Her father is a managing director in the real estate department of Morgan Stanley, the New York investment bank, where he is also the chief executive of a unit that manages real estate assets and loans worldwide.
Mr. Bastholm will start at Cheil USA about a year after Cheil Worldwide hired Buz Sawyer, known for his work at Wieden & Kennedy, to be president and chief executive of a unit called Cheil the Americas, which oversees North, Central and South America.
A1 Inquiry on Berkshire Unit Investigators in the New York attorney general's office are examining communications involving the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren E. Buffett, and the chief executive of a unit of Berkshire who arranged a questionable transaction with Maurice R. Greenberg when he was chief executive of the American International Group.
"We made it clear from the start that we would not conclude the deal if the regulatory price was too high," Rod Eddington, the chief executive of British Airways, and Donald J. Carty, the chief executive of American, a unit of the AMR Corporation, said in a joint statement.
The competitors include Douglas R. Lebda, chief executive of LendingTree, the mortgage referral service; Mark Holowesko, chief executive of Templeton Capital Advisors, a unit of Franklin Resources; and Chuck Chokel, managing director of the White Mountains Insurance Group -- the largest holding in Mr. Holowesko's $900 million hedge fund.
Marc Teren, who left his job as chief executive of Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive in January to become chief executive of Cahners Business Information, a unit of the British-Dutch publishing company Reed Elsevier, said: "Alan has achieved a lot financially and a lot of security, and he can do anything he wants.
The company said today that David Calhoun, 43, currently president and chief executive of Employers Reinsurance Corporation, a unit of G.E., would become executive vice president and chief operating officer of GE Aircraft Engines.
"At a time when capital is at a premium, we've managed to attract the confidence of a diverse group of investors," said Greg Basser, chief executive of Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, a unit of Village Roadshow Limited that oversees the movie production operation.
An executive of ABC, a unit of the Walt Disney Company, said the company's executives also declined to comment.
The protests, by a group called Enough Is Enough, began in mid-September outside the Northwest Washington home of Debra L. Lee, chairman and chief executive of BET, a unit of Viacom.
Those manufacturers would do well to the study the playbook of Marco Borgiani Marco Borgiani, chief executive of Elmarc, a unit of Italy's industrial giant Antonio Merloni.
