position:general manager

Are You Calling The Apple Card ‘Disruptive’?
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Tech Giants Aren’t Disruptive. But They Could Win The “Game” Over Banks.There I was, together with millions of people around the world, “virtually” standing in front of Jennifer Bailey as she introduced the new Apple Card. It took hours, if not minutes, for media outlets to start rolling out headlines describing this credit card as “disruptive”. But as a former General Manager at Visa and the current CEO of a leading digital payment solution, I wondered: “Is Apple Card really a disrupter of the payments industry?”To answer this question, we must first be on the same page, at least, linguistically. Journalists and bloggers are now using the word “disruptive” to describe any situation in which an industry is shaken up by new or existing players. But “shaken up” does not imply change. Interestingly, (...)

#banking #blockchain #digital-transformation #apple-disruption #fintech

Premier équipage entièrement féminin sur un remorqueur portuaire. C’est à Saint-Domingue, en République Dominicaine.

Svitzer Employs First All-Female Crew in Dominican Republic – gCaptain
▻https://gcaptain.com/svitzer-employs-first-all-female-crew-in-dominican-republic

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Global towage operator Svitzer has hired the first 100% female crew for one of its tugs in the Dominican Republic.

The vessel, the 70-ton bollard pull Svitzer Monte Cristi, provides harbor towage services for ships in the port Santo Domingo.

Svitzer says the all-female crew in an industry typically dominated by men is part of a gender inclusion initiative and marks a milestone for gender diversity in the Latin American maritime industry.
[…]
The General Manager of Svitzer Caribbean, Captain Dickson Rivas, and others at the company spent two years pursuing the project, focusing the team’s energy on training.

“These women have become local icons for others and have proven to be an efficient and hardworking team,” said Captain Eduard Medina.

Svitzer says it hopes the gender-inclusive initiative will help buck the historical predominantly male trend in the maritime industry. According to The International Transport Worker’s Federation, it is estimated that only 2% of the maritime workforce is made up of women, most of them employed on cruises and ferries.

Novaquark opens Montreal studio, hires ex-Eidos exec Stéphane D’Astous
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-02-12-novaquark-opens-montreal-studio-hires-ex-eidos-exec-st-pha

Former general manager of the studio behind Tomb Raider reboot and Deus Ex: Human Revolution leading new Dual Universe team

#Development #Jobs

YoYo Games promotes Stuart Poole to general manager
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-16-yoyo-games-promotes-stuart-poole-to-general-manager

Poole was previously head of production and partnerships, replaces outgoing GM James Cox

#Jobs

Nintendo of Europe issues formal warning to Russia boss after investigation
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-01-16-nintendo-of-europe-issues-formal-warning-to-russia-boss-af

But platform holder says accusations of harassment by general manager Yasha Haddaji remain unsubstantiated

#Publishing

YoYo Games launches #Publishing arm for GameMaker titles
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-24-yoyo-games-launches-publishing-arm-for-gamemaker-titles

“There is a real opportunity for us to act as a conduit to success for these developers,” says YoYo Games general manager

Kenyan rose-farm dam bursts, ’sea of water’ kills 47
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Nakuru lies in the heart of Kenya’s fertile Rift Valley, home to thousands of commercial farms that grow everything from French beans to macadamia nuts to cut flowers, nearly all of which are exported to Europe.

The region is dotted with irrigation reservoirs built in the last two decades to meet the demands of the rapidly expanding agricultural sector, the biggest foreign exchange earner for East Africa’s largest economy and a major source of jobs.

Vinoj Kumar, general manager of the Solai farm, blamed the disaster on massive rainfall in a forest above the dam.

“In the past two days the intensity of the rain was high and the water started coming down carrying boulders and roots which damaged the wall,” he told Reuters. “The dam wall cracked and the water escaped.”

#Kenya #horticulture #cultures_commerciales #barrage #intempéries #climat

Egypt court orders suspension of Uber, Careem services in victory for taxis: sources

▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-uber/egypt-court-orders-suspension-of-uber-careem-services-in-victory-for-taxis-

Forty two Egyptian taxi drivers filed a lawsuit a year ago against U.S.-based Uber and its Dubai-based competitor Careem, arguing they were illegally using private cars as taxis. They also claimed that the two firms were registered as a call center and an internet company, respectively.

Khaled al-Gammal, a lawyer acting for the taxi drivers, said

the court suspended the two companies’ licenses, banned their apps and suspended the use of private cars by the two ride-hailing services.

Tuesday’s decision was effective immediately, meaning the companies must suspend services pending a final ruling, although the companies have 60 days to appeal, the judicial sources said.

Uber said it would appeal and it was not immediately clear when a final ruling would be issued.

Careem said it had not yet received any official request to stop operations in Egypt, and continued to operate as normal.

Uber intends to appeal any court decision to suspend ride sharing licenses in Egypt, an Uber spokesperson said.

“We will do all we can to ensure millions of Egyptians can continue to enjoy the benefits of on-demand transportation,” the Uber official said.

“We are fully committed to working with the entire sector – including taxis – to improve mobility in Egypt together. We will appeal this decision, and continue to be available in Egypt in the meantime.”

Uber said Egypt is its largest market in the Middle East, with 157,000 drivers in 2017 signed up and 4 million users having used the service since its launch there in 2014.

The San Francisco-based company said last year it was committed to Egypt despite challenges presented by sweeping economic reforms and record inflation. In October Uber announced a $20 million investment in its new support center in Cairo.

It has had to make deals with local car dealerships to provide its drivers with affordable vehicles and adjust its ride prices to ensure its workers were not hit too hard by inflation.

Egypt is one of Uber’s fastest-growing markets, its general manager in the country, Abdellatif Waked, has said, according to state news agency MENA.

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Egypt’s investment ministry said last year that a draft law regulating web-based transport services would provide a legal framework for companies like Uber, but did not say when that bill was likely to be passed.

Uber has faced regulatory and legal setbacks around the world amid opposition from traditional taxi services. It has been forced to quit several countries, such as Denmark and Hungary.

Last year, London deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and stripped it of its license to operate. Uber is appealing against the decision.

Jam City acquires Columbia-based #Mobile dev Brainz and its award-winning strategy IP
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-14-jam-city-acquires-columbia-based-mobile-studio-brainz-and-

“This deal proves that it is possible for Latin American talent to become part of global companies,” says Brainz general manager

Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Reactors’ Melted Uranium Fuel - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/science/japan-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown-fuel.html

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Now that engineers say they have found the fuel, officials of the government and the utility that runs the plant hope to sway public opinion. Six and a half years after the accident spewed radiation over northern Japan, and at one point seemed to endanger Tokyo, the officials hope to persuade a skeptical world that the plant has moved out of post-disaster crisis mode and into something much less threatening: cleanup.

“Until now, we didn’t know exactly where the fuel was, or what it looked like,” said Takahiro Kimoto, a general manager in the nuclear power division of the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco. “Now that we have seen it, we can make plans to retrieve it.”

Tepco is keen to portray the plant as one big industrial cleanup site. About 7,000 people work here, building new water storage tanks, moving radioactive debris to a new disposal site, and erecting enormous scaffoldings over reactor buildings torn apart by the huge hydrogen explosions that occurred during the accident.

C’est beau la com’ du nucléaire

At the plant’s entrance, a sign warned: “Games like Pokemon GO are forbidden within the facility.”

“We have finished the debris cleanup and gotten the plant under control,” said the guide, Daisuke Hirose, a spokesman for Tepco’s subsidiary in charge of decommissioning the plant. “Now, we are finally preparing for decommissioning.”

In September, the prime minister’s office set a target date of 2021 — the 10th anniversary of the disaster — for the next significant stage, when workers begin extracting the melted fuel from at least one of the three destroyed reactors, though they have yet to choose which one.

#Nucléaire #Fukushima #Propagande #Robots

Is Excel 2018 going to be the game changer in data visualization? – DataVis Experts

▻http://datavisxperts.com/excel-2018-and-datavis

I am afraid not.

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Is Excel 2018 going to be the game changer in data visualization?

Tech giant Microsoft recently announced a ton of new features that it would be adding to our old pal Excel. Perhaps its time and God knows Excel has waited long enough for a major upgrade. But what will this upgrade actually do? Will it really live up to the buzz its announcement stirred up? And what are these new data types that they are talking about? We will try to answer all these queries here. Let’s dive in !

#datavisualisation #visualisation #excel

Xbox: Announcing our exclusives too early has been a mistake
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-25-xbox-announcing-our-exclusives-too-early-has-been-a-mistak

Shannon Loftis, general manager for Microsoft Studios #Publishing, said she regrets that Crackdown 3 was announced years in advance

North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html

North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program, according to an expert analysis being published Monday and classified assessments by American intelligence agencies.

The studies may solve the mystery of how North Korea began succeeding so suddenly after a string of fiery missile failures, some of which may have been caused by American sabotage of its supply chains and cyberattacks on its launches. After those failures, the North changed designs and suppliers in the past two years, according to a new study by Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Such a degree of aid to North Korea from afar would be notable because President Trump has singled out only China as the North’s main source of economic and technological support. He has never blamed Ukraine or Russia, though his secretary of state, Rex W. Tillerson, made an oblique reference to both China and Russia as the nation’s “principal economic enablers” after the North’s most recent ICBM launch last month.

Analysts who studied photographs of the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, inspecting the new rocket motors concluded that they derive from designs that once powered the Soviet Union’s missile fleet. The engines were so powerful that a single missile could hurl 10 thermonuclear warheads between continents.

Those engines were linked to only a few former Soviet sites. Government investigators and experts have focused their inquiries on a missile factory in #Dnipro, #Ukraine, on the edge of the territory where Russia is fighting a low-level war to break off part of Ukraine. During the Cold War, the factory made the deadliest missiles in the Soviet arsenal, including the giant SS-18. It remained one of Russia’s primary producers of missiles even after Ukraine gained independence.

But since Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, was removed from power in 2014, the state-owned factory, known as #Yuzhmash, has fallen on hard times. The Russians canceled upgrades of their nuclear fleet. The factory is underused, awash in unpaid bills and low morale. Experts believe it is the most likely source of the engines that in July powered the two ICBM tests, which were the first to suggest that North Korea has the range, if not necessarily the accuracy or warhead technology, to threaten American cities.

“It’s likely that these engines came from Ukraine — probably illicitly,” Mr. Elleman said in an interview. “The big question is how many they have and whether the Ukrainians are helping them now. I’m very worried.”

Israeli security arrests Gaza-based UN official en route to Jerusalem
July 17, 2017 6:20 P.M. (Updated: July 17, 2017 8:55 P.M.)
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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have detained a United Nations official based in the besieged Gaza Strip, with neither the UN nor Israeli authorities commenting publicly on the case five days after the arrest.

According to local NGO the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Hamdan Muhammad Hassan Timraz, the assistant regional director for UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in the Gaza Strip, was detained on July 12 at Israel’s Erez crossing, the only crossing Palestinians in Gaza can use to travel to Israel or the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory.

Timraz, 61, had obtained a permit to travel to Jerusalem to meet with the general manager of UNDSS’ Jerusalem office, according to Al-Mezan’s statement, which highlighted that Timraz regularly traveled outside of Gaza for work.

Timraz’s wife Niemeh Salih Timraz, 54, told the NGO that the family lost contact with him after he arrived at Erez crossing. It wasn’t until Thursday that Israeli security services telephoned Timraz’s 24-year-old son Abd al-Hadi and notified him that his father was under arrest.

A spokesperson for Israel’s security service, the Shin Bet, could not immediately be reached for comment, however, an Israeli security source confirmed the arrest to an Israeli journalist, who said the news was under gag order in Israel.

Former 2K Games exec Neil Ralley joins 505 Games as president
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-05-05-former-2k-games-exec-neil-ralley-joins-505-games-as-presid

Ralley was general manager for 2K Games International for nearly 11 years

#Publishing #Jobs

Government officials meet with Shenhua Group | The UB Post
▻http://theubpost.mn/2016/12/13/government-officials-meet-with-shenhua-group

Government officials met with representatives from Shenhua Group Corporation Limited, China’s leading state-owned mining and energy company, to discuss further negotiations concerning the Tavan Tolgoi project.

The delegation from Shenhua Group was headed by General Manager Ling Wen. Wen stated, “We placed our bid for the Tavan Tolgoi project twice and won the bid twice. We are pleased that the new government has expressed their interest in cooperating with us and continuing the negotiations for the Tavan Tolgoi project.”

Earlier this year, by the decree of the Prime Minister, a working group headed by Minister of Mining Ts.Dashdorj was tasked with renegotiating and improving the contracts established with investors in the Tavan Tolgoi project.

This statement has been seen by analysts as Shenhua Group’s way of saying they will be involved in the Tavan Tolgoi project.

a Mirai botnet perturbed Liberia’s internet connectivity

Liberia is connected to internet via only one undersea cable (part of ACE - African Coast to Europe) of 5.12 Tbps, shared between all 23 countries connected via ACE.

Mirai has been targeting IP addresses of Lonestarcell MTN, a telecom operators managing the Liberian ACE leg, flooding the pipe with 500 Gbps and thereby impacting Liberia’s internet several times. (well, the 6% of the country that actually has internet access).
Lonestarcell MTN is one of the 4 telecom operators

▻http://thehackernews.com/2016/11/ddos-attack-mirai-liberia.html

Many media, including BBC, PC World, The Guardian, Forbes, IBtimes, Quartz, Mashable, The Register, inaccurately reported that Liberia was totally cut off.

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▻https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/did-the-mirai-botnet-really-take-liberia-offline

“Both our ACE submarine cable monitoring systems and servers hosted (locally) in LIXP (Liberia Internet Exchange Point) show no downtime in the last 3 weeks,” [the general manager of Cable Consortium of Liberia] said. “While it is likely that a local operator might have experienced a brief outage, we have no knowledge of a national Internet outage and there are no data to substantial that.”

Mirai announces its attacks here:

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#Mirai #DDoS #botnet
#undersea_cable #câble_sous-marin

Russia Becomes a Grain Superpower as Wheat Exports Explode
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-06/russia-upends-world-wheat-market-with-record-harvest-exports

“Russia will be among the top exporters for a long time, especially given the potential advances in productivity there,” said Tom Basnett, general manager at Market Check, a Sydney-based commodity consultant. “Other producers need to fight harder to maintain their traditional markets.”

The boom in Russia is attracting some of the world’s biggest trading houses, with Olam International Ltd., Cargill Inc. and Glencore Plc investing into everything from silos to export terminals.

Rich soil, government support and proximity to Black Sea ports for shipping means Russian costs can be as little as half those of major competitors supplying key import markets in the Middle East, according to researchers at Kansas State University.

#Blé #Russie

Revisiting “Moneyball” with Paul DePodesta - Issue 39: Sport
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In 2002, when the Oakland A’s replaced their MVP first baseman Jason Giambi with 32-year-old Scott Hatteberg, a washed-up catcher with a bum arm, longtime baseball scouts figured the unpredictable A’s had finally gone completely around the bend. As journalist Michael Lewis recounted in his book, Moneyball, even “Hatteberg hadn’t the slightest idea why the Oakland A’s were so interested in him.”As everybody who read Lewis’ celebrated 2003 book knows, the A’s signed Hatteberg with the encouragement of the team’s bright young assistant general manager, Paul DePodesta. Schooled in economics at Harvard, DePodesta was developing a new way to interpret player statistics, finding value where nobody else was looking. With players like Hatteberg, the A’s, led by general manager Billy Beane, took an (...)

Turkey aims to establish Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Inc. Co.
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Turkey aims to shortly establish a Sinop Nuclear Power Plant Incorporated Company, as part of a consortium for Turkey’s second nuclear power plant in Sinop, according EUAS’ chief executive on Monday.

Halil Alis, the general manager of Turkish Electricity Generation Company (EUAS), told Anadolu Agency in an interview that the nuclear partner company for Sinop will be established by Turkey’s EUAS in cooperation with French and Japanese authorities to transfer nuclear knowledge and boost nuclear energy in Turkey.

He said that the subsidiary company of EUAS International Limited, based in the Jersey Islands and with capital worth $50 million, will partner with French Japanese partners for the Sinop plant. The French Japanese partners, who comprise French AREVA and Japanese Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, aim to establish a company in Holland.

#Nucléaire #Turquie

Low profits drive Turkish gas turbines to Africa
▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/low-profits-drive-turkish-gas-turbines-to-africa.aspx?pageID=238&

C’est aussi facile que ça de démanteler une centrale thermique, de la transporter et de la faire fonctionner ailleurs ???

Many Turkish investors have started to dissemble gas-turbine power plants, which are no more profitable in Turkey due to the loss in Turkish Lira and lowering sector prices, and carry them abroad, mainly into Africa, according to sector representatives.

This trend may, however, put the future supply into risk, they warned.

A loss in the lira’s value, lowering electricity and natural gas receipts and increasing electricity supply in Turkey have put pressure on the power industry. Amid decreasing profits, some producers have recently chosen to dissemble their gas-fired power plants and go to other countries that are in urgent need of increasing their electricity supply, like Africa. This may, however, create a danger over the future supply of the Turkish market, according to sector players.

“Gas prices are high. Some power plants, therefore, cannot meet their operational costs, initiating a natural selection and carrying their power plants abroad. Some African countries show great interest in these plants. It is also very advantageous to carry them to Iran as natural gas is cheap there,” said a source from the Energy Markets Regulation Board (EPDK).

The same trend is also the case of several coal-fired turbines, which produce high emission levels and use expensive fuels.

Saying that some 44 percent of Turkey’s power generation is based on natural gas turbines, Sarempet Enerji General Manager Ali Rıza Öner added, “There is no chance for combined cycled power plants with a productivity level under 58 percent to be profitable all the year around, except some months when prices are higher, such as winter months. While independent electricity producers made their financing feasibility calculations on 7,200 hours at minimum, this figure decreased to 2,500 hours in the last two years. Many gas-fired power plant owners have therefore tended to take their plants abroad, mainly Iran, Kazakhstan and western African countries, amid high natural gas prices and low electricity prices in Turkey. Most of the African regions have an energy deficit and their purchasing guarantees constitute lifeblood for the secondhand power plant market.”

#Electricité #Centrale #Economie #Turquie

New head of Microsoft Ukraine believes in selling cloud solutions, wants to fight piracy
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/new-head-of-microsoft-ukraine-believes-in-selling-cloud-solutions-wants-to

In the aftermath of the EuroMaidan Revolution that toppled Victor Yanukovych as president, Ukrainian politics saw quite a few people with business backgrounds enter government service, with Dmytro Shymkiv, former head of Microsoft Ukraine, among them.

As Shymkiv accepted President Petro Poroshenko’s offer to become his deputy chief of staff in July, the Ukrainian unit of the U.S.-based company, known for developing the popular Windows operating system, started looking for a replacement.

On Oct. 17, the corporation finally announced its new general manager in Ukraine, Nadiya Vasylieva, who was its public sector director since 2012 and who acted as an interim head since Shymkiv quit.

Vasylieva has more than 12 years of experience in Russia-owned telecom provider Kyivstar, one of the largest operating in Ukraine, and another 2.5 years with Amway Ukraine, a personal care company that bets on direct marketing. She holds degrees in economics and law.

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However, software piracy in the public sector is a major issue that has proved to be extremely difficult to deal with, she said.

"We want to be a European country, we want to have a fair court system, which would help to get rid of corruption and improve the economic situation. However, it appears that it all does not apply to the intellectual property. A deputy minister recently asked me: “If Microsoft has endured (piracy in the public sector) for 8 years, why can’t it wait for 10 more years?” Vasylieva said.

According to Vasylieva’s data, 83 percent of all software in Ukraine is counterfeit, while in the public sector this figure reaches at least 30 percent. Fighting the piracy in this segment is among the priorities of the new head of Microsoft Ukraine, however so far it has not been able even to get an official estimation of personal computers’ install base in the governmental offices. Moreover, in 2011 this information was classified by the Defense Ministry.

“Once the government openly shows us how many computers there are and what’s the piracy level, we’re ready to help (with legalizing),” Vasylieva said. “But so far they only want to argue over percentages — is it 30, or 40, or 60 percent.”

After the numbers are revealed, Microsoft claims to be ready to offer a long-term plan of standardization and legalization of the software installed in various governmental offices all over the country. Vasylieva said that in 2013, before the EuroMaidan Revolution, the company offered more than 25 percent in discount on its products together with “amnesty” for some computers after the government showed the first 66,000 PCs with pirated software.

The deal, however, has never been made, which means that some of the members of the new parliament and their colleagues in other state bodies will still have to work with illegal Windows operating system for a while.

Der Uber-Boss für Europa ist etwa 30 Jahre alt.

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Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty

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General Manager - West & North Europe chez Uber, Inc

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Investment Professional chez Benros Capital
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Associate Consultant chez Bain & Company
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Worker chez TLD Group

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Columbia University in the City of New York
Ecole centrale de Paris
Lycee Henri IV
Ecole Alsacienne

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Expérience de Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty
September 2012 – Present (1 year 10 months) Paris
General Manager - West & North Europe, Uber, Inc

Investment Professional
Benros Capital
January 2011 – September 2012 (1 year 9 months)
London, United Kingdom

June 2008 – March 2011 (2 years 10 months)
London, United Kingdom
Investment Professional
Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies (GSPS)

April 2007 – July 2007 (4 months)
Paris Area, France
Associate Consultant
Bain & Company

September 2006 – March 2007 (7 months)
London, United Kingd
Analyst
Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area (PIA)

June 2005 – August 2005 (3 months) China
Worker
TLD Group

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Start-ups
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Entrepreneurship
Hedge Funds
Financial Markets
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Financial Modeling
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Venture Capital
Emerging Markets
Investment Banking
Private Equity

Formation de Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty
2007 – 2008 Columbia University in the City of New York
2004 – 2006 Ecole centrale de Paris
2002 – 2004 Lycee Henri IV
Ecole Alsacienne

Coty Inc.
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Coty Inc. gehören heute unter anderem die Marken adidas, Aspen, Astor,[2] Celine Dion, Cerruti, Chloé, Chopard, Chupa Chups, Kylie Minogue, Davidoff, David und Victoria Beckham, Desperate Housewives, Esprit, Ethan James, Jil Sander, Jette Joop, JOOP!, Jovan, Lancaster, Jennifer Lopez, Vivienne Westwood, Isabella Rossellini, Pierre Cardin, Vanilla Fields, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang, Halle Berry und Guess. Im Rahmen einer strategischen Partnerschaft vertreibt Coty gemeinsam mit der spanischen Puig Beauty & Fashion Group die Parfümmarken Nina Ricci, Carolina Herrera, Prada, Paco Rabanne und Antonio Banderas in den USA und Kanada.

Der Umsatz betrug im Geschäftsjahr 2008 rund 4 Milliarden US-Dollar

Gore Vidal
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/gore-vidal-feuds-vicious-mother-and-rumours-of-a-secret-love-child-83

His two extraordinary volumes of memoirs – Palimpsest (1995) and its sequel Point To Point Navigation, published in 2006 – recall friendships with Eleanor Roosevelt, Princess Margaret and Leonard Bernstein. He was close to John Kennedy and closer still to Jackie, a relative by marriage. “It is always a delicate matter,” he once wrote, “when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.” ("Oh we know, we know," sigh his millions of readers.)

Al Gore
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore#Early_life_and_education

Gore was born in Washington, D.C., the second of two children of Albert Gore, Sr., a U.S. Representative who later served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, and Pauline (LaFon) Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School.[14] Gore is partly descended from Scots-Irish immigrants who first settled in Virginia in the mid-17th-century, and moved to Tennessee after the Revolutionary War.

Alibaba launches online shop for US
FT | June 11, 2014 By Sarah Mishkin in San Francisco
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#Alibaba launched its first direct-to-consumer online shop in the US on Wednesday, as part of a move to expand more aggressively outside its home market.

Development of the new website, called 11 Main, has been led by two of Alibaba’s wholly owned US subsidiaries, with financial and operational support from the parent group, according to the site’s general manager Mike Effle.

It will operate as an online marketplace similar to Alibaba’s China-based TMall, which offers virtual store fronts to merchants who set their own prices and manage every aspect of their sales apart from payment.

“11 Main was really inspired by the ‘Main Street’ experience,” said Mr Effle. “We are hand selecting . . . and really telling the story of these shops.”

The shop represents Alibaba’s highest-profile foray into the US, but is only one part of the group’s wider strategy there.

In advance of its potential $20bn initial public offering in New York later this summer, Alibaba has made a string of investments in US technology companies, with the help of a newly formed team in #Silicon_Valley.

CEO, two others charged over #turkey #mine #Disaster
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/ceo-two-others-charged-over-turkey-mine-disaster

Turkey has charged three more people with manslaughter over the country’s worst mining disaster, including the CEO of the company operating the pit, reports said on Tuesday. Can Gurkan, the chief executive of mining company #Soma Komur, general manager Ramazan Dogru and a technician were the latest to face manslaughter charges over the disaster that claimed 301 lives, the private NTV television said. A total of eight officials from #soma_komur have now been charged over last Tuesday’s accident at the Soma mine that sparked anti-government protests in several towns and cities. read more