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BMW Headquarters
BMW Headquarters (German: BMW-Vierzylinder "BMW four-cylinder"; also BMW Tower) is a Munich landmark, which has been serving as world headquarters for the Bavarian automaker for over 30 years. It was declared a protected historic building in 1999. Extensive refurbishments commenced in 2004 and were completed in 2006.
The Tower was built between 1968 and 1972 and was ready just in time for 1972 Summer Olympics. Its inauguration followed on 18 May 1973. The 101 m (roughly 331 feet) building is located near the Olympic Village and is often cited as one of the most notable examples of architecture in Munich. The large cathedral exterior is supposed to mimic the shape of a tire in a race car, with the garage representing the cylinder head. Both buildings were designed by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer.
The main tower consists of four vertical cylinders standing next to and across from each other. Each cylinder is divided horizontally in its center by a mold in the facade. Notably, these cylinders do not stand on the ground, they are suspended on a central support tower. During the construction, individual floors were assembled on the ground and then elevated. The tower has a diameter of 52.30 meters (roughly 171 feet). The building has 22 occupied floors, two of which are basements and 18 serve as office space.

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BMW Museum
The BMW Museum is located near the Olympiapark in Munich and was established in 1972 shortly before the Summer Olympics opened. It deals with the history of the automobile manufacturer BMW. In connection with the construction of the BMW Welt, directly opposite the museum, it was renovated from 2004 to 2008. The museum reopened on June 21, 2008.
The museum shows BMW's technical development throughout the company's history. It contains engines and turbines, aircraft, motorcycles, and vehicles in a plethora of possible variations. In addition to actual models there are futuristic-looking, even conceptual studies from the past 20 years.
The use of headphones and clever, often indirect lighting, lend the exhibition a largely peaceful atmosphere. The emphasis is on technical development and benefits of modernity. The building blends in with the exhibition concept.
The attendance figures are, after the Deutsches Museum and the Pinakothek der Moderne, the highest in Munich. About 250,000 people a year visit.

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BMW Open
The BMW Open is a tennis tournament held in Munich, Germany. Held since 1900, the tournament is played on outdoor clay courts and is a part of the ATP Tour schedule.
In 1900, the first edition of the tournament was held by the tennis club Münchner Tennis- und Turnierclub (MTTC) Iphitos, which was the first tennis club in Munich having been formed in 1892 by students. The club only had grass courts, and the first edition was therefore played on grass.
The Center Court of the MTTC has been in Aumeisterweg since 1930, and holds 5,600 people.
The tournament has offered prize money since 1970, when the total prizes amounted to $20,000.
Coordinates: 48°11′06″N 11°36′50″E / 48.185°N 11.61389°E / 48.185; 11.61389

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BMW Welt
BMW Welt (English – BMW World), is a multi-functional customer experience and exhibition facility of the BMW AG, located in Munich, Germany. In direct proximity to the BMW Headquarters and the Olympiapark, it is designed to present the current products of BMW, be a distribution center for BMW cars, and offer an event forum and a conference center.
Designed by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au for BMW Group, the facility was constructed from August 2003 through summer 2007. Originally conceived to be open and ready for World Cup 2006, it eventually opened on October 17, 2007, and deliveries commenced on October 23, 2007. The first customer to take delivery of a new BMW at the Welt was Jonathan Spira.
Designed with an 800 kilowatt solar plant on its roof, "the building does not have the boredom of a hall, it is not only a temple, but also a market place and a communication center and meeting place for knowledge transfer", said architect Prix at the opening ceremony.
BMW Welt, Munich operates in co-operation with other BMW facilities in the local community, particularly the BMW Museum and BMW Headquarters.

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East Germany
The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik [ˈdɔʏtʃə demoˈkʀaːtɪʃə ʀepuˈbliːk] or DDR), informally known as East Germany (German: Ostdeutschland), was a socialist state established by the USSR in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city. The GDR had an area of 107,771 km² (41,610 mi²), bordering Czechoslovakia to the south, West Germany to the south and west, Poland to the east, and the Baltic Sea to the north. East Germany was dissolved upon joining the institutions of West Germany in the German reunification, on 3 October 1990.

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Lionhead Studios
Coordinates: 51°14′26″N 0°36′50″W / 51.2405°N 0.614°W / 51.2405; -0.614
Lionhead Studios is a British video game developer, formerly led by Peter Molyneux. It was acquired by Microsoft Game Studios in April 2006. Lionhead started as a breakaway from the developer Bullfrog, which was also founded by Molyneux. Lionhead's first game was Black & White, a god game with elements of artificial life, strategy, and beat 'em up games. Black & White was published by Electronic Arts in 2001. Lionhead Studios is named after Mark Webley's hamster, which died not long after the naming of the studio.
Black and White was followed up with the release of an expansion pack named Black & White: Creature Isle. Lionhead then released the popular Fable, from satellite developer Big Blue Box. In 2005, Lionhead released The Movies and Black & White 2. On 6 April 2006, it was announced that Lionhead Studios was to be purchased by Microsoft. Their most recent game to be released is Fable III which was released on the 26 October 2010.

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Microsoft
Coordinates: 47°38′22.55″N 122°7′42.42″W / 47.6395972°N 122.12845°W / 47.6395972; -122.12845
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft is one of the largest software corporations in the world.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified into the video game industry with the Xbox and Xbox 360 consoles and the consumer electronics and digital services market MSN, the Zune and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees (Forbes 400 list revealed that in March 2011 both Jon Shipley and Nathan Myhrvold lost their billionaire status). In May 2011, Microsoft Corporation acquired Skype Communications for $8.5 billion.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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Bernd Pischetsrieder
Dr. Bernd Peter Pischetsrieder (born (1948-02-15) 15 February 1948 (age 64)) is a German automobile engineer and manager.
He was born in Munich, Bavaria, and studied Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich from 1968 to 1972. He earned the degree of "Diplom-Ingenieur", and began his career at BMW in 1973 as a Production Planning Engineer. He was promoted to become chairman of the board of BMW from 1993 through 1999. He was also chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, the parent company of the Volkswagen Group, from 2002 to 2006, and chairman of Scania AB until 2007.
During his time as head of BMW, Pischetsrieder was known for solidifying the company's position as a leader in the luxury car market with a solid sporting and engineering reputation. His decision in 1994 to purchase Rover Group from British Aerospace was widely regarded as a failure on paper. Although many of the assets were sold at vast profit and the purchase brought the valuable Mini and Land Rover marques into BMW ownership, the Rover passenger car operation drained the company's coffers. Rover was sold off in 2000, with Ford taking on Land Rover, and the Mini brand remaining at BMW. A more lasting achievement was the assumption of the Rolls-Royce marque, a deal which left rival Volkswagen Group manager, Ferdinand Piëch, with only the Bentley marque, and the Crewe factory.

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Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive officer (CEO) and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the second wealthiest person. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

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Charles Noski
Charles H. Noski (born August 23, 1952 in Eureka, California) is the executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Bank of America since May 2010.
In 1973, Noski earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from California State University, Northridge. In 1995, he returned to earn his master's degree in accounting while continuing to work full time at Hughes Electronics. The university awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007.
In 1973, Noski began his career at accounting firm Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) where he served for 17 years and was named partner in 1983. In 1990, he joined Hughes Electronics Corp. as corporate vice president and controller. In 1992, Hughes named him corporate senior vice president and chief financial officer, in 1996 he was elected vice chairman, and he later became the company’s president and chief operating officer.
From 1999 to 2002, Noski was senior executive vice president and chief financial officer of AT&T Corporation. In February 2002 he was named vice chairman of the company's board of directors. From 2003 to 2005, Noski was at Northrop Grumman Corporation as corporate vice president and chief financial officer; he was a director at the company from 2002 to 2005.

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David Marquardt
David F. Marquardt is a co-founder of venture capital firm August Capital. Marquardt has served on more than 25 boards of directors during his 20 year venture capital career including Microsoft,Sun Microsystems, Seagate , Adaptec, and Grand Junction Networks (acquired by Cisco).
Prior to August Capital, Marquardt was a co-founder of Technology Venture Investors (TVI) in 1980 where he was involved in four highly successful funds that invested in more than 100 start-up and emerging growth companies. Among these early investments was Microsoft, where TVI was the sole investor and where Dave has been on the board of directors since 1981.
Marquardt began his venture career at Institutional Venture Associates, where he spent a year after graduating from business school. Previously, Marquardt was a design engineer and development manager at Diablo Systems (acquired by Xerox) where he collaborated on and/or led various disk drive and printer programs.
Marquardt received a BSME from Columbia University in 1973 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1978. He also completed coursework for an MSEE at Stanford University. He has served as president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and is a past director of the National Venture Capital Association.

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Dina Dublon
Dina Dublon is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School and current member of the boards of directors at Microsoft, Accenture, and PepsiCo. She also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Global Fund for Women and the Women's Refugee Commission, where she is a co-chair. She was from 1998 until her retirement in 2004 the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for JPMorgan Chase.
Dublon was born in Brazil in 1953. She holds a Bachelors degree in economics and mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Masters degree from the Business School at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the recipient of many awards and honors, and was included on Fortune magazine’s list of the “50 Most Powerful Women in American Business.” She has also received The International Center in New York's Award of Excellence.

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Franz Josef Popp
Franz Josef Popp (January 14, 1886 in Vienna; July 29, 1954 in Stuttgart) was one of three men responsible for the founding of BMW AG and the First General Director of BMW AG from 1922 to 1942.
A number of different candidates have been put forward as the “founders” of BMW AG. In the absence of Karl Rapp, Gustav Otto, Max Friz or Camillo Castiglioni the company would probably never have been born. However, Franz Josef Popp can lay claim to being the prime force in the development of the mobility company we know today. He was “General Director” of the company from its foundation until he was forced to relinquish his position in 1942.

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Fritz Fiedler
Fritz Fiedler (born Potsdam 9 January 1899: died Schliersee 8 July 1972), a qualified engineer, joined the BMW firm in 1932 as chief designer at the age of 32 after working for Horch, designed 8-cylinder and 12-cylinder cars. Working with Fiedler was Rudolf Schleicher, who had joined Horch in 1927 after being at BMW on their motorcycle design team. Fritz persuaded Schleicher to return to BMW and these two were responsible for the new series of six-cylinder cars that were to set the car division of BMW on the road to success. The first car that Fiedler was fully responsible for was the BMW 326 saloon that was shown at the International Automobile Ausstellung in Berlin in 1936.
While Schleicher was at Munich on motorcycle development and the competition side of BMW motor car activity, Fiedler was at Eisenach in overall command of the car side of BMW, specialising in chassis, suspension and aerodynamic design and development. His last automotive design from Eisenach was the 3.5-litre 6 cylinder BMW 335 saloon, a fine 90 mph car for the German autobahns. During the war he was occupied with military vehicle design and development and finished up at Munich, so that after the war he was in the American zone. During the war he was a Director of BMW, but left the board on 1945 and in 1947 joined AFN Ltd at the persuasion of H.J. Aldington. Although he was lent to Bristol as a consultant on their Type 400 project, he did most of his work in England at Isleworth, where he was always known as Dr Fiedler, although he did not have that title in Germany. He was very popular with the workforce at AFN, most people describing him as a kindly and charming man, and everyone admired his engineering qualities. He took charge of the development of the post-war Frazer Nash, dealing with chassis, suspension, body design and construction and development of the FNS Bristol engine. On the Isleworth dynamometer he got over 100 bhp from the Bristol engine before the Bristol men did.

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Gustav Otto
Gustav Otto (12 January 1883– 28 February 1926) was a German aircraft and aircraft-engine designer and manufacturer.
Otto was born in Cologne to Nikolaus August Otto, the founder of N. A. Otto & Cie. and inventor of the four-stroke internal combustion engine. It is therefore regarded that his interest in engines, specifically aircraft and the manufacture thereof, was something he inherited from his father at an early age.
Otto was regarded as successful and career-minded, and moved in elevated social circles. He attended a higher secondary school in Cologne, and had internships at machine tool manufacturers. Later, he attended the Technical Colleges in Hanover, Karlsruhe and Munich for further engineering study. He is believed to have remained in Munich after completing his studies to co-found the Bayrische Autogarage Company. Having a famous father, Gustav was driven to prove himself. However, like many sons of famous fathers, Gustav had a difficult time getting out from under his father's long shadow. Therefore he was prone to bouts of depression, which affected his work.

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Helmut Panke
Helmut G.W. Panke (born 31 August 1946 in Fürstenwalde, East Germany) served as chairman of the board at BMW AG from May 2002 through August 2006.
Panke attended the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) from 1968, finishing his Diplom in 1972, and a Ph.D. in 1976. He was an AFS Exchange Student to the United States in 1964-1965.^{[citation needed]}
From 1976 to 1978, Panke was a researcher at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research and a lecturer at the University of Munich. From 1978 to 1982, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. In 1982, he started at his career at Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW).
Panke has served on the board of directors for Microsoft since November 11, 2003. He also serves on the boards of UBS AG, Singapore Airlines, and the supervisory board of Bayer AG.

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Herbert Quandt
Herbert Werner Quandt (22 June 1910 – 2 June 1982), was a German industrialist who is regarded as having saved BMW when it was at the point of bankruptcy and made huge profit in doing so.
Herbert Quandt was born in Pritzwalk, the second son of Günther Quandt (1881–1954) and Antonie ‘Toni’ Quandt (née Ewald). Antonie died of the Spanish flu in 1918.
The Quandts are descendents of a Dutch rope-making family who had settled in Wittstock and Pritzwalk, between Berlin and Schwerin, in the 18th century. Günther's father, Emil Quandt, married the daughter of a rich textile manufacturer and took charge of the company in 1883. During World War I, with Günther in charge, the Quandts supplied the German army with uniforms, building up a larger fortune that Günther would use after the war to acquire Accumulatorenfabrik AG (AFA), a battery manufacturer in Hagen; a potash mine; and metal fabricators including IWKA in 1928).
Herbert was afflicted with a retinal disease that left scars, and he was nearly blind from the age of nine. Consequently he had to be educated at home. After extensive training at the family's companies at home and abroad, Herbert Quandt became a member of the executive board of AFA, later VARTA AG, in 1940. Forced labour was used at many of the Quandt factories during the World War II and conditions were brutal. Herbert was the director of Pertrix GmbH, a Berlin-based subsidiary of AFA. The company used female slave laborers, including Polish women who had been transferred from Auschwitz. Herbert Quandt was not tried after the war, though his father was interned until 1948 while he was investigated.

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Karl Rapp
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Karl Friedrich Rapp (b. 24 September 1882 in Ehingen (Danube); 26 May 1962 in Locarno) was founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. He is acknowledged by BMW AG as an indirect founder of the company.
Very little is known of his childhood and adolescent years. However, it is known that Rapp learned the engineering profession and was employed by Züst automotive company from approx. 1908 to 1911. It is believed he was active as a technical designer with Daimler Benz until 1912. Rapp left Daimler-Benz to head a branch of Flugwerk Deutschland GmbH.

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Maria Klawe
Maria M. Klawe (pronounced CLAW-vay) is a computer scientist and the fifth president of Harvey Mudd College (since July 1, 2006). Although born in Toronto in 1951, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2009. She was previously Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.
Klawe was born in Toronto in 1951. She lived in Scotland from ages 4 to 12, and then returned to Canada, living with her family in Edmonton, Alberta. Klawe studied at the University of Alberta, dropped out to travel the world, and returned to earn her B.Sc. in 1973. She stayed at Alberta for her graduate studies, and in 1977 she earned her Ph.D. there in mathematics. She started a second Ph.D., in computer science, at the University of Toronto, but was offered a faculty position there before completing the degree. She spent eight years in the industry, serving at IBM Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, California, first as a research scientist, then as manager of the Discrete Mathematics Group and manager of the Mathematics and Related Computer Science Department. She and her husband Nick Pippenger then moved to the University of British Columbia, where she stayed for 15 years and served as head of the Department of Computer Science from 1988 to 1995, vice president of student and academic services from 1995 to 1998, and dean of science from 1998 to 2002. From UBC she moved to Princeton and then Harvey Mudd College. Previously a Canadian national, Klawe was among 5,996 persons who became citizens of the United States at a ceremony held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009. Later in 2009, she joined the board of directors of the Microsoft Corporation.

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Max Friz
Max Friz (1 October 1883 – 9 June 1966) was a German mechanical engineer specializing in engine design. He was the key contributor of engine design and innovation that led to the founding of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) in 1917.
Assumed to be originally from Urach, very little is known about Friz' youth. It is known however, that at a young age, he apprenticed to the Kuhn steam engine company in Cannstatt starting in 1898. In 1902 he enrolled at the Royal Building Trade School in Stuttgart-Esslingen furthering his engineering skills. In 1906 he was employed by Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, in the Design Office, making major contributions to the design of the racing engine for the 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix car that won the French Grand Prix.
Friz designed the first practical German aircraft engines in 1912-1913 while at Austro-Daimler. The engines had separate cylinders on the crankcase and an overhead camshaft driven by a vertical shaft and bevel gears. At the end of 1916 the young engineer Max Friz applied for a position with Rapp Motorenwerke. At that time Friz was still working for the Daimler engine company in Untertürkheim, near Stuttgart. However, he was frustrated because the chief engineer, Paul Daimler, ignored the suggestions of his young assistant on engine development. Faced with this situation, Friz remembered his former colleague, Karl Rapp. At first Rapp was going to turn down Friz’s request; however, Josef Popp successfully intervened on Friz’s behalf, because he recognized that Rapp Motorenwerke lacked an able designer.

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Norbert Reithofer
Dr.-Ing. Norbert Reithofer (born 29 May 1956 in Penzberg, Germany) is a businessman and current CEO of BMW AG as well as Chairman of the Board of Management.
After finishing his Fachabitur he graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Munich University of Applied Sciences in Munich. He then moved on to the Technical University Munich to study Production Engineering and Business Administration. After graduation he became Research Assistant at the university at the Institute for Machine Tools and Business Administration of Joachim Milberg, under whom he gained his Doctorate.
In 1987 he joined BMW as head of maintenance planning. From 1991 to 1994 he was Director of the Body in White Production Division. From 1994 to 1997 Reithofer then became Technical Director of BMW South Africa. From 1997 to 2000, Reithofer was President BMW Manufacturing Corporation (USA), based in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
In March 2000 he returned to Munich to join the BMW Board of Management, responsible for production. In 2002, Reithofer and Development Chief Burkhard Goeschel halved the standard BMW time it took to reach full production of the new generation E90 3 Series, from six months to three. On 1 September, 2006 he succeeded Helmut Panke as Chairman of the Board and CEO of BMW.

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Raymond Freymann
Raymond Freymann is an engineering professor and researcher, born on May 30, 1952 in Esch-sur-Alzette (Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg), and has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific publications. He has served BMW for 25 years and held the position of CEO of BMW Group Research and Technology from 2003 to 2011
Raymond Freymann graduated in 1970 from the Lycée de Garcons in Esch-sur Alzette, Luxembourg. He performed his study in mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. He got his engineering degree in 1976 with a major in aerospace technologies. He obtained his doctor of engineering degree from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 1981 for the work he has performed at the Institute of Aeroelasticity at the DLR in Göttingen (Germany). Subsequently he has been working as a scientist at the Flight Dynamics Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton (Ohio). His career at BMW Group started in 1986 as head of the structural dynamics and acoustics division at the BMW Development and Innovation Center in Munich (Germany). Later he was appointed as director of the Vehicle Physics department and was nominated director of Vehicle Research in 2000. Since 2003 he is acting as CEO of BMW Group Research and Technology (BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH).

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Raymond Gilmartin
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (born March 6, 1941, in Sayville, New York) is a professor at Harvard Business School and a member of the board of directors at Microsoft and at General Mills. He was the President and CEO of Merck & Co, Inc. from 1994 until 2005 and was director of the company during the Vioxx scandal.
Gilmartin received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Union College in 1963 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1968.

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Reed Hastings
Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the CEO of Netflix, and on the boards of Microsoft, Facebook, and numerous non-profit organizations.
Hastings was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from high school in 1978 from the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. After high school, he spent a year selling Rainbow vacuum cleaners door to door.
Hastings majored in mathematics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and won its mathematics department's Smyth Prize in 1981, and its Hammond Prize in 1983. Hastings received his bachelor's degree from the college in 1983.
Hastings entered Marine Corps officer training through their Platoon Leader Class and spent the summer of 1981 in Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. "I found myself questioning how we packed our backpacks and how we made our beds," said Hastings. "My questioning wasn’t particularly encouraged, and I realized I might be better off in the Peace Corps. I petitioned the recruiting office and left the Marines."

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Steve Ballmer
Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is the chief executive officer of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000. As of 2012^[update], his personal wealth is estimated at $15.7 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.
Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan to a Swiss American father and a Jewish American mother. He grew up in the community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University and graduated from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, with a perfect score of 800 on the mathematical section of the SAT. He now sits on the school's board of directors. In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a A.B. in mathematics and economics.
At college, Ballmer managed the football team, worked on The Harvard Crimson newspaper as well as the Harvard Advocate, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore Bill Gates. He then worked for two years as an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble, where he shared an office with Jeffrey R. Immelt, who later became CEO of General Electric. In 1980, he dropped out of the Stanford Graduate School of Business to join Microsoft.

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Susanne Klatten
Susanne Klatten (born Susanne Hanna Ursula Quandt on 28 April 1962 in Bad Homburg, Germany) is the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt. As of 2011, she is worth $14.6 billion, and is the richest woman in Germany and the 44th richest person in the world.
After gaining a degree in business finance, Susanne Klatten worked for the advertising agency Young & Rubicam in Frankfurt from 1981 to 1983. This was followed by a course in marketing and management at the University of Buckingham, and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne specialising in advertising.
She gained further business experience in London with Dresdner Bank, the Munich branch of management consultants McKinsey and the bank Reuschel & Co.
Recognising that her wealth is sometimes a problem, she often worked incognito under the name Susanne Kant. Police prevented an attempt to kidnap her in 1978.
On her father's death she inherited his 50.1% stake in pharmaceutical and chemicals manufacturer Altana. She sits on Altana's supervisory board and helped transform it into a world-class corporation in the German DAX list of 30 top companies. In 2006 Altana AG sold its pharmaceutical activities to Nycomed for €4.5 billion, leaving only its specialty chemicals business. The €4.5 billion was distributed to shareholders as a dividend. Altana maintained its stock exchange listing and Susanne Klatten remained its majority shareholder. In 2009 she bought almost all shares she did not already own in Altana.

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A freestyle snowmobile rider hurt in a crash at last week's Winter X Games in Colorado has died at the age of 25. Caleb Moore was attempting a backflip when his snowmobile caught the edge of a landing area, sending him over the handlebars. The 450-lb (204-kg) snowmobile rolled over him ... 'Deeply saddened' ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)

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This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Revolution Against Assad's Regime which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies on a street in Aleppo, Syria Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013.

Syria Massacre: Group Says At Least 65 Found Shot In Head, With Hands Bound In Aleppo

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29 Jan 2013

By Alexander Dziadosz and Oliver Holmes. BEIRUT, Jan 29 (Reuters) - At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a "new massacre" in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Opposition campaigners blamed the government but it was impossible to confirm who was responsible ... The U.N ... State media did not mention the incident ... STALEMATE ... ....(size: 9.0Kb)

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A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon during clashes with government forces in the Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012.

US says Iran steps up Syria support

Al Jazeera

01 Feb 2013

Hillary Clinton, the outgoing US secretary of state, has warned that Iran is stepping up its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while Russia is continuing to send money and arms to the regime. Clinton on Thursday accused Tehran of sending into Syria "more personnel" to support and advise military security forces in their fight against the armed opposition ... "The Iranians have been actively involved from the very beginning ... ....(size: 19.0Kb)

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MEXICO CITY — Rescuers searched the rubble for survivors and authorities promised a thorough investigation after an office building blast killed 25 people and injured 101 at the headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos ... Theories ranged from an electrical fire to an air conditioning problem to a possible attack. “We have no conclusive report on the reason,” Pena Nieto told reporters ... My son .” ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)

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Israeli troops patrol along the border between Israel and Syria

Israeli jets targeted military research center: Syria

Zeenews

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Zeenews Bureau. Damascus. The Syrian Army has confirmed that Israeli Air Force fighter planes carried out strikes in its territory, but denied reports of a convoy carrying weapons to Lebanon was bombed. The Syrian Army statement says that the IAF jet fighters’ target was a military research centre near the border with Lebanon. Two people have been reported to be dead and five others injured in the attack ... First Published ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)

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Microsoft Declares Quarterly Dividend

Seeking Alpha

29 Nov 2012

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.23 per share. The dividend is payable March 14, 2013, to shareholders of record on Feb. 21, 2013 ... 19, 2013. (Logo ... Helmut Panke and Charles H ... Helmut Panke (chairperson) ... ....(size: 1.6Kb)

Microsoft Declares Quarterly Dividend (Microsoft Corporation)

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29 Nov 2012

REDMOND, Wash. - Nov. 28, 2012 -Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.23 per share. The dividend is payable March 14, 2013, to shareholders of record on Feb. 21, 2013. The ex-dividend date will be Feb. 19, 2013 ... The board now has four committees composed of independent directors, instead of five ... Luczo, Dr. Helmut Panke and Charles H. Noski (chairperson) ... Helmut Panke (chairperson)....(size: 2.8Kb)

Microsoft Showcases Momentum in Devices and Services at Annual Shareholder Meeting

Stockhouse

28 Nov 2012

New products position the company well for the year ahead with consumer and enterprise markets. REDMOND, Wash., Nov ... (Logo. http.//photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO). "In 2012, our revenue grew to a record $73.7 billion," Ballmer said ... and Seton Hall University ... alone ... Department of Veterans Affairs and Toyota Motor Corp ... Helmut Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG; and John W ... ....(size: 4.6Kb)

Microsoft Showcases Momentum in Devices and Services at Annual Shareholder Meeting (Microsoft Corporation)

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28 Nov 2012

REDMOND, Wash. - Nov. 28, 2012- Speaking to shareholders at Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting today, Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer highlighted the company's recent product launches and financial performance, and outlined the company's shift to devices and services ... and Seton Hall University ... alone ... Helmut Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG; and John W ... Note to editors ... distributed by....(size: 6.1Kb)

The Jewish Museum Berlin Presents Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker and Industry Executive Klaus Mangold with the "Award for Understanding and Tolerance". (...) (Jüdisches Museum Berlin)

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13 Nov 2012

... and manager Helmut Panke; 2007 to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the historian Fritz Stern; 2008 to corporate consultant Roland Berger and the author Imre Kertész; 2009 to film director Michael Verhoeven and the Bosch Group; 2010 to literary scholar Jan Philipp Reemtsma and business manager Hubertus Erlen; and 2011 to German Chancellor Dr....(size: 10.6Kb)

Microsoft Announces Increase in Quarterly Dividend; Gilmartin to Retire From Microsoft Board of Directors

Stockhouse

23 Oct 2012

Dividend of $0.23 per share payable in December. REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp ... The ex-dividend date will be November 13, 2012. (Logo. http.//photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO). The company also announced that Raymond V ... "Ray has been a strong and insightful member of the board ... Helmut G. W. Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG; and John W ... SOURCE Microsoft Corp. ....(size: 2.2Kb)

Microsoft Announces Reed Hastings Will Not Seek Re-Election to Microsoft Board

Stockhouse

22 Oct 2012

Hastings will continue to serve through November shareholder meeting. REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Reed Hastings, founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix Inc., has decided that he will not seek re-election to Microsoft's board of directors at the company's 2012 annual meeting of shareholders. (Logo ... Helmut Panke, former chairman of the board of management, BMW AG; and John W ... ....(size: 2.6Kb)

Microsoft (MSFT) Director Gilmartin to Step Down

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18 Sep 2012

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18 Sep 2012

(Source. Microsoft Corporation). REDMOND, Wash. - Sept. 18, 2012 -Microsoft Corp. today announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.23 per share, reflecting a 3 cent or 15 percent increase over the previous quarter's dividend. The dividend is payable December 13, 2012 to shareholders of record on November 15, 2012 ... Helmut G. W. Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG; and John W ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)

Microsoft adds Luczo to board, which expands to 11

Business Journal

04 May 2012

Microsoft Corp ... MSFT) chairman, in a statement ... Gilmartin, former chairman, president and CEO of Merck & Co ... Helmut G. W. Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG; and John W ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)

Results of the Annual General Meeting of UBS AG

Business Wire

03 May 2012

ZURICH, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News. UBS (NYSE.UBS)(SWX.UBSN). UBS AG shareholders re-elected the existing members of the Board of Directors proposed for re-election and also elected Isabelle Romy, Beatrice Weder di Mauro and Axel A. Weber to the Board for the first time at the Annual General Meeting on May 3, 2012 ... Lehmann (98.28%), Wolfgang Mayrhuber (95.27%), Helmut Panke (96.33%), William G ... Villiger and Mr ... UBS AG....(size: 4.7Kb)

Microsoft Adds New Board Member

Seeking Alpha

03 May 2012

REDMOND, Wash., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced that Stephen J. Luczo, chairman, president and CEO of Seagate Technology PLC, has been appointed to the company's board of directors, bringing the board's size to 11 members. (Logo. http.//photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20000822/MSFTLOGO) ... He was appointed chairman of the board in 2002 ... Helmut G. W. Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW AG; and John W....(size: 3.4Kb)

Agenda for the Annual General Meeting of UBS AG on 3 May 2012

Business Wire

29 Mar 2012

ZURICH & BASEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News. UBS AG (NYSE.UBS)(SWX.UBSN) today published the agenda for the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) on 3 May 2012. The agenda items are as follows. 1. Annual report, Group and Parent Bank accounts for financial year 2011 . Reports of the auditors 1.1. Approval of annual report and Group and Parent Bank accounts 1.2 ... 2 ... 3 ... for the financial year 2011 ... Helmut Panke 4.1.8 ... ....(size: 6.4Kb)

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Helmut Panke
Born	31 August 1946 (1946-08-31) (age 65) Fürstenwalde, East Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	former Chairman of BMW AG
Board member of	Microsoft, UBS AG, Singapore Airlines, Bayer AG

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Name	Panke, Helmut
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Date of birth	31 August 1946
Place of birth	Fürstenwalde, East Germany
Date of death
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The Panke in Berlin

The Panke is a small river in Brandenburg and Berlin.

It is 29 km in length with its source at Bernau bei Berlin, and in Berlin is a relatively well known tributary of the Spree, into which it enters close to the Weidendammer Bridge.

Several areas around Berlin and Brandenburg are named after the Panke, including Pankow and Panketal.

The Schmöckpfuhlgraben flows into the Panke.

Coordinates: 52°31′18″N 13°23′12″E / 52.521635°N 13.386595°E / 52.521635; 13.386595

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Famous quotes by Helmut Panke:

"We expect the BMW Group to remain on growth course in the financial year 2006. Our aim is to increase sales volume yet again and once again set a new record."

"The adverse external factors -- unfavorable exchange rates, high raw-material prices and intense competition -- which we reported from the very beginning of the year have been largely offset by increased sales volume and internal efficiency improvement measures."

"We will proceed under our own power. We are not thinking of link-ups, stakes, takeovers. I can clearly rule out all of these alternatives."

"The current exchange rate is an improvement, but it's still a challenge for us."

"Currency factors, high raw material prices and intense competition are all having an adverse impact."

"Despite the big public debate right now, it will just be a niche technology,"

"Prices have gone up in the U.S. but for us at least we have not seen a change in buyer behavior,"

"[But Panke acknowledged that the Mini's profit margins would be lower than that of other BMW cars in its first life cycle. BMW model life cycles are generally seven years.] We will not hit our usual profitability targets in the Mini's first life cycle, ... But we won't lose any money either."

"If each of us would have done it on our own we would never have reached the volume needed to make it economical,"

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