Sentences with phrase «several leading directors»

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Several key Google employees instrumental to developing Glass have left the company in the last six months, including lead developer Babak Parviz, electrical engineering chief Adrian Wong, and Ossama Alami, director of developer relations.

The incident was one of several breakdowns by the Secret Service that ultimately led to the resignation of the agency's then - director, Julia Pierson, the following month.

David joined Leith Wheeler in September 2015 from Mackenzie Cundill where he worked for the previous eight years, most recently as Director of Research and Lead Portfolio Manager for several of Cundill's strategies.

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. investigation that led to the sudden resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director on Friday began with a complaint several months ago about «harassing» e-mails sent by Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus's biographer, to another woman who knows both of them, two government officials briefed on the case said Saturday.

Several Monday conversations with President Donald Trump, a meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and reassurances about Afghanistan led Sen. Rand Paul to announce Monday evening that he would vote to support Pompeo as the next Secretary of State.

He is also Lead Independent Director of TCF Financial Corporation and serves on the boards of several educational and not - for - profit organizations.

As Director of the Business / Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Isabelle Duchaine leads BHER's external communications and several other initiatives that support its goals of increasing employment opportunities for young Canadians, boosting private sector and post-secondary research collaborations and helping businesses adapt to the economy of the future.

Frustrations over fundraising and the management style of Executive Director Ethan Roeder, the former top data guru for President Obama's presidential campaigns, led senior staffers to quit and several employees to follow them out the door after the nonprofit's board of directors refused to fire Roeder at the staff's request.

He will be taking several leading businesspeople with him on the trip, including Peter Voser, CEO of Shell, Ben Gordon, CEO of Mothercare and Lucy Neville - Rolfe, executive director of Tesco.

The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high - profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL MONITOR TOY RECALL Members of the Oneida County Health Department staff will, over the next several weeks, make unannounced visits to retailers throughout Oneida County to ensure compliance with the mandatory removal of toys being recalled due to unsafe lead content, Director of Health Nicholas A. DeRosa announced today.

Michael J. Romano, Director of Oneida County Office for the Aging stated that «Oneida County was selected to lead New York State in this pilot due to its ability to demonstrate its skill and experience in providing consumer directed care to both elderly and disabled individuals for several years.»

The trial, which will be led by Maria R. Baer, MD, professor of medicine at UM SOM and director of hematologic malignancies at UMGCCC, will enroll patients at the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and several other sites.

«By considering that stethoscopes are used repeatedly over the course of a day, come directly into contact with patients» skin, and may harbor several thousands of bacteria (including MRSA) collected during a previous physical examination, we consider them as potentially significant vectors of transmission,» commented lead investigator Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director of the Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals.

The team, led by CSHL Professor Z. Josh Huang and including researcher Joshua Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institute of Mental Health, focused on dense crowds of excitatory cells called pyramidal neurons — several hundred of which can connect with a single chandelier cell.

«By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

In a surprisingly blunt report released on 13 November, a high - wattage international committee, led by former U.S. National Institutes of Health director Elias Zerhouni, proposes a massive overhaul of French life sciences research that would create a single, strong funding agency and likely spell the death of several existing institutes.

'' [Type 1 diabetes] is clearly is one of these complex genetic disorders,» involving mutations in several genes acting in concert to predispose someone to the condition, says Hakon Hakonarson, director of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Applied Genomics and lead author of the new study, published this week in the online edition of Nature.

An artist and Senior Lecturer in Art History and Director of the Visual Arts Program at Barnard College, Columbia University, Joan Snitzer has led several student groups on excursions to Germany with a DAAD Group Study Visit Grant.

He served as Laboratory Director at biotech company, Prosetta Corporation, leading several small molecule drug discovery programs focused on viruses of interest to the United States Department of Defense.

The creative team on this action - adventure event is led by director / producer Alex Kurtzman and producer Chris Morgan, who have been instrumental in growing some of the most successful franchises of the past several years — with Kurtzman writing or producing entries in the Transformers, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible series, and Morgan being the narrative engineer of the Fast & Furious saga as it has experienced explosive growth from its third chapter on.

There's nothing wrong with Paranoia that a stronger director, livelier leading actors and several hundred fewer narrative conveniences wouldn't cure.

Upon graduating to director, Capra reciprocated Grave's kindnesses by casting him in leading - man roles in several Columbia silent features.

With six narrative features, five documentaries, and several short films, Vincenzo Marra is one of Italy's leading writer / directors.

At the AFI Festival L.A. «Secret Screening» — blown, and blown up, several hours before as the world premiere of Steven Soderbergh «s action - thriller «Haywire» — the director explained how he found leading lady Gina Carano.

Leading up to the film, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, director Scott Derrickson and several other key members of production placed a heavy emphasis on the multiverse.

The Montreal - born actress has been working for over a decade — she led «Stardom» in 2000 for «The Barbarian Invasions» director Denys Arcand, and made several films in Canada before breaking into the US with Paul McGuigan «s «Wicker Park» and TV drama «Jack & Bobby.»

The Revenant has been through several combinations of director / lead actors in the last several years.

Casting directors held an open casting call for lead roles several weeks ago now producers are seeking extras to work on the feature film.

The director's brother Tony Gilroy is himself a writer / director and has worked with composer James Newton Howard on several occasions, Michael Clayton, Duplicity and The Bourne Legacy, so it's no great surprise to find the family connection leading to the composer cropping up here too.

Casting directors held an open casting call for lead roles several we...

Hanks was not only perfect for the part, but he'd go on to work with the director several times in the future, leading to more impressive films.

Rounding up the big news from yesterday... LOGAN DELETED SCENES Doing the interview rounds for Logan, director James Mangold has been discussing a couple of deleted scenes from the X-Men spinoff — one of which namedropped Jean Grey, and the other featuring the «Westchester Incident», which leads to the death of several members of the -LSB-...]

Doing the interview rounds for Logan, director James Mangold has been discussing a couple of deleted scenes from the X-Men spinoff — one of which namedropped Jean Grey, and the other featuring the «Westchester Incident», which leads to the death of several members of the X-Men.

The creative team is led by director / producer Alex Kurtzman and producer Chris Morgan, who have been instrumental in growing some of the most successful franchises of the past several years — with Kurtzman writing or producing entries in the Transformers, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible series, and Morgan being the narrative engineer of the Fast & Furious saga as it has experienced explosive growth from its third chapter on.

Director Paul Feig's female - led reboot of classic comedy franchise Ghostbusters has been in production for several weeks already, and the director hasn't been shy about sharing teases of what's Director Paul Feig's female - led reboot of classic comedy franchise Ghostbusters has been in production for several weeks already, and the director hasn't been shy about sharing teases of what's director hasn't been shy about sharing teases of what's to come.

«Chris has generously given his time and expertise to classmates — leading a Saturday morning workshop on software skills, serving both formally and informally as teaching assistant in several TIE courses — while doing excellent work of his own,» said TIE Program Director and Lecturer Joe Blatt.

In a series of interviews, EdSource Executive Director Louis Freedberg interviewed several leading experts about the continuing gap — and what additional reforms are needed to narrow or... read more

Michael Thomas, now the district's operations director but who led the school's physical education department at the time, recalled that several of his teachers told him, «This is gym; we shouldn't have to teach writing.»

His conversations with parents led the artistic director and founder of Utah's Odyssey Dance Theatre to team up with several other artists to launch one of Utah's eight new charter schools — Pioneer High School for the Performing Arts.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

In a series of interviews, EdSource executive director Louis Freedberg interviewed several leading experts about the continuing gap — and what additional reforms are needed to narrow or close it.

Before writing full - time, I spent several years as a senior editor with HarperCollins, and prior to that a stint as editorial director with leading UK book packager Amber Books, and back before that I was executive editor with Websters Multimedia in London.

My job focused on the administrative side of giving aid to the Jewish community there, but my boss, the AJJDC Country Director for Romania, traveled there several times in the lead - up to the revolution and, as the person who wrote and edited his field trip reports, I knew quite a bit about the mood of the country and the conditions there for its citizens under Ceausescu.

At Origin he shipped Wings of Glory, led several internal projects, and served as the studio's technical director before leaving in 1996 to join Titanic Entertainment.

The development team includes studio head Tom Flanagan, a retired Army Special Operations veteran with several years of direct action combat; Art Director Russell Phillips, who formerly shaped the look of SOCOM: US Navy SEALs for Zipper Interactive; Creative Direction support by David Sears, former Creative Director for SOCOM: US Navy SEALs; Lead Audio Designer Nathan Brenholdt, whose previous work appeared in SOCOM: US Navy SEALs, God of War, Twisted Metal, Uncharted, and more; and Game Designer Kevin De Respino, formerly of his own independent studio, Look At It Games.

He spent several years as a Lead Programmer and later Programming Director at another game company before going independent, and started Pixelscopic in 2010.

The only name that carried weight was Troy Dunniway (Executive Producer and «Screen Writer») who served as Lead Director for several PlayStation 3 games including Ratchet & Clank and Resistance: Fall of Man, Creative Director for Rainbow Six: Vegas and has his name attached to other notable games such as Age of Empires, Fable, Command & Conquer and so much more.

Hideo Kojima leads a robust schedule of conversations to take place at the Festival, including additional keynote conversations given by Quantum Break, Alan Wake and Max Payne creator Sam Lake and BioShock director / writer Ken Levine, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of virtual reality - themed movie The Lawnmower Man with filmmaker Brett Leonard, principal filmmaker for VR at Google Jessica Brillhart and Cy Wise from Job Simulator's Owlchemy Labs, and discussions with developers of recent and upcoming games such as Overwatch, The Banner Saga, Firewatch, The Stanley Parable, Watch Dogs 2, What Remains of Edith Finch and several more.

Enwezor has served as the artistic director of several leading biennials and international exhibitions, including documenta 11, 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, and in December 2013 he was appointed as director of the Visual Arts Sector of the 56th Biennale di Venezia.