Sentences with phrase «head of a team of»

Former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has been appointed as head of a team of observers to Sierra Leone's general election scheduled to take place on March 7,...

At the I Light Symposium in Singapore, we met Professor Toby Cumberbatch, the head of a team of engineers from Cooper Union University (New York City).

Investing in a professional resume service, on the other hand, puts you at the head of a team of advisers committed to your success.

Not exact matches

To build trust, business leaders must be honest about the state of the company, where they see the company heading, how they want to get there and which skill sets are needed to round out the team during the early talent - recruitment process.

«It's always hard to know exactly where to put your money these days given how rates and spreads are so low, but on a relative basis we still think there's value in EM debt,» Matt Tucker, head of the iShares fixed income strategy team, said this week during a panel discussion at the Morningstar ETF Conference in Chicago.

Gillam says he employs a «partnership model» that allows his team to become what he describes as a «virtual extension» of the client organization, with head office staff on - site to make things move along smoothly.

Instead, the WA Government has appointed former WA Department of Treasury official Anne Nolan to head up the implementation team.

Darren Pleasance, the head of Google's global customer acquisitions team, told CNBC that his family made the move to Bend in 2010.

The «lean startup» movement heads to South America, where teams of entrepreneurs in Bogota are learning how to build scalable business models, writes serial entrepreneur Bob Dorf.

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

Heading to a company with a name like «Lord Danger,» Kate and Joey have their work cut out for them to give this next office a makeover that brings some productivity to this production team, and also emphasizes the unique, old school vibe of its employees!

Roy Williams, head coach of the University of North Carolina's men's basketball team, made $ 2.1 million for the 2016 - 17 school year.

«Probiotics are probably the single most important new food category to emerge in the last 20 years,» Scott Bass, the head of the Global Life Sciences team at law firm Sidley Austin LLP and an adviser for the FDA on its first dietary supplement website, told Business Insider.

While the head of diversity at Apple shared her view that even a racially homogenous team can be diverse because of their life experiences, embracing cultural diversity and minimizing bias are still the primary goals of most innovation oriented companies.

To learn how Bridgewater seeks out new employees and what it's like to apply there, Business Insider spoke with Brian Kreiter, Bridgewater's head of client service and marketing and cohead of its core management team, as well as several former Bridgewater employees who worked there within the last five years.

In 1988, Steve joined Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formerly Kleinwort Benson Securities) and worked as an equity option marketmaker before moving on to Credit Lyonnais where he became Head of the London option market - making team on Liffe.

Why she's awesome: Irina is the head coach for the Russian national gymnastics team and is considered to be one of the most successful gymnastics coaches of all time.

«You've been able to find pockets of strength even this year,» says Bruce Cooper, who heads all equity teams at TD Asset Management and manages a global dividend fund.

A team under Airbnb's global head of social impact, Kim Rubey, was already working on a program to house refugee relief workers in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, but to address the product challenge, Gebbia formed a new team under his Samara studio that was ultimately spun out and called the Human team.

If you're a fan of the «head slap» made famous by NCIS character Leroy Jethro Gibbs, you know that this non-injurious action is usually meant as a reminder when a team member is in violation of one of the Gibbs rules.

For example, Kate Dill, Airbnb's head of experience design, believes that designers and MBAs make perfect power combos on a team.

It promoted Victor Krupinski to partner and co-director of research, Jason Mueller to principal and co-director of research, and Scott VandeKerkhoff to principal and head of one Saw Mill's three investment teams.

The Chooks team of franchisees and head office personnel plans to expand to 25 franchises in the next couple of years, particularly within the metropolitan area.

The «winningest coach in America» is Larry Gelwix, the former Head of the Highland High School rugby team.

Why It Took Off Fandeavor's first offering was two $ 400 behind - the - scenes immersion «experiences» at the Las Vegas Invitational college basketball tournament; each package included a «chalk - talk» with an assistant coach from UNLV, two seats in a luxury suite and a basketball autographed by the head coaches of all the teams in the tourney.

«If you don't have your house in order or your security is terrible, researchers could swarm you and it'll be harder to sift through what's legitimate,» says Manoj Kasichainula, head of security at San Francisco - based Asana, which makes team productivity software.

As the fourth of five total YouTube Spaces internationally — including sister locations in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and São Paulo — the team channeled feedback from previous outings in order to hone a multi-faceted design scheme whenever possible, says Adam Relis, who serves as head of the facility.

Chen says Ballmer was head of Microsoft's system division when he paid a visit to the Windows team.

One thing to know: With the departure of Marvin Lewis, the Bengals will be one of many teams looking for a new head coach this offseason to right the ship.

Along with professional athletes, they now work with companies like Cisco, AT&T and GlaxoSmithKline, and the open enrollment Corporate Athlete training courses they hold in Orlando and across the U.S. attract C - suite executives happy to pay up to $ 5,000 a head for two days of coaching from a team Procter & Gamble CEO A. G. Lafley credits with helping him stay «calm and cool under fire.»

The management team is now feverishly working to fix some of those mistakes — simplifying the menu, giving more autonomy to regional heads to make their own product choices, and has brought in Boston Consulting Group to examine its pricing strategy.

In developing the new brand, Dickinson hired a diverse team of marketers from all over the retail sector, led by a former head marketer for Loblaws.

Tesla filed a lawsuit in January against Sterling Anderson, its former director of Autopilot, as well as Chris Urmson, the previous director of the Google self - driving project, and their startup Aurora Innovation — a new venture the men launched with Drew Bagnell, the former head of the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh.

In September Pinterest hired Li Fan, Google's former head of image search to lead its engineering team.

«AI technology allows us to take an experience that would have required our customers to navigate through several pages on our website, and turn it into a simple conversation in a chat environment,» said Steve Ellis, head of Wells Fargo's Innovation Group, where the company's AI team is based.

The head of Shell's Perth - based communications and government relations team has been named the next chief executive of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

As a captain of his high school lacrosse team, he also has a business stringing lacrosse heads for the team.

«You're going to see a more united approach around prospecting to acquisition and retention teams working together, and over time that will really build a predictive acquisition model,» says Monica Girolami, head of North America marketing at NewVoiceMedia, a company that links inbound and outbound communications through Salesforce.

At a time when tech analysts tended to be exuberant bulls while bankers were more skeptical, «Ruth was the oil in the machinery» that helped the team agree on which transactions to back, says Joe Perella, then head of Morgan Stanley's investment banking.

She hit her stride in the mid-1990s after becoming head of Morgan Stanley's technology banking team, just as Wall Street was growing infatuated with the shiny new Internet.

Aurora was founded by Sterling Anderson, a former director of the semi-autonomous Autopilot program at Tesla; Drew Bagnell, who headed the autonomy and perception team at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center; and Chris Urmson, the former head of Google's self - driving project.

If you're headed out to raise capital for your company, you'll still need to address key issues about the size of your market, the experience of your team, and your long - term financial goals.

Reviewing data on major geopolitical events in the past 100 - plus years, Credit Suisse's former head of research and deputy global CIO Giles Keating and his team previously found that stocks generally bounced back after such shocks.

The only other constants between the 2001 Patriots and this season's team is head coach Bill Belichick and a couple of assistant coaches.

Last year, Giles Keating, the former head of research and deputy global CIO at Credit Suisse, and his team reviewed data on major geopolitical events in the previous 100 - plus years and found that stocks generally bounced back up after these shocks.

Just two weeks in, his hand was crushed during a forced cell extraction when he and a team of guards tried to prevent a detainee from slamming his own head into the concrete floor of his cell.

In 2011, head coaches for all women's teams in the BIG 10 conference made less than a third of what the men's coaches pulled in, $ 149,000 compared with $ 490,000, according to research from Tucker.

Now Hammon is making history again, after the Spurs tapped her to be the head coach of its Summer League team.

Only three institutions (Cincinnati, Texas and the University of Miami) received As for being above average when compared to peer institutions and at least one school, Oklahoma State, didn't have any women head coaches for women's teams.

Nam is joining Mizuho as a managing director and head of the internet - banking team.