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...beginning, business didn't work out any better than politics. His initial venture, in energy, failed in six weeks; his second one, in real estate, took six months to fold. But in the early 1980s, Warner saw possibility in the far-out idea of cellular telephones and organized investor groups to apply for the free licenses then available. In return he got a stake in the new companies, one of which was Nextel. His friends, Warner recalls, thought he was crazy. Now he jokes, "Anytime you're around me, please don't turn off your cell phone. You hear...
...Motorola, she was the only woman handling PR for the company's microprocessor unit. Later, at Sun Microsystems, Daver worked closely with Sun's COO Ed Zander and helped position and brand the Solaris product line. Next, she became vice president of corporate communications and investor relations at gamemaker 3DO.After that, she served as vice president of marketing and investor relations at search pioneer Inktomi, acquired by Yahoo. At Inktomi, Daver helped build the company's marketing group, brand identity, and guided the company's public offering and buyout...
...that the country would improve its financial state and avoid defaulting on its loans, Heller recalled. He was proven right, leading to a big payoff for PIMCO—and boosting his prominence even higher.“He’s probably the most high-profile emerging markets investor in the world, right now,” Heller said. “If there’s somebody who’s the public face of the emerging markets asset class, it’s Mohamed.”El-Erian was seen as a likely successor for PIMCO...
...Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Maryland, has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled, to $70 per bbl., yet Miller missed the entire runup. "It's a mistake we should not have made," he says...
...He’s probably the most high-profile emerging markets investor in the world, right now," said Benjamin J. Heller ’94, managing director at HBK Investments and a Crimson editor. "If there’s somebody who’s the public face of the emerging markets asset class, it’s Mohamed...