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Football, Brain Trauma & More

| September 1, 2010

If you love football and you love sarcasm, this is the post for you. This recent tongue-in-cheek article in The New York Times highlights many of the recent problems that college and professional football have seen.  From brain injury research, like that highlighted at the Brain Trauma Foundation with Alan Quasha, to problems with the [...]

Work of Carret Asset Management LLC

| August 9, 2010

Carret Asset Management, LLC is a privately owned investment management firm. Alan Quasha is co-chairman of the company.  One of the services the company offers is Taft-Hartley Plans.  These plans comprise the following principal characteristics: a) a joint board of trustees (representing both management and labor equally) manage the fund and its assets; b) each [...]

Richemont Group Staff

| August 2, 2010

French-born non-executive director of Richemont Group Alan Dominique Perrin, graduated from Ecole des Cadres (EDC) and worked for Cartier Lighter Company first as its Commercial Attache and thereafter the Managing Director.  He became CEO of Must de Cartier in 1976.  As well, in 1981 he headed the Directorship of Cariter International and Cartier SA.   Three [...]

Mistakes That Work – Message from Alan Quasha

| July 26, 2010

In an article in 2007 for Forbes.com, Alan Quasha shares his experience and understanding of how to use mistakes to your advantage in the business world.  As founder, president and CEO of Quadrant Management, Alan Quasha brings his own experience and expertise to the article.
As Quasha writes,
“As a society, however, we are trained from our [...]

Alan Quasha and Board of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA

| July 14, 2010

Alan Quasha is on the Board of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA.  He works with a great team, including Jürgen E Schrempp, who was appointed non-executive director in 2003.  Schrempp has quite an impressive work history, until a few years ago having been the CEO of DaimlerChrysler.  While it ultimately didn’t succeed, the merger between Chrysler [...]

NET-A-PORTER & Richemont with Alan Quasha

| July 9, 2010

Richemont is poised to create a very exciting change.  In recent news, they have made an offer to shareholders in NET-A-PORTER Limited to acquire all of the company shares.  At the moment, Richemont, where Alan Quasha is a non-executive director, holds about 33% of the capital of NET-A-PORTER Limited.
NET-A-PORTER.com, owned by NET-A-PORTER Limited, is the [...]

News for Quasha’s Quadrant Management?

| July 7, 2010

Alan Quasha, President of Quadrant Management, Inc. (a “principal alternative investment management firm focused on US and emerging markets”), might be interested in a recent publication entitled, ‘Transformation:  The Future of Alternative Investments.’  This paper “examines in detail the transformational change of the alternative investment industry as it enters a period of significant growth, set [...]

Fine Advice for Sensible Portfolio Managers

| June 30, 2010

It shouldn’t be so hard to comprehend that with many things in life, keeping it simple really is the best piece of advice.  But somehow it is, or at least, too many people out there don’t follow this train of thought.   Quite simply, what Roger Nusbaum suggests is to make it a “priority [to have] [...]

Diagnosing Traumatic Brain Injuries

| June 23, 2010

It is not always so easy to diagnose traumatic brain injuries (TBIs).  The Brain Trauma Foundation of which Alan Quasha is chairman, works hard to “improve[e] the outcome of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients worldwide by developing best practices guidelines, conducting clinical research, and educating medical professionals and consumers.”  What often hinders and delays the [...]

Learning from Giving Back

| June 16, 2010

Alan Quasha, founder, president and CEO of Quadrant Management, has certainly had a successful business career.  In an article in Leaders Magazine, he was asked about how he gives back, in addition to all of his business dealings.  Alan Quasha explained that,
“When he was younger, one of my sons went into a coma because he [...]