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Dr. Deborah Dunsire recently retired as president and CEO of H. Lundbeck A/S, a biopharmaceutical company focused on brain disease therapies. [Image: photo, Business Wire; background DI Studio]
Irving’s McKesson Corp. Adds Healthcare Veteran to Board
by Lance Murray | Jun 7, 2024
Dr. Deborah Dunsire joins the board with more than 30 years of experience leading large, matrixed organizations in the biopharmaceutical, oncology, and other specialty industries, including her role as president and CEO of H. Lundbeck A/S.
by Lance Murray |
Jun 7, 2024
William Davenport will sit on Aimbridge's executive leadership team, reporting directly to CEO Craig Smith and working closely with recently appointed Chief Global Growth Officer Eric Jacobs and new Chief Legal Officer Greg Moundas.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 7, 2024
Will Palmer and Jesús Payán have been promoted by the global alternative investment manager, which has roughly $18 billion in assets under management and affiliate offices in New York, London, Toronto, and Tokyo.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 7, 2024
The newly opened North America Innovation Center from pest-control giant Rentokil Terminix features a collection of live indigenous and global insects, along with three independent laboratories investigating everything from wood-destroying organisms to municipal mosquito control.
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Janine Steiner Jovanovic, CEO of LeaseLock. [Photo: LeaseLock]
Dallas-Based LeaseLock and ResidentRadius Introduce ‘Zero Deposit’ for Renters—and Smarter Loss Protection for Property Owners
by Lance Murray | Jun 6, 2024
Instead of paying a costly upfront deposit to lease rental housing, renters using LeaseLock pay a small monthly deposit waiver fee along with their rent. In turn, the property manager or owner is protected against missed rent and damages with customized insurance coverage powered by AI underwriting.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 6, 2024
In one of our top stories today, Dallas Innovates' Glenn Hunter spoke with former 7-Eleven and Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes about his new book, Education is Freedom. That CEO acronym in the book makes a key point, he told us.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Jun 6, 2024
Amid a general atmosphere of ignorance and fear that’s being stoked by the internet and social media, the U.S. education system currently is under attack as irrelevant or beyond repair, Jim Keyes says. What’s urgently needed, he believes, is replacing this cycle of negativity with knowledge—and a new technology platform that will ‘take American education to the next level.’
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by David Seeley |
Jun 5, 2024
As we noted in our top story today, Lee's TXSE Group plans to launch the Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), focused on Texas and the Southeast U.S. The group says it will provide "a venue to trade and list public companies and the growing universe of exchange-traded products" as a "fully electronic, national securities exchange." That's caused buzz across the Lone Star State—and especially on Wall Street.
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Rendering of RJW Logistics Group's new warehouse facility in Mesquite [Image: RJW]
Illinois’ RJW Logistics Group Opens Its Second Large Warehouse Facility in Mesquite
by Lance Murray | Jun 5, 2024
With RJW's second Mesquite facility providing around 200 new jobs, the company's total retail logistics footprint exceeds 7 million square feet spanning 11 warehouses in Chicago and two in Mesquite. "Creating jobs for Dallas-area workers is a priority for us, and we're enthusiastic about helping the local community thrive," CEO Kevin WIlliamson told Dallas Innovates.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 5, 2024
As PC manufacturers race to bring new AI personal computers to market, consumers face risks along with opportunities. Today global cybersecurity company Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—announced its first consumer security solutions tailored to safeguard against emerging threats in the new AI PC era.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 5, 2024
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 9 for patents out of 250 metros for the week of May 21, 2024. 121 patents granted include: Bank of America's agent-side chatbot simulator with throttling capabilities, Crestron Electronics' tabletop touchscreen panel, GM Global Technology Operations' perception system with attention module for processing visual data, Health Management Systems' healthcare coverage matching and verification, Netscout Systems Texas' determining geolocation of devices in a communication network, Revision Robotics Surgical Innovations' robotic joint revision system, Sanofi's medicament delivery device, Tango Networks' system, method, and computer-readable medium for provisioning dual-homed voice call continuity, Topgolf International's golf ball dispenser, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America's parking seeker detection system and method for updating parking spot database using same, and United Services Automobile Association's environmental conditions monitoring system.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 5, 2024
Watch out, Wall Street—a Dallas-based stock exchange is bucking its way into U.S. equity capital markets. And it's already lined up around $120 million in funding from BlackRock, Citadel Securities, and other investors including "prominent business leaders from around the country."
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Tom Williams [Image: Screenshot BNSF Intermodal Project Update 2023]
BNSF Railway Co. Announces New CMO, Several Leadership Moves
by Lance Murray | Jun 4, 2024
Fort Worth-based BNSF is reshuffling its top executives, with Tom Williams stepping in as the new EVP and chief marketing officer in September, replacing Steve Bobb, who is retiring after 36 years. Additional promotions include key roles in transportation, service design, and intermodal marketing.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 4, 2024
Lately, a seemingly endless drumbeat of devastating storms across North Texas—including one that claimed seven lives in the region over Memorial Day weekend—has put disaster programs at the top of many local minds. And now a major local company is signing on to help America recover from calamities that could take an even greater toll.
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by David Seeley |
Jun 4, 2024
AVX Aircraft says it was founded with a vision of "bringing advanced vertical lift solutions to the civilian aircraft market." Now it will leverage its vertical lift tech expertise to advance development of ATI Aircraft's TriFan 600 VTOL airplane—which aims to perform everything from charter flights to medevac rescues.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 4, 2024
Jay Shetty, a popular podcast host and author of bestselling books 'Think Like a Monk' and '8 Rules of Love,' will reimagine dating advice on the Dallas-based dating giant's app. In a recent TikTok video, Shetty said, "Dating is hard, I know. That's why I'm so excited to announce I am partnering with Match as their Relationship Advisor."
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