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Duff & Phelps Announces Nine New Managing Directors

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Duff & Phelps Announces Nine New Managing Directors

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Duff & Phelps Corporation (NYS: DUF) , a leading independent financial advisory and investment banking firm, has announced the appointment of nine new managing directors – including seven promotions and two new hires.

“We are pleased that these nine outstanding leaders will enhance our team of managing directors,” said Noah Gottdiener, chief executive officer of Duff & Phelps. “Their technical skills and industry sector expertise will provide clients with independent counsel to help successfully navigate a wide range of transactions and special situations.”

Duff & Phelps’ seven new managing director promotes include:

  • Greg Maxim works in the Austin office as a member of the Tax Services practice, specializing in local and state issues. He has more than 20 years of valuation and consulting experience in the energy industry. His knowledge of ad valorem complex property valuations, property tax management compliance, and tax incentives has positioned him to advise clients around the U.S. in the refining, chemical and utility sectors. Previously he has worked for Exxon USA and two of the Big Four accounting firms.
  • Judd Schneider works in the Boston office as part of the Valuation Advisory Services business. He has more than twelve years of experience valuing business enterprises, legal entities, debt and equity securities, intangible assets, intellectual property and derivative instruments for purposes of financial and tax reporting, M&A planning, tax reorganizations and restructurings. Schneider joined Duff & Phelps in connection with the firm’s acquisition of Standard & Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting business, which included PwC’s legacy valuation business; he had previously worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
  • Francisco Javier Zoido works in the London office as a member of the Valuation Advisory Services business, focusing primarily on clients in the Iberian Peninsula. He brings more than 12 years of experience in valuation and corporate finance. He has valued numerous business enterprises, financial assets, equity securities and intangible assets for purposes of financial planning and reporting, transaction advisory support, strategic planning and litigation support. Previously he has worked for a Spanish consulting firm and served as a manager in Ernst & Young’s Corporate Finance team in Madrid.
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Rabbits, Neanderthal Extinction Linked In New Study Of Early Humans’ Prey Choices

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Why did Neanderthals become extinct? Scientists have offered a variety of theories, from climate change and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions to interbreeding with modern humans.

But a new study puts at least some of the blame on bunnies. Or, to be more specific, on Neanderthals’ apparent inability to exploit the “high-biomass prey resource” of rabbits when prehistoric deer and other large prey mammals became scarce on the Iberian Peninsula.

Dr. John Fa of Britain’s Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust presented the theory in a study titled “Rabbits and Hominin Survival in Iberia,” which was published online on Feb. 17 in the Journal of Human Evolution:

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Two new species of mushroom documented in the Iberian Peninsula

In collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens of Madrid and the Slovenian Forestry Institute, researchers in the Basque Country have documented two new species of Hydnum, commonly known as ox tongue mushrooms, as part of their study published in the ‘Mycologia’ journal. This genus is known because many of its fungi are edible. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org

Survival of the fittest: Predator wasps breed at the expense of spider juveniles

Two wasp species, Calymmochilus dispar and Gelis apterus, have been recorded as parasitoids on ant-eating spiders in a study published in the open access journal ZooKeys. The host spider, Zodarion styliferum, belongs to the largest genus of predominantly ant-eating spiders. Their distribution area includes Europe, Asia and North Africa, significantly with at least 35 species reported for the Iberian Peninsula only, marking a record in numbers in Portugal, where this study was conducted.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org