On the way to becoming a world-class funding resource, Texas's 3-year-old, $3 billion cancer research agency has run into management troubles.
If he decides to run, Mr. Codey must also find time to carry out the ceaseless duties of both a candidate and world-class fund-raiser -- and hope to generate enough cash between February and the primary in June to keep himself from being buried under the Corzine campaign's blizzard of cash.
While the design and the museum's exhibitions have been knocked by some critics since the reopening, Mr. Lowry, who came from the relative obscurity of running the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, is regarded as a deft administrator and world-class fund-raiser who reshaped a huge, unwieldy institution at a crossroads in its history.
Consider a world-class sovereign fund like Norway's.
The men's team has some extra funding from the world-class funding programme and UK Sport, which has really helped them focus over the last three or four years.
He became a world-class photographer and activist, raising funds to bring clean water to West Africa.
At Origin, Michael and I built, hired and funded a world-class team, and created a proprietary technology infrastructure, because we believed that the market would recognize the value of these assets and they would attract clients.
In the latter half of the year, they partnered with Seedcamp, which combines an early-stage seed investment fund with a world-class mentoring program for European entrepreneurs, and opened up their data set to access by developers with the launch of its API.
They continued bootstrapping until they realized "the only way we could achieve a remarkable global outcome for the people we were serving was if we raised funding, hired a world-class team and built the best technology in our sector".
"As long as he is surrounded by the right people, James Murdoch has the potential to be a world-class media CEO," says Murdo Murchison, a fund manager at Franklin Templeton.
