The company is rolling out Advent Direct, a new cloud-based system that lets investment managers take data from their Advent modules and other enterprise systems such as SalesForce.com, to generate a view of their investment processes and, soon, of their customers.

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Malone built up this portfolio by taking small stakes in new channels that needed carriage on TCI cable systems, masterfully rolling them into larger stakes or direct control.

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"Tudor Evans has made it clear that this task force is about rolling up our sleeves and identifying specific actions which can have a direct impact on job creation, " he said.

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