Alain pompidou

Yannick pompidou
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 to his death in 1974.
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Thomas Pompidou

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Vice-Chair, Board of Governors

Partner and Founder, Marker, LLC

Thomas Pompidou is a Partner and Founder of Marker LLC, a New York City-based venture firm investing in the US and Israel technology ecosystems. He is a member of the Investment Committee and Venture Partner of NightDragon, a leading global investment firm dedicated to cybersecurity based in San Francisco. He is also Vice Chairman of Crescent Point, a leading Asia-focused growth private equity firm based in Singapore, where he has been a Partner and held other investment roles since 2005. He is also a Venture Partner, Board member and Investment Committee member at Team8, a leading Venture Capital firm based in Israel. From 1992 to 2005, he held various positions, ultimately as Managing Director, in the New York investment banking departments of Deloitte, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Lazard, where he focused on M&A and corporate finance. He holds a business degree from the EDHEC business school in France. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pompidou Center and Vice Chai

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Phillip King

Phillip King CBE PPRA (b. 1934 Tunis – d. 2021 London)

Phillip King was one of the key sculptors of the last 70 years. He was an assistant to Henry Moore and a student and then contemporary of Anthony Caro. After graduating he became a key member of the group of young artists who re-imagined sculpture from the 1960s onwards.

King’s work was included in the seminal Primary Structures exhibition at Jewish Museum, New York in 1966 (a turning point in contemporary sculpture) alongside Carl Andre, Anthony Caro, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Robert Morris and Robert Smithson. King represented Great Britain at the 1968 Venice Biennale (alongside Bridget Riley) and has also been the subject of ambitious museum survey shows at Whitechapel Gallery, London (1968), Kröller Muller National Museum, Netherlands (1974), Hayward Gallery, London (1981), Le Consortium, Dijon (2013) and Tate Britain, London (2014).

King is included in the most illustrious public collections in the world including Tate, London

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Alain Pompidou

French scientist and politician (1942–2024)

Alain Pompidou (French:[alɛ̃pɔ̃pidu]; 5 April 1942 – 11 December 2024) was a French scientist and politician. A professor of histology, embryology, and cytogenetics, he was the fourth president of the European Patent Office (EPO) from 1 July 2004, to 30 June 2007. He was the adopted son of Georges Pompidou, former President of France.

Biography

Background

Pompidou was born in Paris on 5 April 1942.^[1]^[2]

Professor of histology, embryology and cytogenetics (1974–2004)

Pompidou took doctorates in medicine, biology, and science. From 1974 to 2004, he was professor of histology, embryology and cytogenetics in the medical faculty of the University of Paris. Until 2004 he was also director of the laboratory of the Cochin – St Vincent de Paul – La Roche Guyon Hospital in Paris, head of the cytogenetics and pathology department, and chairman of the hospital group's advisory board. He hold tenures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and at the Memorial Sloan-Ket