Claude Penland: Actuary & Partner, Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment

Lynette Mattke saw that her kids loved the iPhone’s touchscreen and that no one had built apps out of quality kids’ books.

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Predixion is developing data mining and analytics software, and is headed by Simon Arkell, formerly of Triton Pacific Capital Partners and Gramercy Ventures.

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The Farmers Insurance Group and Zynga have partnered to allow the insurance company to virtually appear in the FarmVille game. While it’s not the first virtual good to appear in FarmVille or other social games from a major brand, it does appear to be the first virtual good from an insurance company, that includes in-game functionality.

OpenGeo will be developing enhancements for GeoServer and GeoTools to expand the capabilities for collaboration on hazard, risk and socio-economic impact models within the global earthquake risk assessment community.

David Cole has been CRO and CFO of ABN AMRO bank since 2008. He joined the bank as a trainee in 1984 and held various positions before becoming head of group risk management in January 2006.

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