Sentences with phrase «used at the partner»

My previous experience in upper level associate positions allowed me to gain insight on the principles of risk management that must be used at the partner level.

Not exact matches

«There are certain sectors we used to invest in where we no longer do,» notes Ben Cukier, a founding partner at Centana Growth Partners, which specializes in PE investments in financial services and enterprise technology.

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

Anzu Partners closed its debut fund at $ 128.4 million to back «hard tech» start - ups working on tech for industrial use.

At first, Al - Naji and his friends decided that they would use their own money to fund the business, but when investors like GV (formerly Google Ventures), Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Andreessen Horowitz began expressing interest, they reconsidered.

The dilemma for Fidelity and Hartford, says Drew Nordlicht, partner and managing director of Hightower Advisors in San Diego, is whether to make subsequent investments at their own price threshold, or to use Blackrock's 20 percent higher valuation, which means a dilution of their own shares.

One of a handful of women to be a general partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Barr uses her influence to bolster emerging Canadian tech firms.

Companies can use «statistical sampling and other measures to determine who is likely to be the median employee and base a calculation off of that,» said Mike Stevens, a partner in the compensation group at law firm Alston & Bird.

Dogpatch Labs, for example, is funded by Polaris Venture Partners, a venture - capital firm that gets a first glimpse at startups that use its free space.

«It will be better this year as we are using data and pre-orders to prepare for goods in advance,» said Karen Wang, partner at JX E-Commerce & Logistics.

«Oftentimes the company will just have an answering machine in human resources with a dedicated phone number, but 90 percent of the time it's ineffective and employees don't use it,» says George Ramos, a managing partner and senior executive investigator at Diversified Risk Management (DRM), a Downey, California - based firm that handles corporate security and investigations.

About 90 percent of North Korea's trade is with China, and Chinese junket operators are well equipped to use the formal banking sector and informal financial networks created by the Chinese traders and small businessmen who've crisscrossed the world for 1,000 years, says Andrew Klebanow, a senior partner at Global Market Advisors LLC in Las Vegas.

«So the question that we're asking is not only is there a light - attack capability off the shelf that we can use that can increase lethality and readiness, but is there also a shareable network that allies and partners who are already with us and those that may choose to join us... in the campaign against violent extremism, can we actually get into a new, shareable network that allows information to flow at a far faster rate so we can take out the enemy?»

The State Department issued a statement about the call, saying «the secretary made clear the United States and its partners hold Russia responsible for this situation, including the use of incendiary and bunker buster bombs in an urban environment, a drastic escalation that puts civilians at great risk.»

«We're having a longer period of lower growth than we're used to,» says Daniel Stelter, a senior partner at the BCG in Berlin.

«Businesses and enterprises are letting employees use the latest smartphones and access things like corporate emails and suddenly the mobile device is as convenient as on working on a larger device,» Vinod Banerjee, partner and data protection specialist at law firm Taylor Wessing, told CNBC by phone.

«If you're Alibaba, you want to probe and find out more, and use it as a learning experience,» says Martin Pyykkonen, a tech analyst at Wedge Partners.

Talk of using the MBA experience as a place to fine - tune an idea, recruit partners, gain access to seed capital, and finally launch a startup is becoming as ubiquitous as discussions about forthcoming job interviews at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs.

The current offtake partner at Mt Marion, Ganfeng Lithium, has been using the same direct sulphate conversion process tested by Neometals to produce lithium hydroxide from the mine's concentrates in China for more than a year.

Kolondra also said Opera is not talking with its mobile - operator partners about instituting the feature in its (far more widely used) mobile versions — many operators are controversially experimenting with blocking ads at the network level rather than in the browser, partly as a way of getting publishers and ad networks to give them a slice of their revenue.

Stratasys's partner Lockheed Martin said the use of 3D printing on the Orion project would also pay off at other parts of its business.

Jared Fliesler, a venture capitalist at Matrix Partners and formerly a vice president at the payments startup Square, explained that Venmo's rise is tied to its ease - of - use.

Furnish gained a lot of power after becoming legendary musician Elton John's partner, and he used his influence and position at Rocket Entertainment Group to champion LGBT rights in a number of ways.

«It used to be that unicorns were these mythical creatures,» says Jason Green, a venture capitalist at Emergence Capital Partners whose investments include Yammer, which sold to Microsoft (MSFT) for $ 1.2 billion.

«While every auction used to see at least one Chinese participant, now people are questioning their ability to deliver and are conscious of the political pushback that Chinese bidders could face,» said Johannes Groeller, a partner at PJT Partners Inc..

The firm, which was founded in 1980, plans to use the new cash for investments for late - stage, high - growth startups enterprise software, cloud computing, cyber security and social media markets, said Jules Maltz, general partner at IVP, in an interview on Friday.

Instead, in the video, Meg Hirschberg suggests sharing at least some of your business» basics with your partner using these three principles.

In the four months since we began shipping Microsoft HoloLens to our developer and commercial partners, we've been absolutely amazed at the innovation shown by the creative people and companies building real solutions using HoloLens.

That's why Sony partnered with Joshua Peek, an astronomer at Columbia University, to build «The Invisible Universe,» an Android app which uses GPS position and device orientation to reveal what's happening in the universe — from massive black holes to constellations — right on the Sony Ericsson platform.

She and her husband, who worked at Starbucks for 15 years, used Bean Stock, a program that gives partners company stock as equity, to help buy a three - bedroom house when they moved from Los Angeles to Austin, Texas in 2006.

It also names Cambridge Analytica and its business partners as defendants, alleging they committed fraud by using the social network to obtain personal data on at least 80 million Facebook users without their knowledge and consent.

Instead of earning points that you can use at only one airline or hotel, you can earn points that can be used to book through an award portal with no blackout dates, or you can transfer the points to a partner airline or hotel to book award reservations directly.

The Singaporean press noted that Canadian technology firms visiting Singapore at a Canadian Investment and Technology Partnering event were looking to expand to Asia and to possibly using Singapore as their Asian hub.

Next, looking at the airline partners, we see that points can be used widely.

You can now use Bitcoin Cash in addition to Bitcoin to pay for food at Menufy partner restaurants.

Ultimate Rewards (earned from the Sapphire Reserve / Preferred) can be used at a fixed - value when booking through UltimateRewards.com but can also be worth more when transferring to travel partners like Hyatt or United where you pay a fixed number of points in those programs which are not dependent on the cash cost of that room / flight otherwise.

He tells the story of how his partner (Ned Davis) wanted to explore analyzing the markets using a new technology called «computers» but the firm where they were at was not interested.

You will receive calls from LendVantage or its lending partners at the numbers you have provided using an autodialer system, and understand that your consent does not require you to proceed with any transactions.

«Most of the consumers of Gaana, Wynk and Saavn are not paid subscribers [they use ad - backed free streaming] and the revenue accrued from paid subscriptions will be in single digits,» said Jehil Thakkar, partner at management consulting firm Deloitte India.

Steve Pakela, managing partner at Pay Governance LLC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which advises more than 40 S&P 500 companies on executive pay, said some directors «believe you shouldn't strip out the effect» because share buybacks may be the best use of capital.

Rehan Yar Khan, founder and partner at Orios Venture Partners, said: «Just like in other verticals... hyperlocal logistics will be disrupted through on - demand, players using an «Uberised» model.

At DiscoverOrg, we like to use social media to engage partners and influencers.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry (R) World (TM); risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information;

He will become a general partner — a term used to describe executives at private equity firms — in the new fund, which will invest in the consumer sector.

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Even a 401 (k) rollover into an IRA — which would require exemption from the fiduciary rule using a Best Interest Contract Exemption (BICE) because it's expected to cost more than the 401 (k) plan — can improve the quality of a client's investments if the client couldn't access that asset in his or her 401 (k) plan, said Joe Taiber, managing partner at Taiber, Kosmala & Associates.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Neil of Stewarts at Brookleigh explains how he used a Prospa business loan to buy his business partner's share of a thriving restaurant and wedding venue in the Swan Valley, WA.

«We're thrilled to partner with Commonwealth Bank on Samsung Pay as this strengthens our shared commitment, that's existed since 2013 with CBA's Tap & Pay on the Galaxy S4, to develop easy - to - use, secure and «smart» mobile wallet options for Australians,» said Garry McGregor, director of IT and mobile at Samsung Electronics Australia.