The phrase "a founding role" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a position or function that is essential in establishing or creating something, such as an organization or movement.
Example: "She played a founding role in the development of the new community center, ensuring its vision and mission were clearly defined."
Alternatives: "a key role in founding" or "an instrumental role in establishing".
Agora has also played a founding role in the impact investing and entrepreneurship industry, including helping to co-found ANDE, launching the first Latin American ANDE conference, prototyping the first GIIRS methodology, and launching the first early-stage impact investing fund in Latin America.
In fact, music festivals played a founding role in the company.
Bill played a founding role in the study of subshifts of finite type, and his work on nilflows was highly regarded.
Because he didn't just play a founding role in setting up Cambridge Analytica: he also helped in the setting up of AIQ, the Canadian data services and "digital advertising" firm to which Vote Leave allocated 40% of its £6.8m spend.
His life — even with prep school privilege in Bloomfield Hills, the draft-avoiding refuges of mission work in Paris and business school at Harvard, a founding role at Bain Capital from a mentor who guaranteed he would never fail financially or professionally — is not without drama.
They moved to Walled Cottage, Wheatley, east of Oxford, in 1963, where John's horticultural interests bore fruit in a beautiful garden and an influential monograph, The Garden of Eden: The Botanic Garden and the Re-creation of Paradise (1981), which brought him new friends in Japan, trusteeship of Oxford Botanic Garden and a founding role in the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
In his lifetime motion pictures proper were invented, with contributions from Thomas Edison, the Lumière brothers, and others, and Muybridge was given a little credit for his founding role.
Gaddis had a knack for peddling pseudoscience in addition to his founding role in mythologizing the triangle, he also pumped up urban legends about spontaneous combustion.
My Nextel provider was able to reinstall my phone numbers but not prepared to play a Lost and Found role.
Ed Richards, retiring from the front line after 11 years in a founding then controlling role, was Tony Blair's chief media adviser in Downing Street.
In this talk, Davidson chronicles the challenges he faced moving from product to a founding and leadership role, as well as the benefits of having the "gap year" to accumulate some semi-formal business training by being part of a venture capital firm.
