Innovation Leaders
The people behind the breakthroughs — historic figures and the leaders shaping innovation now. Each profile looks past the biography to the method: how they innovate, what guides them, and what made them good at it.
Damian Józefiak
Co-founding Central Europe's largest insect protein plant and pioneering industrial-scale black soldier fly farming in Poland
Galileo Galilei
1564–1642Founding observational astronomy and the experimental method
Grace Hopper
1906–1992Pioneering the compiler and machine-independent programming languages
Justyna Andrysiak
Leading the product and technology pipeline that produced the EU's first authorised bacteriophage-based animal feed additive
Lê Anh Sơn
Building Vietnam's first ISO-certified industrial robot and deploying it inside a Samsung factory — then exporting it to South Korea
Ngô Tuấn Anh
b. 1981Founding SafeGate's router-plus-cloud security platform and chairing ViSecurity, Vietnam's national cybersecurity coordination network
Nguyễn Tử Quảng
b. 1975Founding Bkav in 1995, cracking iPhone Face ID before any team on earth, and building Vietnam's first independently designed high-end smartphone
Przemysław Żelazowski
b. 1978Founding SatAgro and making satellite-based precision agriculture accessible to farms of any size
Stefan Palzer
b. 1971Leading R&D and technology across the world's largest food and beverage company
Steve Jobs
1955–2011Co-founding Apple and reinventing personal computing, music, and phones
Uğur Şahin & Özlem Türeci
b. 1965 / b. 1967Co-founding BioNTech and developing the first approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
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