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As a US citizen, if i had to pick a foreign manager or team lead, I would always pick somebody from the UK over somebody from india or asia. That's my opinion anyways... i don't understand why companies always want to make the workers unhappy working und |
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In my opinion, BAE hires too many Asian and Indian mangers and team leaders that are foreign born, especially in the united states. If you are going to hire a manager or team leader you should appoint people from Briton in my opinion. If you want to hire other races, make sure they were born in the country that you empolyee them in or are mixed-races so that they don't act too inward in refusing to be nice to the local engineers. |
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Personally, i'm disguised at the type of asian and indian managers and team leaders that BAE and other well known companies are employing these day and turning a blind eye to their misdeeds in mistreating people from their adopted country in term discriminating against them and refusing them opportunities to work and increase their skills. Quite frankly, i think BAE should seriously reconsider demoting them and appoint somebody from the UK to have judgement in all HR decisions at every level to fix the problem. if not in BAE, in any multi-national company that over uses indian and asian programmers and engineers. |
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it only take one of these bad managers to start messing and corrupting the entire organisation... i've seen this happen repeatately over he years where companies are invaded by indian ultra-nationalist that are dishonest as hell towards american engineers and there's nothing we can do about it ... even when out work was better and cheaper and more efficient than the inefficent curry crap they produce these days all while pissing all over American engineers. maybe not BAE but too frequently happening at many companies that i previous held in great respect. |
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As a US citizen, if i had to pick a foreign manager or team lead, I would always pick somebody from the UK over somebody from india or asia. That's my opinion anyways... i don't understand why companies always want to make the workers unhappy working under foreign tryrants from asia that piss all over us any chance they can get? |
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Revision as of 10:55, 7 November 2013
Ian King | |
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| Born | Ian Graham King 24 April 1956 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Title | Chief Executive of BAE Systems plc |
| Term | 2008–present |
| Predecessor | Michael Turner |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Spouse | Mrs King |
| Children | 1 |
Ian Graham King (born 24 April 1956) is the CEO of BAE Systems,[1] responsible for all of the company's business operations. For this role he is paid an annual base salary of £935,000.[2] King is also a non-executive director of Rotork plc, an engineering company.
Career
BAE Systems was created by a merger of Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace. King joined BAE from Marconi. Previous roles include Chief executive officer (CEO) of Alenia Marconi Systems, a partnership between Marconi and Finmeccanica, Finance Director and Deputy Managing Director of Marconi Electronic Systems and non Executive Director of the Canadian Marconi Company.[3][4]
When BAE Systems was created in November 1999 King was named Group Strategy & Planning Director. In December 2000 King was appointed group managing director of BAE Systems Customer Solutions and Support.[5]
In November 2006 BAE Systems appointed King COO with effect from 2007-01-01. King was promoted in what the Financial Times described as "in part designed to improve relations with the MoD further".[6] This follows a general improvement in relations since acrimony in 2003. The previous co-COOs were Chris Geoghegan and Steve Mogford. The Independent described King's appointment as COO as part of the "succession battle" to succeed BAE CEO Michael Turner.[7]
CEO
On 15 October 2007 BAE Systems announced that its CEO Mike Turner would step down from his role in 2008.[8] While King was always named as a candidate to replace him as CEO, press reports suggested BAE would prefer an American CEO due to the increasing importance of the United States defence market to the company and the opportunity to make a clean break from corruption allegations and investigations related to the Al Yamamah contracts.[9][10] However on 27 June 2008 BAE announced that it had selected King to succeed Turner with effect from 1 September 2008; The Financial Times noted that King's career at Marconi distances him from the British Aerospace-led Al Yamamah project.[9]
Personal life
He is married with one son, and lives in Portsmouth.[11]
References
- ^ "Ian Graham King". Businessweek. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ "BAE Systems Annual Report 2010 - Governance - Remuneration report - Base salary". Annual Report 2010. BAE Systems. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
- ^ "General and City News". PR Newswire Europe. Origin Universal News Services. 23 December 1998.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Biographical details of Mr King, Mr Guarguaglini and Mr Gershon". PR Newswire Europe. Origin Universal News Services. 23 December 1998.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "BAE Systems Announces Senior Appointments". PR Newswire. PR Newswire Association. 12 December 2000.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Boxwell, James (23 December 2006). "Tornados' upkeep role opens deals to BAE weapons". Financial Times. The Financial Times. p. 4.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Harrison, Michael (11 November 2006). "Succession battle hots up at arms manufacturer BAE". The Independent. Newspaper Publishing. p. 48.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ BAE Systems boss to leave in 2008 BBC News - 16 October 2007
- ^ a b Fidler, Stephen (28 June 2008). "BAE's search for successor to Turner ends in its own backyard". Financial Times.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Ian King, BAE insider, promoted to chief". International Herald Tribune. 27 June 2008. Retrieved 30 June 2008.
{{cite news}}:|first=missing|last=(help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Ian King biography". BAE Systems. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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