of one of its lead drugs, LCA10, to the middle of next year (Editas had originally planned to file by the end of 2017).

At one of Jon Levy's house parties you could find yourself, as we recently did, making fajitas with Grammy - nominated singer - songwriter Regina Spektor and leading snake venom expert Zoltan Takacs before watching live presentations from Bill Nye the Science Guy and break - dancing pioneer Richard «Crazy Legs» Colón.

The separate partnerships announced Thursday are a milestone for Aurora's founders, Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell, and Chris Urmson, all early pioneers of the technology who led autonomous vehicles programs at Google (goog), Tesla (tsla), and Uber (uber).

This isn't a yes to guaranteed success, it's a yes to embracing that they were designed to pioneer something — to lead the way in spite of their fear of failure and inadequacy.

A pioneer of the U.S. web industry, Yang also led Yahoo's investment in Alibaba, securing his fame as a crossover U.S. - China business personality.

A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

Spotify's early lead in music streaming has drawn comparisons to Netflix, which built upon its pioneering role in DVD - by - mail rentals and then video streaming to create a hugely successful, subscription - driven franchise that has produced spectacular investment returns and left the company with a market value of $ 122 billion.

That act of maternal tough love led Ringelmann a few years later to launch, with two male partners, the crowdfunding pioneer Indiegogo.

We talk with two pioneering physicians — one of whom is overseeing the world's largest HIV vaccine trial and the other led a groundbreaking successful pilot in the U.S. — to see how far we are from getting to zero.

Ayah Bdeir, Founder / CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder / CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder / CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown - Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co - Founder / CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder / CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder / CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder / CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder / Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder / CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder / CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder / CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder / CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder / Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder / CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co - Founder / Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co - Founder / CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder / CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman / CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder / CEO, Sama & Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder / CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President / CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co - Founder / President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder / Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co - Founder / CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc..

A pioneer in impact investing at the Nonprofit Finance Fund, which she founded and ran from 1984 through 2010, Miller led Heron on an ambitious quest to harness 100 percent of its assets to advance the foundation's mission of fighting poverty.

India - based OYO, a startup that pioneered and popularized the concept of budget hotel networks, has closed $ 250 million in new funding led by SoftBank's Vision Fund.

United States Verizon, one of the largest wireless providers in the United States, announced on May 12 that it will acquire AOL, a leading Internet pioneer and Web content provider, for $ 4.4 billion.

Taking advantage of the country's environment of free speech and data privacy, the CVA seeks to foster innovation within the world's leading blockchain and cryptographic ecosystem to pioneer digital technologies within Switzerland as well as internationally.

Canadian businesses can also follow the lead of a handful of pioneer companies that have already decided to take steps to invest in countries along the Belt and Road route.

Deal Expands Axel Springer's Worldwide Digital Audience to Nearly 200 Million Users and Furthers Commitment to Innovative Digital Journalism / Ranks Axel Springer among the World's Six Largest Digital Publishers in Terms of Reach / Henry Blodget and Julie Hansen Will Continue to Lead Pioneering Business News Portal and Remain Significantly Invested through an Extensive, Long - term Equity Incentive

Just days ago, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced that Anthony Levandowski, one of the pioneers of Google's self - driving car project and co-founder of self - driving trucking company Otto, would be leading all of Uber's autonomous car efforts as part of the company's acquisition of Otto.

Over the last seventeen years, the firm has evolved from being a pioneer in secondary investments to becoming the leading provider of flexible capital solutions for the venture ecosystem.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

While other firms play catchup with a reactive approach, Hagens Berman has become a proactive pioneer — testing vehicles, effecting scientific evidence of new fraud and leading the pack against automakers who violate the law.

Craig Newmark is the Founder of craigslist, Craig Newmark is Web pioneer, philanthropist, and leading advocate on behalf of trustworthy journalism, voting rights, veterans and military families, women in tech, and other civic and social justice causes.

We learn about Ed's journey from his early days as a pioneer of computer animation, being hired by George Lucas to run the computer division at Lucasfilm, working with Steve Jobs to form Pixar (ultimately Pixar - Disney) and leading it to meteoric success.

A number of world - leading science and technology professionals, young scientists and engineers, and innovation teams should be trained, with major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and original innovations as their goal, Xi said.

Attend and hear from some of the real estate industry's leading female pioneers.

Recently, he unveiled some very technical aspects of Google's algorithm at SMX Israel, which is the world's leading conference on search marketing, run by industry pioneers Search Engine Land.

William is a direct participant in the crypto - technology market, working alongside startups, entrepreneurs, pioneers, leaders, innovators, creators, enterprise executives and practitioners; in addition to being an investor, advisor, and Board member in some of the leading organizations in this space.

As one of the pioneers and leading company in this domain, the objectives of JAFCO Asia are clear: to add value through our experience, professionalism and business development, to build successful businesses together with our entrepreneurs and to obtain excellent return on investment for our investors.

«Supplier diversity is a really new part of the diversity landscape here in Europe,» says WEConnect International's Executive Director for Europe Maggie Berry, «It's exciting to be working with our corporate members who are leading by example to pioneer the inclusive sourcing movement in the region.»

Mr. Ratra has been a part of the pioneering teams leading various functions to provide excellence through process and quality initiatives, contributing to industry - leading growth.

Otto cofounder Anthony Levandowski, a former Google Car pioneer, is now leading all of Uber's self - driving efforts.

Central Logic, the pioneer and leading innovator in transfer center software solutions, and the title sponsor of the Patient Flow Summit, has announced the speaker lineup for this year's thought leadership event.

Dame Inga Beale is a pioneering crusader for diversity and LGBT rights, the first - ever female CEO of Lloyd's of London, and now is leading the 328 - year - old British insurance giant through Brexit as well as modernizing» through technology and diversity.

These organizations helping to make Goal Centric the leading pioneer in buyer persona development with a body of work that dates back to over a decade.

Speaking further, Sahil said, «We are proud to be backed by people like Roger Ver (who has single handedly funded the seed rounds for the entire first generation of Bitcoin businesses), Amit Bhardwaj (who is leading the march for Bitcoin Adoption in India), Michael Terpin (he co-founded BitAngels, the first angel network for investments in bitcoin / digital currency companies) and more Bitcoin Pioneers.

Bank of America was just beginning to pioneer technology that would lead to online banking.

Leading progressive academic economist Steve Keen gained international recognition after he successfully predicted the 2007 global crisis using an alternative macro-economic model built on the pioneering work of Hyman Minsky and Wynne Godley.

But we have seen that Israel pioneered a path which was destined to lead to the abandonment of mythology, of the gods, and of the divine unseen world in which they were believed to live.