Sentences with phrase «headed efforts of»

I wonder how many «ex-Labour voters» there now are; thanks to the bone headed efforts of the little shit.»

Pollitt will also head the efforts of the National School Boards Action Center, NSBA's national grass roots organization, and the Center for Public Education (CPE), NSBA's research tank, which examines issues impacting public education.

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Viome recently hired Guruduth Banavar, the former head of cognitive computing at IBM Research who spent years working on Watson, to lead its A.I. efforts.

Get a head start on next year's marketing efforts with this batch of apps for all five of the major networks.

Attempting to raise funding for their effort to develop a novel therapy for persistent viral infections, the co-founders, who've been best friends since they grew up together in Philadelphia, were on the verge of giving up and heading back to the east coast when Peter Thiel personally persuaded them to stay in town.

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.

The move to preemptively brand «property scalpers» a problem, however, smacks of an effort to create a villain that the government can then vanquish — a useful tactic for a government headed by a leader with a record - low approval rating facing an election next year.

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.

And we heard a variation of that theme late last week from Mick Mulvaney, the former South Carolina Congressman and Freedom Caucuser who now heads the Office of Management and Budget — and who, importantly, has been one of the Trump Administration's key emissaries in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Although the man behind the Google effort, head of news Richard Gingras, doesn't like to describe it as such, AMP is clearly a response to Facebook's «Instant Articles.»

«There are many great companies pushing the boundary of [artificial intelligence] that we can't reach, even with our efforts,» Microsoft Ventures head Nagraj Kashyap tells Business Insider.

Fresh pharmaceutical unit head Luke Miels is calling for 20 % in budget savings from managers, part of an expansive effort to cut costs in the unit and reinvest money into specific (and, likely, fewer) R&D efforts that may bring in more cash and higher returns.

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.

Speaking at a press event Tuesday in San Francisco, Google's (goog) head of cloud Diane Greene explained that the new hires are part of Google's effort to formalize an artificial intelligence group into its business.

«Philosophically, investors [who employ core and satellite] are saying, «For the majority of my portfolio, I want to be well diversified and I want it to perform like the market, but I like the idea of taking some risk in an effort to outperform,»» said Michael Iachini, vice president and head of manager research at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory.

The Facebook CEO conducted a brief, live 360 - video broadcast in which his likeness and that of Facebook's head of social VR Rachel Franklin promoted the company's upcoming Oculus Rift developer conference later this week while also talking about the company's humanitarian efforts.

The Bank of England Thursday raised U.K. interest rates for the first time since 2007, in an effort to support the pound and head off inflationary pressures caused by a slump since the U.K. voted to leave the EU 16 months ago.

She began her career working in Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Capital Markets, and became the Global Head of Analyst and Associate Acquisition and Development, leading the effort to build a global pipeline of emerging advisor talent.

Still, the Kickstarter effort yielded $ 408,000 for Bia and led to three early hires, including its head of customer service and its product manager, both of whom were among the 2,118 people who signed up to back the campaign.

«Medicare is slowly but surely turning its efforts to prevention at a much bigger scale,» said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada.

Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment, said that while the last few years had seen an enormous uptake in renewable energy, a redoubling of efforts was needed «to ensure these new low - carbon technologies are able to thrive.

I recently spoke with John Yembrick, NASA's head of social media about how the agency manages its award - winning social - media efforts.

More recently, she has added responsibilities running the firm's diversity efforts and serving as the head of talent.

President Donald Trump has gained an important ally in his effort to reduce the U.S. trade deficit: the head of the biggest bank in the country.

I spent the next day calling the local heads of USA Boxing, the national Executive Director of USA Boxing, the State Athletic Commission, and professional promoters in an effort to try and see how we could work something out.

What started in 2008 with a fake athlete, soon morphed into efforts with real athletes like now - retired NFL star Ray Lewis, then extended into Major League Baseball with a Head & Shoulders collabo starring Anaheim Angels» C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton, and now brings us to current NFL stars Wes Welker of the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots» Jerod Mayo.

Since the 2016 election, Facebook has paid unusual attention to the reputations of Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, conducting polls to track how they are viewed by the public, said Tavis McGinn, who was recruited to the company last April and headed the executive reputation efforts through September 2017.

In an effort to turn the company around, CEO Steve Ells said in November that he would be stepping down from his post as head of the company as soon as Chipotle found someone to replace him.

Conservatives unfurled a series of «in over his head» ads against Justin Trudeau within 24 hours of his leadership win in 2013, though Canadians ultimately chose to define Trudeau as the charismatic idealistic prime ministerial type — after some handy corrective work from the Liberals» own messaging efforts.

«China's effort to curb capital outflow continues,» said Frances Cheung, head of rates strategy for Asia outside Japan at Société Générale.

Sheri Vandermause, CMIT Solutions head of franchise development states: «We attribute our strong growth to the strength of our business model, the space in the market that we are in, and the fact that many talented executives are interested in having something of their own at this stage in their career — that allows them to see the direct benefits of their efforts.

As part of the acquisition, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick put Otto co-founder — and one of the first employees of Google's self - driving car project — Anthony Levandowski at the head of all of its autonomous technology efforts.

The step represented a significant escalation of the E.C.B.'s efforts to get banks to lend more money, apply a jolt to the eurozone economy and head off the threat of a destructive decline in prices known as deflation.

U.S. President Barack Obama remarked on how European decision - making in the face of economic calamity struck him as «laborious» and «time - consuming,» before heading back to Washington, where laborious, time - consuming efforts to cope with America's deficit continue.

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Matt Green, head of sales operations at Sendible, says his team prioritizes prospects based on data to maximize their lead gen efforts.

The head of Puerto Rico's public utility company, PREPA, resigned Friday afternoon following a series of blunders in the effort to restore Puerto Rico's power grid.

He's also used his success as head of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Records to help fuel his philanthropic efforts, from donating to African educational charities to pledging $ 3 billion toward reducing global warming.

Andy Brenner, head of international fixed income securities at National Alliance Securities, said in a note that the hiring of a special prosecutor «and talk about obstruction of justice being an impeachable offense» could push back efforts to enact Trump's tax reform and fiscal stimulus proposals for months.

As Head of U.S. Economics, Neil Dutta leads RenMac's economic research efforts, analyzing global trends and cross market investment themes.

In the world of B2B management, there are numerous head scratching efforts going on as we peer ahead into 2012 and beyond.

Levandowski already had stepped down from his position as head of Uber's self - driving car efforts last month and was replaced by Eric Meyhofer.

United Airlines has tapped former White House press chief Josh Earnest to head its communications team, part of the effort to improve the fortunes of a carrier damaged by everything from poorly received growth plans to the death of a dog in an overhead bin.

Adam Messinger has served as our head of engineering, product development (other than the product teams related to monetization efforts, which report to Mr. Bain) and design since January 2016 and as our Chief Technology Officer since

James Clapper, and the head of the Department of Homeland Security, made a statement saying that the hacks «are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process» and that «based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.»

This will form the foundation of our New Retail efforts and provide a strong boost for our online business,» said Rebecca Wang, vice president and head of e-commerce at Nestle China, adding that she expects intelligent supply chains to become, in the future, an integral part of New Retail infrastructure.

The head of the Liberal government has appointed four cabinet members to the nation's Senate in an effort to push the legalization bill forward.

«Results reflect the company's more aggressive efforts to improve its price relevancy, as well as higher shrinkage in the last two weeks of the quarter given purchases were planned for a higher level of sales heading into the 4th of July holiday,» said Whole Foods.

The recently retired head of Cox Communications in San Diego, Geppert has joined with businessman and civic benefactor Malin Burnham, who has led an effort to buy the U-T and form a community nonprofit to run it.