Sentences with phrase «team a year ago»

Team Valvassori was a playoff team a year ago but that is where the similarities between the 2012 and 2013 versions conclude.

Foles, who went 14 — 4 as a starter in his two years under Chip Kelly in Philadelphia, will boost an offense that averaged the fifth - fewest yards of any team a year ago, largely behind Bradford backups Shaun Hill and Austin Davis.

Bellarmine coach Mike Janda has the luxury of returning 13 starters from that 10 - 3 team a year ago.

He's trying to rediscover the golfer within who tried so hard to make the team a year ago.

This advice actually confused John even more, because he did not remember acting like that when he was the star of the team a year ago.

Many of these guys were apart of the Co-Ed Championship Team a year ago and many also played under the guise of Chris Valvassori for years before he graduated this past May.

These guys were a Final 4 team a year ago and they are made up of much of the same people.

Captain Adam Schor is one of the few holdovers from their Team a year ago that finished as the # 1 overall seed.

These guys were among the best Teams a year ago, as evidenced by their run to the title Game, and now they are back with some experience for their second go - around in All Sports Series.

Team ATO 15s have a bit of history on their side as their Sponsor No. 7 Salon & Spa was the Championship Team a year ago.

he needed to change teams years ago to keep hungry and try new things.

The $ 200 billion food and beverage group set up its digital team a year ago, and says it has doubled spending on social media advertising in the last couple of years.

I did MOOC course run by Richard Alley and his team years ago... as valuable as ACTUALLY READING EVERY IPPC REPORT cover to cover (which I have also done, if that matters to anyone besides myself, not)

Not exact matches

T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

A couple of years ago, one of our best developers quit on us mainly because the team we had built wasn't good enough for him.

More than five years ago, Bentham says, he and his team began to flag to Shell executives changes afoot in the economy that, they believed, might dramatically affect the oil business.

Five years ago, it's safe to say, Canadian Tire's marketing teams would have been utterly flummoxed by Facebook's intel.

Whether finding a great co-founder, who has complementary skill sets (in my case, an old friend I met at theater camp over 20 years ago), or picking your executive team exclusively composed of «A» players (who you can alternately delegate to — or be inspired by), you need a bunch of great teammates to be successful when creating a new business.»

When Kathy Jaques started her job as CMO of eVestment 4 years ago, the sales team was using a directory to make outbound calls to generate their own leads.

Founder of The Factory Agency, he represents several Paralympians, including Taylor Lipsett, who despite suffering from a serious bone disease is a member of the U.S. sled hockey team that won the gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics four years ago.

Dene Rogers, who held the top job at Sears since 2006, had told his board two years ago that he would be decamping with his family back to the United States once Sears weathered the recession and hired a management team that could take the business forward.

Since launching KingFisher more than 20 years ago, he and his management team have built the 150 - person company into the market leader in the heavy - gauge welded aluminum boat category.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

About two years ago, as dPoint's sales team talked with European and Asian customers about problem of dealing with hefty shipping costs, one customer suggested that the firm should think about licensing the machines that manufacture the frames — in effect, outsourcing production to dPoint's clients.

Since I started this business over two years ago, I have had a goal of building an industry - leading service for local businesses, but I never dreamed we (SinglePlatform, the team, and me personally) would have had this opportunity.

A few years ago, she and her team took 373 middle school students, and identified those who exhibited fixed mindsets and those who exhibited growth mindsets.

SmartBall was originally introduced to deal with leak problems in the water industry more than five years ago, but the team quickly saw opportunities to expand.

Like any start - up, the first thing Churchill did three and a half years ago when he founded VonChurch was build a senior management team, or as he calls it, «a supergroup» that would be as cohesive and successful as some of the best rock bands.

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

The smartphone you carry in your pocket is more powerful than the computer Vogt and his team at MIT used to make their F - 150 self - drive 10 years ago.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — About four years ago, the Google team trying to develop cars driven by computers — not people — became convinced that sooner than later, the technology would be ready for the masses.

A little over 10 years ago, the HubSpot team took it upon themselves to coin the term «inbound marketing,» whereby marketing professionals take advantage of this new environment to reach buyers on their home turf.

«When I heard the team [at Tanium] was looking to expand the board, I really went for it in terms of pursuing it as an opportunity,» said Chadwick, who five years ago joined the board of F5 Networks (ffiv), a public cybersecurity firm that provides software to data centers.

Team Rubicon, the nonprofit organization I co-founded five years ago, is in a state of rapid change and growth.

«One year we did it, three years ago, they went from the worst team to an amazing team,» Hornthal says.

Six years ago, Kevin Robinson and Mario Tricoci both had kids playing for traveling sports teams.

«Returning Gap brand to growth has been the top priority since my appointment four months ago — and Jeff and his team bring a sense of urgency to this work,» said Gap CEO Art Peck, who a few years ago oversaw the shrinkinkg of the store fleet.

Here's what happened, according to Donovan: Until about a year and a half ago, she and her founding team were handling finances themselves («we were just doing it,» she shrugs).

Leaders must know how to build teams - that's no different now than it was 20 years ago.

«I was really impressed,» says Kane of the five - student team that helped her company five years ago under the Small Business Institute (SBI) program.

A few years ago, Michael Pryor watched a software team collaborate on a white board, with sticky notes.

Launched four years ago by an Ottawa husband - and - wife team, it's a vibrator for couples that stimulates both partners at once — and outsells its competitors by three to one.

Despite transitioning within the same company, she was working with a separate HR team than she did when she first applied three years ago.

«If I look at what they've done since (Wilson) announced he was stepping off the board, they've ramped up their product quality team, they've attempted to reinvigorate the design process as they were the clear leader three years ago in the space,» Burns said.

Most importantly, MTG is allowing Reichert and his team to continue running the business that they founded 15 years ago.

«A couple of years ago, I was going at least once a week, but as time went on I stopped going as much,» says Michelle Langston, concierge wrangler and team lead, who is currently based in the Bay Area.

3G teamed up with Buffett to acquire Ketchup maker H.J. Heinz for $ 23.2 billion two years ago.

Jack Brocksmith, president of TAG Express, a $ 4.8 - million S corporation in Duluth, Ga., that licenses sports - team products: «We switched to an S corporation only a few years ago because of the tax laws.

Up until a little over a year ago, there were never more than four of us on the team at one time.

Launched four years ago by an Ottawa husband - and - wife team, the We - Vibe outsells its competitors by three to one.