Krikorian served on the board of Amazon.com Inc. and also co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group where he co-led the team that created the award-winning Velo 1 handheld PC running Windows CE.

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Philips Audio, Video, Multimedia and Accessories make up the Lifestyle Entertainment business group within Philips Consumer Lifestyle.

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Big investors include television makers such as Japan's Matsushita, Philips, a Dutch electrical group, and car-parts makers such as Germany's Bosch.

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In March Compass won a contract with Philips, a Dutch electronics group, to feed, eventually, all 265, 000 staff in 60 countries.

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Mr. Philips, principal of Guerrilla Culinary Group in New York, staged his first pop-up in April 2010.

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