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...Susan Walton Director, Frost Consulting Mike Weston Chair of Trustees, Institute of Cancer Research Pension Scheme Mark WheatleyDirector, Delano Wheatley Consulting Beata Young CEO, WomenOnIT Patrick L...
...L’Oréal is betting it can double Aesop’s annual sales from €502mn to €1bn or more. The deal is a departure for L’Oréal in one respect....
...GAM’s funds under management have slumped since its embroilment in scandals involving metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta and financier Lex Greensill....
...Forthcoming highlights include, on May 16, Cimarosa’s rarely heard L’Olimpiade (not strictly an opera about the Olympics, though Paris 2024 is clearly its peg and the games are alluded to in its libretto...
...LVMH-backed private equity group L Catterton has hired Ian Friedman as a partner and managing director in its growth fund. He was previously co-head of Goldman Sachs’ growth equity team....
...As Rajiv Shah of the Rockefeller Institute pointed out, the developing world’s challenges tend to be ignored in the west — even though alleviating them is critical to combat climate change....
...His grandmother was a significant collector, acquiring “L’Arlésienne” by Van Gogh when she was just 22 and gifting it to the French government to celebrate the liberation of Paris....
...And Sanjeev Gupta wrote to the FT using the phrase to describe his companies’ financing arrangements with Greensill....
...The law firm K&L Gates has hired Bonita Black as a partner in its corporate practice. She joins the firm’s Charlotte office from Dinsmore & Shohl....
...Paris has its Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration; Melbourne has the Immigration Museum; Halifax in Canada has Pier 21; Cologne will soon have the Haus der Einwanderungsgesellschaft, recently given...
...Most of the money travelled through his eponymous Greensill bank to assets tied to Sanjeev Gupta, the industrialist who’s grabbed headlines for unconventional financing....
...Named alongside the India-born businessman in the complaint are Liberty Industries chief executive Douglas Dawson, Derek O’Reilly, its UK chief financial officer, and India-based executive Rajiv Bajaj....
...L’Oréal has appointed company veteran Nicolas Hieronimus as its next chief executive....
...Barraclough, London Polymath 1,002: Terry Lavell, London Christmas Crossword: Steve Pattison, Pinehurst, North Carolina; Catherine Innes, Norfolk; Lindsay Sinclair, Berkshire Polymath 1,001: Hitesh Gupta...
...A sale could give shares in L Brands a much-needed lift....
...(WSJ) Run of the mill Adding to metals magnate Sanjeev Gupta’s list of troubles is a steel mill that will require hundreds of millions of dollars to turn things round....
...The highlights here are two virtual pieces: Ian Cheng’s artificially intelligent caterpillar splurging across a screen “Bob (Bag of Beliefs)” and — the poetic heart — Cyprien Gaillard’s “L’Ange du Foyer”...
...Next door at the exhibition entrance, “Atta”, a trompe l’oeil bronze loaf covered in flour, waits to rise; at the show’s centre “Sister”, a video of communal Indian dining, is projected on a large plain...
...Soon after succeeding his brother at the helm of Indian construction group Lanco, L Madhusudhan Rao spotted an opportunity that looked too good to miss....
...Rajiv Gupta, Skyhigh’s chief executive, will head McAfee’s cloud security business unit. Now he is looking for more companies in cloud security....
...Under the splendidly named Halte a l’Obsolescence Programmee, it is a criminal offence to deliberately reduce the lifespan of a product to increase the rate of replacement....
...The other reasons against this are more simple and tie into that last line from Gupta....
...Rajesh Gupta General manager, home delivery experience, Home Retail Group 87. Syed Raza Managing director, global banking and credit solutions group, Barclays 88....
...One example of this powerful use of the McKinsey network can be seen with MIO’s holdings in private equity and venture capita l....
...“It was a ‘get out of jail free’ card,” says Rajiv Gupta, chief executive officer of Skyhigh Networks, a US internet security company. “It was reassuringly simple to make that claim.”...
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