(He was fired, but has since resurfaced in Pakistan as the head of a subsidiary of a prominent business consortium, a position that required government backing).
Bird, the head of Time Warner subsidiary Turner Broadcasting Systems until 2003, where he ran the Cartoon Network and other channels, joined Disney as president of Walt Disney International in 2004 and coordinates the Walt Disney Company businesses outside the US.
Ford Motors will replace CEO Mark Fields with the head of its subsidiary responsible for developing self-driving cars, reports the New York Times.
And on Dec. 6, three weeks after launching its service in Brazil, AOL said the head of that subsidiary was stepping down for unspecified reasons.
Hansell worked for General Electric, becoming head of its subsidiary in the Netherlands until 1967, when he retired to Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Yet more than 60% of these exports are made in China by Taiwanese companies.China's latest list of its top 200 export companies is headed by subsidiaries of Taiwanese IT firms: Hon Hai Precision Industry (whose exports from China in 2003 were worth $6.4 billion), Quanta ($5.3 billion) and Asustek ($3.2 billion).
Ilan Yeshua, former head of the Britannica.com subsidiary Britannica Israel Ltd., was named to oversee the consolidation.
Last week Bankinter surprised investors by announcing the resignation of its long-standing chief executive, Jaime Echegoyen, who is being replaced by the head of its insurance subsidiary, Maria Dolores Dancausa.
Wal-Mart Stores said yesterday that it had named Eduardo Castro-Wrigheadhead of its Mexican subsidiary, chief operating officer of its United States Wal-Mart stores division.
"This is not Russia; it is Singapore," says Dmitry Popov, the head of the local subsidiary of Magna, a Canadian-owned car-parts manufacturer.In this section The end of the line Not quite all there?
Committed to controlling her image and career herself, Madonna became the head of Maverick, a subsidiary of Time-Warner created by the entertainment giant as part of a $60 million deal with the performer.
