Sentences with phrase «who first hired»

ROB LA GESSE Rob La Gesse is the groovy cat who first hired gapingvoid at Rackspace.

He was not only the man who first hired me at the Newport Aquarium in 2011, but he quickly became my mentor.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who first hired Bratton as commissioner, was shocked by Bratton's seeming endorsement of Clinton.

The governor noted that Kaloyeros has served five governors, omitting the usual boast that it was Mario Cuomo, the current governor's late father, who first hired him.

Howe is a longtime loyalist of Cuomo, and it was Howe, when he was working for the governor's late father, then Gov. Mario Cuomo, who first hired Percoco in 1991.

Chef Brisson leads the Las Vegas team together with Director of Operations Zach Allen, who first hired Brisson 10 years ago.

Not exact matches

It's within this context that I present today's newsletter: a Q&A with Myrna Soto, who has just been hired as the first female partner at Trident Capital Cybersecurity, a San Mateo, Calif. - based venture capital firm focused exclusively on digital security.

Zuckerberg, who faced five hours of questioning from a rare US Senate joint committee hearing, had reportedly hired external consultants to prepare him for his first time explaining Facebook's operations to the US government in public.

Then IBM hired its first outsider to lead the company, Louis Gerstner, who came from RJR Nabisco.

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

While you may be tempted to hire the first person who walks in the door «just to get it over with,» doing so can be a fatal error.

My very first hire was an assistant who would also help me to make sales calls.

When I decided to leave Deloitte, I got my first real leadership role from a referral from the Partner I used to report to at Deloitte who was now working closely with an SVP at this company, who ultimately hired me.

At the close of 2014, he hired Zenefits» first - ever COO: David Sacks, who served as PayPal's COO from 1999 until eBay acquired the company in 2002 for $ 1.5 billion.

In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year - old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money by making services more efficient and accessible online.

«He was always careful to hire really good people,» says Jim Gillies, who was the first dean of the York business school.

Instead of hiring the first one who shows up, do your homework, advises David Moore, an angel investor and president of City Rewards Network in Charlotte, N.C. «A lot of investment bankers are going to call you and say «We can take your small company public for $ 50,000.»

Apple is on a hiring spree right now, trying to find engineers who can help troubleshoot problems its having with its first wearable gadget, the so - called iWatch.

The first employee Harrison hired was in operations, and the second a designer who helped to build the brand from scratch, differentiating it from other charity websites.

When possible, the very team members who were involved in the interviewing should greet the new hire on his or her first day.

I can't tell you how many times I have talked to an entrepreneur who, when they were on the verge of making their first senior executive hire, would reference their candidate's prior big - name employer or the big - name school they graduated from.

Systrom's first hire and eventual co-founder was Mike Krieger, a Brazilian - born 25 - year - old engineer who worked at Meebo at the time.

He hired experienced professionals who could help him analyze the markets and figure out what industry was best to break into first.

To prevent this, beware of potential hires who talk about all the learning they plan to do during their first month on the job, which, Horowitz says, suggests that they think a start - up is as complicated as a big company.

Goldman recently hired Reinaldo Aguiar, a former senior software engineer at Google who focused on the tech giant's search ranking, to build out the bank's Marquee platform, Business Insider first reported.

He made note that Trump borrowed his trademark phrase for his NBC show, «The Apprentice,» from Steinbrenner, who first popularized «you're fired» in his years - long, love - hate relationship with manager Billy Martin, whom Steinbrenner hired and fired a total of five times.

Her first hire was her son, Frank, and her second hire was Kris Shah, who has served as president since 1989.

If we hire someone who does not fulfill a commitment, we remind them of our values the first time, and on the second time we tell them «one more and you're out.»

Their first hire was a childhood friend who was then attending medical school but soon dropped out.

When the 30 hours of shopping and the 15 hours of preparing shipments each week became too much to handle alone, Grant hired his first employee, a friend who could help scour local stores.

Alan Sandler, the vice-president of sales Glickman hired when he opened Justice's first office in the United States, is one employee who thrives on the freedom.

On their first day, new hires are assigned a department «buddy» who gives them a tour of the office, introduces them to their colleagues and serves as a mentor during the first few weeks.

«Most of our employees wouldn't have an idea of how to fill out a grant,» says Selfridge, who points out that many employees hired by the restaurant chain would be first - generation college students.

First, you rework your longstanding hiring practices, screening out would - be inventors who come from certain areas.

The goal of hiring software is to avoid human pitfalls, such as overlooking potentially strong candidates who may not seem desirable at first glance, said Matt Doucette, director of global talent acquisition at Monster Worldwide.

After one year, 78 percent of the salespeople hired as part of the first class were still employed with the resellers who hired them; the two - year figure was 65 percent.

HERB KELLEHER: The spirit of Southwest Airlines is kept alive, first of all, by who you hire.

«From an investor perspective, the unknown is always somewhat concerning,» said Kash Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory of Raymond James Ltd. «It's going to be essential that who they hire as a successor buys into the vision or strategy CIBC has.»

Newly hired C - suite executives, who are under immense pressure to perform in their first few months of tenure, create a prime opportunity for selling.

The first was Kevin Vosen, who was hired to be the self - driving arm's chief legal officer.

If your business hires tradespeople, you can get an Investment Tax Credit of up to $ 2,000 for hiring an apprentice who is working in the first two years of his or her apprenticeship program.

It has long been known that Fusion GPS was first hired by Republicans, but it was not known who was the source of the funding.

Close to a year before Urmson left the project, where he had become the de facto face of it, Google hired John Krafcik, a 25 - year car industry veteran who previously led Hyundai's business in the U.S., as its first ever CEO.

Still, it is the first major hire for Uber's new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, who announced the appointment in an email on Friday to staff — a note that also acknowledged the litany of legal challenges facing the company around the world.

Still, for first movers and savvy investors who can adapt to disrupt — like the eCommerce giant that's hiring dabbawalas for local deliveries — these problems may be speed bumps rather than roadblocks.

Led by the newly hired Jordi Solé, who previously oversaw operations at various international hotel chains, the hotel division is already looking at its first potential destinations in Cancun and the Riviera Maya in Mexico and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

In November it announced that 10 percent of new hires in stores will be opportunity youth, and over the next three years it will create 600 work placements for youth who are not ready for their first job yet.

If your team is just a handful of first - timers, then talk about your vision for the team: who, why and how will you hire with the capital?

A relatively popular first - term politician in his constituency who many watchers believe will still do well in the next election (as an PC or an Independent), Mr. Allen left the PC caucus after he was arrested while trying to hire two prostitutes in St. Paul, Minnesota.