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Unity Management Group, Inc. Hires Atlanta Capital Partners, LLC and its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
7, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Unity Management Group Inc. /quotes/zigman/582474 UYMG -8.62% ("Unity Management" or the "Company") announces it has hired David Kugelman as Special Advisor to the company. Kugelman, who is President of Atlanta ...
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Bird-Watching CEO Gupta Chases Returns as DBS Expands in Asia
BusinessWeek
Gupta, 52, has focused on building DBS's wealth-management business to reach rich Asians, particularly in China, India and Indonesia. He has hired new management, introduced products including Chinese yuan-denominated investments and pledged to spend ...
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Noble Names Former Goldman Asia Chief Alireza as Next CEO to Succeed Elman
Bloomberg
Departing Managers Leiman, who quit as CEO on the same day the company posted its third-quarter loss, left because of personal reasons and was at least the fourth senior manager to leave in 12 months. Alireza, 41, is leaving Goldman Sachs after 19 ...
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Bloomberg
CEO Andy Puzder: Engaged Franchisees Key to CKE Success
Blue MauMau
The board appointed Puzder as president and CEO of the strugglingcompany in 2000. In July of 2010, the private-equity firm ApolloManagement took CKE private in a transaction valued at $1 billion. Apollo retained CKE's management team, ...
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ODESIA Signs for $1.5M of Contracts in January 2012 and Undertakes Its Growth ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Feb 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ODESIA Group Inc. ("ODESIA" or "the Company") /quotes/zigman/1494044 CA:ODS +4.76% , a corporation specialized in delivering business-intelligence solutions ("BI"), decision-process management ...
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Easy Multi-User Password Management Server for KeePass
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
It is inevitable. Businesses eventually reach that point where controlling access to sensitive information becomes an issue. No longer can the CEOsingle-handedly take care of all confidential matters, but must rely on trusted employees to assist.
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BUSINESS NEWS: Montco Bar Association installs new president
The Mercury
BLUE BELL — The Montgomery Bar Association held its Annual BusinessLuncheon Jan. 13 Meeting at Meadowlands Country Club. Nearly 300 local dignitaries, legal professionals and law enforcement members attended the event which included the installation ...
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Citi Named a "Top 50 Company for Executive Women" by The National Association...
MarketWatch (press release)
Carol Evans, president of Working Mother Media and CEO, NAFE, says, "The NAFE Top 50 Companies are major employers that are committed to hiring, retaining and promoting executive women. They represent a cross-section of companies that go way beyond lip ...
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Veracode to Host Career Open House on February 9
MarketWatch (press release)
Hiring for more than 70 positions across the company, attendees will have the opportunity to meet departmental hiring managers and interact with members of the Veracode executive team including Co-Founder Chris Wysopal and CEO Bob Brennan.
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Crowded London Borough Uses LogiXML Embedded Analytics to Solve Parking ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Also, managers, operatives, and Civil Enforcement Officers (CEOs) - the individuals who issue parking tickets - did not have mobile access to reports in the field, only to the front end of the system. "Our systems were good for running day-to-day ...
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ATD Chairman: 'Change Will Come With or Without Us'
Truckinginfo
More > Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems announced Mark McCollough is the new vice president and general manager for the charging business.... More > Meritor Inc. and Fras-le SA renewed a five-year commercial supply agreement for brake lining for the ...
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Search for returns
Financial Post
As president and portfolio manager for Toronto-based MacNicol & Associates Asset Management, David MacNicol recognized a couple of years ago that clients were becoming discouraged with traditional means of investing. Bonds yielded too little and ...
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Financial Post
Luup Launches Mobile Travel Authorisation & Budget Management Service
MarketWatch (press release)
LONDON, Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Luup took to the stage today at high-profile financial technology showcase FinovateEurope, launching a Mobile Travel Authorisation & Budget Management Service. This service is part of Luup's Corporate Mobile ...
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EnergyNet's Chris Atherton Promoted to Vice President of Business Development
MarketWatch (press release)
John Munroe, Vice President of Engineering and Government Affairs is located in the Houston office, as well. "Chris has been instrumental in EnergyNets' success while working with our Business DevelopmentManagers in Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City and ...
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UBM TechWeb Acquires 4G World Conference and Expo
MarketWatch (press release)
"The 4G market and 4G World is right in our sweet spot," said Lenny Heymann, UBM TechWeb Executive Vice President and Group GeneralManager. "4G World serves a fast growing market that will immediately utilize our conference expertise and ...
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WisBusiness: Tech company plans to move HQ to Wisconsin, create 105 jobs
Wisbusiness.com
The state is offering the firm up to $1.2 million in tax credits for the creation of up to 105 jobs within the next three years, said Connecture PresidentDan Maynard. Connecture is a health insurance software company that announced Monday it's ...
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Advent Software's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
Accordingly, we would like to note that during the course of this conference call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of the company. We wish to caution you that such statements are just ...
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Luup Launches Mobile Travel Authorisation & Budget Management Service
Business Wire (press release)
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luup took to the stage today at high-profile financial technology showcase FinovateEurope, launching a Mobile Travel Authorisation & Budget Management Service. This service is part of Luup's Corporate Mobile Payment Solution ...
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Embrace the short term
Financial Post
Relentless investor focus on quarterly earnings, takeover payoffs, slash-and-burn management, daily stock prices and options-based CEO compensation is said to destroy value and sacrifice long-term prosperity for the false god of short-term gain.
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Financial Post
Numerica Corp. makes new hires, plans more
Northern Colorado Business Report
... a research scientist, two part-time office managers and administrative assistants and a paid accounting intern. "Talented people have always driven Numerica's growth," Numerica President and CEO Jeff Poore said in a statement issued by the company.
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Jama Contour 3.4 Brings Shared Vision to Align Development Activities with ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Contour's unique value is in delivering "actionable collaboration" across all stakeholders - from product executives and project managers to businessanalysts, developers and QA teams - keeping everyone in sync through real-time communication and ...
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Confio Software Finishes 2011 with Soaring Growth
MarketWatch (press release)
BOULDER, Colo., Feb 07, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today Confio Software, the makers of the award-winning Ignite database performancemanagement software, announced that it achieved 71 percent revenue growth in 2011 and more-than-doubled its employee base ...
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University City Science Center Port Business Incubator Receives International ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PHILADELPHIA, Feb 7, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- The NationalBusiness Incubation Association has awarded the NBIA Soft Landings International Incubator designation to the University City Science Center in Philadelphia. The NBIA's Soft Landings ...
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Dynasty Financial Partners Welcomes King Wealth Management Group to Its ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
With this move, King and his team form a new company called King WealthManagement Group, and become the ninth advisor business to leverage the Dynasty platform. “Our partnership with Dynasty Financial Partners provides our firm with the highest ...
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“This is a breakthrough in business education”
The Day Weekly Digest
“Global experience shows that top CEOs typically have a finance background. It means that top managers are mostly individuals with an experience in corporate finances, ie a financemanager is often promoted to the CEO. Operations managerstend to rise ...
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The Day Weekly Digest
The Facebook Stimulus: How the $5 Billion IPO Could Change Silicon Valley
The Atlantic
No matter that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prefers to focus on his Menlo Park-based company's "social mission" rather than its bulging financials or bevy of new multimillionaires. The rest of Silicon Valley, from merchants to realtors to building ...
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The Atlantic
Public Launch of the SocialFlow Optimized Publisher Gives Businesses of Any ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Businesses can't just rely on crossing their fingers and hoping for the best on social networks like Twitter and Facebook," said Frank Speiser, CEO and co-founder, SocialFlow. "As the business value of social media has increased, so has the urgency to ...
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Cloudyn Ends Need for Rampant Over-Provisioning in the Cloud
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
TEL AVIV, Israel--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Cloudyn today announced the general availability of the next generation in cloud cost managementsolutions, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for dynamically optimizing the costs of cloud computing ...
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12 employer branding best practices for 2012
PersonnelToday.com
Develop an accelerated capability development programme that is linked to the employee's career development plan and supported by their immediatemanager and managers from across the business. I am still amazed by the number of leaders I meet on my ...
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Catholic Charities CEO resigns months after sex scandal at children's shelter
Houston Chronicle
By Susan Carroll The CEO/president of Catholic Charities Galveston-Houston has announced plans to resign after more than six years at the helm of the nonprofit organization. The organization confirmed the departure of Bonna Kol in a statement, ...
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Poll: Small Business Owners Say Big Businesses, Millionaires Not Paying Fair ...
MarketWatch (press release)
They support increasing taxes on millionaire incomes, letting high-end tax cuts expire, and closing the carried interest loophole that gives hedge fundmanagers big tax breaks. These findings from a scientific nationwide survey of small business owners ...
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Facebook Governance Draws California Scrutiny
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Facebook Governance Draws Scrutiny Facebook Governance Draws Scrutiny David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Facebook Inc. employees work at thecompany's new campus in Menlo Park, California, US, on Friday, Dec. 2, 2011.
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Bloomberg
Glencore-Xstrata $90B deal meets shareholder opposition
Financial Post
... it's probably a great deal for the Xstrata management, but it's a poor deal for Xstrata's majority shareholders,” Schroders' Richard Buxton told Reuters. Xstrata chief executive Mick Davis, who will be CEO of the enlarged company, admitted the two ...
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Financial Post
Business Digest for Feb. 7
MetroWest Daily News
... in the United States, recently announced the release of its new white paper version of “Staff & Contract Instructors: Costs, Comparisons & Considerations,” as authored by Victor J. Melfa, co-founder and CEO of the Westborough-based company.
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President Obama: Small Business is Part of His Reelection Strategy
By Rohit Arora
President Obama is urging Congress to support legislation to expand tax cuts for small businesses and free up capital for startups. His proposed “Startup.
Small Business News, Tips, Advice...
Michael Benito Promoted to Executive Vice President/Business ...
Find news for: ... Michael Benito Promoted to Executive VicePresident/Business Banking Division Manager at Heritage Bank of Commerce. February 6, 2012 ...
money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?...
News Corp. Names Lex Fenwick CEO of Dow Jones - Citybizlist ...
NEW YORK--News Corporation named Lex Fenwi. ... NEW YORK--NewsCorporation named Lex Fenwick Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones &Company. ... He later became manager of Bloomberg operations in Europe, the Middle East ...
newyork.citybizlist.com/.../News-Corporation-Names-Lex-Fen...
Bendix Names Vice President and General Manager of Charging ...
Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems announced Mark McCollough is the new vice president and general manager for the charging business. McCollough will ...
www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-detail.asp?news_id...
New CEO of Maersk Line sets executive management team
Also new on the team are Vincent Clerc, currently responsible for Maersk Line's ... the executive management of Maersk Line will consist of CEOSøren Skou, CCO ... a very strong blend of skills, experience and fresh eyes on the business.
www.maerskline.com/link/?page=news&path=/news/...
Red Hat CEO Whitehurst learned his management skills early on ...
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst knows how to control a crowd. ... See all your followed company news on your personalized dashboard. To access the full benefits ...
www.bizjournals.com/.../red-hat-ceo-whitehurst-learned-his.ht...
Ackman takes CEO plan to CP shareholders - Business - CBC News
CBC News Business. Major StoriesIn The News ... the entirety of Green's helm as CEO, and he wants to bring in new management to turn thecompany around.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../pershing-square-cp-roadshow.html?cmp...
CEO Announces Decision to Step Down – News & Events - Irish ...
Irish Management Institute logo ... You are here: Home; News & Events ...The recent graduation of the first class from the UCC-IMI Alliance makes this an ...
www.imi.ie/news-and.../ceo-announces-decision-to-step-down/
Chesapeake city manager now CEO of ... - Chesapeake News - WTKR
Chesapeake city manager now CEO of Hampton Roads Transit | News ....Roofing Of Tidewater. We are waiting for your business! Coastal Caulking & Sealants ...
chesapeake.wtkr.com/.../53414-chesapeake-city-manager-now...
CEOs: 'Investors are a pain' - Leadership, business and ...
Read [Object title] and more leadership, business and management news, tips ... A survey suggests 60% of CEOs reckon investors' demands make it difficult to ...
www.managementtoday.co.uk/features/.../ceos-investors-pain/
Associated Management, Inc. Names Laura Price President and ...
Associated Management, Inc., an Associa company, is pleased to announce Laura Price, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, has been appointed thecompany's new Presi.
www.businesswire.com/.../Management-Names-Laura-Price-Pr.
  
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