Category: On the Move

Kristen Green

Unconventional. Savvy.

On the move and helping others on the move.

Kirsten Green is a venture capitalist with a flair for helping companies make it to the big leagues.

Green graduated from UCLA with a degree in business economics, though never went to business school. Her business acuity was gleaned in retail. She founded Forerunner Ventures in 2007. Her genius is in analyzing consumer behaviors and brand building. For Green it is all about “original thinking,” something she says is “paramount as an investor seeking outsized investment returns,” as reported in a CNN interview by Poppy Harlow and Haley Draining.

Her expertise has paid off. By 2017, according to CB Insights, Green became one of the top tier venture capital investors of the world. This is due in large part to two successful early stage investment payoffs. In 2016 Unilever bought one: the Dollar Shave Club for one billion dollars U.S. In the same year another of Forerunner Ventures’ investments, Amazon competitor Jet.com, was given over to Walmart for a tidy $3.3 billion.

“I’m still working to persuade the VC ecosystem that the evolution of the retail sector is ripe for more multi billion-dollar venture outcomes.” –Kirsten Green

 

Fashioning Legendary Heirlooms

She started sewing when she was two years old. By nineteen years of age she graduated at the top of her class from the Beijing School of Industrial Fashion Design. Within ten years she struck out on her own as Rose Studio where she began developing her signature imperialistic couture style that incorporates elaborate traditional embroidery and her contemporary eye.

Pei made her Paris Haute Couture debut in January 2016 unveiling her Courtyard collection. In the same year, she was also named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People and one of the Business of Fashion‘s 500 most influential people shaping the global fashion industry.

Pei also costumes stars at state-sponsored events including the Beijing Olympics and the CCTV New Year’s Gala. The dress worn by Rihanna at the Met’s Gala for China: Through the Looking Glass propelled her legendary style even further into the couturier stratosphere.

With a new Paris showroom on the prestigious Rue Saint Honoré and the launch of her eponymous brand – Guo Pei – fashion’s future holds exciting possibilities.

“China’s Hautest Couturier.” –Time

Photos by: Jasper James, Neilson Barnard, Dominique Maitre, Zacharie Scheurer.

After the financial crisis of 2008, a new money called Bitcoin was invented. It is a virtual currency, not controlled by any government but by users worldwide to store wealth and buy and sell things quickly.

It is not “mainstream” yet, just as credit cards took their official title in the USA in 1950, email taking form in 1984, and a more recognizable internet in 1994, Bitcoin is still on its way to revolutionizing the archaic world of banking and finance. However, its total value reached $100 billion USD in 2017 and it can now be used to purchase just about anything from real estate to services and products.

Like all currency, Bitcoin is based on trust yet there is no one centralized place like a bank, and as a result all users have a ledger called ¨blockchain¨ that accurately records all transactions.  The real future of it is to allow worldwide users to exchange value every day and night!

Primarily, Bitcoin’s power is the freedom it gives to users. Government and banks will have to change or regulate Bitcoin to hold their power over money.  Nevertheless, consider this – in reality, billions of earth’s citizens have no bank. Will Bitcoin solve this problem?

As the digital world of internet and mobile phones continue to transform at rapid speed, it looks more promising each day that Bitcoin may become the future of money.

 

BIOGRAPHY

After graduating from the University of Alaska, Tobias James Preston founded his first private lending company called McKinley Mortgage in 1989.  By the year 2000, it had not only grown nationwide, but also on an international scale with three offices throughout Mexico currently operating in Tulum, Mexico City, and Los Cabos.

His professional passion is to bring capital to illiquid markets and his entry into Bitcoin and associated crypto – currencies will leverage this opportunity internationally.

Tobias James Preston, President
McKinley Mortgage Co
www.mckinleymortage.com

Identified by her expertise in event design and wedding planning, Marianna Idirin passionately embellishes a classical and elegant style, sharing a unique vision to create unique and unforgettable experiences. Her creative and original charm in understanding the needs of her global clients in combination with exquisite attention to detail, is what sets Marianna apart from others.

 

Most recently she was recognized in Book’s Edition “The Weddings in México” created by a highly distinguished Mexican publishing group, at one of the industry´s top wedding and event design conventions.

 

 

One of Marianna’s greatest passions is to share her creativity, emotions and happiness throughout every project with her clients and team, and UNVEIL, a new project soon to be released, epitomizes her devotion to allure the dramatic senses of all those who are enchanted by extraordinary and memorable experiences in Los Cabos, Mexico.

 

 

Adriana Ugarte began acting within her home at the age of five. By the age of 20 she appeared in her first feature film, Cabeza de Perro, directed by Santi Amodeo and was nominated for the Goya Award for Best New Actress.

Two years later she landed the role of the main character in the LA1 television series La Señora where she was recognized with various awards and started to develop a fan base. From here she moved on to El Juego del Ahorcado with Clara Lago and Álvaro Cervantes and continued on the big screen in Castillos de Carton, Lo Contrario al Amor, Lo Mejor de Eva, Combustión, Tiempo Sin Aire and Palm Trees in the Snow. Crescendoing with the attention and fans that surround this accomplished actress she was chosen to co-star in the internationally inspiring film Julieta directed by one of the uncontestably best film-makers of this era – Pedro Almodóvar. The movie based on Canadian author Alice Monroe’s book Runaway has taken Ugarte into the international limelight as one of the best actresses of our time.

In between filming movies she played in the miniseries Niños Robados on Telecinco and gained international fame and accolades for her seductive role as the lead in the provocative series, El Tiempo Entre Costuras (The Time In Between) created by Antena 3. She continues to impress on the small screen with La Sonrisa de las Mariposas.

“I’m an insatiable director, and Adriana is an inexhaustible actress.” – Pedro Almodóvar

PHOTOS BY: ANTONIO TERRON AND YVES HERMAN

The World’s Most Captivating Young Star

Emma Stone has quickly become one of the most in-demand stars in Hollywood – and for good reason. The young actress has already demonstrated remarkable versatility throughout her career, which involved taking on roles in off-the-wall comedies like Superbad (2007), co-starring in massive comic book inspired blockbusters such as The Amazing Spider Man (2012) and mastering inspiring leading parts in dramas like The Help (2010). Whatever the genre, it’s obvious Stone can master it.

Adding to her impressive resume of box office hits, Stone has received numerous accolades for her most recent work, which includes her first Academy Award for her performance as Mia, in La La Land. In addition to an Oscar win, she was presented a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. La La Land also happened to be the year’s top-grossing Oscar movie with $340.5 million worldwide.

At 28, there is no doubt this marks the beginning of a distinguished career for the young actress. From quirky rom-com starlet to Hollywood’s leading lady, we can’t wait to see what Emma Stone does next.

“I still have a lot of growing and learning and work to do. And this [Oscar] is a really beautiful symbol to continue on that journey.” – Emma Stone

Larry Page and Sergey Brin Global Game Changers

The mythos of the two Stanford students, who in 1998 created a search engine that changed the world is well-known. Today Google is an internet searching behemoth and Larry Page and Sergey Brin are two of the wealthiest men on the planet.

Google has expanded exponentially venturing into areas like drone delivery, pharmaceuticals, and autonomous cars.

“We try to invest …,” says Brin, “in the places where we see a good t to our company. But that could be many, many bets, and only a few of them need to pay off.”

Reflecting this diversity, Page and Brin have restructured, with Alphabet acting as a parent entity that controls several companies. Page, as Alphabet CEO, runs Google, the healthcare division Calico, the smart home appliance division Nest and more. Brin, Alphabet’s President, is directing special projects at Alphabet X, (formerly Google X); its top secret innovation testing division where the high- tech gadgets are created.

Page and Brin make it a priority to use technology to better the world for all. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet’s Google division, explains how a recent breakthrough in their Arti cial Intelligence program could be, “… literally, game changing — and the ultimate winner is humanity,” with solutions for “… bigger challenges like climate change and cancer diagnosis.”
Despite all they have already accomplished, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are brilliant innovators at heart and they are just getting started.

Born in Missouri and raised in California, Misty Copeland began her ballet studies at the late age of thirteen at the San Francisco Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Summer Intensive on full scholarship. She went on to become a member of its corps de ballet. In 2007 she became the company’s second African American female soloist, the first in two decades.

In 2008, Copeland received the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts, a two-year fellowship awarded to young artists who exhibit extraordinary talent providing them additional resources in order to attain their full potential. She proceeded to perform a variety of classical and contemporary roles. In 2012 she danced the title in Firebird choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky. In 2014 she made history as the first black woman to perform the lead role of “Odette/ Odile” in ABT’s Swan Lake during the company’s Australian tour.

In 2015, Copeland was promoted to principal dancer, making her the first African American woman to ever be promoted to this position in the American Ballet Theater company’s 75-year history. That same year she reprised her role as “Odette/Odile” during ABT’s Metropolitan Opera House spring season and also debuted as “Juliet” in Romeo and Juliet.

Copeland has been featured in numerous publications and television programs, including CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Vogue, Ebony, and People Magazine. She was inducted into the Boys & Girls Club National Hall of Fame in 2012 and received the Breakthrough Award from the Council of Urban Professionals in 2012. She also received the Young, Gifted & Black honor at the 2013 Black Girls Rock! Awards and has been immortalized as a Ballerina Barbie. She is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoire, Life in Motion and the children’s book Firebird.

In 2014, President Obama appointed Copeland to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition. The following year she was included as one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine.

Devoted, cheerful and passionate, she allocates much of her free time to giving back, working with many charitable organizations mentoring youth.

“When she’s on, the audience is totally diverse,”
said Judith Jamison, artistic director emerita of
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. “This is what
happens when you give people opportunity to do
things they are capable of doing.”

-The Wall Street Journal

All The Elements Required

“Many companies,” Nadella says, “aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

So it’s fitting that the man in charge of one of the most significant computer companies of the world is also known for his talent, resources and perseverance. It’s the kind of story we love; successfully working your way through the ranks, persistently following your dream. Satya Nadella has been with Microsoft for 22 years, most recently as the Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group.

The Microsoft CEO is charming, energetic and motivated, concentrating on the opportunities that Microsoft offers for innovation. It is the reason he states he originally joined Microsoft, and now, with a team of almost 130,000 people worldwide, he says the opportunities are even greater.

Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. He is married and has three children. He is a Seahawks fan, a cricket aficionado who enjoys poetry and literature.

DYNAMIC BUSINESS SAVVY

Tamara possesses a determination and entrepreneurial spirit that is truly captured in her latest and most exciting business venture.

Born in Milan and educated in London, Tamara is the eldest daughter of Formula One legend Bernie Ecclestone and former Armani model Slavica. Inspired by the professional successes of both parents, Tamara’s motivation stems directly from her father’s fortitude to maximize every opportunity as well as an admiration for fashion from her mother. These family ideals remain the cornerstone of her business endeavors.

Following in her family’s footsteps, Tamara began her career at F1 magazine while also modeling for Armani. Tamara has furthered her professional path, becoming a successful broadcast personality in England.

Throughout her burgeoning career as a model and television personality, Tamara demonstrated an astute desire to use her background to benefit others. Her passion for philanthropy led her to work closely with well- respected charities like Great Ormond Street Hospital, Starlight and the Dog’s Trust, to name just a few.