Theo Panagiotoulias has been appointed as Star Alliance's next chief executive officer. Australian-born Panagiotoulias joins Star Alliance from Hawaiian Airlines, where he has been senior vice president for global sales and alliances since 2014. This move comes after current CEO, Charlotta Wieland, who had been serving as interim CEO of...

Diageo PLC has appointed Debra Crew as its first female chief executive, one of the nine women to lead an FTSE 100 company. Crew will assume the top leadership position after serving as the chief operating officer. Diageo's decision to promote Crew reflects their confidence in her abilities and vision...

“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together. I’ve got some real estate here in my bag. So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies and walked off to look for America.” – Paul Simon Those are the first few lines of a memorable song, America, which tells a great story....

Congratulations to Paul Geddes on his appointment as the next chief executive officer of Evelyn Partners, a wealth management firm. Paul Geddes will be taking over from Chris Woodhouse, who is retiring from full-time executive management after serving as CEO for five and a half years. Paul Geddes will officially...

Chief executive of Mothercare Daniel Le Vesconte is out with immediate effect after 5 months in the role. In January, Daniel Le Vesconte assumed the role of Mothercare’s first chief executive in two years. Before his appointment at Mothercare, Le Vesconte held prominent leadership positions at Abercrombie and Fitch, Dr....

After nine years since its inception, Anne Boden, the founder of Starling Bank, one of the prominent digital banks in the United Kingdom, has decided to resign from her position as CEO. Starling Bank experienced significant growth during this period, as reflected in its impressive financial results. In the fiscal...

The unemployment rate is surprisingly low, at 3.7%, shocking economists who expected a slowdown in hiring and rising unemployment rate. Frontline work such as healthcare led job growth. Frontline workers are in high demand, and the competition for their services is fierce. Yet wage growth cooled to .3%, the smallest...

How important is cost optimization in IT companies? Is it synonymous with resource optimization? Is it a one-time budget reduction exercise to meet the numbers? Or is it a continuous, deliberate, and implemented set of processes designed to squeeze every last penny out of every invested ruble? Does it take...

Nine recommendations to create a productive investment committee. An internal investment committee is a body responsible for managing investments within a company. It is responsible for evaluating and making investment decisions, as well as monitoring and analyzing their effectiveness. The committee may include high-ranking employees of the company, such as...