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...Standard Chartered has started the search for a new chief risk officer to replace Mark Smith, and has also begun preparing for the eventual departure of its chief financial officer Andy Halford, who is considering...
...“I will be reluctant to join crowds again, at least until the majority of people are vaccinated,” says Brendan McGraw, a chief finance officer whose job meant that he continued to travel throughout the pandemic...
...In January 1979, American Express launched a hostile $880m bid for McGraw Hill, the information conglomerate. Lipton was hired to defend McGraw Hill....
...Air France-KLM has appointed Air Canada’s chief operating officer Benjamin Smith as its first non-French chief executive....
...McGraw Hill says the 5.5m students who have used its software have created more than 10bn data points that can be can mined to identify best practice....
...Argus was founded in the 1970s by Jan Nasmyth, a former Treasury official and British Army officer, as a weekly newsletter covering the Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp products market....
...Apollo Global Management also owns the publisher McGraw Hill Education, which it acquired in a $2.4bn deal in 2013....
...Edward Roussel, chief innovation officer at News Corp’s Dow Jones unit, described Symphony as a “network of arteries that will eventually be driving the lifeblood of Wall Street”....
...Mr Taurel, 66, headed pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly from 1998 to 2008, and sits on the boards of IBM and McGraw Hill Financial, owner of rating agency Standard & Poor’s....
..., chief technology officer of Cigital, a software security consulting firm....
...Pearson had also continued in US testing, says Mr Aspesi — in contrast to rival McGraw Hill Education, which exited a sector that opens up the possibility of winning big contracts but also being hit hard...
...a fiery temper and sharp tongue, Mr Montepeque helped design the so called market-on-close system, which is used by traders to set the price of millions of barrels of crude every day Platts, a unit of McGraw...
...In particular, contrast Bill’s highly concentrated investment approach to that of Andrew Wellington, chief investment officer at Lyrical Asset Management....
...The former Lloyds chairman is also a non-executive director of McGraw Hill Financial in the US....
...His appointment as chief executive of McGraw Hill Financial follows the retirement of Terry McGraw, whose great-grandfather founded the publishing conglomerate in 1888....
...This follows the separate departure from Invesco Perpetual of two other fund managers, Paul Boyne and Doug McGraw, who have now joined Manulife. These changes will take effect at the same time....
...● Sunny Uberoi has moved to S&P Capital IQ, part of McGraw Hill Financial, to lead its global communications team from Deloitte, where he was head of stakeholder engagement....
...Simon Dingemans, chief financial officer, said last month the Chinese business was “looking a bit more positive”, although the inquiry is still ongoing with no clarity on when it will conclude....
...“You sit and watch them catch the falling knife,” adds Erik Hirsch, chief investment officer of Hamilton Lane, a big Apollo investor and consultant to others....
...Dean Durbin, Cengage’s chief financial officer, said it “fully expects to get a clean opinion” from PwC, its auditor....
...“I don’t think that we are moving toward a restructuring,” Dean Durbin, chief financial officer, told analysts on a conference call....
...Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hired Linda Zecher from Microsoft last year and McGraw-Hill this year picked Buzz Waterhouse, an IBM veteran, to run the education business it is now selling....
...Amplify will launch a “significant pilot” with AT&T this autumn, Joel Klein, its chief executive officer, said in an interview....
...“I do watch the Dow but the S&P 500 is a better reflection of what’s going on in corporate America,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank....
...The business is a fraction of the size of traditional suppliers to the education market such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt or Pearson, which owns the Financial Times....
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