Whitacre holds a PhD in Biochemistry from Cornell University, was a top executive (Division President) at ArcherDaniels Midland (ADM), and has a wonderful wife and 3 kids.
Ms. Rometty also reassigned the top executive leading that division, presumably because of the poor results.
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In the financial services case, the division executive insisted that the IT and business teams (ten people) spend a full day recalibrating the project.
Analysts welcomed the move, saying Mr Tucker had proved his worth by spearheading Prudential's Asian expansion during his time as chief executive of its Asian division between 1993 and 2003.
It also "enlarges" the division of powers to include not only the traditional division between executive, legislative and judicial powers but it creates also the "Electoral power" and the "Social Control and Transparence Power".
One big question: will Rothberg, who still serves as chief executive of the Ion Torrent division, stick around?
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At LG Electronics, the most important division, Chief Executive Yong Nam is not a family member nor was his predecessor.
"The politics to me was irrelevant, " said Susan Zirinsky a senior executive producer at CBS News division, adding the show will be shown to a national audience and CBS retained complete control of editorial content.
President Susan Decker said co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo didn't know exactly how much more Microsoft was willing to pay when they left a meeting in Seattle on Saturday with Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer and a division president, Kevin Johnson.
HSBC's top three managers have all been with the bank for about 25 years, and the company flouted U.K. corporate governance rules, which call for a clear division between chief executive and chairman, by bumping Green up to chairman, from chief executive, after Sir John Bond retired in 2005.
Art Coviello is executive chairman of RSA, a division of EMC.
Doug McMillon, the chief executive of Walmart's international division, is tireless in arguing the case for opening Indian retailing to foreign supermarket firms.
According to testimony, Enron's ex-Chairman Lay and ex-Chief Executive Skilling had repeatedly portrayed the division as a steady source of predictable growth--as opposed to a high-yield and potentially risky business.
Earlier this month, a top marketing executive from the U.S. division of Kia Motors Corp.
"We expect to see increased engagement with the launch, " said Michael Morhaime, chief executive of the firm's Blizzard division.
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Gorman served as President of Krispy Kreme Doughnut's North American division, as well as Executive Vice President of Flight and Technical Operations at Northwest Airlines.
Recruiters in creative industries like advertising, marketing and public relations may be more receptive to gimmicks than others, says Dave Willmer, executive director at Creative Group, a division of the recruiter Robert Half International Inc.
Gorman served as President of Krispy Kreme (nyse: KKD - news - people ) Doughnut's North American division, as well as Executive Vice President of Flight and Technical Operations at Northwest Airlines (nyse: NWA - news - people ).
Though the numbers of wealthy Americans and Europeans have declined, Hideto Oba, an executive in Mori Building's residential division, says the company is also seeing interest from well-heeled buyers in developing Asian countries who want to invest in high-end real estate but can't find enough offerings at home.
Only slightly less busy is Michael Maples, who was executive vice president in charge of the software division at Microsoft from 1992 to 1995.
From September 2001 to June 2012, he served as the Chief of the Intelligence Branch, National Security Division, in a career Senior Executive Service position.
So it's fortuitous that Deere's board has picked this time to run a chief executive succession race, pitting four recently promoted division heads against one another.
The bulk of buyers at the Magnificent sale used to be dealers, but that's shifted, explains Lisa Hubbard , executive director of Sotheby's international jewelry division.
Godsell, then chief executive of Anglo's gold and uranium division, had worked to bring South African business leaders together with ANC officials in the waning days of apartheid.
"Traditionally, you could not get small business financing from banks until you had two to five years of financials to present to them, " says Patrick Gannon, a senior vice president at Lending Club and a former executive at Wells Fargo's small business division.
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Both companies may benefit from the myriad troubles at AOL Time Warner 's (nyse: AOL - news - people ) America Online division, which is struggling with executive changes, lack of a coherent growth strategy and questions about its accounting.
The idea was a success, and Mr. Stroup, a division president, was appointed a group executive not long after.
Philippe Pascal, the current head of the division, will remain on the LVMH executive committee in a different capacity.
Trapani will join the LVMH executive committee and manage the LVMH watches and jewelry division during the second half of 2011.
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