Sentences with phrase «of head of project»

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The project is being led by Rahul Chopra, who perviously served as CEO of the social news aggregation service Storyful, as well as global head of video for News Corp..

Perth - based Volta Mining, headed by former DMC Mining founder and managing director David Sumich, is venturing into central West Africa with the acquisition of its first iron ore project.

Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

«If we're going to compete for the next HQ2 project out there, we know we're going to have to fundamentally rethink our economy, and that's what this is all about,» Rob Dixon, head of the Missouri Department of Economic Development told The Journal.

In September, Gilbert agreed to pay $ 1.25 million of his own money for a road project to widen downtown Detroit's Interstate 375 exit from one lane to three, a move to help alleviate traffic jams heading into the Greektown Casino - Hotel, which he also owns.

Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin is quickly headed toward commercial operations as it nears the end of testing for several major projects.

And Baidu snatched up Ng, a former head of the Stanford AI Lab, who had helped launch and lead the deep - learning - focused Google Brain project in 2010.

«Pending the outcome of the head tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown...

Steele, who was the head of the British intelligence agency MI6's Moscow desk and is known for his «knowledge of the intricate web» of Kremlin - tied companies and associates, wrote the dossier between July and December of 2016 as part of an opposition research project funded by anti-Trump Republicans.

«I'm an employee of @mozilla and I'm asking @brendaneich to step down as CEO,» Chris McAvoy, head of Mozilla's Open Badges project, wrote Thursday, along with similar posts from numerous other workers.

Gregg Zehr, the head of Amazon's Lab126 hardware R&D facility, is overseeing the project, which is codenamed «Vesta,» after the Roman goddess of the hearth.

Last week, Trump replaced the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a five - person panel that approves certain natural gas pipeline projects and regulates interstate energy infrastructure.

In one episode of the podcast, Koenig discussed the case with Deirdre Enright, the head of the Innocence Project at UVA, which works to free those who have been wrongfully convicted.

«Gun to his head,» Scott built a new company, Infinitus, clawed his way out of debt with a «new set of beliefs,» and now projects $ 2.8 million by the end of 2016.

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.

«I can confirm that pending the outcome of the head - tax vote by City Council, Amazon has paused all construction planning on our Block 18 project in downtown Seattle and is evaluating options to sublease all space in our recently leased Rainier Square building,» Amazon VP Drew Herdener told the Seattle Times.

Oil and gas company AWE has sold its stake in the Cliff Head offshore oil project to Elixir Petroleum, for an upfront payment of $ 1 million.

Jim Keller, Tesla's head of autopilot technology and a former AMD engineer, is leading the project.

Steve Williams, head of the oldest and biggest operator in the business, gave his answer recently when Suncor Energy bought a further 10 % stake in the Fort Hills oilsands project for $ 310 million from partner Total SA.

Northern Minerals is cutting salaries and reducing its head count to reduce costs as it seeks to complete the next stage of funding for its Browns Range rare earth project near Halls Creek.

«Instead of a watch list limited to actual, known terrorists, the government has built a vast system based on the unproven and flawed premise that it can predict if a person will commit a terrorist act in the future,» Hina Shamsi, the head of the ACLU's National Security Project, told The Intercept.

We send stuff in and we get an answer,» said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, head of the Wiesenthal Center's Digital Terrorism and Hate project.

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.

Cronologics had raised some money from investors, including Shakil Khan, CoinDesk, and Student.com founder and head of Spotify's special projects.

Hyman, 35, is CEO, while Fleiss, 32, is now head of special projects.

A retired admiral named Michael Hewitt, who was to head up the security services part of the project, struck out on his own in mid-2016.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

«In my estimation, it is more storage than the local area will be able to absorb in a reasonable time frame,» Troy McLellan, president and CEO of Public Storage Canada and head of the Canadian Self Storage Association, wrote Maclean's in an email about the project.

As part of the heads of agreement, Clough will assume responsibility for the jobs and entitlements of the HWE employees currently working on the project.

In the exhibit, users wear a helmet that wirelessly projects footage of their face onto a massive wooden head.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

Technologies for «aging in place» is a $ 2 billion market now but is projected to exceed $ 20 billion by 2020, according to Laurie Orlov, head of a Washington think tank studying the field.

The company has written down the value of its operations, including its stalled Pascua - Lama project in South America, reduced its head office staff by nearly half, and eliminated layers of management between Toronto and Barrick's mines.

It is unclear what special projects Deneve will be overseeing at Apple, which is still looking for someone to head its retail operations following the ouster of John Browett last year after less than a year on the job.

That project was spearheaded by noted economic development expert Ed Morrison along with area business leaders — in particular, Charles Van Rysselberge, who headed the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce at that time.

Christian Levesque, chair of the Canadian «mirror committee» and head of the Canadian delegation here in Madrid, had the following to say about the project:

So, even though you know the rest of your team is scrambling to finish up a shared project, you're still heading out and taking that lengthy break you believe you're entitled to.

A research project connected to the British television show The Secret Life of Buildings attached brain - wave measuring devices to people's heads and found that the low - level racket endemic to open workplaces interrupts one's concentration.

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.

Aurora has been a much - watched startup because it was founded by three of Silicon Valley's most famous self - driving engineers: former Google self - driving car project head Chris Urmson; the former head of Tesla Autopilot, Sterling Anderson; and former Uber self - driving star engineer Drew Bagnell.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Samuel Woolley, who heads the Computational Propaganda project at Oxford's Internet Institute, found that a disproportionate amount of pro-Trump messaging was spread via automated bots and anti-Hillary propaganda.

«Now we [sic] searching for a Head of Real Estate and Workplace Services to help usher our project into this next chapter.»

If it does, the projected decline below the neckline should be roughly equal to the move from the neckline to the top of the head.

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.

Technical analysis states the projected decline of a «head and shoulders» pattern is equal to the distance between the top of the «head» and the «neckline.»

Brent Wilton, the company's global head of workplace rights, said in an email to Reuters, «We are partnering with the pilot of this project to further increase transparency and efficiency of the verification process related to labor policies within our supply chain.»

«It is not easy for so many important companies to decide to bet [on] a project together from the very beginning,» said Alastria president Julio Faura, who also serves as head of blockchain research and development at Banco Santander.

The 2015 Workforce Housing Scorecard examines and analyzes the current and projected housing trends and provides a preview of where Orange County is headed in terms of workforce housing, and how it will impact demographic, economic, and business competitiveness factors.

Prior to his leave with the Federal Government, he was group head Bank of America's Project Finance Section for Mining and Minerals worldwide and a Vice President with JP Morgan.