Anton Refregier

Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 – October 10, 1979) a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was a Russian immigrant to the United States.
He is known, among other works, for his mural "The History of California" located in the Rincon Center, in downtown San Francisco, California. It depicts the state's history across twenty seven panels that he painted from 1940 to 1948.
Life and early career.
Refregier was born in Moscow and emigrated to the United States in 1920. After working various odd jobs in New York City, he earned a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in 1921. After finishing school, Refregier moved back to New York in 1925. To earn a living, Refregier worked for interior decorators, creating replicas of François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard paintings. He continued his creative development, and traveled to Munich in 1927. While there he studied under painter Hans Hofmann, who was creating abstract expressionism paintings.
Refregier returned to New York state during the late 1920s, and lived in the Mount Airy artists' colony in Croton-on-Hudson. In an interview, Refregier referred to this time as the most wonderful period of his life, although it was a peculiar kind of wonderful. He was referring to the effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Refregier learned 'a lot about life' during these times, and also learned more about the United States economy and government.
Refregier found inspiration in the tragic events. He was quoted as saying that "the richer we [were] in possessions, the poorer we became in their enjoyment." He said the amazing part of that period was the "human quality, the humanist attitude that [everyone] had" and the discovery that "the artist was not apart from the people."
Federal Art Project — Works Progress Administration.
He struggled as a muralist until the federal government began the Federal Art Project in 1935, within the Works Progress Administration—WPA (renamed in 1939 the "Works Projects Administration"), that created sponsorship of artists. When asked about the program Refregier said that it was "by the wisdom of one of the greatest Presidents we ever had, Roosevelt, it's common knowledge the WPA, a relief program, was established [because] it was necessary to protect the skills of the American people." Refregier received $23.86 a week on the FAP—WPA rolls.
Refregier was a faculty member and chairman of the Board at the American Artists School from 1937 to 1938. Refregier began to gain notoriety in his field, and so was given the opportunity to choose between two assignments for his first WPA—Federal Art Project. He was given the choice of painting a mural in a courthouse, or in the children's ward of a hospital. Refregier chose the latter, because did not want the pressure inherent in designing public artwork for a courthouse. He was assigned to the children's ward mural project at Green Point Hospital, in Brooklyn. The project took a little over a year to complete, and involved five other contributing artists.
After completing the hospital mural, Refregier's work became primarily government-sponsored projects. These included the World's Fair Federal Works Buildings in the 1933 Chicago World's Fair and the Section of Fine Arts of the Public Building Administration in the Treasury Department. He also worked as a teacher, supervising artist, and a mural supervisor. He collaborated with other contemporary artists, such as Byron Randall.
Works.
Anton Refregier won many mural competitions, and started to gain national renown as a muralist.
Rincon Center mural.
In 1940 he won the commission for his most famous work, the "History of San Francisco", located in the Rincon Center in San Francisco, California. He competed with a number of other artists for the commission, including artist Richard Haines, first funded as a project of the Section of Painting and Sculpture.<ref name="http://andersonshea-artappraisals.com/artists/haines.html">Richard Haines(1906-1984)</ref> The mural is formally known as the "History of San Francisco" and is located in the lobby of Rincon Center, a building that once served as a United States post office and was known then as Rincon Annex. Refregier painted the mural with casein tempera on white gesso over plaster walls, in the social realism style. Work restarted after the war, in 1946, and took two years to complete at a cost of $26,000.
Subjects and style.
The mural consisted of 27 panels and covered of wall space. The mural panels depicted various historical events from California's past. It included the 1877 anti-Chinese Sand Lot riots, the 1934 San Francisco Waterfront Strike, and the Trial of trade unionist Tom Mooney, that was based on fabricated evidence. Refregier used these tragedies as inspiration. Refregier "believed that art must address itself to contemporary issues and that a mural painting in particular must not be 'banal, decorative embellishment,' but a 'meaningful, significant, powerful plastic statement based on the history and lives of the people.'"
The mural also depicted: the California Gold Rush; the 1860s building by Union Pacific of the western First Transcontinental Railroad; the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire; and further into the twentieth century with the city's Second World War contributions, and culminating in the 1945 signing of the United Nations Charter in the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. Some were suspicious of Refregier as a communist because of his Russian—USSR background, and his mural topics about social issues. None of this bothered Refregier, he was only concerned about his art.
The style of this historic mural had many of Refregier's key characteristics. The palette was composed of yellows, browns, and grays, punctuated by red in certain areas to evoke emotion. Earthy tones and the lack of bright colors remind viewers of the struggles and hardships he is depicting. Refregier also uses white to represent virtue in those inspired by a cause. His style is very flat and one-dimensional. He uses solid blocks of color to denote shadows, along with depth and shade. His painting style appears to be very rudimentary and simple, but complex because of the way he uses color to evoke emotion and powerful images to tell a story.
Responses.
The "History of San Francisco" created a heated debate because of the controversial events it depicted from California's past. After all, the mural was located in a public building and Refregier was using public funds to complete it. People believed that it "placed disproportionate emphasis on violence, racial hatred, and class struggle." Republican Senator Hubert B. Scudder and then US Rep. Richard Nixon were involved in Congressional hearings to have the work removed. They claimed it had a communistic tone and "defamed pioneers and reflected negatively on California's past." Many believed that "no artist, however distinguished, escaped the heavy, if well meaning, hand of federal supervision."
In a letter to the editor in 1952, the President of the College Art Association said that "the pro-Chinese sentiments of one section of the murals and indication of the then existing wartime alliance with Russia of another section reflected the realities of the time." The protest was eventually defeated by a group of artists and museum directors.
Later career.
After the conflict, Refregier continued to work as an artist, teacher, professor, and judge for various competitions. He was a professor of painting at Bard College in New York from 1962 to 1964. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
Refregier died in 1979 while in Moscow. He was working on a mural for a medical center in his home city. The same year, his Rincon Mural was placed under the protection of the National Register of Historic Places.


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Chris Rokos

Christopher Charles Rokos (born 21 September 1970) is a British hedge fund manager. He is the founder of macro hedge fund Rokos Capital Management and a former founding partner of Brevan Howard Asset Management.
According to The "Sunday Times Rich List" in 2020, Rokos' net worth is estimated at £800 million.
Early life.
Rokos was identified by his UK maintained (state) primary school as a pupil with academic potential, especially in maths and science. He was entered for a scholarship at leading public school, Eton College. Rokos attended Eton for five years before going on to study mathematics at Pembroke College, Oxford University, graduating in 1992 with a first class honours degree. He holds an MA from Oxford University and is a Foundation Fellow of Pembroke College.
Career.
After leaving university, Rokos joined UBS in London. Within a year, he was asked to join Goldman Sachs, working there for three years, first in derivative structuring, then swap market making and eventually proprietary trading. In January 1998, Rokos was recruited by Alan Howard to join Credit Suisse as a proprietary trader.
In early 2002, Alan Howard and Rokos both resigned, together with three other directors at Credit Suisse – Jean Philippe Blochet, James Vernon and Trifon Natsis. Together, they founded an asset management business which they named Brevan Howard, and which quickly became one of Europe's most successful hedge funds.
Rokos became widely known as the firm's "star trader" and one of the world's most influential government-bond traders, with positions so vast Wall Street trading desks reportedly sought to stay abreast of his views on the market, as they could move long-standing relationships between prices. Rokos generated $4 billion in profits whilst at Brevan Howard, trading securities tied to interest rates for the firm's flagship Master Fund, including $1.11 billion in 2007, equivalent to 27% of the fund's total profits that year, as well as $549 million in 2008 and $933 million in 2009. His best year for the Brevan Howard Master Fund came in 2011, when he made $1.27 billion for the fund, according to documents filed in his subsequent court case. The same documents also revealed that Rokos personally earned about $900 million during his 10 years at Brevan, a figure dwarfing previous estimates.
Rokos Capital Management.
In 2012, Rokos retired from Brevan Howard, setting up a family office in London's Mayfair to manage his own wealth. But in the summer of 2014, wishing to return to trading, he filed a suit in the Royal Court of Jersey against Brevan Howard contesting the five-year noncompete restrictions which would have prevented him from managing outside capital until at least 2018.
The high-profile case was settled out of court in January 2015, clearing the way for Rokos to start his own firm in one of the "most anticipated hedge-fund launches of recent years", according to "The Wall Street Journal". With investors reportedly forbidden from discussing the launch, Reuters reported that much of the money initially invested in the fund would be provided by Rokos himself, with a primary focus on foreign exchange, fixed income and equity index products in developed markets and relatively liquid emerging markets.
Rokos Capital Management began trading in the Autumn of 2015, gaining approximately 20 per cent in its first calendar year (2016). According to the "Financial Times", Rokos Capital Management was helped by bets on market moves around Donald Trump's election victory.
Rokos was one of a number of hedge fund managers who predicted the UK Referendum vote on EU membership incorrectly, The New York Times wrote that he had told associates that he expected the "remain" vote to win. Rokos Capital Management still made money, gaining more than 2.5 percent in a single day immediately after the vote.
The performance of Rokos Capital Management in 2016 was followed by two years of indifference, reflecting a difficult trading period for macro hedge funds. In 2017–2018, Rokos Capital Management's profits fell by 85% to £22.9 million. Rokos continued to complete the build-out of the firm in readiness for the return of more favourable market conditions.
Rokos Capital is one of the biggest and top performing hedge funds in London.
Political donations.
Rokos was one of a number of hedge fund managers who made donations to Britain's Conservative Party in the run-up to the 2015 general election, contributing £1.9 million in total. Since 2015, Rokos has been an occasional donor only to the Party.
Social contributions.
Rokos says little about his charitable giving. It is known that he provides financial support to organisations seeking to guarantee basic human rights and needs, and to initiatives which promote equality of opportunity, especially in education.
He has given to Amnesty International and Water Aid, and supports Pro Bono Economics, a charitable organisation which helps other charities to measure performance, improve services and improve impact.
He is supporting a five-year fellowship, called the Chris Rokos Fellowship in Evolution and Cancer, at London's Institute of Cancer Research to explore how cancer occurs and why. The fellowship has been awarded to Dr Andrea Sottoriva who is applying Darwinian principles of natural selection in a quest to understand why cancer develops and why it is so difficult to treat.
Rokos supports the New Foundation Scholarships programme at Eton College. Mirroring his own educational experience, this initiative offers up to four scholarships for children from schools in the state sector. It is aimed at children from poorer backgrounds who have potential and who would not otherwise be able to gain access to the education which Eton offers.
Pembroke College, Oxford University named a quad after Rokos when he gave the lead gift to the campaign which went on to raise £17 million to fund the surrounding buildings complex. He also supports other educational initiatives linked to Pembroke College; notably the Rokos Award Research Scholarships and the Oxford-Rokos Graduate Scholarships. Pembroke undergraduates studying STEM subjects are eligible to apply for the Rokos Awards, which are intended to support students looking to enhance their studies and scientific knowledge through research internships.
The Oxford-Rokos Graduate Scholarship is 60% funded by Rokos, and 40% by Oxford University, and covers the entire cost of living and fees for the full duration of a student's course. It is offered to applicants who have "demonstrated excellent academic ability", who will "contribute to the University’s ground-breaking research", and who are "expected to go on to contribute to the world as leaders in their field".
Rokos also supports the Rokos Career Development Fellowship in Economics or Economic History at Pembroke College. It is awarded with preference to candidates whose research area matches those of the Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Dr Brian A’Hearn, including research on cities and regions, institutions, political economy, technology, labour markets, human capital, and living standards in Europe.
Rokos is known to have an interest in art, especially ‘Old Masters'. In 2010, the Financial Times reported that Rokos was understood to be the saviour of Domenichino's great baroque painting of "St John the Evangelist" (1620s). The painting sold at Christie's in December 2010 to a US buyer but its export was deferred. At that point a new buyer – believed to be Rokos – came forward to buy the painting and lend it to the National Gallery. Rokos was amongst major donors who in 2012 contributed to the National Gallery's successful Appeal to save Titians's "Diana and Actaeon" for the nation.
Personal life.
Described by the "Daily Telegraph" as a highly secretive man, Chris Rokos is reputed to be extremely private and is rarely seen in his home town of Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire, as he regularly flies in and out via his own private helicopter. Little is known of his personal life.


Suitable reasonable employment (UK)

Suitable reasonable employment is a concept which is used in United Kingdom redundancy scenarios.
It occurs when a job has been made redundant and the employer offers the redundant job holder an alternative position. If the position is within the skills and capabilities of the individual, has similar terms and conditions, is at a similar level, and is locationally appropriate, the chances are that they will be obliged to take it. An employee who unreasonably refuses an offer of suitable alternative employment will not normally be entitled to redundancy pay.
It is also the case that if the employer has a vacant position available which is within the skills and experience of a redundant employee, they should offer that position as a suitable reasonable alternative.


Mark Gillett

Mark Gillett is a British business executive and technologist. He is currently a partner, managing director and the senior operating partner at Silver Lake Partners, one of the largest global technology investment funds.
Gillett's experience spans leading the product management and development of embedded software and devices, and large scale cloud services. Much of his experience has focused on organisations undergoing operational, management, or technical change as a result of growth, change, of ownership/strategy or stress. He is best known for the rapid growth in users and value at Skype and his work leading and transforming engineering and operations at the company he took as Chief Development and Operations Officer while Skype was an independent company, prior to its acquisition by Microsoft. Gillett served as corporate vice-president for Lync and Skype at Microsoft from 2011–2013. Gillett has been granted a number of US and international patents in the fields of security, mobile computing, networking and communications.
Silver Lake.
Having previously been a partner at Silver Lake from 2009 prior to his executive roles at Skype and Microsoft, Gillett returned to the technology private equity firm as managing director and head of value creation in late 2013.
Microsoft.
From Microsoft's acquisition of Skype in 2011, Gillett led Skype's product, engineering and operations globally and in January 2013 when the Microsoft Lync organisation was merged with Skype he also assumed responsibility for the Lync business at Microsoft. From Microsoft's re-organisation in June 2013, Gillett served as Corporate Vice-President of the 'Applications and Services Group'.
Gillett led the planning and execution for Skype's integration into Microsoft in addition to the significant re-organization of the product and operations functions as Chief Development and Operating Officer of the company prior to Microsoft's acquisition. Gillett's leadership was marked by significant re-architecture to support mobile clients and Microsoft's Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems in 2012, and significant architectural and design refreshes for Skype's mobile clients in 2013. Gillett announced the company's new architecture in a blog post about a new Skype Windows 8 client in October 2012 (one year after Skype's acquisition by Microsoft and the same week as Windows 8's launch). In October 2013, Gillett shared news of a significant milestone in Skype's migration to the cloud previewing work to complete Skype's delivery of new mobile messaging, notification and calling technology.
Under Gillett's leadership, Lync Mobile clients were delivered in March 2013 and initial Lync/Skype interoperability was delivered in June 2013. In July 2013, Lync revenue was reported to have accelerated through FY13 to achieve $1Bn for fiscal year ending in June 2013, with over 30% growth reported year on year.
In addition to delivering a new architecture and clients for Microsoft's Windows 8 (October 2012), Windows Phone (November 2012), and Xbox platforms, following the acquisition, Gillett and Tony Bates continued to lead the Skype business with a focus on extending Skype reach and engagement from the web, across mobile and at work with key Microsoft products like Internet Explorer (August 2011) Bing(Skype Bing Reward and Bing Bar in February 2012) Outlook (January 2013), and upgrading Windows Live Messenger with Skype. In May 2013, the final pillar of the initially promised Skype and Microsoft integrations, Skype on Xbox One was announced during the launch of the new console and debuted with the console in November 2013.
Gillett left Microsoft in late 2013 and succeeded Charles Giancarlo as the Head of Value Creation at Silver Lake Partners, where he is responsible for value creation within the firm's portfolio of companies, and manages the firm's operating partner and operating executive team.
Skype.
At Skype, Gillett led innovation and the scaling of both the Skype platform and Skype team to support an order of magnitude of growth in connected users to 250M monthly active users by May 2012 and over 350M when he departed in September 2013 with (concurrent) users estimated to have grown from <10M concurrent users in 2009 to >50M by the end of 2012 and >75M in 2013. Just prior to Gillett's departure from Skype at the end of 2013, Skype was carrying over 700Bn minutes of communications annually.
Gillett joined Skype Technologies from Silver Lake Partners as a full-time executive in 2010 following the departure of Madhu Yarlagadda and is credited with re-organizing Skype's global development organisation and transitioning Skype to an agile software development methodology, increasing the frequency with which new versions of products are delivered to users from years down to as little as a month.
Gillett is attributed with leading the growth of Skype's engineering teams in London, Prague and Silicon Valley, growing the worldwide organisation to over 2,000 and London to over 400 Skype Team members with >40% growth in staff during 2012/2013, making London the second-largest site after Redmond, Washington. In addition to a focus on changing working practices, Gillett's leadership has been marked by radical re-design of Skype's offices, most recently in the UK and Czech Republic. Gillett's re-designs started with growth investment in the company's audio visual engineering team in Stockholm and has been marked by the introduction of open-plan working with teams organised into clusters around 'scrum' areas. Similar workspace transformations have recently been ongoing across Microsoft. Following the announcement of the Lync/Skype integration in September 2013, Gillett became involved in the design for a refit of two buildings in Redmond, bringing agile/scrum workspaces and video connected meeting rooms to Redmond.
Prior to Skype/Microsoft.
Prior to joining Skype, Gillett was primarily known for his work in turnaround management and Performance improvement of technology and technology related companies. He was a partner at the large-cap private equity firm, Silver Lake Partners, where he was involved in the $2.8 billion buyout of Skype from eBay in 2009.
Prior to working at Silver Lake, Gillett was a partner and managing director at Alvarez and Marsal where he was a part of the team that worked with Bryan Marsal, leading the recovery of assets from the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. Gillett is reported to have led negotiations amongst the Lehman entities and administrators outside of the US in early 2008 and to have worked as a part of the team until mid-2009. Previously at Alvarez, Gillett was appointed to run the software operations of the failing UK listed software company iSOFT plc which breached its banking agreements in 2006. In 2007, Gillett led the turnaround of the German GPS software and devices business Navigon AG where he drove an aggressive push into early GPS app store applications for smartphones resulting in the Navigon iPhone application.
Gillett was an international quality assurance reviewer for Information Technology Infrastructure Library 2007, where he was a reviewer for the Service Strategy volume of the version 3 refresh project.
Controversy.
Gillett's re-organization of the engineering and operations team at Skype was reported as rapid, taking place in only a "short number of months", which courted some controversy and drew attention as a part of a wider criticism of Skype's stock option plan by a disgruntled former employee.
He has also been active in defending the changes made to the Skype business and architecture in the face of criticism from privacy advocates – initially following the 2010 service interruption Gillett's team radically changed Skype's architecture moving away from a pure Peer to Peer approach, implementing cloud based supernodes, and subsequently refuting allegations that these changes had been made to facilitate law enforcement.
Gillett has raised concerns about the volume of skilled Program and Product Management engineers in Europe, specifically calling out the lack of cross trained business oriented engineers.


Joel Dehlin

Joel Dehlin is an entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of the Kuali company.
Biography.
He has held chief technology officer positions at Instructure, O.C. Tanner Co., a human resource consulting services company and at iQor, a business process outsourcing (BPO) company. He was the chief information officer for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Prior to working for the LDS Church, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years in various roles, at Arthur Andersen, and at Novell. While at Microsoft, Dehlin worked on the original microsoft.com product, in the mobile devices division, and as the executive producer and co-designer of Microsoft Allegiance. He was also one of the co-creators of Microsoft PixelSense. He has 21 patents.
Dehlin co-authored the book "Object Programming with Visual Basic 4 and Microsoft Office for Windows 95".
Dehlin was Chairman of the Board for Rhomobile, until the company sold to Motorola Solutions in 2011.
Dehlin was also listed as one of the 2019 CEO of the Year Honorees by "Utah Business".


Bernard Attali

Bernard Attali (born 1943) is a French business executive, political advisor and one-time novelist. He served as the chief executive officer of Air France from 1988 to 1993. He is a senior advisor to TPG Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Early life.
Bernard Attali was born on November 1, 1943 in Algiers, French Algeria (now Algeria). His twin brother, Jacques Attali, is an economist and political advisor. He also has a sister, Fabienne. Their parents were Jewish. Their father, Simon Attali, was trained as a rabbi and made a fortune in the fragrance industry. The family moved to mainland France, settling in the 16th arrondissement of Paris in 1956, two years into the Algerian War.
Attali took piano lessons from the age of five. He graduated from Sciences Po in 1966 and the École nationale d'administration (ENA) in 1968.
Career.
Attali became an advisor to the Court of Audit in 1974; he was promoted to the rank of master advisor in 1991.
Attali served as the financial director of the Club Med from 1980 to 1981. He then served as the head of DATAR from 1981 to 1984. He served as the president of the Groupe des Assurances Nationales (GAN) from 1984 to 1986.
Attali served as the chief executive officer of Air France from 1988 to 1993. Under his leadership, he oversaw the acquisition of Union de Transports Aériens in 1989 and Union de Transports Aériens in 1992.
Attali subsequently worked for Arjil & Associés Banque, an investment bank, from 1993 to 1996. He served as the chief executive officer of Bankers Trust France, the French subsidiary of Bankers Trust, from 1996 to 1998. He served as the Vice-Chairman of Deutsche Bank Europe Investment Banking from 1999 to 2000. In 2007, Attali joined TPG Capital as a senior advisor. He is also a senior advisor to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors of SFR.
Attali is the author of two non-fiction books and a novel, "La mise en examen". In 2015, he authored a report about the future of the École Polytechnique for the French government.
Attali became an Officer of the Legion of Honour on July 14, 1998.


Vijay S. Pande

Vijay Satyanand Pande is a Trinidadian-American venture capitalist and an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Pande is the former director of the biophysics program and is best known for orchestrating the distributed computing disease research project known as Folding@home. His research is focused on distributed computing and computer-modelling of microbiology. His research focuses on improving computer simulations regarding drug-binding, protein design, and synthetic bio-mimetic polymers. Pande became the ninth general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in November 2015.
Personal.
Pande was born in Trinidad in the 1970s to Indian parents. He has two children and likes cats.
After graduating from high school in 1988, Pande worked briefly at the video game development company Naughty Dog in the early 1990s in his late teens, serving as a co-programmer and designer on their 1991 release, "Rings of Power". While Pande was attending MIT and Naughty Dog was based in Boston, he played the secret boss character in the 3DO fighting game "Way of the Warrior".
Education.
Pande graduated from Langley High School's class of 1988 while growing up in McLean, Virginia. In 1992, Pande received his B.A. in Physics from Princeton University. He received academic advice from Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, T. Tanaka, and A. Grosberg for his BA and PhD theses on physics. MIT awarded him a PhD after his thesis in 1995.
Distributed computing.
The protein-folding computer simulations from the Folding@home project is said to be "quantitatively" comparable to real-world experimental results. The method for this yield has been called a "holy grail" in computational biology.
Pande directed the Genome@home project with the goal to understand the nature of genes and proteins by virtually designing new forms of them. Genome@home started to close as early as March 2004, after accumulating a large database of protein sequences.
Some of the programs and libraries involved are free software with GPL, LGPL, and BSD licenses, but the folding@home client and core remain proprietary.
Awards.
In 2002, he was named a Frederick E. Terman Fellow and an award recipient of MIT's TR100. The following year, he was awarded the Henry and Camile Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award. In 2004, he received a Technovator award from Global Indus Technovators in its Biotech/Med/Healthcare category. In 2006, Pande was awarded the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award from the Protein Society. In 2008, he was named "Netxplorateur of 2008". Also in 2008 he was given the Thomas Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award and became a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Pande received the 2012 Michael and Kate Bárány Award for developing computational models for protein and RNA. He is the second person to ever win both the "Protein Society Young Investigator Award" and "Biophysical Society Young Investigator" award. In 2015, Pande received the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences, as well as the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Distinguished Chair in Chemistry.


Mark Papermaster

Mark D. Papermaster (born 1961) is an American business executive currently serving as the chief technology officer (CTO) and executive vice president for Technology and Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). On January 25, 2019 he was promoted to AMD's Executive Vice President. Papermaster previously worked at IBM from 1982 to 2008, where he was closely involved in the development of PowerPC technology and served two years as vice president of IBM's blade server division. Papermaster's decision to move from IBM to Apple Inc. in 2008 became central to a court case considering the validity and scope of an employee non-compete clause in the technology industry. He became senior vice president of devices hardware engineering at Apple in 2009, with oversight for devices such as the iPhone. In 2010 he left Apple and joined Cisco Systems as a VP of the company's silicon engineering development. Papermaster joined AMD on October 24, 2011, assuming oversight for all of AMD's technology teams and the creation of all of AMD's products, and AMD's corporate technical direction.
Early life and education.
Mark D. Papermaster was born in 1961 and grew up in Galveston, Texas. Earning his bachelor of science degree (B.S.) in electrical engineering from the University of Texas in Austin, in 1982 he began working at IBM in Vermont. He earned his master of science degree (M.S.) in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont In 1988.
Career.
Career at IBM (1982-2008).
After beginning his 26-year tenure at IBM in Vermont in 1982, in 1991 Papermaster moved to work with the company in Texas. He initially started designing circuits in the Microelectronics Division, and afterwards “had technical and management assignments in quality, CAD tool applications, and microprocessors.” Promoted to vice president of IBM's Microprocessor Technology Development unit, he was then given oversight for the development of microprocessor and server technologies from 1991 until 2006. During those fifteen years he worked closely with IBM's PowerPC architecture and microprocessor, which Apple had adopted for its line of Macintosh computers. Spending five years working specifically with PowerPC and becoming an expert on IBM's POWER chips and POWER processing for PCs, "Wired" reports that “Papermaster was a key player in developing the PowerPC chips used in [early] Macs.”
Papermaster moved from microprocessors to become vice president of the Blade Development Unit in October 2006. Becoming head of IBM's blade server unit gave him responsibility for “x86, POWER, storage blades, chassis, network electronics and associated ecosystem.” Also in 2006, IBM selected him to join two executive groups: its Integration & Values Team (I&VT) and its Technical Leadership Team, the latter of which focused on attracting talent.
Senior VP at Apple (2009-2010).
After being courted as a successor to iPod executive Tony Fadell, Papermaster accepted a position with Apple in 2008. Shortly afterwards, IBM filed a complaint alleging Papermaster had breached a one-year noncompete agreement. Papermaster countersued, arguing that Apple had hired him for his management and engineering abilities, not for insider knowledge of IBM processors. Apple and IBM reached a settlement in January 2009 where "Papermaster could only work for Apple after a six month unpaid vacation."
Papermaster joined Apple on April 24, 2009 as senior vice president of Mobile Devices and Devices Hardware Engineering. Reporting to Steve Jobs, he was given direct oversight of the iPod and iPhone engineering teams, including iPhone hardware development and the June 2010 rollout of the iPhone 4. Although the device proved popular, issues such as a slow release of a white version and reception flaws with the antenna resulted in controversy. The antenna design, a then-unusual device casing that acted as a signal receiver, had been green-lit in late 2009 by Steve Jobs. On August 7, 2010, "The New York Times" reported that Papermaster was leaving Apple for unconfirmed reasons.
VP at Cisco Systems (2010-2011).
In November 2010, Papermaster became vice president of the Silicon Switching Technology Group at Cisco Systems. of Cisco's Silicon Engineering Group, he had oversight for Cisco's “silicon strategy, architecture, and development for the company’s switching and routing businesses.” His department also oversaw “chips developed in-house for Cisco's switches,” the ASIC (application specific integrated circuits) chips that go into Cisco products such as the Nexus 7000 data-center switch and the Catalyst line of LAN switches.
CTO and Executive VP at AMD (2011-present).
On October 19, 2011, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced that Papermaster had been appointed its senior vice president (SVP) of Technology & Engineering, as well as its chief technology officer (CTO). He was officially appointed to both roles on October 24, 2011. As SVP of the newly formed Technology & Engineering Group under former CEO Rory Read, Papermaster was given oversight for all of AMD's technology teams. He was also given oversight for all of AMD's products, “corporate technical direction,” and research and development, including system-on-chip (SOC) product design and integrated hardware and software. Papermaster, who had been recruited to AMD by Nick Donofrio, himself hired Jim Keller, and in 2013 Papermaster hired Apple chip designer Raja Koduri, who reported to him directly.
One of his first orders of business was to restructure the CPU design team to build Zen, a new high performance x86 processor core. Under Papermaster, by early 2017 several other new lines of CPUs and graphic processors were under development as well, for example the data center processor EPYC series, which launched in June 2017 with AMD's new Zen (microarchitecture). Ryzen Threadripper high-end desktop processors released in the summer of 2017 also utilized Zen. Also in 2017, Papermaster announced that AMD would continue to develop hardware using both its new Vega graphics architecture and its older Polaris system. At that point he had been heading the company's push into using 7 nm processor nodes, announced as a key component in upcoming Zen and Navi-based processors. Papermaster was named an Executive of the Year finalist at the ACE Awards in 2017, and he has also been named one of the “100 CIO/CTO Leaders in STEM” by STEMConnector. On January 25, 2019 he was promoted to Executive Vice President at AMD.
Speaking and writing.
Papermaster is periodically asked to comment on industry trends such as Moore's Law Plus, immersive technology, and machine intelligence. He has written articles for "TechCrunch" on the applicability of Moore's Law, which applies to the pace of semiconductor advancements. He has also written articles for publications such as Dark Reading, "ET Tech", "Forbes", "IEEE Test & Design Magazine", "Inc.", and "Network Computing".
He has also given talks at industry events, for example "How To Build Truly Great Products" at the Design Automation Conference in 2016 and “Evolving Embedded Systems in a Self-Directed World” at Embedded World in 2018. He also spoke at the 2016-2017 Techfest and was a keynote speaker at the Imagination Tech Summit in 2017. In 2017 he spoke at the Strategic Materials Conference, and he also gave a talk on Moore's Law Plus at the IEEE Industry Summit on the Future of Computing in 2017. In April 2018, he spoke at the Congress on the Future of Engineering Software.
Organizations.
Papermaster is a member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Olin College Presidents Council, and the advisory board at Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas. Also at the University of Texas, he has served on the school's electrical and computer engineering advisory council. In 2009, the University of Texas named Papermaster an ECE Fellow for his work with the university. He was included on the Forbes Technology Council as a contributor as of June 2016. In August 2017, he was announced as a new member of the advisory board of the CTO Forum.


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AV MAX

AV MAX is a special-interest audiophile magazine owned by Network18 Publishing, which is in turn a Network18 division. Based in Mumbai, the magazine is distributed across India and certain South-East Asian cities. Since June 2008, the Editor of the magazine is Swapnil Raje.
Established in December 1999, the magazine focuses on reviewing high-end audio-video equipment like amplifiers, stereos, floor-standing speakers and related news. The magazine also publishes content on music reviews, Blu-ray/DVD reviews and music events and profiles. The magazine caters to audiophiles or AV enthusiasts and the B2B communities alike.
The magazine is an independent, self-styled content that has with its in-depth product reviews, have won a strong readership across the country. The magazine has a panel of in-house engineering experts and also collaborates with experts from select streams of the market. Also, equipped with a state-of-the-art AV studio in the office, the magazine provides the reader with detailed unbiased reviews, sharp product shots and fresh insights into the market.
In October 2010, the magazine was redesigned and restructured. In January 2013, in-line with the redesign, the price of the magazine has gone up from Rs 75 to Rs 100 that reflects "AV MAX"’s interest in giving more to the reader. Stated Sandeep Khosla, CEO, Infomedia18, about the redesign, "The new cover design is a lot more open, without borders and the new AV Max logo is taller and leaner, because of which it can be noticed in a crowd of magazines; the cover, too, has a premium look. The new cover design also allows us to showcase more stories on the cover, informing the reader that there is a whole lot to be read in the magazine."
Recently, 'AV MAX' completed 13 years and came out with a special "Anniversary Special" issue in January 2013.
History.
The previous editor of AV MAX was Nishant Padhiar went on to become the editor of the men's gadget magazine, T3. He left Infomedia18 in 2008 to become the editor of UK based magazine called What Hi-Fi (India) and Stuff, owned by the Haymarket Media Group, UK.
AV MAX Expo.
AV MAX also initiated an Audio-Video (AV) Expo dedicated showcasing event for Audiophiles and Home-Entertainment/Hi-Fi enthusiasts. In the expo, leading players like Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Onkyo, Denon, Thiel, Definitive Technology, Yamaha and more than 200 brands display their wide array of latest products. They are the first ones to introduce the concept of ‘demo rooms’ in AV MAX Expo wherein the consumer gets to touch, feel and experience these products.
Initiated in January 2002, so far AV MAX has conducted nine successful AV Expos in India with the latest one – AV MAX EXPO 2013 – soon to be held at Delhi during 8–10 March 2013.
The first of its kind AV MAX Expo was held at Taj Lands End on 18 January 2002 and witnessed a strong crowd of 40,000. Second AV MAX Expo was successfully held at Le Meridien, Bangalore during 20–22 June 2003. Some of the famous brand names that participated and made the expo a success were Tannoy, Epson, Bose, Toshiba, Designer Audio, Quad, Sonodyne etc. In the same year, another expo was held in Mumbai followed by similar events in 2004 (Chennai), January 2005 (This was in MBD Radisson Hotel in Noida New Delhi), July 2005 (Mumbai), September 2006 (Ahmedabad), December 2007 (Chennai)]. Further there was av expo in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi in February 2008.
Best of AV MAX.
Every year, "AV MAX" selects the best products from 35 categories reviewed through the previous year. While half of the awards are dedicated to AV products, the second half of the selection focuses on 9 categories of music and DVD. The 'Best Of' special feature is usually revealed in January of each year.
AV MAX on Magzter.
Latest copies of AV MAX monthly magazine in digital format are now available on Magzter. Currently, copies from July 2012 to January 2013 are available here.