But many people in the entertainment industry predict that electronic casting will become dominant as younger, more computer-adept executives replace the veterans.
Mr. Malka was known as an adept licensing executive, and Hilco had wanted to exploit Halston's licensing opportunities.
"This business will involve salesmen in an intensive education process for customers for the next 10 years," said Brian Carlisle, Adept's chief executive officer.
The party was full of varied and interesting people, drawn not only from Mr. Steingarten's foodie present but also from his eclectic past: Harvard Lampoonn" prankster; copyboy for the seminal political-satire magazine "Monocle"; lawyer; public-TV-talk-show producer; aide to Mayor Kevin White, of Boston; Tibetan Buddhist adept; book-publishing executive.
The groom, 26, is a founder and the chief executive of Adept Cloud, a software company in San Mateo, Calif.
Fair enough, but a snapshot of Mr. Tucci's career might read like this: Energetic, ambitious young executive proves adept at keeping Sperry and Unisys computers from being blown off the technology racetrack by I.B.M.
In fact, he praises Mr. Dervis as one of the brightest, most adept and bureaucracy-beating executives at the World Bank at the time.
Successful executives are adept at it.
In his first comedy, the actor proved himself adept at playing a slimy executive who is forced to rethink the shallow nature of his life.
JENNIFER S. GRELLMAN Kentfield, Calif., Sept. 9, 2012 The writer is chief executive of Being Adept, a nonprofit substance abuse prevention and education program for middle-school students and their parents.
Chief executives have proved adept in recent years at avoiding nearly every attempt to curb their power, and they have an important ally this time.
