Led by Shields, a former Facebook, Bebo and Google executive, Tech City has set out to attract investors and entrepreneurs to east London and promoting companies and events to champion London's position as the "digital capital of Europe".
Meanwhile Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle and Novell will champion the EU's position.
"A reputed champion of reform, Mansour's position as vice president is largely ceremonial and does not lend him much influence with [government] decision makers," according to a 2004 cable.
Guardian writers' predicted position: 9th (NB: this is not necessarily Paul Doyle's prediction but the average of our writers' tips) Last season's position: Champions Odds to win the league (via Oddschecker): 33-1 LeiCityer City have peaked and should brace themselves for a Humpty Dumpty-style fall.
Bean championed the banking industry's position, which is in favor of federal preemption -- so that federal rules would be the ceiling, rather than the floor, for bank regulation.
Mr. Kramnik's position as champion has been challenged, too, because he is not the top-ranked player and because when he beat Mr. Kasparov there were rival claimants to the throne.
In contrast, conservatives have attacked the proposed legislation, seeing it as the end of Delaware's position as the champion of "enabling" corporate legislation and predicting that Delaware would lose market share to other, more permissive jurisdictions in the market for corporate charters.
Still, he and others said they would continue to aggressively champion their own position.
A further step might be to create a new "champion" position for payments and finance.
The world champion took pole position anyway.
