| What the Doctor Ordered
Joon Yun has been managing money for only nine years, but his 12 years as a radiologist -- mostly at Stanford University Medical Center -- have served him well in his second career as a partner of Palo Alto Investors in Palo Alto, Calif., an 18-year-old hedge fund with about $1.5 billion under management, focused mostly on small-cap growth. "Radiology is sort of similar to investing," he says. "You're making decisions based on limited information and looking for patterns." .
BUSINESS CALENDAR
Here are some of the business-related activities coming up in the tri-county area. Today-Friday: Sandra Nickel, Realtors, Compass Bank and other Montgomery area real estate agencies and banks will be collecting blankets, quilts and comforters, new or used, from today through Friday for the homeless and for use in local shelters. Blankets can be dropped off at any participating real estate office or bank. Scott McNeely of Admiral Movers will collect the blankets for use at two dozen shelters that help the approximately 700 documented homeless men, women and children in the area. Thursday: The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce will have a Business After Hours event at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Alabama Wildlife Federation. 285-4550. Thursday: This is the deadline to register for the Jackson Thornton Annual Payroll Tax Update that will be held at 8 a.m.
Brookfield management consultant wins national contract
Organization Development Consultants Inc. (ODC), a Brookfield-based management consultant company, announced today that it has been selected by the Catholic University of America to be the program evaluation provider for the $2.9 million Technology Engineering Scholars project through the U.S. Department of Labor. The project is aimed at promoting higher education and reducing tuition costs so U.S. citizens might meet the educational requirements for Washington, D.C.-area jobs often held by foreign nationals working in the United States under H-1B Visas. Daniel Schroeder, Ph.D, a principal with ODC, will be the project manager for the program. Schroeder, who writes a monthly column about human resources in Small Business Times, said he believes ODC was chosen because of its recognized expertise in program and outcome evaluation, with higher education as an emerging focus of the firm's programs and services of this kind.
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