mastermind

Noun

• someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
  • Mozart was a child genius
    
  • he's smart but he's no Einstein
    

• someone who creates new things

Verb

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
  • he masterminded the robbery
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  genius , brain , brainiac , Einstein , originator , conceiver , engineer , direct , organize , organise , orchestrate