Sentence examples for known for founding from inspiring English sources
Brice Rosenbloom, a producer known for founding the Winter Jazzfest, is booking the acts for the Central Park event.
A veteran activist, Mr. Glover is best known for founding Ithaca Hours in 1991, an alternative currency designed to strengthen the local economy in Ithaca, N.Y.
Dr. Benjamin is well known for founding the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and for keeping that clinic running during two hurricanes.
"The superhighway is jampacked with stops where at every place you'll have mud thrown at you," said Sir David, 56, a businessman, socialite and celebrity friend extraordinaire who is best known for founding the department store chain Shanghai Tang.
He was perhaps best known for founding the Ken Campbell Roadshow in 1971, a small drama group that performed in bars, and which showcased talents such as Bob Hoskins and Sylvester McCoy.
During that time she began dating Chris Butler, a musician and songwriter best known for founding the Waitresses, a 1980s New Wave band that had a cult hit with "I Know What Boys Like".
Also noteworthy: the company is headed by Mark Hoffman, a serial entrepreneur known for having founded and helmed database technology giant Sybase.
He is well known for having founded (1984) and grown one of the early tech success stories in Waterloo Mortice Kern Systems an enterprise software vendor that had revenue of $50M , 400employees, and became a public company before it was sold to PTC for $304M.
E-commerce jewelry business BaubleBar has raised $10 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Burch Creative Capital, the investment firm headed by billionaire retail and fashion veteran Chris Burch, known for co-founding his ex-wife's fashion label, Tory Burch.
Today, the English and philosophy major is known for co-founding the concert info startup Songkick, second only to Ticketmaster's Live Nation for concert information.
In a version by the playwright Carcinus, on the other hand, she sends the children away for safekeeping, and the fourth-century Diogenes of Sinope, best known for his founding of the school of Cynic philosophy, wrote a version in which her role as a sorceress was downplayed.
