Christoph Gerlinger was founder and CEO of games publisher Frogster before it was acquired by Gamesforge, while Kölpin is a co-founder of BerlinWebWeek and has worked with local startups in a marketing capacity as divisional director of location-markeing agency BerlinPartner.
"But unless you have good underlying data, it's really nothing more than a fancy map," said Greg Kurfoote, director of store location research and planning.
Britain is vulnerable, says Barry Bright, director of international location at Ernst & Young, an accountancy firm, because of its dependence on American investors and because of the difficulties manufacturers have faced outside the euro.
Dr. Matthew Kearns, a veterinarian and medical director of Animal Emergency Service with locations in Selden, Commack and Farmingdale, frequently X-rays and treats deer and other wildlife.
Ms. Epstein is the director of marketing for On Location Tours, a company that has been selling tours of movie and television show locations in and around New York City for 10 years.
In 2005, he received a teacher's certificate from the Maharishi Foundation U.S.A. in Fairfield, Iowa, and he is now the director of the Broad Street location of the Transcendental Meditation program in Manhattan.
Dr. Baird Fleming, director of the zoo, said location scouts were being cagey when they first approached him about shooting there.
"In real estate, people say it's location, location, location," said Paul Beelitz, the director of collections and archives, division of anthropology.
"One organization has the advantage of location," said Willis Hartshorn, director of the International Center of Photography, which has galleries on 1133 Avenue of the Americas, at West 43rd Street (reopening on Nov. 3 after renovations), and 1130 Fifth Avenue, at 94th Street (which is closing after June), and runs New York's largest photography school.
Her mother is the assistant director of rehabilitation at the Bronx location of Jewish Home Lifecare.
Correction: January 1 , 2004 Thursday An obituary on Dec. 19 about Elizabeth Stevenson, the first executive director of the Brain Tumor Foundation, misstated the location of the public television station KQED, for which she once worked.
