Americas
Due to growing demand from prospective clients for both agency-of-record leadership and the capability to develop successful multi-agency groups, Razorfish, one of the world's largest digital agencies, has endorsed Wes Breyfogle, 40, to SVP, Enterprise Development, Americas. In the role, Breyfogle would manage business development and enlargement over the U.S. and Latin America and coordinate possibilities to collaborate with Publicis Groupe agencies.
Yahoo Inc has employed the first kind head associated with News Corp's online operations to head its Americas business, because Yahoo looks for in order to repair its management rates after a number of departures as well as flat revenue development.
Ross Levinsohn may join Yahoo in November and address the press team, advertising sales as well as partnerships within the Americas area, the organization said on Wednesday. He will report to Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz, replacing Hilary Schneider, whose intends to leave Yahoo had been announced last 30 days.
CompuMed Inc. a telemedicine and medical informatics firm recently announced that a prominent news website has published a detailed interview with its CEO, Maurizio Vecchione.
He opened the interview with a positive statement by saying, “Telemedicine is a word that has become very popular with healthcare reform and a new set of healthcare delivery models, but telemedicine actually started about 30 years ago. Nowadays telemedicine is often associated with video conferencing. Under that definition, it just means seeing the doctor through the computer, a small piece of telemedicine.
Copa Holdings SA, Panama’s biggest airline company, recently increased its predicted spending in the years 2011 and 2012 to something between $200 million and $300 million per year, according to the company’s CEO, Pedro Heilbron. The previously predicted budget was around $150 million. Heilbron also announced that the company was likely to place further orders to Boeing Corporation for increasing its number of aircrafts. The finance for these new aircrafts will be coming from loans taken from the United States Import-Export Bank and many other private banks and the cash that the company presently has.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), who have been based in Columbia from almost 6 decades, recently announced that it has struck a 15-year management deal for a newly built Holiday Inn in Cartagena, Columbia.
The Holiday Inn Cartagena, which is scheduled to open in the month of June, 2011, will be IHG's 7th property in Colombia, and the 46th Holiday Inn brand property within the firm’s Latin America & Caribbean region. IHG currently possesses 2 Holiday Inn hotels in Colombia.
The hotel is owned by Sundacer S.A.S., a division of Conceptos Urbanos S.A., a reputed real estate development company in Colombia. It will be IHG's 2nd project in Cartagena.
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