His father and uncle ran a grocery store in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, before founding General Growth in 1954.

FORBES: Good Neighbors

Grieco, founding general manager of Hearth restaurant in the East Village and the Terroir wine-bar franchise, is what the management theorists would call a disruptive force.

FORBES: Riesling Wine Fan Gets a Taste for Kiwi

Samir Kaul, a founding general partner at Khosla Ventures, one of the premier cleantech venture firms, says investors likely will have done their homework out of necessity.

FORBES: Seeing Green In Cleantech

Verma, a mechanical engineer from Kolkata who worked at General Motors and McKinsey before founding Lanworth, assembled a colorful crowd to inventory corn and soy crops before they bloom.

FORBES: Sky High Tips For Crop Traders

Ms Gillan is no lightweight as she is a founding member of the PCAOB, served as general counsel for CalPERS and Chief Administrative Officer for Risk Metrics.

FORBES: PCAOB Auditor Identification Proposal Signals Slow But Steady Reform

Addressing the delegates, Irina Bokova recalled that the UK had not only been a founding member of UNESCO but had also given the Organization its first Director-General.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: UNESCO Director-General concludes first official visit to UK

This is the moment when General de Gaulle restored the pride of France, the moment he created the founding myth of the post war French republic.

BBC: Part Two - France and Memory