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NuSil Technology and Ciba Announce Collaboration to Develop Antimicrobial Silicone Material Solutions



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NuSil Technology and Ciba Announce Collaboration to Develop Antimicrobial Silicone Material Solutions










Carpinteria, California (PRWEB) October 22, 2008

NuSil Technology (http://www.nusil.com), a cutting-edge manufacturer of silicone-based materials, and Ciba, a worldwide provider of turnkey antimicrobial solutions to the medical device industry, announce their agreement to jointly provide antimicrobial solutions for use in medical device and healthcare-related silicone products.

It is believed there is an increased risk of infections when microorganisms bind and multiply on the surface of medical devices that are in contact with or inserted into the body. The goal of the collaboration between NuSil and Ciba is to develop customized medical silicone materials incorporated with an innovative microbial defense system that offers built-in broad range spectrum protection against growth of microorganisms ─ specific to any device application needs.

“We are excited to work with Ciba as a strategic partner,” said Brian Nash, NuSil Technology’s vice president of Marketing and Sales. “Ciba has the technical expertise, a proven record of product efficacy and demonstrated testing capabilities of antimicrobial technology that we can combine with our expertise of silicones for use in long-term implantable devices. The mission of our collaboration with Ciba is to provide a new, unique class of products to help customers develop safe and effective products.”

“The collaboration with NuSil complements Ciba’s offerings of antimicrobial effects for the medical device industry,” said Catherine Ehrenberger, global head of Ciba’s Business Line Home & Personal Care. “NuSil’s expertise in medical device-related silicone products allows us to jointly develop tailor-made solutions for our customers.”

For more information, please visit the NuSil’s booth No. 8aL15 and the Ciba’s booth No. 8aD16 at the COMPAMED 2008 exposition, to be held Nov.19-21 in Düsseldorf, Germany, or visit http://www.nusil.com and http://www.ciba.com/medicaldevicematerials.

About NuSil Technology

NuSil is a cutting-edge manufacturer of silicone compounds for healthcare, aerospace, electronics, photonics and other applications that require precise, predictable, cost-effective materials performance. NuSil has been providing silicone materials for long-term implantable applications for over two decades. Many of NuSil’s products meet Class VI and most ISO-10993 biological testing requirements, and many are supported by a comprehensive Master Access File (MAF) submitted to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). NuSil operates ISO-9001-certified state-of-the-art laboratories and processing facilities in North America and Europe and provides on-site, in-person application engineering support worldwide.

About Ciba

Ciba (SWX:CIBN) is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers’ products. We strive to be the partner of choice for our customers, offering them innovative products and one-stop expert service. We create effects that improve the quality of life – adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba is active in more than 120 countries around the world and is committed to being a leader in its chosen markets. In 2007, the Company generated sales of CHF 6.5 billion from continued operations and invested over CHF 260 million in R&D.

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Buddy Media Launches Social Marketing Platform for Agencies



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New York, NY (PRWEB) October 20, 2009

Buddy Media, the leading social media company for the world’s largest brands, today launched the Buddy Media Platform, giving advertising and public relations agencies a scalable set of tools to meet their clients’ social marketing needs. The Buddy Media Platform enhances and opens up to agencies the technologies Buddy Media has built over the past two years to create, manage and track social campaigns for more than a hundred national and global brands.

“Until today, agencies had no cost-effective way to scale their social marketing capabilities,” said Michael Lazerow, CEO of Buddy Media. “With the Buddy Media Platform, agencies can now provide a full suite of social marketing capabilities, including Facebook Pages and Twitter management, in a meaningful and measurable way that deepens client engagements.”

Buddy Media announced several charter partners that have selected the Buddy Media Platform as their preferred social marketing production, management and analytics platform. These include: Vivaki, which combines the digital assets of Digitas, Razorfish, Starcom MediaVest Group, ZenithOptimedia and Denuo; and MDC Partners, whose agencies include Crispin, Porter + Bogusky, and Kirschenbaum, Bond, Senecal & Partners.

“Brands turn to us to help them build out their social presences, source and activate audiences and track results,” said VivaKi’s Jeff Flemings, Senior Vice President/Global Head, Social. “Having access to an intuitive, easy-to-use set of social media tools backed by Buddy Media, which has an outstanding track record of customer success, is incredibly valuable.”

“While social media has ushered in a new era of highly innovative digital marketing campaigns, the process of managing a client’s social media efforts has become increasingly complex,” said Brandon G. Berger, Vice President, Digital Innovation of MDC Partners. “To address this, we are leveraging platforms such as Buddy Media’s social technologies, which allow our firms to quickly and effectively deliver tailored social media programs and reduce the complexity and high labor that can be associated with the social web.”

Other partners include the SAMMY Award winner for “Best Social Agency,” Converseon, as well as social marketing pioneer for small businesses, TheKBuzz, which is using the Platform as the basis of its TheFacelift product for small businesses. Additional partners will be announced shortly.

“Converseon’s approach to its clients’ social and digital media programs is based on a philosophy of ensuring these programs map back to a client’s broader business objectives,” said Converseon CEO Rob Key. “The Buddy Media Platform allows us to rapidly roll-out tailored social media programs without taking resources away from delivering results.”

“Our most important job is helping our clients understand how to listen to customers and how to engage in conversation with them via the social web,” said Dave Kerpen, CEO of TheKBuzz, which today announced The Facelift, powered by Buddy Media Platform, a social marketing solution for small businesses. “Having the reassurance that we can rely on a set of trusted social technologies backed by Buddy Media helps us to keep this focus on shaping industry and customer conversation and the millions of small businesses that are trying to figure out social media”.

Buddy Media plans to add a handful of additional charter partners in 2009 before a global roll out in early 2010.

Using the Buddy Media Platform, agencies have the ability to launch, maintain and measure a broad portfolio of social media efforts without knowing FBML or other programming languages. Key features and functionality of the Buddy Media Platform include:

Facebook Pages: The Platform allows agencies to create, manage and track engaging Facebook Pages to drive and increase user engagement, spread unified brand messaging, publish to Facebook Walls and deploy multiple app-vertisements on Facebook Pages.

Facebook Connect: The Platform provides agencies with solutions that allow users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site.

Library of Interactive Apps: The Platform offers agencies a full library of interactive applications out of the box to drive fan engagement, including gifting, quizzes, polls, sweepstakes, coupons, video, slideshow, sharing, refer a friend, HTML and flash integration and more.

Custom Branded Apps: The Platform allows agencies to build and grow brand fan bases through the dispersal of customized social applications.

Twitter: The Platform allows agencies to manage multiple client Twitter accounts, track volume and frequency of click-through rates of links posted, as well as monitor and analyze sentiment, share of voice and market share.

Smart Targeted Media: The Platform helps agencies drive and track social actions — clicks, brand engagement and more — providing deep data that can be used for sophisticated targeted media plans.

Real-time Analytics: The Platform has both agency and client views to offer robust, unified analytics in one easy-to-use interface, making social campaigns accessible, accountable and results-driven.

Easy-to-Use Admin Interface: The Platform offers a single, drag-and-drop interface to manage profiles on the largest social networks.

Agencies interested in learning more about the Buddy Media Platform can visit: http://www.buddymedia.com.

About Buddy Media

In today’s social media world, every brand needs a Buddy. The Buddy Media Platform gives brands and agencies total control over their social marketing campaigns, allowing them to launch, maintain and measure their brands’ efforts. Some of the world’s largest brands, including Anheuser Busch, FedEx, New Balance, Time Inc. and Microsoft, work with Buddy Media to create social brand loyalty and social brand advocates. Based in New York, Buddy Media is a privately held company backed by Softbank, European Founders Fund and GreyCroft partners and additional investors. For more information, visit http://www.buddymedia.com.

About VivaKi

VivaKi is the strategic entity created by Publicis Groupe to leverage the combined scale of its media and digital operations, which represent nearly US $ 50 billion in global adspend and influence. VivaKi aggregates the marketplace influence of four autonomous brands, including two global media agencies: Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia; a leading digital marketing agency: Digitas; and a premiere futures practice: Denuo. On behalf of its agency brands and their clients, VivaKi faces the market to help identify and build technology, message distribution, audience aggregation and content solutions for the future. Sitting at the core of VivaKi is the VivaKi Nerve Center, which serves as a think tank, R&D center and testing ground to activate new pathways for clients to connect with consumers in an increasingly digital world. VivaKi also includes a Talent & Transformation Practice, which leverages the scale of the VivaKi brands to develop and deliver tools and approaches designed to attract, develop, train, motivate and reward the world’s best people. Website: http://www.vivaki.com

About MDC Partners

MDC Partners is a progressive Marketing and Communications Network, championing the most innovative entrepreneurial talent. MDC Partners provides strategic solutions and services to multinational clients in North America, Europe and Latin America. Our philosophy emphasizes the utilization of Strategy and Creativity to drive growth and measurable impact. “MDC Partners is The Place Where Great Talent Lives.” The company’s Class A shares are publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol “MDCA” and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “MDZ.A”.

About TheKBuzz

theKbuzz is a strategic word of mouth and social media marketing firm. Founded in 2006 by Carrie and Dave Kerpen, theKbuzz helps businesses of all sizes enter the social space using conversation and interaction with brand fans. theKbuzz works with large brands such as IMAX, Verizon FiOS and 1-800flowers.com as well as a variety of small businesses, non profits and government agencies. For more information visit http://theKbuzz.com or http://facebook.com/theKbuzz

About Converseon

Founded in 2001, Converseon is a multiple-award winning full service social consultancy that helps leading brands “join the conversation” to meet business objectives. Recognitions include the SAMMY Award for “Best Social Agency,” a WOMMIE (for Best Word of Mouth Program) and the OMMA Award for Best Use of Virtual Worlds, among many others. Converseon provides the technologies, organizational consulting and “paid” and “earned” engagement solutions to provide brands with a unique end-to-end social solution. Headquartered in New York, Converseon`s team extends to Detroit, San Francisco, UK, Switzerland and Australia. For more information visit http://www.converseon.com

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Go Ahead With Distance Education

Go Ahead With Distance Education

Career paths are no longer so streamlined that an individual can bid goodbye to textbooks once he or she is done with their post graduation. The options for education are today limitless and it becomes difficult to anticipate all that you would require in your working life. It is only after you begin work that you begin to realise the areas you need more knowledge about. Distance education presents itself as an excellent solution to qualifying yourself without leaving the confines of a job you don’t wish to lose.

“Budding engineers try to acquire possible jobs at once after education. Our jobs sometimes require cross qualifications and often employees don’t get the opportunity to study at that time. So when the organisation supports you in acquiring your dream qualification to your profile, you would really happy,” says Punkaj Shankar, Global Head – HR & RMG, Infogain Corporation. Talking about the support the company provides for higher education, Shankar says, “We have a unique higher education assistance program for our engineers. If you want to go for higher education such as business management, we have our own institutes and you can get qualified online or through distance learning. All the employee has to do is get the go ahead from the HR. We provide complete financial assistance and not in the form of a loan, like it is done in many companies. At Infogain, the expenses are paid totally by the company. We have tie ups with many institutes such as the IIMs, Bits Pilani, the IITs, Symbiosis etc, generally for engineering and MBA programs.”

The organisation also benefits if its employees qualify themselves further. “Distance education is extremely important in positioning yourself stronger. It helps the organisation gain competitive advantage. Our engineers become more competent and gain a vital understanding of skills other than technology. After all, nowadays the thrust is to make everyone entrepreneurs,” agrees Shankar.

The Sikkim Manipal University of Distance Education (SMUDE) provides flexible form of distance education. “Close to 65% of the students are working professionals. We have around 3 lakh students on roll. As per government provisions, an individual is allowed 6 years to pass an undergraduate distance education program and 4 years for a post grad course. You get double the time as a fulltime course because our regulators know that this form of education is often done alongside a job,” explains V. Sivaramakrishnan, Principal Officer – Distributed Learning and Chief Marketing Officer, Manipal University. Enunciating on the benefits of a distance learning course he says, “There are two main reasons why one should go for a distance education program. Firstly, for working people, an additional degree is a stepping stone for promotion or for a better career in another organization. Secondly, it poses an opportunity to pursue additional courses other than one’s primary degree. For example, a graduate in marketing may eventually find that he or she needs further qualification in finance or computers.”

A distance education program doesn’t interfere with the individual’s on job performance thanks to its flexibility. “The fact that they are advancing professionally keeps them charged up and motivated,” opines Shankar. Sivaramakrishnan explains with regard to SMUDE, “Campus courses are teacher centric but the structure, curriculum and learning methodologies in a distance education course are purely driven by the learner. We have four hybrid models for students to learn from. Firstly, we have self learning reading material. Secondly, we have counseling across nationwide study centres. If you have doubts, you simply have to mark them and get them solved at our study centres over the weekend. We have 650 study centres across 240 districts in India. Students also have the option of viewing satellite lectures – live or recorded at our study centres. And now we have a new online learning system called EduNxt. It’s a technology based learning management system and consists of course material in e-learning format, open source references, a two million book strong online library, mentoring and chat sessions with other students and teachers. Because of this flexibility, you don’t need to leave your job.”

Thus, a distance education course definitely has professional value if done from a reputed institute.

Website: http://www.smude.edu.in

 

Author:  Times Ascent with inputs from Manipal Education

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Kinapse Appoints Shalabh Kumar as CEO



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Kinapse Appoints Shalabh Kumar as CEO










London, UK (PRWEB) February 2, 2009

Kinapse Ltd., provider of information processing and business consulting services to life sciences companies, announces that it has appointed Shalabh Kumar as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective 1st February 2009. Shalabh is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the company and a member of the Board of Directors. He succeeds Andy Black who will continue serving as an Executive Director of the Board and in his new role will be the Global Head of Client Services.

Shalabh Kumar said, “It is an honour to be appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Kinapse. Since its founding in 2005, under Andy’s leadership, the company has grown rapidly and established a reputation for very high quality service with our clients in the pharmaceutical and biotech industry. I strongly believe in the unique combination of expertise, collaboration, innovation and results that we bring to all our services and believe that is reflected in the success we have achieved to date. I look forward to leading the company in its next phase of growth as we continue to build Kinapse into a leader in information processing and consulting services to life sciences organisations.”

Commenting on the appointment, Nicholas Edwards, Chairman of Kinapse, said, “I would like to thank Andy for his drive and energy in building up Kinapse into a strong business and I am very pleased that he will continue to lead client services globally through the next phase of our growth. I have worked with Shalabh for many years and am delighted that he has agreed to take on the leadership of Kinapse and build upon our strong foundation. The next years will be challenging ones for the pharmaceutical industry and I believe that under Shalabh’s leadership Kinapse will continue to provide valued services to the world’s leading life sciences organisations.”

Additionally, Andy Black commented, “It has been a privilege to be the CEO of Kinapse for the last three and a half years and a pleasure to have shared the leadership of the company since its establishment. I am very proud of what our people have achieved and the excellent reputation that we have with our clients. I am delighted that the CEO role is now in Shalabh’s capable hands and I look forward to continue working with him in my new role leading our portfolio of client services.”

Shalabh Kumar Biography

Shalabh has 20 years of business consulting and operational management experience. His career includes R&D and strategy consulting with Kinapse and Accenture and operational management roles in Unilever and Gillette.

Shalabh co-founded Kinapse in 2005 and has been its Chief Operating Officer since inception. In this role, he has been responsible for strategic planning and implementation, managing the company operations across all locations and leading consulting and information processing projects.

Prior to Kinapse, Shalabh was in the strategy practice of Accenture in London, UK. Shalabh has also worked in the consumer goods industry in India and the US in various operational roles in brand and sales management.

Shalabh has a graduate degree in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, where he graduated as a top 10 rank holder. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

About Kinapse

‘Collaborating with our clients to innovate for exceptional results’

Kinapse provides business consulting and information processing services to life sciences organisations. Its clients include many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, leading biotechnology and specialty pharmaceutical companies, government organisations and industry service providers.

Headquartered in the UK, Kinapse has offices in London, New Delhi and Philadelphia, with partners based in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Kinapse blends expertise from its multiple locations to deliver services for clients at highest quality and differentiated value. The novel features of its operating model include:

blended onshore-offshore teams, tailored to client requirements;
industry-veteran Consulting Partners who bring deep experience and expertise in specific functional areas;
exclusive Service Partners with distinctive, complementary services.

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Kathryn Turner

W: http://www.kinapse.com

P: +44 20 8946 7600

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Financial Institutions Group Global Head Ruth Porat to Keynote Wharton School Finance Conference 2009

Financial Institutions Group Global Head Ruth Porat to Keynote Wharton School Finance Conference 2009











Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) November 11, 2009

Ruth Porat, Global Head, Financial Institutions Group, Morgan Stanley will join the tenth annual Wharton Finance Conference as a Keynote Speaker. The conference, organized by students of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, will be held at the Park Hyatt at Bellevue in Philadelphia on Nov. 20, 2009. Throughout the current financial crisis, Ms. Porat has been responsible for the Firm’s coverage of financial institutions and governments globally.

The Wharton Finance Conference, whose theme is “Looking Forward: Finance in a New Horizon.” will include panel discussions on such issues in Corporate Social Responsibility vs. Government Regulation, the Increased Competitiveness of Services Firms, International Opportunities, Infrastructure Finance, Financing Growth, Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Sales & Trading Perspective, Careers in Finance: Recruiting in a Tough Economic Environment. Participants can look forward to a conglomeration of the best minds in business and meeting with intellectual and experienced experts.

Keynote speakers at the Wharton Finance Conference 2009 include:

– Ms. Ruth Porat Global Head, Financial Institutions Group, Morgan Stanley, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Division

– Mr. Tony Ehinger, Managing Director of Credit Suisse,

Co-Head, Global Securities, Investment Banking Division

Other scheduled conference participants include:

– James R. Tanenbaum , Partner, Morrison & Foerster and Chair of the firm’s Global Capital Markets practice

– Andrew Ross Sorkin, Chief Mergers and Acquisitions Reporter and Columnist, The New York Times

– Rodolfo L. Molina, Managing Director, Head of Southern Latin America, UBS Investment Bank

– Rob Collins, Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure Banking for the Americas, Greenhill & Co.

– Vikram Pant, Managing Director, IDFC Project Equity

– Jonathan Turnbull, Head of Infrastructure Investment Banking, Citigroup

– Ed Rubin, Head of Cross Rate and Securitized Product Sales (Deutsche Bank)

– Devin O’Reilly, Principal, Bain Capital

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school — is recognized globally for intellectual leadership and ongoing innovation across every major discipline of business education. The most comprehensive source of business knowledge in the world, Wharton bridges research and practice through its broad engagement with the global business community. The school has more than 4,700 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students; more than 10,000 annual participants in executive education programs; and an alumni network of more than 85,000 graduates.

Further information on the conference can be found at: http://www.whartonfinanceconference.com

Members of the media are invited to attend, but pre-registration is required.

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Media inquiries:

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Telephone: 1-215-746-6471

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General inquiries:

Haoying Sun (Finance Conference student team)

Telephone: 1-215-485-1831

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Perceptive Pixel Inc. Announces Expanded Executive Team

Perceptive Pixel Inc. Announces Expanded Executive Team
NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Perceptive Pixel Inc., the leading developer of advanced multi-touch solutions, announced today the hiring of several executives to the company’s management team: Fred Allman, vice president – sales; and Derrick Horner, vice president – corporate development and general counsel; and Bob Pette, vice president – professional solutions and services. Jeff Han …
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Education is too important to be left to educators. At least that’s my feeling, and as a professor, I just might know something about this. According to China’s Global Times, in a study last year by the International Assessment of Educational Progress in 21 countries, Chinese students ranked first in the world in mathematics, but they were last in imagination and fifth from the bottom in …
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Oasys Design Systems Names Craig Robbins Vice President of Sales
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Patni appoints Rajiv Ranjan as EVP
MUMBAI, INDIA: IT and BPO services provider Patni Computer Systems today announced the appointment of Rajiv Ranjan as executive vice-president and global head of business operations.
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SunTrust Names President William H. Rogers, Jr., to Additional Role of Chief Operating Officer

SunTrust Names President William H. Rogers, Jr., to Additional Role of Chief Operating Officer
SunTrust Banks, Inc. announced today that William H. Rogers, Jr. — who has served as President since 2008 — was elected to the additional role of Chief Operating Officer during a regular meeting of the Company’s Board of Directors.
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Reportlinker Adds Customer-facing Retail Technologies: Global Markets
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Alumni donate 0,000 to study abroad scholarships
OXFORD — Miami University alumni Brent ‘91 and Katie (Hurst) ‘90 Gledhill have committed $ 100,000 to provide additional funds to Miami’s Farmer School of Business’ study abroad scholarship program.Brent is the global head of corporate finance for William Blair and Company and a current member of the Farmer School’s Business Advisory Council. Katie is a former accountant for KPMG in International …
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