Because Sir Deryck has had a low-profile role at the company for the last four years, his ascent within Citigroup has surprised many executives who know him.
It afforded her less access to Obama than she was used to, and some colleagues doubted that she could adjust to a low-profile role.
Mr. Obama and his aides have deliberately played a low-profile role in the immigration debate, believing his involvement could stoke Republican opposition and damage the bill's prospects.
That low-profile role comes at a time when party officials said that the Republican convention might be an unwanted political complication for Mr. Bloomberg, who is facing re-election in an intensely Democratic city next year.
Two wins in their past three league games to climb off the bottom of the table under Danny Orr, the local lad who is surely a head coach of the future, but will now revert to a low-profile role.
As waves of foreclosures increased over the last year and broader economic distress has spread, the housing department has taken a notably low-profile role, overshadowed not only by the Treasury Department but also the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Outside the karate class, flexibility, if not a Zen-like self-restraint in the face of serious affronts from the Kremlin, have defined Mr. Prokhorov's low-profile role in Russian politics this summer.
Larry Elliott Chief executive, RBS Sector: Banking Being boss of Royal Bank of Scotland was never going to be a low-profile role and Ross McEwan, who took over from Stephen Hester three months ago, will be in the industry spotlight throughout 2014.
At the same time, aides to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, who has played a fairly low-profile role in this campaign, said he was filming an advertisement on behalf of Mr. Lazio, his fellow Republican, who stepped in to run for the Senate after Mr. Giuliani dropped out of the race for health reasons.
