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...name in radio, running Infinity Broadcasting, which he sold in 1996 to Westinghouse (which had acquired CBS a year earlier). He became CEO of CBS in January 1999 and within a year persuaded Viacom chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone to buy CBS for $40 billion. Now, as president and COO of Viacom, Karmazin presides over a portfolio whose holdings include MTV, UPN, Paramount Pictures and Simon & Schuster and whose revenues in 2002 were $24.6 billion. With a stable roster of executives and an A-minus credit rating, Viacom is one of the best-positioned giants in the media industry...
Charlie Bell likes results--now! The McDonald's president and COO won't wait for outdated weekly, much less quarterly, sales reports. Every day he checks sales totals in all 118 countries with McDonald's franchises. "I'm a results guy," says Bell, 43. "I like knowing." The Australian-born Bell joined the company's new management team when James Cantalupo became CEO early this year. That means Bell is in line to eventually become the first non-American to head the iconic U.S. company...
...York City company that sold plants. Her career has since sprouted: she's had CFO stints at Bertelsmann's BMG Direct, Publishers Clearing House and Barnes & Noble. Now Gartner, the world's top IT research and consulting company, has named the Bronx, N.Y., native its president and COO. O'Connell plans to add important new voices to Gartner's analyst reports: clients who actually use the technology being covered...
Kellogg Co. has a new COO--Mackay, 48, a New Zealand native who had run the cereal maker's U.S. division since 2000. Under Mackay, Kellogg regained its status as the country's top cereal seller from General Mills after shifting its focus from discounts and volume sales to value and a broader product line, including more expensive offerings. Now Mackay will get to run operations in more than 180 countries. He will also oversee growth of the company's snack division, begun in 2001 with the acquisition of the cookie company Keebler Foods...
...megalopolis called Hong Kong is slowly returning to normal. Face masks have disappeared from mannequins in couture window displays, the handshake is once again the business greeting of choice, and restaurants and bars don't look like furniture showrooms anymore. "Everything seems a bit rosier now," says Jonathan Zeman, COO of Lan Kwai Fong Holdings, owner of many trendy bars, restaurants and serviced apartments catering to the expat community in the city center. "We are seeing a lot more business travelers at our places." That includes those on the steep stone streets of the lively Lan Kwai Fong district...