Fuad El-Hibri served as president of Digicel from August 2000 to February 2005. Mr. El-Hibri served as the president of East West Resources Corporation from September 1990 to January 2004
Mr. El-Hibri was a member of the senior management team of Speywood, LTD., in the United Kingdom. and organized and directed the management buyout of Porton Products Ltd. El-Hibri reorganized Porton, and was advisor to the senior management team involved in the oversight of operations and served as a senior associate and resident project manager at Booz Allen Hamilton and as a manager of Citicorp in New York (Mergers and Acquisitions), and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Operations and Credit).
Mr. El-Hibri has been chairman of East West Resources Corporation, a venture capital and financial consulting firm, since June 1990. He served as the chairman of Digicel Holdings from August 2000 to October 2006. He serves as director of Emergent BioDefense Operations Lansing Inc.El-Hibri has been Director and CEO of Emergent BioSolutions since 2004 and He serves as Chairman and Treasurer of El-Hibri Charitable Foundation.
Mr.El-Hibri serves as a member of the board of trustees of American University. He is a member of the board of directors of the International Biomedical Research Alliance (an academic joint venture among the National Institutes of Health, Oxford University and Cambridge University). Mr El-Hibri is also a member of the board of trustees of the National Health Museum.
Fuad El-Hibri has served as chief executive officer and as chairman of our board of directors since June 2004 and as president since March 2006. Mr. El-Hibri served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of BioPort Corporation from May 1998 until June 2004, when, as a result of our corporate reorganization, BioPort became a wholly owned subsidiary of Emergent. We subsequently renamed BioPort as Emergent BioDefense Operations Lansing Inc. Mr. El-Hibri served as chairman of Digicel Holdings, Ltd., a privately held telecommunications firm, from August 2000 to October 2006. He served as president of Digicel from August 2000 to February 2005. Mr. El-Hibri has served as chairman of East West Resources Corporation, a venture capital and financial consulting firm, since June 1990. He served as president of East West Resources from September 1990 to January 2004. Mr. El-Hibri is a member of the board of trustees of American University and a member of the board of directors of the International Biomedical Research Alliance, an academic joint venture among the NIH, Oxford University and Cambridge University. He also serves as chairman and treasurer of El-Hibri Charitable Foundation. Mr. El-Hibri received a master’s degree in public and private management from Yale University and a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.
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Emergent BioSolutions Chairman and CEO, Mr. Fuad El-Hibri, Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award Winner in Greater Washington
ROCKVILLE, MD, June 18, 2009 – Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE:EBS) announced today that Fuad El-Hibri, its chairman and chief executive officer, received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2009 Award in the Technology category in Greater Washington. According to Ernst & Young LLP, the award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Mr. El-Hibri was selected by an independent panel of judges and the award was presented at a special gala event on June 18 at the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner in Virginia.
“It is a tremendous honor to receive this award considering the many biopharmaceutical and life sciences companies in the greater Washington region,” said Mr. El-Hibri. “I am proud of Emergent BioSolutions’ continuous growth and financial strength. These successes are firmly anchored on the entrepreneurial spirit and commitment of our employees. All their contributions, in pursuit of our company mission to protect life, have made this award possible.”
Under Mr. El-Hibri’s leadership, Emergent BioSolutions has expanded its capabilities in the development and manufacture of vaccines and immune-related therapeutics. By strengthening its core biodefense portfolio, which includes the only FDA-licensed vaccine against anthrax disease, Emergent has become the premier biodefense supplier of medical countermeasures to the U.S. government.
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards program celebrates its 23rd anniversary this year and continues to honor entrepreneurs who have demonstrated excellence in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. The program has expanded to recognize business leaders in over 135 cities in 50 countries throughout the world.
As a Greater Washington award winner, Mr. El-Hibri is now eligible for consideration for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 national program. Award winners in several national categories, as well as the overall national Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, will be announced at the annual awards gala in Palm Springs, California on November 14, 2009. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum, the nation’s most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
About Emergent BioSolutions Inc.
Emergent BioSolutions Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacture and commercialization of vaccines and therapeutics that assist the body’s immune system to prevent or treat disease. Emergent’s marketed product, BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed), is the only vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the prevention of anthrax. Emergent’s development pipeline includes programs focused on anthrax, botulism, tuberculosis, typhoid, hepatitis B and chlamydia. Additional information may be found at www.emergentbiosolutions.com.
About Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year® Awards Program
Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year® Award is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The award makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® award celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 135 cities in 50 countries.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur of the Year awards are pleased to have the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and SAP America as national sponsors.
In Greater Washington, sponsors include HSBC Bank, Pillsbury Law, Reznick Group, Lockton Companies and the Washington Business Journal.
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At Abraham Harrison, LLC, our proven and well-refined methods as well as our long-established credibility gives us particular efficacy in influencing top search results. We don’t engage the negative results, as this actually makes them more attractive to the search engines. We employ an assortment of tactics to chaff and flare, to draw the search engines‘ attention to positive and neutral results, and away from the problematic negative results .
It is not possible to make information on the Internet disappear unless the people who put the information online in the first place take it back down again — even then, the data is often mirrored elsewhere or cached and re-served by the likes of Google and The Wayback Machine. The method is to make the undesirable results needles in haystacks — it can be there, but only people really intent on finding it will come across it.
An online search results sanitization campaign is a long-term commitment, much like treating a cancer. It begins with a period of intense assault on the problem to beat the negatives down followed by a on-going low-level maintenance regime to keep them down. A campaign is heavily front-loaded with the ongoing maintenance being very low cost — we can also turn those maintenance operations over to you, together with any infrastructure, content, and domain names we may have set up during the campaign.
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An online search results sanitization campaign requires subtlety convincing the search engines that what they previously believed — i.e. that the currently highly-ranked negative results are indeed some of the most valuable and relevant results — is no longer true, and that the neutral and positive content that we identify or create is far more valuable and relevant and therefore should rank highly, pushing the negative results down into the obscurity of lower rankings.
This requires a bit of time, 6-8 weeks of concerted effort generally, to get results moving away from where the search engines have long believed them legitimately to stand, toward the new state that we desire, with those negative results far below the neutral and positive ones.
Once we get the results moving and out of stasis, we keep them moving until we are happy with the results, then maintain them in place, so that the negative results (which naturally have their own legitimacy in the eyes of the search engines) do not move back up again. It is a bit like braces on a child’s teeth which are then followed by a retainer that keeps them straight and prevents them from slipping back to their original crooked state.
Even the largest, well-known companies have used defensive SEO tactics in the face of crisis and unfavorable publicity. It works for them, and it will work for you. Negative search results are a controllable problem that can be solved with diligence and know-how. Unlike other common types of crises, negative search results will not disappear without action. However, unfavorable publicity that you may have received years ago that is still affecting perceptions about your brand can be dealt with and have its negative impact neutralized.
We have resolved difficult SEO solutions — probably far worse than yours - in the past and come out on top. With our vast network and effective systems, we are able to provide an viable, permanent solution to most online reputation problems, and we will help with yours as well.
Generally, campaigns run a year, with the bulk of the effort in the first 4 months. After the first five to six months have passed and we have achieved a stable new order with the negative results well-buried, we will be happy to turn the maintenance over to you, if you wish, or we can continue to maintain the defensive systems for you until the end of the year. After the first year, we’re happy to continue monitoring your online reputation and maintaining your defensive systems for as long as you choose to retain our services.
That said, all of the work, all the domain names, and all the IP we generate for you is yours and we’re happy to turn it over to you if you like, after the year-long contract is completed.
Abraham Harrison, LLC, bills on a retainer basis, i.e. at the beginning of the month before beginning operations. As mentioned, the effort, and the billing is front-loaded to allow an aggressive attack to beat down the negative results soundly, then backing off over time focusing over more on the lower-resource work of stabilizing the results in order to allow you to save money.
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I heard about OLX when I got on the phone with co-CEO and co-founder, Fabrice Grinda. He laughed and admitted that OLX is the largest free classifieds site no one’s ever heard of. He was right, no-one else I know have ever heard of OLX. Until now, OLX has played the back end to other sites. OLX was the engine behind the Friendster classifieds, for example, amongst many other. OLX is now ready for prime time as it moves boldly into the United States in direct contest with monsters like Craigslist and EBay. This is a burgeoning David and Goliath story.
And, they’re rocking out abroad, with a presence in over 80 countries and over 30 languages. Until now, OLX has been a lot like David Hasselhoff, post-Baywatch and pre-America’s Got Talent: the Hoff is huge in Europe and so is OLX. And also in Brazil, China, Argentina, Chile, Russia, India, Poland, and others.
While we spoke, I farted around with the OLX site and quickly realized that OLX allowed me to search as geographically widely or as targeted as I wanted, based on city or zip code.
It was simple to search narrowly or broadly, by keyword or category, using check boxes and sliders. If there were too many results, I could slide it down to narrow the results; if there were too few, I could open increase the radius included in the search.
Craigslist limits its searches to cities and tight metro areas. Cities like Washington, DC, include Maryland and Northern Virginia, but not Baltimore or Richmond, although Baltimore is only 45-minutes away via the freeway.
But, no. I have to pop in, and then pop out. There have been attempts that 3rd party online services have made to allow federated search, but Craigslist keeps on shutting it down — because that’s what Craig Newmark of Craigslist does: makes arbitrary decisions that indulge his belief of what is right instead of what people might want and need. Like federated search, for example.
When I have some commerce to do, I have generally pointed by browser to one of three: Amazon, EBay, and Craigslist. When I need something new, I’ll grab it on Amazon, but check EBay first. When I am looking for something used, I will check EBay and Craigslist. I will use Craigslist especially to grab something used if that thing is big, like furniture or a bike.
Sadly, there are too many limitations on all of these things and it really depends.
If I want a casual bike for weekend use spent with friends, that’s one thing, but if I am looking for a classic Kestrel carbon fiber criterion racer, it is much better to go further afield. To me, Craigslist is best for people who are looking for deals or things that have become commoditized, such as refrigerators, mattresses, and couches.
If you’re looking for a replacement piece for a patter of china or if you’re looking for that 80s-era Porsche 911 you wanted in Highschool, you’ll need to go somewhere else, such as EBay.
OLX is flexible and easy-to-use, offering users — me — the sort of simple tools required to be able to fine-tune searches using check boxes, price limiters (high- and low-end), and sliders. I can use it the way I want to, not the way the founders envision.
Same thing goes when it comes to mobile access. In a world of mobile phones and mobile access, it is surprising that most online classifieds and auctioning sites limit their mobile access to just a couple of smart phones like the iPhone. Well, I live on my Blackberry, my Nokia N95, and my soon-to-arrive Android G1, and there’s no way to buy and sell via mobile and Craigslist, EBay, and Amazon do not offer non phone-specific, non app-based, mobile WAP interfaces. OLX offers access to all of its services via mobile, accessed via m.olx.com.
Mobile OLX doesn’t require an expensive iPhone to access the web interface or download an application, it can be accessed by any phone that can access the web at all, even lower-end phones that can only support very basical browsers. Not only that, but I can easily continue my browsing and searching and listing from my mobile interface with a very similar experience to when I am at my desktop.
Also, there are lots of hidden fees, especially listing fees, hidden in real estate and jobs listings in Craigslist and, of course, listing fees on EBay — fees that have been growing for the last decade — the the point where loads of Power Sellers are getting skittish, wanting to pull their listings and find something else, something better. OLX is completely free. I dug further and there are premium listings available for a fee in the English/American market, but this isn’t restrictive, this is value-added. The premium listing fee is in addition, not a barrier to listing.
And, admit it, in the world of social media, social networks, and web2.0, Amazon, EBay, and Craigslist haven’t changed much in the last decade.
Then there’s the obvious and very annoying — and intentional – limitations that man and ego, instead of service to customers, have implemented.
On the buyer’s side, on one hand, one of the most frustrating things about Craiglist is that each city is insulated from the other — you just can’t search for the stuff you want country-wide; on the other hand, while EBay does allow you to search for stuff anywhere, it is an auction site so you need to be willing to bid or to Buy Now, which doesn’t lend itself to the sort of creativity and playfulness that Craigslist tends to produce.
To be honest, if I am searching for listing for things like cars and motorcycles, I want to expand my search to neighboring cities and states. Hell, if I finally decide to buy that 1989 BMW R100GS Adventure Tourer, I am willing to search the entire country for one. The perfect thing of my dreams does not want to necessarily be limited by geography or proximity.
For the perfect thing, I am sure I would go on a road trip or take a flight. A buddy of mine always wanted to own a Ferrari. When he ultimately found the car he wanted to buy, it was almost three-thousand miles away in a barn, well-taken care of and just waiting for him, like a faerie tale.
Even searching for the perfect apartment can be taken to the perfect space, the perfect price, instead of just the perfect place. How could that be, you ask? Well, since I am a virtual worker, working for a virtual company, the quality of my home and the price of the rent or purchase could well be more important to me than whether the car is near the metro or bus line or is necessarily in metro Washington at all.
When I reread the above, I see a trend. OLX seems to be a next-generation online classifieds site because it not only takes Craigslist into the 21st century but it also rolls in some of the great things about Ebay as well, such as the sophisticated tools that allow Ebay’s users to limit and expand searches, based on proximity and search terms, and whatnot.
Long story short, OLX isn’t revolutionary, it is evolutionary. Craigslist and its cousin Ebay are seriously stunted, unwilling to respond to the needs of its users. “They don’t need that — they don’t even know what they need — why would they need to look outside of their city, this is about community, and I encourage community so I intent to block federated search from my classifieds site,” I can hear Craig Newmark saying to his board of directors. Well, while Craig’s gloating, Fabrice is innovating, adjusting, evolving, and meeting the needs of his community.
And, when it all comes down to brass tacks, it is about making ends meet. And when it comes to ends meeting, having more choice is better. More in better when it comes to value. In one fell swoop, you can double and triple your reach into not only neighboring cities and states but further afield.
In fact, when you look at Craigslist and see how picked-over all of the listings are by the time I get to it, I should think that OLX is a competitive advantage since it is — for now, anyway — the largest free classifieds site no one’s ever heard of, OLX is an undiscovered gem. OLX is like discovering an undiscovered flea market, second-hand store, or consignment store.
All said and done, this is not about revolution or paradigm shifting but it is about bringing buyer to seller and seller to buyer. It is about community and commerce. It is about making connections as completely and as easily as possible in exactly the way that makes it easiest for everyone involved and I honestly believe that OLX fills that bill, be they my client or not.
Lewis Black: Aruba has got to be the worst place in the world to get married.
Woman: Why would you say such a thing? The food is wonderful, the weather is perfect and look at the sunset.
Lewis Black: Exactly! It does not prepare you for the harsh reality of marriage, trust me. Get married in Hackinsack, honeymoon in Trenton; it can only get better from there.
Lewis Black: Charlie, do you really consider Windsurfing a sport?
Charlie: All depends on how you look at it.
Lewis Black: I look at it as a perpetual bad hair day
C: Thats funny!
Lewis Black: There is nothing funny about two grown men dressed in rubber, Charlie.
3. Lewis Black Aruba Weather
Lewis Black: Every single day in Aruba is a nice day. How do you people get anything done? Youre in a meeting an you say: “The fourth quarter reported ‘Well, What a nice day’, everyone agrees; the meeting is over.” I mean how do you do anything.
Woman: Well it is a nice day.
Lewis Black: Yeah it is a nice day… There! See! I have no idea what we were talking about. Oh Look! A crab!
4. Lewis Black playing Golf with Aruba’s Weatherman
Lewis Black: THe weather here in Aruba is perfect every single day. It must be infuriating to you as a weatherman.
WM: Of course not! Why would you say something like that?
Lewis Black: The weather is always the same! You dont get to practice your crap, your calling.
WM: Look at this, this is paradise.
Lewis Black: Not for a Weatherman!
WM: You know what, Lewis. I think its going to be a little windy later, why dont we go out for a sail?
Lewis Black: I’m a golfer, I dont do boats. …Ok lets go sail.
5. Lewis Black- Aruba Time Share
Lewis Black: Richard the weather here is amazing, the food is amazing and the people are beyond friendly. And yet, you come back to Aruba Year after Year.
Men: Twelve wonderful years.
Woman: And we love it here, especially the people.
Lewis Black: But when you get depressed, there is nothing to blame it on.
Couple (together): Don’t get depressed!
Lewis Black: And I was just starting to like it…… That was close.
6. Lewis Black- Aruba’s Song and Music
Lewis Black: Is every song in Aruba about the weather and friendship? What happens to other themes like broken bones, losing your home or growing old alone?
Lewis Black: Maricella, as my new Aruban friend, will you do all you can to make me feel at home and comfortable?
Maricella: Of course and how am I doing?
Lewis Black: Not so unberable
Maricella: Well after that I recommend that you sit on the beach and watch the sun go down.
Lewis Black: You’d make a good friend, Maricella. However, all my friends are “selfish little pigs“.
Lewis Black: You would probably not fit in.
8. Lewis Black- Making Friends in Aruba
Lewis Black: When I was a kid I had like a million friends… well one really. Here in Aruba, you say there is ninety thousand friends you have yet to meet. Maybe this is my second chance in friendship.
Man 1: Of course, perhaps your third chance.
Lewis Black: THats good. Now I have two friends; You and my mother.
9. Lewis Black in Aruba Restaurants
Lewis Black: Here in Aruba, you claim that, “There are ninety thousand friends, I havent met yet.”
Cook: Yes, Sir.
Lewis Black: So you do everything to make your guests feel at home.
Cook: Everything within my power, Sir.
Lewis Black: Well I’ve got news for you. I dont feel at home at all. I mean, look at this , this food, looks and tastes amazing. In my home, this would be inedible , this would be indigestible , and this unidentifiable mystery meat .
Cook: I could make that if you like, no problem my friend.
Lewis Black: That wont be necessary…
10. Lewis Black- Video in Aruba
Lewis Black: Hey Ricky, I dont know if you know this but there are creatures from out of space right here in Aruba, and they look just like real people.
Ricky: Oh really, I didnt notice.
Lewis Black: Oh they are alwas smiling, relaxed, unnaturally friendly and they’ll do anything to lull you into feeling at home. Its inhuman, its a trick Ricky, don’t fall for it. I’ve seen it in the movies.
Ricky: Let me get you a drink.
Lewis Black: Oh my god, they got him too.
11. Lewis Black- Political Video Humor
Lewis Black: I imagine that the politics here in Aruba are as they are anywhere else in the world. Bitter angry slugfest. In other words, fantastic.
Man: Oh no Lewis, its very civil.
Lewis Black: Wait! So its like this; ‘Thats a great stimulus plan you have.’ ‘Thank you, I like your ideas and education.’ ‘Well I love your tie!’. Is that it?
Man: Not at all. We dont wear ties.
Lewis Black: No? But how do you hang yourselves?
12. Lewis Black- Aruba friendly people
Lewis Black: Mine…Yours… oh…How many friends does a person need, Sheryn? Because I’m thinking that 90000, is ninety thousand too many.
Sheryn: I can’t imagine having too many friends Lewis.
Lewis Black: Oh I can! I open the door to my appartment and ninety thousand friends jump out from behind a futon, screaming: ‘Surprise!!! Happy Birthday!’.
Sheryn: I would be in seventh heaven.
Lewis Black: I’d be in emergency cardiac surgery. You know, a real friend would be giving me mouth to mouth resuscitation, right now.
13. Lewis Black- Ticket to Aruba
Lewis Black: I dont get it officer; I havent met one unfriendly person in Aruba. Do you wish you could take me for unfriendly behavior?
Officer: No.
Lewis Black: What would you do? Take them to an Asylum for the unfriendly?
Officer: No.
Lewis Black: A half way house?
Officer: Of course not.
Lewis Black: I dont get it!
Officer: You know what the thing is the people who live here are friendly because they are friendly.
Lewis Black: So in other words, you deport the rest to France? I got it haha…Im not stupid.
14. Lewis Black- Aruba Donkey Video
Lewis Black: Let me guess! Like everyone here, in Aruba, she’s friendly too. Isn’t that right, Ramon?
Ramon: Oh yes, very friendly!
Lewis Black: Well I thought that friendliness was contained here in Aruba just to mankind. However I’m sad to report that the friendliness plague has spread to other species too. This is Lewis Black, reporting from Aruba, with a man and his donkey.
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While we spoke, I farted around with the OLX site and quickly realized that OLX allowed me to search as geographically widely or as targeted as I wanted, based on city or zip code.
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