QinetiQ was created out of the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and floated on the stock market in February 2006, netting huge windfalls for its directors.
Mr. Bishop's team is in the research phase now, collecting data on current and former stars, and expects to roll out a tool within two to three years.
PowerRatings were created by Cesar Alvarez, a former senior engineer working on Microsoft Excel who is now director of research at Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Chief Research Officer Victoria Kamsler, a former lecturer at Princeton on environmental ethics and a clean-tech entrepreneur, runs the awards and evaluation process as a volunteer.
Ricks, 52, a former accounting and finance professor at Duke and Columbia, draws on a research group of 21 analysts and programmers to pick stocks after mining data on 6, 000 companies in the U.S. and twice that number overseas.
Never mind that when she made the call she had just left her former employer, formed her own company, and was now selling research on municipal bonds.
Dr. Shihab-Eldin is the former acting secretary-general and director of research at OPEC and an adviser on energy for Kuwait.
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In 2001, Zamansky successfully sued former Merrill Lynch analyst Henry Blodget on behalf of a pediatrician misled by Blodget's stock research.
Lord Broers, a distinguished engineer and former vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, was worried by how little we spent on research and development as a country compared to rivals - 1.7% of GDP in the UK, as compared to 2.8% in Germany and 2.9% in the United States.
But if the United States deserves criticism for openly supporting Rios Montt's rule, it also should be credited for supporting Guatemalan efforts to put the former dictator on trial, said Anita Isaacs, a professor of political science at Haverford College whose research focuses on Guatemalan politics.
Liberal Democrat Mr Rogerson was part of a delegation from the county - which included Truro and Falmouth Conservative MP Sarah Newton and former North Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Lord Tyler - who met Ms Soubry on Tuesday to ask for the research to be carried out.
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