His responsibilities included streamlining the group's structure, consolidating related businesses, and opening up management to skilled individuals who might not be connected to the Tata or Mistry families.
This streamlining allows groups to quickly and effectively know who might need immediate help.
But as the group concluded a two-day meeting here, it dissolved itself and turned responsibility over to a streamlined "consultative group" based in Kabul and led by the Afghan finance minister, Ashraf Ghani.
Levin will remain in the role while a successor is sought, but having successfully streamlined the group during his tenure, [the] news is likely to be taken negatively.
Ingo Fischer, Lidl UK's board director of property and expansion, said the new stores would improve efficiency and help streamline the group's processes.
REUTERS Bank of America Taps Meissnerer as Head of Investment Banking | Bank of Americaca has appointed Christian Meissner as sole head of global corporate and investment banking, part of a broader effort to streamline the group.
BLOOMBERG NEWS Bank of America Shakes Up Investment Bank | Bank of Americarica has appointed Christian Meissner as the sole head of global corporate and investment banking, part of a broader effort to streamline the group, according to an internal memo obtained by DealBook.
In the latest move, the bank has appointed Christian Meissner as the sole head of global corporate and investment banking, part of a broader effort to streamline the group, according to an internal memo obtained by DealBook.
Although Mr Moloney streamlined the group into its current structure, putting Paul Keenan and Derek Carter in charge of the two halves of the business, Emap started to seem more like a company in retreat than the go-getting growth business of the 80s and 90s.
In a statement, Miller said: "Having achieved our strategy to streamline the group, secure its financial future and set it on the path to digital success, I have decided that mid-2015 will be the right time for me to explore new opportunities and for a new editor and chief executive to take the company on the next big phase of the Guardian's digital growth and international expansion.
