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Tech Director of the game, John K., wrote an article on Gamasutra about the process behind making I Expect You To Die.
Not exact matches
«They completely bypassed the traditional process
of peer review or publishing in peer - reviewed journals or having peer labs evaluate their product,» Dr. Jerry Yeo, a professor and
director of Clinical Chemistry Laboratories at the University
of Chicago, told
Tech Insider in April.
Robert Buckman, an airline futurist and
director of airline distribution strategy for travel industry
tech company Amadeus, notes another trend that the Dreamliner is leading.
-- Matthew Harrigan, co-founder and managing
director of Grand Central
Tech, a New York City technology accelerator
Previously, she was
Director of Media Planning at Obama for America; prior to that was co-founder
of a
tech startup.
Executive
director, Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and
Tech Entrepreneurship, Illinois Institute
of Technology
Richard Kao is the sales
director of COSSales, a UK - based office and
tech solutions provider.
Outgoing migme chairman Howard Dawson plans to become a
director of a Singapore - founded fantasy sports company that is seeking an ASX listing through Nevada Iron, as another Perth company backed out
of a
tech acquisition because
of an ASX ruling.
«The spectrum
of tech - related occupations — from programmers to sales reps — is creating well - paying and quality jobs for New Yorkers
of all levels
of educational attainment,» says the study's author, Kate Wittels, a
director at HR&A Advisors, a real - estate and economic - development consulting firm.
«Despite the sell - off,
tech is still one
of the only two sectors with positive returns this year, after leading the market last year with a 38 percent return,» said Neena Mishra,
director of ETF research at Zacks Investment Research.
Clinton's apparent popularity likely stems from her developing connections in the
tech sector over a longer period
of time than other Oval Office contenders, according to Mark Schmitt,
director of the political reform program at independent think tank New America Foundation.
A soon - to - be listed
tech company led by local entrepreneur Rob Newman and company
director Ian Olson has lodged its prospectus for a $ 5 million capital raising, as it proceeds with its reverse takeover
of Soil Sub Technologies.
Richemont, which also owns watchmaker IWC and fashion label Chloe, hired Van Oosten for the newly - created technology role as part
of this drive, alongside a former LVMH human resources
director with a
tech - savvy profile.
Any
of those price tags would make a merger the most expensive in
tech history, but Qualcomm and lead
director Tom Horton have said it's «just not even close to what the value
of the company is.»
The group has lost six managing
directors and one
director so far this year, including the bulk
of the West Coast
tech mergers - and - acquisitions team.
News
of the exits and the new arrival follow the departure
of five managing
directors who left Credit Suisse to join Jefferies»
tech - banking team.
The task fell primarily to David Estrada, at the time the legal
director for Google X, the secretive part
of the
tech giant that houses ambitious, cutting - edge projects.
Since stepping down as
director of marketing for Facebook in 2011 she has founded her own media company, written a couple
of books, produced a much - hyped but short - lived reality show, and spoken at several business and
tech conferences.
«What we hear often from companies is that people
of color aren't applying,» says Mimi Fox Melton,
director of community mobilization for Code2040, a nonprofit focused on developing black and Latinx leadership in
tech.
The conference organizers approved our initial panel, which included a combination
of VPs and a male
director - level panelist at leading
tech companies.
Perth - based
director Andrew Chapman is at the centre
of an escalating battle between the board and the management team at US - focused
tech company 1 - Page over control
of the business and its $ 30 million
of cash.
The designation
of a lead independent
director and the appointment
of an activist investor to sit on HP's board bodes well for the long - troubled
tech giant.
Dr. Michael Kurilla,
director of the Office
of Biodefense Research Resources and Translational Research at the NIH's National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), recently told
Tech Insider that for years, we thought certain viruses known as coronaviruses were relatively innocuous.
To learn how to scale up — and what mistakes to avoid — we spoke with Andy White,
director of the Las Vegas
Tech Fund, which is part
of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's $ 350 million personal investment in the city.
More importantly, the
tech site notes that Gangadhar was the
director of the department buffeted by an allegation
of sexual harassment and discrimination.
A veteran
of 20 years in high -
tech firms, including a stint as
director of personnel at Intel, Bowers cites the example
of cataloging job resumes that come in unsolicited to Apple: «We get over 1,500 resumes a month from all over.
He became one
of those executives with the «visionary» label, who can predict where a market is going before it happens, and was asked to join the board
of directors of two
of the most important companies in
tech, Microsoft and Facebook.
Here's a very partial list:
tech icons (founders
of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Pinterest, Spotify, Salesforce, Dropbox, and more), Jimmy Fallon, Arianna Huffington, Brandon Stanton (Humans
of New York), Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ben Stiller, Maurice Ashley (first African - American Grandmaster
of chess), Brené Brown (researcher and bestselling author), Rick Rubin (legendary music producer), Temple Grandin (animal behavior expert and autism activist), Franklin Leonard (The Black List), Dara Torres (12 - time Olympic medalist in swimming), David Lynch (
director), Kelly Slater (surfing legend), Bozoma Saint John (Beats / Apple / Uber), Lewis Cantley (famed cancer researcher), Maria Sharapova, Chris Anderson (curator
of TED), Terry Crews, Greg Norman (golf icon), Vitalik Buterin (creator
of Ethereum), and nearly 100 more.
Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries
of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive
Director,
Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former
Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive
Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP
of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board
of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President
of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board
of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP
of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP
of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board
Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder
of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former
Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..
In this live virtual executive roundtable, you'll: * Learn what entrepreneurs need to do to get noticed by top VC firms * Look at the most active venture capitalists in
tech today * Discover the biggest mistakes made by foundering startups * Identify the weaknesses that are keeping you from becoming the next unicorn Speakers: * Ton van't Noordende, Venture Partner, Keadyn * Jon Cifuentes, Cofounder Research and Operations, All Turtles * Matthew Zeiler, CEO, Clarifai * Stewart Rogers,
Director of Marketing Technology, VentureBeat
Kate Mitchell, managing
director at the venture capital firm Scale Venture Partners and a co-chairwoman
of a National Venture Capital Association task force on diversity, said her group was working with Project Include because
of its
tech - centric, start - up approach to sharing data and information with other participants.
We believe it's still early days
of the India fin -
tech story and will continue to invest in the space,» said Vikram Vaidyanathan, managing
director, Matrix India, in a statement.
The demand for access and the caliber
of funds attending affirms that the Canadian
tech ecosystem is creating a strong pull with investors from around the world,» says Bilal Khan, Managing
Director of OneEleven.
«In the interim,» Krikorian wrote,» [David] Stager will continue in his role as Autonomy lead, Don Burnette will continue as the Autonomy
tech lead and Paw Andersen (a new senior
director joining from HQ who has been leading the Business Infrastructure and Marketplace / Dispatch teams for the last couple
of years) will be taking point on the rest
of the software team including AVMaps — the three
of them will report to [Anthony Levandowski].»
She is also vice chair
of the National Futures Association, a member
of FIA's board
of directors, and chairman
of FIA
Tech's board
of directors.
Peter Thiel, the
tech billionaire who is attempting to destroy Gawker Media by funding lawsuits against it, has long served on the Facebook board
of directors.
In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada and our guest panelists, Clare Demerse, Federal Policy Advisor with Clean Energy Canada, Tyler Hamilton, award winning journalist and Canadian author, and Ben Thibault,
director of the Pembina Institute's electricity program, will discuss new research on Canadian clean energy spending and deployment, and discuss what these findings mean for renewable energy developers, clean
tech innovators and policy makers across the country.
Lynzi Ziegenhagen, the CEO
of the ed -
tech startup Schoolzilla, is searching for an independent
director.
Bringing more than 25 years
of technology and business leadership experience across the high
tech industry vertical, Raahauge has reported to several C - level positions and provided strategic direction and advice to the company and its Board
of Directors.
Aimed at closing the gender gap in the
tech sector, the startup challenge featured 10 finalists pitching their emerging
tech ventures before a panel
of prominent investors including Nisha Dua, Partner at BBG Ventures, Iana Dimkova,
Director on Healthcare Investing Team at GE Ventures, John Ason, Angel Investor, and Erica Duignan Minnihan, Managing Partner, 1000 Angels.
Mr. Ainsworth was previously the Managing
Director and Chief Investment Officer
of Altamira, where he was responsible for over $ 10 billion in assets, including $ 3 billion
of dedicated public and private
tech assets.
«In a sense, Waymo has already won a battle here by basically forcing Levandowski off
of Uber's team,» said Eric Goldman,
director of Santa Clara Law's High
Tech Law Institute.
In this episode
of Tech Talk we hear from our privacy powerhouses, CDT President & CEO Nuala O'Connor and
Director of Privacy & Data Michelle De Mooy.
Yet Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, who started TheBoardlist in 2015 to highlight women qualified to be
directors of tech companies, says she spots glimmers
of hope as smaller firms begin to add more female
directors.
Some blame the scarcity
of female
directors at
tech companies on a lack
of board experience.
Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries
of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive
Director,
Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former
Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive
Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP
of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board
of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President
of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board
of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP
of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP
of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board
Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder
of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former
Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..
Our attendee list features hundreds
of industry CEOs, policy leaders and financial services and enterprise
tech executives (VPs /
Directors / MDs and above), including:
Jeremy Bailenson, founding
director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab was there to guide the social media
tech leader through the very latest developments in immersive virtual reality.
Likewise, unless there is a clear benefit in some terms other than pure business (like marketing or potential tax breaks), no board
of directors will risk shareholder wrath on new
tech either.
Because the personal assets
of directors and officers
of a company are exposed, it is very important that every
tech firm purchase this line
of coverage as soon as they are able.