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Uber has officially asked Anthony Levandowski — the former head of the company's self - driving efforts and the executive at the center of the Alphabet lawsuit — to waive his Fifth Amendment rights and cooperate with a court's order to turn over any files he may have downloaded, including those on his personal device.

It has been revealed today that Uber has asked the former head of the company's self - driving car program and the person at the center of the lawsuit from Alphabet, Anthony Levandowski, to cooperate with a court order which states he must hand over any documents or files he downloaded while working for Alphabet, even if -LSB-...]

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In early May, Twitter announced it had tapped Cynthia Gaylor, an investment banker and former managing director at Morgan Stanley, to be the company's head of corporate development.

The former head of Amazon Prime, Greg Greeley, joined Airbnb to run its «Homes» unit, including overseeing the company's new Airbnb Plus and Airbnb Collections efforts.

Two years later, Frank Yeary, Citigroup's former global head of mergers and acquisitions, invested in the company's Series A round and joined its board.

James Fabricant, who founded the company in 2014, is the former head of MySpace Europe.

A coalition of smaller lab companies in Ontario — headed by former Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy, who now serves as CEO of Ontario's Alpha Labs — fought a noisy battle against the LifeLabs - CML merger.

In a recent public statement about the move, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler — who happens to be a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association — said that for too long, the set - top box has been a boon for cable and satellite companies but a bane for users.

Ding and Gao's familiarity with Macau would have been useful to North Korean hackers, says Steve Vickers, a former head of the Hong Kong Police Force's Criminal Intelligence Bureau who now runs an eponymous risk consulting company.

Vas Narasimhan, a trained physician and former McKinsey consultant who is now global head of development at Novartis, has pursued a wide range of roles in his seven years at the drug company.

The availability of dear old Dad has been an issue since September, when the 47 - year - old quit his former gig as head of Microsoft's business division in Redmond, Wash., and moved to snowy Espoo, near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, where he is currently trying to save the world's largest mobile phone company from itself.

One unnamed source made it a point to applaud the efforts of Marty Lev, the former vice president of security at Google who left the company in 2016 and is now head of physical security at Amazon Web Services.

The former head of power generation company Pacific Energy has emerged as the new chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji, replacing Andrew Vlahov, who stepped down last week.

In what was possibly a preemptive move by the company, the Wells board of directors decided to take back $ 41 million in stock - based compensation from Stumpf along with just over $ 16 million in stock options from former community - banking head Carrie Tolstedt.

Moreover, it's being prepped for a counter-strike under the leadership of former Sun Media boss Paul Godfrey, who now heads Postmedia, a company forged by the recent $ 1.1 - billion creditor acquisition of Canwest's distressed newspaper assets.

And it doesn't sound like Facebook's new «head of news» will help the social network figure out its role in this evolving media landscape — the company announced Friday that it has hired former NBC host Campbell Brown to be its head of news partnerships, but said she will not be involved in content decisions.

Spring, a company co-founded by former Techstars NYC head David Tisch and his brother Alan, has raised a Series A investment of $ 7.5 million.

But the crime also raises questions about why the companies have so far kept silent and whether — as a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission observes — it triggers an obligation to tell investors about what happened.

Microsoft's head of interactive entertainment, Don Mattrick, has left the software company to take the top job at social games maker Zynga, leaving his former division potentially vulnerable in the months before a major new product launch.

In July, the company paid former head of Fox News, Roger Ailes, a severance package of about $ 40 million, following allegations of sexual harassment.

My son Dave, the former head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, is executive vice president of our company, and with his leadership and experience, we are well positioned for the future.

«There are a lot of CEOs and presidents that are very smart business people, passionate and excited about the process of building a company, but not necessarily passionate about their product,» says Patch's wife and former Canadian Olympic rower Silken Laumann, who also heads up the GoodLife Kid's Foundation.

In August, the company ousted its CEO and appointed a new leader, Niels Christiansen, the former head of engineering company Danfoss — hiring a techie outsider in an unprecedented move for the family - owned company.

At least one high - level staffer, Kurt DelBene, the former head of Microsoft Office, is leaving the company.

BuzzFeed editor - in - chief Ben Smith said Friday that the company has named Craig Silverman, former head of BuzzFeed's Canadian operation, as media editor.

An important step was hiring Mohammad Sabah, the former head of Facebook's data team and ex-employee of Netflix, who helped develop the company's recommendation algorithm.

What is it: Two former Warby Parker execs — Jen Rubio, the company's former head of social media, and Steph Korey, former head of supply chain — teamed up to create Away, a travel brand aiming to create products that combine high - quality materials and innovative technology at an affordable price.

Investors may be dismayed by the headlines — on Tuesday Arthur Porter, former head of SNC's building project McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), was arrested in Panama on fraud charges — but analysts do not see the scandals harming the company in the long term.

One sign that the company may already be looking to transform its business model is its hiring of interim CEO John Chen, former head of enterprise mobility specialist Sybase Inc., a company that had its own set of problems before Chen came on board.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Clint Robinson, former head of government relations with BlackBerry, is helping the company showcase its technology with police and military forces.

The company revealed that it has hired Joyus chief technology officer Sin Mei Tsai as its vice president of engineering and former Monsoon Commerce executive Mikhail Ledvich as its head of marketing.

The DOL's former head of wage enforcement, David Weil, recently suggested that weighing whether gig economy workers should be classified as employees or independent contractors is not so different than making the same determination for workers at brick - and - mortar businesses.84 Existing legal tests to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor are multifactor, fact - based exercises based on the level of control a company exerts over the workers in question.

As mentioned, she joins just after Anthony Levandowski, the former head of the ATG, left that role and moved away from working on anything LiDAR - related at Uber as the legal battle between his company and Waymo continues.

Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook's former head of user growth, said in December that the company was «ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.»

«Attending there is different between paying lip service to saying you want creative people in the company and actually showing that you genuinely appreciate creative people,» says Ferazzi camp alum, James Schroer, the former head of marketing at Chrysler and Ford.

The list includes a former Stanford dean who is an accounting professor, the former CEO of an insurance company, the former CEO of an international bank, a hedge fund manager, a prominent Asian financier, and an economist who is the former head of the U.S. government's Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Molly Graham, former Head of Mobile at Facebook, who worked with Mark Zuckerberg to define Facebook's company culture in 2008, recognized the common pitfall that most company cultures are super boring.

For instance, the criminal case against former minister of economic development Aleksey Ulyukayev — initiated in 2016 by Igor Sechin, head of the state - owned oil company Rosneft — was evidently part of Sechin's struggle against Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev's government over power and resources.

«It's a sound idea, but it gets a lot harder to do the bigger the company gets,» says Bruce Ellig, former worldwide head of human resources at Pfizer Inc. and author of several books on compensation.

Karen Mills, former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the keynote speaker at the event said, «Small business owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up.

Advising the new head of the Boardroom this season will be world - class business minds, including investment guru Warren Buffett, one of the most successful businessmen in the world; former Microsoft CEO and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer; Tyra Banks, a supermodel, actress, TV host, producer, accomplished businesswoman and CEO of the Tyra Banks Company and cosmetics brand, TYRA Beauty; actress, author and entrepreneur Jessica Alba, the founder and chief creative officer of The Honest Company and Honest Beauty; and Schwarzenegger's trusted confidante and nephew, prominent entertainment attorney Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger.

Since the post, the company has fired its engineering head after revelations of a serious sexual harassment investigation at his previous employer, saw its head of product leave after questionable sexual behavior was uncovered at a company event and has initiated an investigation into the entire situation with a former Attorney General of the United States at the lead.

It should also after the January investment of the former head of Risk Department in the company Ripple, Greg Kidda, worth $ 57.5 million and the acquisition of the company Uphold the platform of mobile trading Cortex MCP a month later.

One interesting name that has popped up at the top of the Uber list is former Orbitz CEO Barney Harford, who sold that travel company to then Expedia head Khosrowshahi in 2015.

Kalanick, along with Rachel Whetstone, Uber's head of comms at the time, Rachel Holt, the company's general manager of U.S. and Canada, former Uber president Jeff Jones and others agreed that he should meet with Kamel to apologize.

Tesla is suing its former head of Autopilot for stealing company secrets and poaching other employees.

NEWSMAKERS: RUSSIA By Kim Iskyan Khodorkovsky: Sentence likely to be extended After months of wrangling, the verdict on the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of Russia's Yukos Oil Company, is due in mid-December.

Anonymous: unfortunately the PCs re-wrote the legislation in favour of the oil companies a few years ago and appointed industry and PC insiders to key regulatory posts — Gerry Protti, formerly of CAPP, is the chairman of the new Alberta Energy Board, Jim Elliis, formerly DM for Environment is Protti's CEO and Lorne Taylor, a former PC MLA is the head of the oilsands emissions monitoring agency.

Creator of Litecoin and former head of engineering for Coinbase Charlie Lee has said he intends to step down from his company in order to ensure its future.