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UC President Mark G. Yudof recommende Desmond-Hellmann for the top job after a searc process that formally begabnin December. If approved by the UC Board of Regent in a meetingnext week, Desmond-Hellmann, 51, woulde be the first woman chancellor and the first with a for-profirt pedigree. Desmond-Hellmann is a 14-yeafr veteran of South San Francisco-basedf biotech powerhouse Genentech, most recently as presidengt ofproduct development. She left that post Thursday, little more than a monthb after Swiss drugmaker completedeits $47 billion acquisition of Genentech. Desmond-Hellman would replace Dr. J.
Michael Bishop, who is steppinv down June 30 after more than 11 yearsin UCSF’s top Desmond-Hellmann will manage an institution with a 2008-09 budgert of $2.5 billion and a staff of more than 21,500. It is the second-largest winnert of funding. It has 2,951 graduate studentzs in life sciences. At Genentech, Desmond-Hellmann has been a clinica scientist, chief medical executive vice presidentand president, overseeing trials for drugd like the cancer fighters Herceptin, Avastin and Genentech, which has research agreements with UCSF, has more than 11,000p employees. Desmond-Hellman had total compensation $8.4 million in the most recent available year. Her base salaryu was $664,833.
Desmond-Hellmann has served as an assistant professorin hematology-oncologhy at UCSF and is an adjunct associate professor at the where she completed her clinicalo training after receiving a medical degree from the , “I began my career at and my heart has never left Desmond-Hellmann said in a prepared “I am delighted and humbed to have the consideration for the position of chancellor at this trulh great institution. My life’s work has been focused on makingy a differencefor patients, and I cannot think of a better place than UCSF to carryy that work forward.
” In a press release followingf the closed selection process, Yudof said he, Desmond-Hellmanhn and Linda Katehi — provost at the at Urbana-Champaigb who Yudof nominated for the chancellor job at would have no further comment until the Board of Regentes acts on the appointments. The regents meet by telephone on The meeting was scheduled for the campusa of UCSan Diego, but it was changes to help the campus deal with the swine flu outbreak. Compensatioj for Desmond-Hellmann and Kateh will be discussed by the Regents in thatmeetingt — albeit in closed session and disclosed to the public afterward.
The most recent available salary figures forChancellor Bishop, a Nobel laureate, is $402,000. “ endorse this recommendation with enthusiasm and will do all that I can to facilitat e the transition to new leadership forthe campus,” Bishop said in a memo to UCSF “We can be grateful that the president and the search committee have identified a truly outstanding individuakl to lead UCSF in the comingh years.” A 19-member committede of regents, faculty, staff, students, alumni and community representatives including retired Bank of America Chairman and CEO Richarcd Rosenberg — advised Yudof in its national search.
It was assiste d by Isaacson, Miller, which specializes in executive searchesin education, health care and the not-for-profit
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
iCore Networks wins United Negro College Fund contract - Triangle Business Journal:
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Under McLean-based iCore’s system, UNCF will integrate its telephongy system at its Fairfax headquarters and more than 20 brancnhoffices nationwide, allowing the organization to cut down on capitap expenses and monthly telecommunications costs. UNCF is currentl using several phone service providerzs to handle the telephony needs ofits U.S. whereas the new service will allow four-digigt dialing between all UNCF offices and unlimited locakl and long distance inthe U.S. “We are definitely growinv in adown economy. We grew 100 percent last year [and this we project to finish 60 to 75percent up,” said Stevde Canton, CEO of iCore.
“We attribute that to the marketplaces becoming more familiarwith VoPI.” The eight-year-old which generates $40 million in contractes revenue, has around 20,000 subscriber on its network. The firm just completeds installing a VoPI solution forthe , whicj has 10 locations in the U.S. and 600 usersa on the network.
Under McLean-based iCore’s system, UNCF will integrate its telephongy system at its Fairfax headquarters and more than 20 brancnhoffices nationwide, allowing the organization to cut down on capitap expenses and monthly telecommunications costs. UNCF is currentl using several phone service providerzs to handle the telephony needs ofits U.S. whereas the new service will allow four-digigt dialing between all UNCF offices and unlimited locakl and long distance inthe U.S. “We are definitely growinv in adown economy. We grew 100 percent last year [and this we project to finish 60 to 75percent up,” said Stevde Canton, CEO of iCore.
“We attribute that to the marketplaces becoming more familiarwith VoPI.” The eight-year-old which generates $40 million in contractes revenue, has around 20,000 subscriber on its network. The firm just completeds installing a VoPI solution forthe , whicj has 10 locations in the U.S. and 600 usersa on the network.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Two more leave BofA board - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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According to a filing with the Securitiee andExchange Commission, Prueher and Franm didn’t resign because of any disagreement with the Jackie Ward and Patricia Mitchell resigned earlu this month. Mitchell is a former New York television executive and currentlhy serves as chief executive of the Paley Centerfor Media, a New York Ward is the retired chief executive of Atlanta-baser Computer Generation Inc., a software company. Robert Tillman, a former Lowe’s Cos. Inc. chief executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiverMay 29. And on May 29, the bank announced formerd lead independentdirector O.
Temple Sloan had left the BofA didn’t disclose Sloan’s reason for Sloan had been a BofA directodr for13 years. In earlyg June, four outside directors were electedto BofA’sa board. They are former Federal Reserve GovernodSusan Bies, former Compass Bancshares Inc. chief executivr and chairman D. Paul former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Donald Powello and retired BankOne Corp. and Visa International Inc. executive Willian Boardman. BofA’s board has been under intense scrutiny in recenty months as the bank suffered through asharp stock-price declinre after acquiring Merrill Lynch & Co.
The Charlotte-baser bank (NYSE:BAC) also has receivede $45 billion in taxpayer aid. At the bank’s annual meetingh in late April, shareholders voted to strilp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis of his positioh asboard chairman. Walter Massey was installerd as the new chairman and has indicated the board needs tobe re-evaluated. Lewis remaina the bank’s CEO and president.
According to a filing with the Securitiee andExchange Commission, Prueher and Franm didn’t resign because of any disagreement with the Jackie Ward and Patricia Mitchell resigned earlu this month. Mitchell is a former New York television executive and currentlhy serves as chief executive of the Paley Centerfor Media, a New York Ward is the retired chief executive of Atlanta-baser Computer Generation Inc., a software company. Robert Tillman, a former Lowe’s Cos. Inc. chief executive, resigned from the BofA board effectiverMay 29. And on May 29, the bank announced formerd lead independentdirector O.
Temple Sloan had left the BofA didn’t disclose Sloan’s reason for Sloan had been a BofA directodr for13 years. In earlyg June, four outside directors were electedto BofA’sa board. They are former Federal Reserve GovernodSusan Bies, former Compass Bancshares Inc. chief executivr and chairman D. Paul former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman Donald Powello and retired BankOne Corp. and Visa International Inc. executive Willian Boardman. BofA’s board has been under intense scrutiny in recenty months as the bank suffered through asharp stock-price declinre after acquiring Merrill Lynch & Co.
The Charlotte-baser bank (NYSE:BAC) also has receivede $45 billion in taxpayer aid. At the bank’s annual meetingh in late April, shareholders voted to strilp Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis of his positioh asboard chairman. Walter Massey was installerd as the new chairman and has indicated the board needs tobe re-evaluated. Lewis remaina the bank’s CEO and president.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
NCR moving HQ to Duluth, to bring 2,100-plus jobs to Georgia - Atlanta Business Chronicle:
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adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatde 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetrtCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturinhg operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialpannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Stricklans the company has been looking at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Businesds Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklandx to convince Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicles , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated teller machines andretail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’sd 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcer the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, rankedx 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calls reported a $228 million profit on $5.
3 billion in revenue last Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidd Customer Services headquarters to metri Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrer City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-locat e an NCR Learning Center and its Customeer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtrees City. NCR, which occupies about 150,00 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additionaol 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average aboug $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingas and willmake ATMs, accordingb to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averageabouf $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivese from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclosr details about the state’s incentive package. Whil Dayton -- where NCR was foundec in 1884 -- is the company’s official headquarters, the city is not the centert ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’ws chief financial officer and other senior maintain offices on an entire flooe of 7 World Trade Centerin Manhattan.
In March, NCR removeed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytoh campus. Nuti will not be movint to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of the Southeast — makes sense for the company. Four of the citiess in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinf citiesin America, accordingv to an August 2008 report in Forbes. “They can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the sourc said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metrok Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servic kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstallp self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announces a deal to expand the project into Home Depof stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgradd existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrustr branches.
adding clout to metro Atlanta’s technology reputation. NCR will relocatde 1,250 corporate jobs to its GwinnetrtCounty operation, a source familiar with the plan The company is also expected to launch a 550,000-square-foot manufacturinhg operation in Columbus, Ga., where it will employ nearly 880, the source Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to make the officialpannouncement Tuesday. NCR CEO Bill Nuti and Ohio Gov. Ted Stricklan spoke by phone Monday evening, and Nuti told Stricklans the company has been looking at Georgia forsome time, an official in the Ohio governor’s office told Atlanta Businesds Chronicle sister publication Dayton Business Journal (DBJ).
In a lettetr to Nuti obtained by theChronicle , Stricklandx to convince Nuti to keep the company in Ohio. On May 31 , the Chronicles , and the DBJ , first reported . NCR (NYSE: which makes automated teller machines andretail self-checkouts, will be Georgia’sd 14th Fortune 500 company and the second in Duluth. Last July, (NYSE: ABG) announcer the relocation of its headquarters to Duluth fromNew NCR, which employs 20,000 employees globally, rankedx 446 on the 2009 Fortune 500 The company, which did not return calls reported a $228 million profit on $5.
3 billion in revenue last Last fall, NCR said it would move its Worldwidd Customer Services headquarters to metri Atlanta, investing $15 million and creating more than 900 jobs in Peachtrer City and Duluth. In October, NCR said it would co-locat e an NCR Learning Center and its Customeer Care Center hub for the Americas region withthe company’s existing Global Service Materials operation in Peachtrees City. NCR, which occupies about 150,00 square feet at its Satellite Boulevard operationin Duluth, will lease an additionaol 100,000 to 200,000 square feet at that The corporate jobs will pay on average aboug $70,000 annually.
The manufacturing distribution operation will be in two buildingas and willmake ATMs, accordingb to the source. Employees at that facility will make on averageabouf $43,000 annually, the source said. NCR received tax incentivese from both Gwinnett and Columbus thesource said, declining to disclosr details about the state’s incentive package. Whil Dayton -- where NCR was foundec in 1884 -- is the company’s official headquarters, the city is not the centert ofthe company’s influence. Nuti, along with the company’ws chief financial officer and other senior maintain offices on an entire flooe of 7 World Trade Centerin Manhattan.
In March, NCR removeed the language “world headquarters” from the sign at its Daytoh campus. Nuti will not be movint to Atlanta. Relocating to Atlanta the commercial capital of the Southeast — makes sense for the company. Four of the citiess in Ohio — Youngstown, Dayton and Cleveland— are among the top 10 dyinf citiesin America, accordingv to an August 2008 report in Forbes. “They can’t recruit talent to move to Dayton, Ohio,” the sourc said. (NYSE: DAL), (NYSE: HD) and STI) -- big NCR customers -- are also based in metrok Atlanta.
NCR supplies Delta with self-servic kiosks, and NCR and Home Depot announced a deal in 2002 toinstallp self-checkout lanes in about 800 of its 1,487 In 2007, the two companies announces a deal to expand the project into Home Depof stores in Canada. In 2005, SunTrust said NCR would upgradd existing ATMs and provide new ATMs for all newSunTrustr branches.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
McCaskill chides Corps for timing of letters to landowners - STLtoday.com
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msnbc.com | McCaskill chides Corps for timing of letters to landowners STLtoday.com Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sent an interesting letter to the Army Corps of Engineers today asking that the corps stop sending letters to landowners near the Missouri River asking if they might be willing to sell their land. ... Missouri Landowners Fru! strated By Poorly Timed Buyout Letters Corps seeking land along river It's » |
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Wells Fargo Insurance Services nabs Las Vegas brokerage in buying spree - Pittsburgh Business Times:
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The brokerage network, part of WFC) said the deal closed June 1. Termz were not disclosed. According to has been in busineszsince 1999, when it was founded by John Grady, and focusews exclusively on health and benefits insurance, with customers in the construction, health-care, auto sales and home developmeny niches. Grady is now managing director ofemploye benefits. Wells Fargo Insurance Services isthe world’s fifth-largest insurance brokerage and the nation’s largest bank-owned according to Business Insurance magazine’s 2008 list, with more than 200 officex in 37 states. The brokerage networo has been on a buyingspree recently.
It boughyt Novato’s and in earlu April, and about a month before that acquirerdWalnut Creek-based , an employee benefitx consulting firm that also has offices in Houstoj and Seattle, among other deals in recentf months.
The brokerage network, part of WFC) said the deal closed June 1. Termz were not disclosed. According to has been in busineszsince 1999, when it was founded by John Grady, and focusews exclusively on health and benefits insurance, with customers in the construction, health-care, auto sales and home developmeny niches. Grady is now managing director ofemploye benefits. Wells Fargo Insurance Services isthe world’s fifth-largest insurance brokerage and the nation’s largest bank-owned according to Business Insurance magazine’s 2008 list, with more than 200 officex in 37 states. The brokerage networo has been on a buyingspree recently.
It boughyt Novato’s and in earlu April, and about a month before that acquirerdWalnut Creek-based , an employee benefitx consulting firm that also has offices in Houstoj and Seattle, among other deals in recentf months.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Scientology Literature Declared Extremist - The Moscow Times
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GlobalPost (blog) | Scientology Literature Declared Extremist The Moscow Times A Moscow region court has declared books and brochures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as extremist, the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement Thursday. The Shchyolkovo town court, at the request of local prosecutors, ... Russian court bans Scientology books |
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