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Dec 20, 2011

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CU Direct Connect Hires Blair Korschun as CEO
MarketWatch (press release)
Next, Korschun spent four and a half years with Chase Auto Finance where he built the Default Strategy and Workforce Management teams for Chase's Autobusiness. During his tenure with Chase he helped drive the merger integration with Bank One for ...
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ThyssenKrupp eyes claims vs ex-CEO for Brazil
Reuters
... claims against company's ex-CEO) FRANKFURT/ESSEN, Germany, Dec 20 (Reuters) - ThyssenKrupp may consider demanding compensation from its former chief executive and other managers for investments made in steel plants in Brazil and the United States. ...
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Analysis: United Tech CEO sharpens portfolio-pruning shears
Reuters
"I have never, ever seen this degree of urgency," said Nicholas Heymann, an analyst at William Blair & Co that follows the company. "All of the seniormanagers are riding with the spurs on the horse the whole time. They are not walking the horse. ...
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Thoma Bravo Acquires Control of InfoVista
MarketWatch (press release)
In parallel, on December 20, 2011, Acquco and the holding Luxembourg companycontrolling it, Project Metro SCA ("SCA Luxco"), entered into an irrevocable agreement with Philippe Ozanian (CEO of the Company) and other key managersof InfoVista (the ...
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Analysis: Olympus ex-CEO looks to be losing boardroom bid
Reuters
"In the old days, banks would send someone to be CFO and CEO. You can see having someone from a company close to SMFG means Olympus' solution is going to be bank-led," said the Japanese banker. SMFG is the biggest lender to Olympus with 227.5 billion ...
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Ameriprise Financial's CEO Presents at Goldman Sachs US Financial Services ...
Seeking Alpha
We also have a very strong growing wealth management business. And I will give you some of the stats but as a public company really focused on this business, we're one of the few players out there that have the ability to continue to take ground and ...
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'Sendong' death toll nears 1000
Business Mirror
Jesus L. Arranza, CIIF-OMG president and CEO, said he already ordered the plantmanagers of both mills to open their plants on 24 hours a day every day and immediately coordinate with local government officials on the immediate provision of potable ...
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Arborwell Welcomes Two New Account Managers in Orange County Region
MarketWatch (press release)
20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Arborwell, California's leading professional tree management company, has announced the addition of Gary McCunn and Jeremy Indes to the Orange County Region. Peter Sortwell, Arborwell's President& CEO, ...
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Interview With The President And CEO: Wabtec Corporation (WAB) - Albert J ...
The Wall Street Transcript
This Special Report contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. Please find an excerpt below. Albert J. Neupaver joined Wabtec Corporation on Feb. 1, 2006, as President ...
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Central Desktop Appoints Dhruba Kalita Vice President of Engineering
MarketWatch (press release)
I look forward to playing an important role in the company's continued success." Central Desktop is a cloud-based collaboration platform that centralizes the way people work, teams collaborate and managers lead. The company'scomprehensive online ...
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Party down: Holiday festivities generally less extravagant
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Perception is also an issue, said MaryBeth Hartleb, CEO of Henderson human-resources consulting firm Prism Global Management. Some businesses would rather give party funds to philanthropies or needy employees, Hartleb said. Plus, it's tough to sell a ...
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Interview With The Chairman And CEO: Celadon Group Inc. (CGI) - Stephen Russell
The Wall Street Transcript
This Special Report contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. Please find an excerpt below. Stephen Russell has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ...
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Interview With The CEO; Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) - David S. Congdon
The Wall Street Transcript
This Special Report contains expert industry commentary through in-depth interviews with public company CEOs, Equity Analysts and Money Managers. Please find an excerpt below. David S. Congdon was named Chief Executive Officer of Old Dominion Freight ...
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Exclusive: An inside look at David Einhorn's "big short"
Baltimore Sun
The stock, which had been a favorite of many in the hedge fund set -- most notably John Thaler's JAT Capital -- now ranks as a popular short for managers. Green Mountain spokeswoman Suzanne DuLong rejected the suggestion the companyhas given ...
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Seagate Completes Acquisition of Samsung's Hard Disk Drive Business
MarketWatch (press release)
NY Park, senior vice president and general manager, will oversee Seagate's product development activities in Korea and serve as country manager of the Korea design center, reporting to Bob Whitmore, Seagate's executive vicepresident and CTO. ...
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AllianceBernstein Announces Organizational Changes to Streamline Management
MarketWatch (press release)
In his new role, Gingrich, 53, will be responsible for all sales and marketing efforts related to the firm's asset management business as well as its finance, legal, operations and technology infrastructure. Van Brugge, 43, Keith, 51, and Cohen, 50, ...
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CEO/ GROUP MD - Up to $500k USD- Leading Holding Company-Retail experience ...
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As a CEO, you will lead the Managers for Strategic Reporting to the Board of Directors, and will play a critical role in developing and implementing the strategic plan to advance the company's mission, overall vision, and objectives to promote revenue, ...
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Joburg Tourism CEO quits
Fin24
Johannesburg - The chief executive officer of the Johannesburg Tourism Company, Lindiwe Kwele, has resigned after three years, the company said on Tuesday. Kwele would take up a position as one of three deputy city managers in the City of Tshwane in ...
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Mitt Romney's class of '84? How young hotshots from 'Gordon Gecko' photo ...
Daily Mail
But what became of the other young, hotshot investment managersin the photograph? Each of them, with advanced degrees from some of the nation's most prestigious universities, became elite businessleaders after they molded Bain into a firm has has has ...
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Daily Mail
Newfound Research Congratulates Copeland Capital Management, LLC for Its Risk ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Fund's performance may be more sensitive to any single economic, business, political or regulatory occurrence than the value of shares of a diversified investmentcompany because as a non diversified fund, the Fund may invest more than 5% of its ...
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Party down: Holiday festivities generally less extravagant - Las Vegas Review ...
San Francisco Luxury News
Perception is also an issue, said MaryBeth Hartleb, CEO of Henderson human-resources consulting firm Prism Global Management. Some businesses would rather give party funds to philanthropies or needy employees, Hartleb said. Plus, it's tough to sell a ...
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MPI Releases Stylus Pro Version 10.0
MarketWatch (press release)
"The role of precise quantitative analysis combined with clear and innovative means of communicating information has never been more important within the investmentmanagement industry," said Michael Markov, CEO of MPI. "To that end, our new Stylus Pro ...
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One Kings Lane's Doug Mack Makes Every Home A Castle - Fast Company
San Francisco Luxury News
... managers, to posting thoughts, comments, and questions to the company-wide internal social networking platform. “I'ma big believer in Newton's Law of disorganization,” says Mack, as his employees come up with myriad great ideas each day. “The CEO ...
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Polar Tank Trailer Ratifies 5-Year Labor Contract
Truckinginfo
More > Telular Corporation has announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement to acquire SkyBitz, Inc. The combined companies will create the largest "pure player" asset tracking and management company in the world, Telular says. ...
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Artificial Life Sues KPMG Hong Kong for Damage Exceeding US$ 100 million
MarketWatch (press release)
The Company also announced that it has made a formal complaint about KPMG Hong Kong and certain of its senior managers to the HKICPA (Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants), the oversight board of accounting firms in Hong Kong which is ...
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Deals of the Day: What Now for AT&T?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
[WSJ] This Quote Is Not Good: “[Money] managers don't want endowments and other clients asking them why they own Bank of America.” [NY TImes] Regrets, We've Had a Few: BofA's former CEO opened his mouth, and may have inserted his foot. [Business ...
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Inside Capitol, Investor Access Yields Rich Tips
Wall Street Journal
Later, he was a portfolio manager at Eagle Asset Management. In 2009, he saw he could drum up business for JNK Securities by organizing meetings between investors and government officials, tapping into a growing appetite on Wall Street for public ...
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Wall Street Journal
Money Guru | We haven't witnessed any significant reforms recently
Livemint
IDFC AMC is one of the fund managers of the New Pension System. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has indicated a reversal of the interest rate cycle. What would this mean for customers? Naval Bir Kumar, president & CEO, IDFC AssetManagement Co. ...
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Tasktop Technologies Enjoys Breakout Year in 2011 as Agile ALM Integration ...
PR Newswire (press release)
It unifies heterogeneous ALM stacks by allowing developers, testers, businessanalysts and managers to work within their best-of-breed tools of choice, while automatically maintaining traceability across ALM artifacts. Built on thecompany's Task ...
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GBAR and RentJuice Partner Up, Add Convenience to Rental Process for Members...
PR Newswire (press release)
RentJuice was founded in 2009 by CEO David Vivero and CTO Kunal Shah and is led by a team that helped grow companies like TripIt, Market Leader, Vimeo and CollegeHumor. The Company pioneered the online software category Rental Relationship Management ...
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ZAGG CEO Defends Company after Cramer Criticism | Benzinga
By Brandon Pilzner
Benzinga reached out to ZAGG's CEO, Robert Pedersen, for color on ZAGG'sbusiness and Cramer's negative comments. “We are currently expanding SKU's in Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T with Verizon recently picking up our ZAGGfolio and...
Benzinga - Stock Market Quotes,...
Retiring Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer to Hand Role to Bradway
During Sharer's tenure as the company's third CEO, shares have gained an annual return ... “Under new management, perhaps more avenues toward unlocking ...
www.businessweek.com/.../retiring-amgen-ceo-kevin-sharer-to...
HMV's dog tired, admits CEO - Leadership, business and ...
Is HMV becoming a broken record? Having issued four profit warnings already this year, the group has posted the kind of results this morning which could drain ...
www.managementtoday.co.uk/.../hmvs-dog-tired-admits-ceo/
Marriott's Arne Sorenson to Replace JW Marriott Jr. as CEO
He'll be the third CEO in the company's history and will continue as president. The hotelier announced ... Risk Management: The Business of Disasters; Video...
www.businessweek.com/.../marriott-s-arne-sorenson-to-replace...
Newtek Business Services CEO and Chairman Barry Sloane Made an
Mr. Sloane stresses that the next president should have experience as abusiness manager with extensive operational expertise, not just a financial engineer ...
ar-management.tmcnet.com/news/2011/12/13/5991450.htm
Media Square chairman and CEO lead management buyout | News ...
UK— Media Square chairman Roger Parry and CEO Peter Reid today executed a surprise management buyout of all the agencies that made up the marketing ...
www.research-live.com/news/financial/.../4006534.article
Executive management changes set at CHS - Food Business News
In his new role he will report to Mark Palmquist, executive vice-president and ... he assumed management responsibility for the CHS Crop Nutrients business. ...
www.foodbusinessnews.net/.../Executive%20management%20...
Health Management Associates Appoints Mike Fencel as CEO of ...
Commercial Real Estate News; Baltimore · Boston · Washington DC ... (BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE:HMA) today announced ... or integrity," said Alan Levine, President of Health Management'sFlorida Group. ...
www.citybizlist.com/.../Health-Management-Associates-Appoi...
USA: The New York Times Company Announces Management ...
USA: The New York Times Company Announces Management Changes/CEOJanet Robinson to Retire at Year-End. Board Appoints Arthur Sulzberger Jr. as ...
www.publicitas.com/en/global/press.../news-detail/?no...
Osman Perksoy Joins Telenity as Vice President ... - BUSINESS WIRE
Osman Perksoy Joins Telenity as Vice President, Product Management and ...helping operators overcome these challenges with its new and existing products....
www.businesswire.com/.../Osman-Perksoy-Joins-Telenity-Vice...
Management Just As Crucial As Leadership | CEO.com
Management vs. leadership — it's a distinction we all hear over and over these days. It says management ... Top business insights, CEO news, and buzz-daily...
www.ceo.com/.../management-just-as-crucial-as-leadership/
GE names new CEO of appliances division: Associated Press ...
The company said Blankenship will report to Charlene Begley, CEO of GE's Home & Business Solutions division. ... Blankenship previously was vice president and general manager for GE Aviation's commercial ... Recent investing news ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP...
December 14, 2011 News Release Company: Olympus Corporation ...
News Release. Company: Olympus Corporation. Representative Director,President and CEO: Shuichi Takayama. (Code: 7733, First Section, Tokyo Stock...
www.olympus-global.com/en/corc/ir/tes/pdf/nr111214_2.pdf
Black Hills Corp. Names New Vice President and General Manager ...
Names New Vice President and General Manager of Oil & Gas Subsidiary. ... PR Newswire: news distribution, targeting and monitoring ... and general manager of Black Hills Exploration & Production, the company's oil and gas subsidiary. ...
www.prnewswire.com/.../black-hills-corp--names-new-vice-pr...
TedMag.com - People News: 12.13.2011
He stayed on when the company was purchased by Graybar. Hughes then served as executive vice president and general manager for the company. He was ...
www.tedmag.com/rooms.aspx?id=9922
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ASEAN News, Dec 20, 2011

China, ASEAN go beyond trade
China Daily
China-ASEAN relations, with their massive Free Trade Area in the limelight, have largely been touted in economic and trade facet, but the other side of the coin is a flourishing partnership in other areas, in a bid to enhance mutual trust and all-round...
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