Sentences with phrase «who heads this effort»

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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.

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.

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.

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.

«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 two are on their way to meet with Chris Pritchard, a 24 - year - old Ph.D. candidate and Langer protégé, with master's degrees from Oxford and MIT, who heads InVivo's research and development efforts.

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.

To help spearhead that effort, Caplan tapped Mitch Grossbach, who had been an executive at a customer relationship management software company called Interface Software, to head a new digital division.

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.

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.

A Deutsche Bank veteran who started as an apprentice, Sewing is accelerating a push to refocus the lender on its European home market and reverse a two - decade effort to compete head - to - head with the large Wall Street firms that dominate volatile securities trading.»

In fact, I am heading an international team of more than forty, mostly younger scholars who, over the past decade, have been trying to decide just how that Greek source read, before Matthew and Luke updated it, but, thank goodness, left it sufficiently intact that our efforts are not in vain.

Moreover, the Institute on Religion and Democracy is worried about some of the people who headed the NCC effort and are now in charge of the loot.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

But God ordered his world in such a way that his own work within that world takes place not least through one of his creatures in particular, namely, the human beings who reflect his image... He has enlisted us to act as his stewards in the project of creation... So the objection about us trying to build God's kingdom by our own efforts, though it seems humble and pious, can actually be a way of hiding from responsibility, of keeping one's head well down when the boss is looking for volunteers...» (207).

Wins like this go to the players heads who then put in less effort in the next match.

In fact, that is what Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said he is looking for most in this camp, the player who will give that type of effort in «sequential» performances.

The NFL's effort to make football safer was expanded Tuesday by league owners who voted to approve a rule that seeks to take head - first collisions out of the game.

But Ashley Young's nice cross was meet by Lukaku head whos first effort was saved by Ben foster but he failed to clear rebound as United took the lead.

Defender Omar Gonzalez, who just returned from helping the United States win the CONCACAF Gold Cup, did finally get the All Stars on the scoreboard with a late headed effort in the 91st minute.

After Giroud heads it to Lacazette who shoots wide Bellerin has to save a ball from the line after Cech could only half stop the first effort after again a bad control from an Arsenal player.

Mr Pardew when are you going to get it into your head Remy does not want to join your team please stop wasting your time and efforts and bring in another striker who wants to play for the team and fans.....

It's also worth noting here that the HRC's effort to push for marriage equality in NY is headed by a former Bloomberg aide, Brian Ellner, who removed his name from the running to become head of the Empire State Pride Agenda after some LGBT advocates protested his close ties to the mayor.

[1] Earlier in September 2013, Tarek Mitri, who heads the UN Support Mission in Libya, described it as a process that «would give voice to many Libyans and opens a space that does not exclude any of those who may have contributions to make to public life and are otherwise isolated, separated or entrenched in their partisan attitudes... [to] promote a national capacity to address urgent priorities and ensure public support to the efforts of state - building.»

But as Howard Zemsky, who heads the state's economic development agency, has stepped back from his work in Larkinville, his wife and kids have stepped up, turning their efforts in Larkinville into a family affair.

Everyone with a father or grandfather who was involved in D - Day, the greatest seaborne military operation of all time, will have fixed this extraordinary event in their heads as a critical part of the effort to defeat the evil of Nazi Germany.

The group has ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his former top aide, Steve Cohen, who headed Cuomo's successful effort to pass the marriage equality bill in 2011.

He nominated Charles Gargano, a well - connected GOP fundraiser from the construction business, who had headed the president's New York re-election effort.

Cuomo replaced Stack (without, insiders said, even the courtesy of a «heads - up» phone call) as head of the Nassau Interim Finance Agency with Jon Kaiman, who starts working for Cuomo as a paid staffer Monday, overseeing the ongoing, hugely expensive Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts — spending for which is subject to review by NIFA.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Gen. David Petraeus will form a new gun - control group for veterans with retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, who became a vocal proponent of gun - control efforts after she was shot in the head in 2011.

The Governor who was represented by the Head of Service, Mrs. Olabowale Ademola at the May Day Rally held at the Onikan Stadium, Lagos said that every society must remember and appreciate its workers as they are the real heroes of the society, adding that Workers Day was about remembering and celebrating those who give their time, best efforts and worked hard for the good of the society.

The results from Trump's early midterm efforts have been positive, said Steven Law, who heads the Senate Leadership Fund, a super PAC that expects to spend tens of millions of dollars helping Senate Republicans this year.

The Democrat who ran for Governor in 2008 will now head Indiana's economic development efforts.

«Some counties are putting forward five to 10 projects to save money, but we're creating a situation where we can put 100 things into effect,» said Deputy County Executive Jon Kaiman, who is heading the effort for Bellone.

The May 11 meeting, part of the Inwood NYC Neighborhood Study that launched last year, is meant to bring together «community board members, heads of local nonprofit organizations, social service providers and small business owners and people who have invested and put their effort in the community,» said Russell Murphy, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez's interim chief of staff.

There is a movement to put Senator John Sampson at the head of the group in an effort to lure back at least Senator Hiram Monserrate, who defected to the Republican side on Monday to help win them the apparent majority.

«Gov. Christie has in one wrong - headed decision decimated New Jersey's clean air and energy advocacy efforts,» said Assemblyman John McKeon, a Democrat who chairs the Assembly environment committee.

Smith, who lost her son Nathaniel two years ago at age 26, said that on balance, she still believes the county is headed in the right direction and should be commended for its efforts.

«These are clearly coordinated efforts by professional campaign operatives,» Schenectady County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Landry wrote in a letter this week to GOP Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Sen. Cathy Young, who heads the conference's campaign efforts.

Its efforts on this project were led by Lori Harris, who heads up the company's Albany efforts, and herself is a former state governmental housing official.

To volunteer, contact the town clerk at 845-688-5004 or Kevin Van Blarcum, a town board candidate who is heading up the installation effort, at 845-706-0473.

Last month, Lynch shifted Danna DeBlasio (no relation to the mayor), who had previously managed the firm's Latino Affairs division, to serve as head of its effort to lobby the New York City Council.

Nicole Malliotakis (R - Staten Island), who headed Rubio's defunct effort in the state, have yet to make a new preference known.

A second source said Cuomo looked directly at Senate Deputy Democratic Leader Michael Gianaris, the Queens lawmaker who headed up his conference's electoral efforts, when he made the comment.

He lauded the efforts of Makarfi, who headed the National Caretaker Committee of the party, for leading the party out of its turbulent times.

«The implications of this ruling are huge,» says Brad Walker, who headed river restoration efforts for the Missouri Coalition for the Environment in St. Louis before retiring earlier this month.

That's one and a half times the range of elevations found on Earth,» says David Smith of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who headed the mapping effort.

«For each carbon dioxide molecule that is incorporated into plants through photosynthesis, plants lose about 200 hundred molecules of water through their stomata,» explains Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology who headed the research effort.

«Their performance has been remarkable,» says Richard Gibbs, who heads the public sequencing effort at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.