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ONLY HALF-JOKINGLY he called himself the "Godfather, the Samurai, the leader, the warrior." That may sound a bit over the top for a publishing executive. But in his world of high-fashion magazines, Steven Florio, longtime CEO of Condé Nast, had a point. Expert at imagining creative ways to win and please advertisers, the charming Florio boosted the company that produces Vogue, Glamour and Vanity Fair to the second largest in the industry during the '90s, when many magazines were flagging. Florio was 58 and died after a heart attack...
Mittelman and Samuels were among more than 30 employees that departed HMC in 2005 with longtime CEO Jack R. Meyer to form the Boston-based hedge fund Convexity Capital Management...
...auctioneer" would probably not come to mind. There's no bespoke suit or Etonian comportment. Instead, the burly Andreas sports cheap slacks, an off-the-rack polyester shirt and the mercantile mannerisms of a hard-bitten trader. Yet the former Indonesian shipping agent happens to be the founder and CEO of Borobudur Auction; in October his four-year-old company fetched $6.89 million at a Singapore sale of contemporary and modern Southeast Asian art. The figure was just $200,000 less than the highest figure taken at similar sales by venerable auctioneers Sotheby's. "I do break even and have...
...lower and middle tiers to avoid competing with Sotheby's or Christie's. "We're just filling a vacuum in the market," Andreas says. But others are spoiling for a fight. "My dream is for Asia to have her own Christie's and Sotheby's," says Daniel Komala, CEO of Jakarta-based auctioneers Larasati. He says that the firm will open salesrooms in Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Dubai within five years. Bangalore-based Bid & Hammer plans to open offices in Dubai and New York City this year...
...progress are not Osama bin Laden or Kim Jong Il, not even George W. Bush and the Republicans. The evildoers that Edwards promises to vanquish - to the delight of most crowds; "Go get 'em, John" is a frequent shout from the crowd - are America's CEOs. "I see the CEO of one of the biggest health insurance companies in America making hundreds of millions of dollars last year in one year. I see Exxon Mobil making billions and billions of dollars in profit, record profits. The top 1% of Americans are taking twice as much of America's income...