PHILADELPHIA (PRWEB)
February 25, 2020

An Insigniam partner and long-time Scouting veteran now has something in common with 13 U.S. presidents, Hank Aaron, Neil Armstrong, Walt Disney, Charles Lindbergh, Colin Powell, and Insigniam co-founder, Nathan Owen Rosenberg.

Scott Beckett, Ph.D. will be receiving the Silver Buffalo Award, Scouting’s highest commendation for service to youth, at the National Annual Meeting of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in late May. Scott Beckett is a partner at the organizational-transformation consulting firm, Insigniam. For more than 11 years, Beckett has utilized his experience in organizational transformation, leadership, and strategic planning to help guide the BSA into its second century of service.

The Silver Buffalo has been awarded annually since 1925 to civic-minded men and women for their invaluable contributions and service to youth. Beckett is one of 14 Silver Buffalo recipients this year, including Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee.

“It is truly humbling to be considered and selected for the Silver Buffalo,” Beckett remarked. “Nearly everything I hold dear in life has been the result of being a product of Scouting. The Scout Oath and Law have been what I have tried to organize my life around. Serving Scouting has not been a sacrifice; it has been a privilege.”

An Eagle Scout, Beckett has been an avid supporter and volunteer since his college years. While in graduate school, he helped create a ground-breaking trail building program at the Philmont Scout Ranch. Beckett currently serves on the national executive board of the BSA, as well as the Northern Star Council (Minneapolis-St. Paul). He served as the Program Director of the 2019 World Scout Jamboree, and the Vice Chairman of Program for both the 2013 and 2017 National BSA Jamborees. Beckett was awarded Scouting’s Silver Beaver award in 2011 and the Silver Antelope in 2015.

Over the past 22 years, Beckett has personally coached and trained thousands of business leaders as a partner at Insigniam. Insigniam was founded over 30 years ago to pioneer the field of organizational transformation and catalyze breakthrough results with some of the world’s largest corporations. Since its founding in 1985, the firm has served nearly 25% of the world’s largest companies and worked with those clients to generate unprecedented results–clients documenting over $7 billion of return. Out of a commitment to social responsibility, in 2009, Insigniam formally committed to donating a large amount of pro-bono work to the BSA.

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LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)
February 26, 2020

Michael H. Davis, a real estate shareholder in the Los Angeles office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, was featured in a Bisnow article titled “24 Black Executives Shaping Commercial Real Estate.” Davis is a member of Greenberg Traurig African American Inclusion Network (GAIN) and is co-chair of GAIN’s recruitment and retention committee.

“Having the sort of success in my career and being a partner and doing the things that I’m doing, I’m showing other folks, who are coming up in their careers, that it is possible, that there is someone who looks like you and has a similar background achieving these things,” Davis said in the article.

Davis represents real estate funds, REITs, institutional and non-institutional real estate investors, developers, operators, and financial institutions in a broad range of matters, commercial leasing, forming and representing joint ventures and negotiating joint venture agreements, and acquisitions and dispositions of a variety of real estate asset classes.

In his work with clients, Davis has:

• Represented a real estate advisor group in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing and development of student housing, seniors housing, self-storage and medical office portfolios and individual assets across the United States, including recapitalizations of two large medical office portfolios, a preferred equity investment in portfolio of student housing properties, and its $800 million acquisition of a public REIT.
• Represented a bank in connection with term, construction and syndicated loans secured by real property along various asset types including hotel, retail, industrial and apartment projects across the United States.
• Represented a hotels and resort entity in connection with its $363 million acquisition of a hotel in Laguna Beach.
• Represent a debt fund in connection with various construction and bridge financings across the United States, including loans for the development of industrial, timeshare, condominium, hotel and resort projects in Hawaii, South Carolina and California.
• Represented a family office in connection with a lease to a franchisee of a national restaurant chain.
• Represented a family office in connection with a lease of roughly 400,000 square feet of space to an industrial tenant.
• Represented a charter school developer in connection with the ground leasing, financing, and construction of a charter school in Los Angeles.
• Represented an individual client in connection with an acquisition of valued at approximately $100,000,000 of a pool of participation interests in mezzanine construction loans.
• Represented a large private equity joint venture in connection with a refinancing of approximately $400,000,000 of a medical office portfolio.

About Greenberg Traurig’s Real Estate Practice: The Greenberg Traurig Real Estate Practice is a cornerstone of the firm and recognized leader in the industry. The firm’s real estate attorneys deliver diversified and comprehensive counsel for property acquisition and investment, development, management and leasing, financing, restructuring, and disposition of all asset classes of real estate. The team draws upon the knowledge and experience of more than 400 real estate lawyers from around the world, serving clients from key markets in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The group’s clientele includes a broad range of property developers, lenders, investment managers, private equity funds, REITs, and private owners. The firm’s real estate team advises clients on a variety of matters across a broad spectrum of commercial, recreational, and residential real estate, including structured equity and debt and the hybrids.

About Greenberg Traurig, LLP: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) has approximately 2200 attorneys in 41 locations in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. GT has been recognized for its philanthropic giving, diversity, and innovation, and is consistently among the largest firms in the U.S. on the Law360 400 and among the Top 20 on the Am Law Global 100. Web: http://www.gtlaw.com Twitter: @GT_Law.

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
February 26, 2020

John A. DeTore, a Boston shareholder in the Energy & Natural Resources Practice of global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, spoke at the NECEC Emerging Trends Series forum on “Interconnection Challenges and Solutions,” on Feb. 25. Additionally, David C. Fixler, of counsel in the firm’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice, provided introductory remarks.

Hosted at Greenberg Traurig’s Boston office, the program featured business leaders and regulatory experts who explored the barriers to improving the interconnection process and the potential near- and long-term solutions. Greenberg Traurig was a sponsor of the event.

DeTore focuses his practice on representing large energy companies before regulatory agencies and courts throughout New England and New York. His representations include more than 20 major energy projects involving billions of dollars in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York, including 11 cases before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Fixler represents energy companies and corporate entities in administrative and regulatory proceedings, as well as litigation, and counsels on permitting, contracting, and financing issues related to the development, operation, sale, and purchase of energy services and projects. Fixler has wide-ranging experience representing developers of renewable, distributed generation, demand response, and traditional energy facilities in a variety of regulatory matters, including siting, interconnection, ISO-NE tariff issues, and permit compliance.

According to their website, NECEC is the premier voice of businesses building a world-class clean energy hub in the Northeast, helping clean energy companies start, scale, and succeed with their unique business, innovation, and policy leadership. NECEC includes the Northeast Clean Energy Council, a nonprofit business member organization, and NECEC Institute, a nonprofit focused on industry research, innovation, policy development, and communications initiatives. NECEC brings together business leaders and key stakeholders to engage in influential policy discussions and business initiatives while building connections that propel the clean energy industry forward.

About Greenberg Traurig’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice: Greenberg Traurig’s Energy & Natural Resources Practice has broad transactional, regulatory, and litigation experience across many sectors of the energy industry, including oil and gas, LNG, electricity, coal, wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. The firm’s exceptional multi-office platform, including key offices in major energy centers, enables us to serve and implement legal strategies for energy clients throughout the U.S. and internationally.

About Greenberg Traurig: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (GT) has approximately 2,200 attorneys in 41 locations in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. GT has been recognized for its philanthropic giving, diversity, and innovation, and is consistently among the largest firms in the U.S. on the Law360 400 and among the Top 20 on the Am Law Global 100. Web: http://www.gtlaw.com Twitter: @GT_Law.

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SINGAPORE (PRWEB)
February 26, 2020

Data-security and privacy pioneer Dathena today announced the appointment of veteran software engineer Lylian Kieffer as its new Chief Technology Officer. Kieffer will lead Dathena’s engineering department, overseeing development and technical operations as the deep-tech leader expands its global offerings and uses innovative AI tools to offer global enterprises best-in-class data privacy and protection.

Kieffer brings over 15 years of experience in building and operating large scale SaaS and data platforms, most recently as executive VP for Engineering and Operations at App Annie. During his eight-year tenure at App Annie, Kieffer built a team of 180 engineers across Asia, North America, and Europe, implementing and overseeing platform architecture now trusted by the company’s 1 million global users. His previous experience includes leading mobile engineering at Zandan and Gomez, where he spearheaded the creation of the company’s core mobile monitoring and diagnostic tools.

At Dathena, Kieffer will focus on developing the architecture required to efficiently support deployment and distribution of the Dathena platform via SaaS and other models. Kieffer will also lead a significant expansion of Dathena’s engineering team as the company develops its processes and engineering infrastructure to ensure rapid delivery for current and future clients in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Built with patented natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning technologies, Dathena’s comprehensive toolkit allows users to effortlessly but accurately identify, classify, and protect sensitive information. Dathena’s AI-powered tools can also automatically flag data-access and user-behavior anomalies, allowing the intelligent identification of risk factors in real-time, without the need to establish complex monitoring rules.

“Leading large global engineering teams and managing large-scale analytics platforms, I’ve seen first-hand how challenging it can be to keep data safe while satisfying all the relevant regulatory constraints. Dathena is using cutting-edge technologies to deliver one-of-a-kind tools and functionalities that global businesses urgently need,” Kieffer said. “I’m looking forward to leveraging my expertise managing SaaS platforms in fast-growing environments to help Dathena bring its platform to brand new markets — it’s an exhilarating opportunity for me.”

“Dathena is poised for rapid growth across a range of business sectors and geographies, and Lylian’s experience running large engineering teams in rapidly evolving sectors makes him a perfect fit for us,” said Christopher Muffat, Dathena founder and CEO. “As companies embrace cloud-based operations and grapple with new data regulations, Dathena will be well-positioned to meet their changing needs and provide them with the rigorous, AI-powered data security and privacy tools they need.”

Named a 2018 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data and Application Security and Artificial Intelligence, and selected by Microsoft as a Global Co-Sell Partner, Dathena recently launched its U.S. headquarters in New York to power its growth into North America and global markets. Global enterprise customers across a range of industries trust Dathena’s tools to facilitate compliance with local and international data-protection and privacy regulations, achieve a 30% decrease in data management costs, and drive an 80% reduction in data security operations spend.

About Dathena:

Dathena is a deep-tech company that brings a new paradigm to data privacy and security solutions. In a world of ever-growing information, regulation, and consumer privacy expectations, enterprises around the globe rely on Dathena to identify, classify and control their sensitive data, reduce risks, and enhance the data protection framework.

Leveraging the power of modern AI technologies, Dathena delivers breakthrough, petabyte-scale solutions with unprecedented accuracy, efficiency and speed that build consumer trust in a digital world and ensure the “privacy and data security protection journey.” Founded in 2016, Dathena continues to grow with offices in Singapore, Bangkok, Geneva, Lausanne, Paris, and New York City. Dathena employs more than 70 people, including the world’s top data scientists and information risk experts.

For more information about Dathena, visit http://www.dathena.io and find Dathena on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

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NEW YORK (PRWEB)
February 27, 2020

The OCR today announced that Reid Walker has joined the company as Senior Partner. Most recently, Walker served as communications director for US Senator Maria Cantwell (D. WA) for six years. Previously he led global communications functions at T-Mobile, Lenovo, Honeywell and GE. He received greenbelt training at GE and earned a blackbelt in Six Sigma at Honeywell.

“We’re delighted to have Reid join us. He played a critical role in the founding of The OCR more than 10 years ago. His return demonstrates that we’re doing something right,” said Executive Director Dr. Craig Carroll. “Reid’s previous work leading global communications functions combined with his political experience further enables us to offer high value services to meet the needs of senior-level executives.

The OCR, a research think tank and peer-driven knowledge-exchange network with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., offers services focused on optimizing the corporate affairs function of leading global companies.

Currently, The OCR offers forums in which senior-level executives can gather with peers to address critical issues and challenges related to enterprise-level social-political risk, sustainability, corporate communications, and performance.

Founded at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 by Dr. Carroll, the Observatory on Corporate Reputation (OCR) is a research think tank devoted to improving and enhancing the corporate affairs function of the Fortune 500 and Global Forbes 2000. We produce research and supply actionable knowledge that informs and drives the corporate affairs and communications practices.

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