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...Robin Wheeler, who started heading up Twitter’s ads sales business under Musk after the former chief Sarah Personette resigned, left the company last week....
...As his admirer Sir Mortimer Wheeler used to recall, Curzon appointed Marshall in error, mistaking him for a namesake, but nonetheless, Marshall became a titan of archaeology at Taxila and other famous sites...
...It all suddenly makes sense, Wheeler thought. As a present to himself on his 40th birthday, Wheeler quit Merrill to be an independent financial adviser....
...Wheeler dealers can destroy value as well as create it — Robinson’s 2004 takeover of Granada group is a case in point....
...Mockney wheeler dealer “Del Boy” Trotter was known for his French language faux pas and council flat in Nelson Mandela House, London....
...James Wheeler, a finance executive and former employee, said: “A lot of the things he’s done are extraordinary, and he is an incredible person.”...
...While some media reports said Robin Wheeler, who had taken the helm of Twitter’s ads sales team, also left the company, she later tweeted: “I’m still here.”...
...Robin Watson, chief executive of Wood Group, said on Friday: “We are pleased to have resolved these historical issues, which predate our acquisition of the business in 2017, and can now look to the future...
...Robin Watson, chief executive of Aberdeen-based Wood, said on Tuesday he was pleased to be “nearing resolution” of the probes as the company announced it would pay £6.5m to settle a separate inquiry by Scottish...
...Wood has been diversifying away from its North Sea oil and gas roots in recent years, a strategy that was accelerated by its £2.2bn takeover of rival engineering group Amec Foster Wheeler in 2017....
...Rupert Soames, chief executive, was as grandiloquent as it is possible to be in a stock market round robin. Intentionally....
...Wood expects the deal to allow it to deleverage to close to its targets, after the 2017 acquisition of rival Amec Foster Wheeler saddled it with high debt levels....
...“Clearly deleveraging on a more gradual basis is disappointing,” Robin Watson, the group’s chief executive told the Financial Times....
...Tech tools — Nobe 100 Three-wheeler Reliant Robin cars were once objects of derision and props in comedy series in the UK, but Estonia's electric Nobe 100 is a far cooler concept, with a much higher price...
...The Aberdeen-headquartered company also said the integration of its acquisition of rival Amec Foster Wheeler last year was ahead of schedule, and raised its three-year cost savings target from at least $170m...
...Robin Watson, Wood chief executive, said the integration of AFW was progressing well with initial cost synergies achieved ahead of plan....
...In 1997 Robin Cook, then Labour foreign secretary, stayed in post despite revelations of an affair that led him to leave his wife....
...In the UK, Wood Group last year acquired Amec Foster Wheeler, in part to diversify from the oil and gas industry. Four years on, activity levels have started to improve....
...“We think the worst of the downturn is behind us in upstream oil and gas,” said Robin Watson, Wood chief executive....
...Letter in response to this article: India has no strategy for improving air quality / From Dr Robin Russell-Jones, Marlow, Bucks, UK, Former Chair, Campaign for Lead Free Air...
...Wood Group and Amec Foster Wheeler have finally tied the knot....
...Robin Watson, who earned almost £1.2m last year, would see his base salary rise from £600,000 to £750,000 under the plans floated with investors....
...“Since we announced the deal in March, both parties have maintained a relentless focus on keeping on schedule,” said Robin Watson, Wood Group’s chief executive....
...Wood Group’s £2.2bn takeover of rival Amec Foster Wheeler would accelerate its strategy to reduce its heavy reliance on volatile upstream oil and gas markets by “three to four years”, its chief executive...
...Ken Robins, who ran the business for the past five years, will take a new role of chairman of equity capital markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
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