All administrative units at the bank — operations, technology and finance — report to him.
Joseph D. Burns, United's director for flight operations technology, in a telephone interview.
"The operations, technology and logistics of the event have to demonstrate and reflect our competence to govern," Mr. Gruin said.
Bulford will sit on the BBC's executive and Worldwide boards and oversee finance, operations, technology, legal, and various other functions including commercial rights and business affairs.
Morgan Stanley announced last month that it was cutting 1,000 jobs in operations, technology and other areas because of the market downturn.
Most of the jobs eliminated will come from four parts of the company's global operations: technology, human resources, the corporate travel business and the corporate lending operations overseas.
He will work closely with the business heads, and directly with all Finance, Operations, Technology and control teams to materially strengthen the integrity and effectiveness of our front-to-back operating and control environment.
The Office of Naval Research, for example, supports some of the work being done by researchers at Stevens Institute, Georgia Tech and the University of Mississippi, said Clifford W. Anderson, deputy director for discovery and invention at the expeditionary warfare operations technology division there.
Livescribe is selling its business operations, technology, and intellectual property.
People operations technology is also a $5 billion market opportunity.
