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Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar (Persian: شاهین شادفر; born 1973 in Tehran [1] - died in 2018 in California [2]) was a Persian-American entrepreneur. He was the founder and president of omNovia Technologies, a software company specialized in web and video conferencing technology, and Xerzees Technologies, the company behind the mobile app Zurf.
William Schlumberger (March 25, 1799 – February 20, 1838) was an Alsatian chess master. He is known to have taught Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant to play chess and as the operator of The Turk , a chess-playing machine which was purported to be an automaton .
Sedco Forex had been formed from a merger of two drilling companies, the Southeastern Drilling Company (Sedco), founded in 1947 by Bill Clements and acquired by Schlumberger in 1985 for $1 billion [9] and French drilling company Forages et Exploitations Pétrolières (Forex) founded in 1942 in German-occupied France for drilling in North Africa ...
Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger (20 January 1853 – 23 October 1924) was a French campaigner for pronatalism, alcoholic abstinence, and feminism. She was the president of the French Union for Women's Suffrage ( Union française pour le suffrage des femmes / UFSF) movement. [ 1 ]
Jean Michel Schlumberger [1] (June 24, 1907 – August 29, 1987) was a major French jewellery designer especially well known for his work at Tiffany & Co. Family and early life [ edit ]
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 1986.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
The company was founded in May 2000 by Robert Clements and Peter A. Appel, with Appel as President and CEO. [3] [4] The company's predecessor entity, Risk Capital Holdings had previously sold substantially all of the reinsurance operations of Risk Capital Reinsurance Co., its wholly owned subsidiary, to Folksamerica Reinsurance Co., and the surviving vehicle was the entity used to form Arch ...
The founder of the movie ticket company Fandango died after he fell from a New York City luxury hotel in an apparent suicide Tuesday, authorities say.. J. Michael Cline, 64, of Palm Beach, Florida ...