"Our sense is that the military has too much on their plate right now, and that these are issues that need to be addressed, and the way to do that is through the private sector," said the executive, Anne Tiedemann, a regional managing director and head of Kroll's Europe, Middle East and Africa Region.
Until reliable, large-scale storage of electricity is perfected for renewable energy sources like the wind and sun, "they've got to continue using nuclear as a fundamental part of their fuel mix," said James A. Maguire, the regional managing director for Asian infrastructure at Aon Risk Solutions, a risk management and insurance broker.
She is a manager in the preferred banking unit, and he is a regional managing director for the East Coast.
Roger Haupt, president and chief operating officer at Publicis, will help oversee the region Mr. Gatfield had supervised -- Europe, the Middle East and Africa -- until a new regional managing director is named.
Firms will compete to sell curricula to the regional managing companies.
"There is no panic," said Kenneth M. Krasnow, regional managing director at Cushman & Wakefield.
His father works in New York and Newark as the regional managing partner of the Washington law firm Patton Boggs.
JOSEPH R. ROMANO, the regional managing director for Advance Realty, said developers felt they were "repioneering" the area.
After four years as a regional managing director, based in Hong Kong, he moved to Chicago to take his current post.
