All of these SAP competitors sell the database products that are needed to connect with the business applications, leaving SAP in the position of partnering with its foes — a situation that may change by acquiring Sybase and its database business.
Bobbi Merkel Scott was named to the new position of managing partner at Einson Freeman, Chicago, part of the WPP Group.
Lance Mald was named to the new position of managing partner and chief creative officer at Earle Palmer Brown, New York, part of Panoramic Communications.
* Johann Wachs was named to the new position of managing partner and chief strategy officer at Wolf Group New York.
Larry Reno was named to the new position of managing partner and group account director on the Deutsche Bank account at Gotham, New York, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies.
In another shakeup, Stephen J. Horvath III, a corporate partner in the firm's London office, will take control of day-to-day management of the firm in a new position of executive partner.
"Other countries in Europe are taking an independent line from that taken by the president of America," he said, accusing Britain of assuming the position of "junior partner with the U.S. in this axis of delusion".
KLEINER Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture-capital firms, had promoted only one woman to the position of senior partner by 2011, nearly 40 years after the firm was founded.
He's officially scaling back to a part-time position of Venture Partner to launch "growth coaching" company Heretix.
