high-flyer

British  

noun

1. a person who is extreme in aims, ambition, etc

2. a person of great ability, esp in a career

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Example Sentences

Metropolitan Hilarion was for many years a high-flyer in the Church and seen as likely successor to Patriarch Kirill.

From BBC

The young high-flyer and his equally-talented little sister Ariel, 11, have been tutored by their older siblings Clara and Juliana, who are both students at Imperial.

From BBC

In 2016 he founded the hedge fund High-Flyer, which quickly became one of China’s wealthiest investment houses thanks to Liang and Co.’s intensive use of A.I. models for optimizing trades.

From Slate

High-Flyer’s A.I. innovations and experiments had led it to stock up on Nvidia’s most potent graphic processing units—the high-efficiency chips that power so much of today’s most elite A.I.

From Slate

However, High-Flyer was already making ample use of its chip stash.

From Slate