Archive for November, 2009
Dede Wilsey’s Accomplishments
Sunday, November 29th, 2009Dede Wilsey is San Francisco’s philanthropy powerhouse. She has accomplished a great deal as a successful philanthropist. One of her most notable fundraising achievements includes the rebuilding of the De Young museum in Golden Gate Park. As the president of the Fine arts museums of San Francisco, Dede Wilsey raised more than $200 million from more than 7000 private donors. This became the second largest museum project in the country.
Dede Wilsey also backed the construction of USCF Mission Bay children’s, women’s and cancer hospital and vowed to raise $500 million for it. She is dedicated to make it an innovative health center and improve the provision of health facilities in the area. She is already driving the campaign with all her skill and dedication.
She has also raised millions for causes like the renovation of the Grace Cathedral and also for the campaign of Immaculate Conception Academy. She also served on several eminent boards of San Francisco. These include the boards of San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Ballet.
Besides raising funds Dede Wilsey has also donated personally to a number of institutions such as the San Francisco Zoo, the Boys’ and Girls’ Club of St. Helena, and the Monterey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. All her accomplishments are clear evidence of her success and influence.
The MONY Group Inc. under the leadership of Sam Foti
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009Sam Foti joined The MONY Group Inc. in 1994, after having years of experience in the financial service industry backed up with good educational qualifications. He has ever since transformed business processes at the company and single-handedly revised company strategies. He is overlooking company operations, sales, and finances, and also handling subsidiaries.
Samuel J. Foti has restructured distribution, the product mix, and the Information Technology processes at the company. Many of the Group’s subsidiaries also report to him. One such subsidiary is the Enterprise Capital Management, founded in 1997 and based in Toronto, Ontario. The firm uses long/short equity strategy for its investments. For its portfolios it employs a risk arbitrage approach. The firm also acquires voting positions and board seats in the invested companies, depending upon the situation.
Besides other accomplishments, Samuel Foti oversaw the creation and expansion of the company’s Enterprise Strategies group. This enabled the company to distribute through wholesalers and led to the transformation of MONY’s distribution network. He also successfully implemented a strategy to reposition the company’s investment portfolio by reducing the exposure to mortgage loans and up gradation of management of the equity real estate portfolio.
I’m Free of the Office! Hooray for WebPoint!
Friday, November 13th, 2009I’m a pretty cool boss, but it bothers me that with so many employees on the road we can’t even keep our pricelists synched, let alone collaborate on sales numbers or other data.
I’ve tried high end collaboration tools, but they’re expensive to deploy and often take so much training that it’s just not viable in our company. That’s until I tried WebPoint VPN by Vedivi. I took the free trial and within 30 minutes I’d downloaded and set up the VPN for remote access.
It’s frankly amazing. I’m not sure how exactly it connects, but it does and it allows secure access to keep all the prying eyes out. Basically you install the software on one pc in the network and it’ll discover all the other machines and servers in your network.
You log on via the WebPoint website, which then creates a secure connection between your remote PC and the Network.
Best of all, it actually uses your Windows authentication on your remote pc to connect to the network, so you can control access to data and servers!
I took the enterprise free trial and it works really well. Try it for yourself.
Help out your children…
Friday, November 6th, 2009A few months back I felt some changes in my son. His behavior was varying; he was more irritated short tempered. Then I asked him about the thing disturbing him. After hesitating he told me that understanding math is creating problems for him. I hugged him and make sure to him that we will find Math help for him.
Then I consulted a few friends of mine. They told me about tutorvista.com and also the change in their children’s results after joining this online math tutoring. I visited the website without even a second thought as I was so much convinced after listening to their experiences. I never knew that I would find online math tutor so easily.
Now my son is getting online math help from there. He is improving a lot, not only in studies but in his behavior too. I am happy that I was able to figure out his problem and provide the best solution. Now he enjoys studying.
I think all the parents should keep an eye on their children, so that they can help them when they are upset or worried about anything. I also want to recommend tutorvista.com to the people looking for online tutoring.
Invest today for your better future…
Monday, November 2nd, 2009There come many questions in the mind when you think about investing the only money you have. Like where to invest, which company to chose, how to manage it, and many more like that. One wants everything to be perfect, as he can’t afford to lose out.
I am not very rich, the only money I have is the one I won in a lottery. So I wanted it to become double, so that I can improve my standard of living. So I made a survey, to look for the right place to invest. After keeping in view the country’s condition, the recession and related other issues, I end up with gold. The biggest reason to own gold is to help protect you against high inflation. The most recent example of this occurred in the past couple of years here in the United States.
So I bought gold coins and gold bullion from goldcoinsgain.com, as this was the top rated Aurum Advisors Company. They helped me in every possible way, in spite of the fact that my investment was not very much. Now after examining the increasing value of gold coin and bullion I can see a bright future for my family.