The two also started the Tune Group, which focuses on Southeast Asia and straddles sectors from aviation and telecoms to hospitality.
Recently, however, that tidy division of the market, and its main players, into distinct segments has become increasingly blurred, first with the emergence of Embraer's E-170 and E-190 family of four medium-range passenger jets in the 70- to 120-seat sector — straddling the regional and mainstream markets — and then with Bombardier's definitive go-ahead for its C Series jet.
OLPC has undoubtedly suffered from straddling such ferociously political sectors as tech, development and education — and from launching at a time when high profile projects suddenly came under scrutiny from blogging and tweeting.
In continental Europe most civil servants belong to unions, though these generally straddle the private sector as well.
In much of continental Europe most civil servants belong to unions, albeit ones that straddle the private sector as well.
But more and more of their work is for the public sector these days, and that is changing the nature of the business.Kennedy Information, an American firm that monitors the consulting industry, estimates that the public sector (including health care, which straddles both public and private sectors) now accounts for over 30% of the global consulting market.
She has the perfect background to lead an organisation that straddles the public and private sectors: a former boss of a steel company and director of Brazil's two biggest companies, Petrobras and Vale, she has also held numerous positions in local government and served as the first female director on the board of Brazil's huge development bank, BNDES.
Deepak Parekh, 65, is India's foremost infrastructure finance veteran with a career that has straddled both public and private sectors for four decades.
Building the data infrastructure of HE also requires private sector outsourcing companies, software developers, cloud hosting firms, data analytics designers and a host of other technical specialists, often working in organizations with global reach and activities that straddle the commercial and public sectors.
E.P.: Obviously the market understood that PipeDream's unique position -- straddling the B2B and e-commerce sectors -- would allow us to really pancake the value chain, injecting old economy revenue-growth models at new economy valuations.
Lawyers who straddle both the public and private sectors must now decide whether to remain in their current prosecutor positions, which range in salary from $2,400 to $40,000 a year, or to stick with a more lucrative private practice.
