Roch hillenbrand biography
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Rainer Hillenbrand
Short Biography
Rainer Hillenbrand is Ikerbasque Research Professor and Nanooptics Group Leader at the nanoscience research center CIC nanoGUNE in San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain), and a Joint Professor at the University of the Basque Country. He is also co-founder of the company neaspec GmbH (Martinsried, Germany), which develops and manufactures near-field optical microscopes. From 1998 to 2007 he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biochemie (Martinsried, Germany), where he led the Nano-Photonics Research Group from 2003 to 2007. He obtained his PhD degree in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 2001. Hillenbrand’s research activities include the development of optical near-field nanoscopy and infrared nanospectroscopy, and its applications in nanophotonics, graphene plasmonics, materials sciences and biology. In 2014 he received the Ludwig-Genzel-Price “for the design and development of infrared near-field spectroscopy and the applic
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Jonathan Karp
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Karp was named President and CEO of Simon & Schuster in May 2020. In this role, he leads Simon & Schuster’s numerous publishing groups as well as its international companies in Australia, Canada, India and the United Kingdom.
Mr. Karp first joined Simon & Schuster in June 2010 as publisher of the company’s flagship imprint. During his tenure, he oversaw the publication of bestselling authors such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Irving, Walter Isaacson, David McCullough, Susan Orlean, and Bob Woodward, while launching acclaimed books bygd Jonah Berger, Bill Browder, Rinker Buck, Lisa Halliday, Chip and Dan Heath, Adam Higginbotham, Siri Hustvedt, Saeed Jones, Naomi Klein, Jessica Knoll, Samin Nosrat, Vaddey Ratner, Matthew Thomas, and Rebecca Traister. Other notable authors and cultural figures brought to the imprint’s list during Mr. Karp’s tenure include Tom Brady, Stephen Colbert, Ray
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Retirement often conjures images of shuffleboard or fishing. But for most Goldman Sachs partners, it signals the start of another career.
When Goldman went public in May 1999, a group of 221 executives controlled the firm, with roughly 60 percent of the outstanding shares. Now, only 39 of the original partnership class remains, with others going to top jobs in finance, government and even sports, according to a study by The New York Times.
They reaped a windfall at the initial public offering, based on a previously unreported partnership document. John Thain, chief executive of the lender CIT Group, and John Thornton, a professor at Tsinghua University in China, each held approximately than 1 percent of the firm prior to the market debut. Each of those stakes were worth roughly $165 million at the public offering, according to former partners.
It’s been a highly influential group, both at Goldman and beyond. Roughly 100 moved to other financial firms or started their ow