Hence, corporate development teams are busy, decisions are slow, and prices are often disappointing.
Starting in corporate development, Weiner ended up running Yahoo's best-known properties, including mail, search, sports and news.
My firm has conducted over 70 interviews so far this year with mid-market CEOs, CFOs and corporate development leaders.
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Michael Brown, manager of Corporate Development at Facebook, bought the shares back in September 2010, according to a report from TechCrunch.
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He has hired John A. Cooper, formerly a managing director of corporate development at Microsoft, to help him roll up damaged e-tailers.
As head of strategy and corporate development, he is in charge of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital relationships and global strategic alliances.
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Miss Gaudiani dropped in on its boss, George Milne, and persuaded him to take charge of corporate development for the new body.
Bryan Lamkin, who has recently returned to Adobe, will assume responsibilities for cross company research and technology initiatives as well as Corporate Development.
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Hilton Romanski is Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Cisco Systems - a busy and demanding job that means his leisure time is precious.
Shenkman, a longtime business software executive, has led teams responsible for more than 40 acquisitions, and he is currently vice president of corporate development at SAP.
The firm hires former Wall Street bankers on a project basis to consult with the portfolio companies of private equity firms and advise corporate development teams.
At a December 1997 meeting, Steve asked Miles Gilburne (AOL's senior vice president, corporate development) and me to see about working together and we eventually focused on e-commerce.
Lincoln Trust Co. of Denver has developed what it calls a "personalized expense ratio" so participants can see the cost easily, said Tom Gonnella, Lincoln's senior vice president of corporate development.
He was working in corporate development for a small conglomerate in the late 1970s when he discovered a company with "a very tidy balance sheet" that happened to be an RV maker.
As a nonprofit, it takes no equity in its portfolio companies and gives companies a platform that promotes corporate development by providing resources such as stipends, office space, legal support and direct mentorship.
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Meanwhile, Pan American more than replaced the proven and probable silver and gold reserves mined during the last year through its exploration campaign, said Michael Steinmann, executive vice president for corporate development and geology.
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Corporate development teams are increasingly looking outside of their organization to help keep up with marketplace demands and avoid the loss of market share that can happen with a sluggish or even delayed time to market.
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"We've made it clear we will not be continuing the contracts of anybody who does not wish to continue to work for the company on the new contract, " said Tony Tyler, Cathay's director of corporate development.
Brad Coffey, head of corporate development for the company, likens the formula to a machine: Put a dollar in at the top and the LTV:CAC ratio will tell you roughly how many dollars come out at the bottom.
Stubo is referring to her own role on the executive team, as well as those of her colleagues Sara Clemens (Vice President, Corporate Development), Erika Rottenberg (Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary) and Pat Wadors (Vice President, Global Talent Organization).
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There are two objectives: to find customers willing to sign long-term contracts for coal from Galilee and to rope in a couple of large buyers as strategic investors, says Mudit Parashar, senior vice president of corporate development, who works closely with Reddy.
While Twitter has stayed mostly hush-hush on the update, the company's own corporate development VP Kevin Thau couldn't contain himself: his attempt to one-up Facebook this weekend showed a slightly redesigned iOS app that most certainly isn't sitting on our own devices.
For anybody who has noticed the giant amounts of money being paid for companies like Instagram and wants to get their piece of the tech bubble before it bursts, Google vice president of corporate development David Lawee has some advice for you.
"We've been asked by service providers to see what we could do with a box in the home--ways to move music around the house, set up mobile units, or establish virtual private networks between home and business, " said Dan Sheinman , Cisco's senior vice president for corporate development.
The mine is located in the Western Bushveld area of South Africa, about 20 kilometers from the giant Rustenburg mine owned by Impala Platinum, and sits in the heart of South African platinum production, said Kris Begic, vice president of corporate development for the Vancouver-based Platinum Group Metals.
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While Facebook is the number one site U.S. mobile users spend time on line, mobile usage of the social network is even higher in most emerging markets, Facebook Vice President of corporate development Vaughan Smith said at the Global Mobile Internet Conference Silicon Valley in San Jose on Friday.
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"It's a critical space for us, " says Ned Hooper , senior director of corporate business development for Cisco.
"Linksys is one of the leading home networking providers and has created a market-leading suite of products and services to meet customer needs, " said Hilton Romanski, VP Corporate Business Development, Cisco.
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The press release said she was responsible for leading HR and talent acquisition and corporate and business development.
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Corporate research and development will therefore have to engage in open innovation to become more of a curator and an incubator of great ideas.
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