GenevaLunch » CEO http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:10:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no WWF Switzerland gets ex-corporate man as new leader http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/wwf-switzerland-gets-ex-corporate-man-as-new-leader/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/06/wwf-switzerland-gets-ex-corporate-man-as-new-leader/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:49:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66313 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – WWF Switzerland will have Thomas Vellacott, 41, as its chief executive officer in mid-May 2012, when Hans-Peter Fricker retires. Vellacott won out over nearly 300 candidates for the job as head of one of Switzerland’s most active and influential environmental organizations. He joined WWF in 2003 and has been in charge of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/19/strikes-and-protests-in-geneva-area-hug-calls-for-calm-novartis-boss-visits/feed/ 0 UBS gets new boss, Credit Suisse gets Moody’s warning http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/ubs-gets-new-boss-credit-suisse-gets-moodys-warning/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/15/ubs-gets-new-boss-credit-suisse-gets-moodys-warning/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:14:25 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63534 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – UBS will have a new boss: Sergio Ermotti, 51, who has been the ad interim chief executive of Switzerland’s largest bank since 24 September, has been named to the post permanently, the bank announced Tuesday morning 15 November. He replaced Oswald Gruebel, called in to turn the bank around in February 2009, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/iata-confirms-new-ceo-halves-airline-profits-forecasts/feed/ 0 Irish bank director disqualified for “gross negligence” http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/11/irish-bank-director-disqualified-for-gross-negligence/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/04/11/irish-bank-director-disqualified-for-gross-negligence/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:09:15 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=56398 GenevaLunch.com Jim Lacey, a former National Irish Bank (NIB) director, has been disqualified for “gross negligence” and “various breaches of duty”, with a high court judge finding that “his conduct made him unfit to be concerned in the management of a company”. The ruling followed an investigation of 10 years of the bank’s activities, with the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/02/21/china-alibabas-bosses-resign-over-dishonest-suppliers/feed/ 0 Easyjet’s CHF200m investment in Switzerland pays off http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/easyjets-chf200m-investment-in-switzerland-pays-off/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/easyjets-chf200m-investment-in-switzerland-pays-off/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:10:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52610 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Easyjet, which easily leads the pack at Geneva’s Cointrin Airport, where it has 36 percent of the traffic, saw the number of its passengers flying of out Switzerland rise by 13.7 percent in 2010. The company had 4.3m departures from Geneva and 1.9m from Basel, where it accounts for 45 percent [...]

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