What is the word for a person who sets up a new business / foundation, etc

What is the word for a person who sets up a new business / foundation, etc. Founder would be too basic and does not imply setting up the structure of the organization. Same for initiator? In Dutch we use quartermaster but I have not seen this in non-army context.

11 March: Interesting read and thanks for all the imput. Trailblazer or Groundbraker come close to what I’m trying to express. An entrepreneur invests in a company and mostly with the aim to make a profit.. Founder implies foundation only. Early or first employee implies an employment contract. The job I’m trying to describe - in one word - comes between founding / investing in a new enterprise / department and hiring regular staff – and is done on project basis mostly. You'd set up structure (organize the ‘line’ of admin, operations and finance) maybe look at the market in the broadest sense. Once organization frame of the enterprise / department is clear and set up, you’d not be involved anymore. You’d have done your job of ‘trailblazing’ ‘groundbraking ‘ ‘quarter making’ and move on to the next job.

If you are referring to the person who creates a new business, founder is the proper term. A founder may or may not be the person who sets up the whole structure. With that respect you may refer to the managers who, following the guidelines of the founder or co-founders help to establish the whole enterprise.

Founder:

• The person who creates an organization or a company is known as the founder.

• As a noun, founder means "the beginner or originator of something." You might talk about the founder of a nation, the founder of club, or the founder of a website.

(vocabulary.com/dictionary/founder)

Often such a person is called an

entrepreneur
n a person who organizes and manages an enterprise, esp. a business, usu. with considerable initiative.
[1875–80; < French: literally, one who undertakes (some task)

_{From thefreedictionaryonline}

Edit

For those who insist that entrepreneur may not be used as a de facto title, I offer this usage breakdown of "the founder" vs. "the entrepreneur". The former still wins, but the relative trends point to "the entrepeur" as being currently on an intercepting path. The usual caveats regarding NGram usage apply, but this is at least evidence that there are not no cases where such a construction is used.

Sometimes the term "architect" is used to imply both founder and designer of an enterprise, especially if the endeavor is sufficiently complex that some sort of construct is involved.

ar·chi·tect (är′kĭ-tĕkt′) n.

1. One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.

2. One that plans, devises, or organizes something: a country that was the war's chief architect.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/architect

Besides being called a "founding father", that person could be a groundbreaker.

• founding father : who founds or establishes something.
• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art ≡ pioneer, trailblazer↔conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things.

(Vocabulary.com/TFD)