Fast Company is excited to announce the addition of 74 new members to the Most Creative People in Business 1000, an exclusive community of influencers in business from across the economy and around the globe.
These mavens of commerce and social good were chosen from among all of the creative forces featured in the magazine during 2014. They were chosen for their ingenuity, vision, and bravery in today’s ever-changing markets. They come to us from the worlds of tech, retail, food, health care, automotives, higher education, and entertainment. They hail from Hong Kong, Beijing, Potsdam, and Columbus, Ohio.
Whether they’re rejuvenating Latin American neighborhoods or sequencing the human genome, these new MCP 1000 honorees deserve your attention. That’s why we’ll continue to cover their work year-round with breaking news, as well as in our popular editorial series like The Recommender, Agendas, How I Get It Done, and My Creative Life. Their stories will also live in the Most Creative People section of our website, on stage during our live events, and in our newsletters (sign up here). And of course, they will also live across social media–follow along with the hashtag #MCP1000. You can also check out all of our MCP 1000 members on Twitter here.
This marks the first time Fast Company honors new MCP 1000 members outside of our annual Most Creative People in Business issue of the magazine in June. Here are the 74 pioneers in business who have stood out from all other leaders we reported on this past year:
- Ahmed El Alfi, GrEEK Campus
- Farah Assir, New York Times Co.
- Jeni Britton Bauer, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
- Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney
- Bobbi Brown, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics & Yahoo! Beauty
- Ethan Brown, Beyond Meat
- James Cameron, Filmmaker
- Adora Cheung, Homejoy
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Actor
- Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University
- Eileen Fisher, Eileen Fisher Inc.
- Bobby Flay, Chef & Restaurateur
- Gary Friedman, Restoration Hardware
- Casey Gerald, MBAs Across America
- Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator
- Marie Guion-Johnson, AUM Cardiovascular
- Jon Harris, FiftyThree
- James Hedrick, IBM
- Tim Heidecker, Abso Lutely
- Jelly Helm, Studio Jelly
- Erik Hersman, iHub
- Tuan Ho, Philo
- Robin Hunicke, Funomena
- Jennifer Hyman, Rent the Runway
- John Ikeda, FiftyThree
- Jeff Immelt, GE
- Sarah Jane Ho, Institute Sarita
- Abigail Jacobs, West Elm
- LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers
- Naithan Jones, AgLocal
- Lei Jun, Xiaomi
- Dave Kneebone, Abso Lutely
- Michael Kobori, Levi Strauss
- Michael Kors, Michael Kors Holdings Limited
- Nicholas Krasney, Philo
- Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix
- Michelle Lam, True&Co
- Keli Lee, ABC
- John Legere, T-Mobile
- José Legaspi, The Legaspi Company
- Richard Linklater, Filmmaker
- Paul Litchfield, Reebok
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress
- Pony Ma, Tencent
- Jim Mason, All Power Labs
- Sam Nazarian, SBE Entertainment Group
- Scott Norton, Sir Kensington’s Ketchup
- Jon Oringer, Shutterstock
- Melanie Perkins, Canva
- Lisa Phillips, New Museum
- Scott Plagenhoef, Beats Music
- Mark Ramadan, Sir Kensington’s Ketchup
- David Rockwell, Rockwell Group
- Charlie Rose, CBS News/PBS
- Vivian Rosenthal, Snaps
- Velma Scantlebury, Christiana Care Health System
- Lynn Seely, Medivation
- Nico Sell, Wickr
- Susan Shen, Nisiss
- Steve Sidwell, Luvo
- Nancy Silverton, Chef and Restaurateur
- Julie Smolyansky, Lifeway Foods
- Hunter Lee Soik, Shadow
- Ramji Srinivasan, Counsyl
- Debbie Sterling, GoldieBlox
- Tarek Taha, GrEEK Campus
- Astro Teller, Google X
- Hamdi Ulukaya, Chobani
- Valerie Wagoner, ZipDial
- Dr. Jun Wang, Beijing Genomics Institute
- Eric Wareheim, Abso Lutely
- Glynn Washington, NPR’s Snap Judgment
- Peter Wouda, Volkswagen Design Center
- Alison Mary Ching Yeung, Mary Ching
- Mei Zhang, Wild China
Please join us in congratulating them on their induction into the MCP 1000, where they join an ever-growing community of visionaries, changers, and doers. In June, we’ll honor another 100 leaders in the world of business with our annual Most Creative People in Business issue—innovators who have never before been covered by the magazine.