"founding role" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to the initial or primary role someone or something played in creating or establishing something. Example: "Steve Jobs played a crucial founding role in the creation and success of Apple Inc."
Mr. Romney is far from Goldman's largest client — some investors have billions of dollars at the firm — but his political connections and founding role at Bain have elevated his importance there.
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.
In late September, for instance, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund – made fat upon the wealth of John D Rockefeller's founding role in the rise of the petroleum industry – pledged to divest its $860m in assets from fossil fuels.
The belief in his founding role, fostered by later critics, became the cornerstone of the philosophy of the wenrenhua, which held that a man could not be a great painter unless he was also a scholar and a gentleman.
He is known for his books "Welcome to Your Brain" and "Welcome to Your Child's Brain" and for his founding role at the Princeton Election Consortium, a blog providing U.S. election analyses.
Parker is best known for his founding role at Napster, and his work with Facebook during that comapany's infancy.
SAN FRANCISCO — Billionaire Sean Parker, famous for his founding roles at Napster and Facebook, is backing an unconventional $250 million effort to attack cancer that involves persuading hundreds of the country's top scientists — who often are in competition with each other — to join forces and unify their research targets.
Prior to founding his incubators, Peter held founding roles at Webvan and Business Signatures, as well as executive roles at Oracle and HP.
He has had founding roles with Visio (now part of Microsoft), Netbot (acquired by Excite), Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), Medio (Nokia), Mixxer, and Airworks.
Prior to Fika, general partner Eva Ho was a founding general partner at Susa Ventures, held product marketing roles at Google and YouTube and founding roles in various emerging tech ventures.
"My personality is I wish for the best; I prepare for the worst," says Zhang. "I may look like a petite Asian girl, but I don't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't do it". Joining Zhang on the 2017 list are six list members who played founding roles at their firms.
