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Poets&Quants™ Honors Best & Brightest Business Majors For 2024

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Monday, April 1, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Poets&Quants For Undergrads, the leading news source for undergraduate business education, has released its ninth annual "Best & Brightest Business Majors" feature. The story honors 100 of the most accomplished seniors who majored in fields like business administration, marketing, finance, and operations.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Poets&Quants For Undergrads , the leading news source for undergraduate business education, has released its ninth annual "Best & Brightest Business Majors" feature.
  • This year's 100 Best & Brightest feature includes students like Jacob Williams, a McKinsey-bound senior studying at the University of California-Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
  • To compile this year's Best & Brightest students, Poets&Quants reached out to the 50 highest-ranked schools in its 2024 Undergraduate Business School Ranking .
  • To read the Best & Brightest Business Majors of 2024, CLICK HERE .

Cetera Bolsters Legal Team with New Hires and Additional Internal Staff

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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SAN DIEGO, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cetera Financial Group (Cetera), the premier financial advisor Wealth Hub, announced today that it has expanded its legal team to include a key new hire as well as multiple internal promotions and transitions into the department. The growth signals Cetera's commitment to serving advisors with industry-best legal resources in an increasing regulatory environment. The changes include:

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  • Kirwin comes to Cetera with an extensive background in investments and brokerage firms, having spent more than 15 years in the legal department at Fidelity Investments.
  • In this new role, he joins the legal leadership team and will expand his business support leadership to cover multiple departments firm wide.
  • Mark Quinn, Cetera's Head of Regulatory Affairs since 2015, transitioned to the legal team from Cetera's risk department.
  • "With these new appointments, I am confident that Cetera's legal department represents a powerful team that is comprised of the industry's best and brightest legal minds.

OKX Web3 University Tour Champions The Next Generation of Builders and Innovators

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Friday, March 22, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OKX , a leading global Web3 technology company and crypto exchange, has successfully launched its OKX Web3 University tour, engaging with top students and faculty about the future of Web3 technology.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OKX , a leading global Web3 technology company and crypto exchange, has successfully launched its OKX Web3 University tour, engaging with top students and faculty about the future of Web3 technology.
  • The tour has already held events at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of Southern California.
  • The OKX Web3 team participated in fireside chats and panel discussions at each university dedicated to decentralization, blockchain infrastructure, and the builder community.
  • The OKX university tour will continue to make stops at leading technology campuses across the U.S. over the next month.

Oobli Becomes First Company to Receive FDA "No Questions" Letter for a Novel Sweet Protein Produced via Precision Fermentation

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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DAVIS, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oobli, the leading global sweet protein platform known for its healthy sugar alternatives, today announced it has received the "No questions" letter from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA), accepting the Company's conclusion that the Oubli Fruit Sweet Protein (known by its scientific name as "brazzein") is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) for use as a sweetener in food and beverages. 

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  • "The Oubli Fruit Sweet Protein is one of several sweet proteins that is derived from fruits primarily found in West Africa and other equatorial environments.
  • Oobli is the first company to receive the "No questions" letter from the FDA for use of the Oubli Fruit Sweet Protein as a food ingredient.
  • "The Oubli Fruit Sweet Protein can be safely used in various foods with support from the general scientific community and the FDA.
  • Oobli will sample its line of craft-brewed, low-sugar Sweet Teas, as well as its Dark and Milk Chocolates featuring the Oubli Fruit Sweet Protein, at the Future Food-Tech Conference in San Francisco from March 21-22.

UpLift Accelerates into Higher Ed with Acquisition of TAO Connect

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- UpLift, a technology-driven behavioral health company delivering in-network therapy and psychiatry, today announced that it has acquired TAO Connect, a therapy-assisted mental health solution with digital tools and resources designed for higher education institutions. With the acquisition of TAO Connect, UpLift now provides services to over 170 enterprise customers nationwide and across Canada, covering over four million people, including over two million students at more than 120 higher ed institutions in the U.S. UpLift's full spectrum of high quality care - from preventative to treating severe mental illness – makes mental healthcare work for everyone, across all conditions, geographies and generations.

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  • With TAO by UpLift, a new behavioral health program for students, institutions now have access to a comprehensive higher ed mental healthcare solution, and the continuity of care designed to complement institutions' counseling service offerings, all covered by insurance.
  • Although initially designed for higher ed, TAO Connect's evidence-based digital tools and resources have proved extendable and valuable to other enterprises, including large employers and health systems.
  • "When I started TAO ten years ago, it was to bring more counseling services to higher ed.
  • TAO by UpLift is rolling out and activating across higher ed institutions in the country including and two- and four-year public and private schools and spanning community colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and graduate schools.

New UC Berkeley Center Aims to Create Healthcare Innovation Research-to-Impact Pipeline

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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Developing and using the research on healthcare innovation incentives will lead to the creation and deployment of interventions that meaningfully improve public health.

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  • Developing and using the research on healthcare innovation incentives will lead to the creation and deployment of interventions that meaningfully improve public health.
  • The new Berkeley center aims to play an essential role in ensuring those innovations benefit the public.
  • The center aims to connect expertise in behavioral economics with advanced research and development at Berkeley to help develop healthcare solutions that people and companies want and will harness.
  • “I’m very excited to see some of Berkeley’s great minds and cutting-edge resources come together at the new Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation.”

MetLife and UC Berkeley Seek Startups for 2024 Cohort of Cleantech Accelerator Program

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Thursday, February 29, 2024
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MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) and the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, are pleased to announce that the application window for the 2024 startup cohort of the Cleantech to Market (C2M) accelerator program is open until March 10.

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  • MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) and the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, are pleased to announce that the application window for the 2024 startup cohort of the Cleantech to Market (C2M) accelerator program is open until March 10.
  • This will be the third year MetLife is involved with the C2M accelerator program.
  • The C2M accelerator program embodies this spirit and gives MetLife employees insight into technology advancements across industries, including low-carbon energy, green chemistry, and water technologies.
  • For more information about the C2M accelerator program, and the application for startups, visit haas.berkeley.edu/c2m/ .

Bank of Marin Bancorp Announces Retirement of Robert Heller from Board of Directors

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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Bank of Marin Bancorp (NASDAQ: BMRC) and Bank of Marin, its wholly owned subsidiary, announce the retirement of Robert Heller from its board of directors effective May 13, 2024.

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  • Bank of Marin Bancorp (NASDAQ: BMRC) and Bank of Marin, its wholly owned subsidiary, announce the retirement of Robert Heller from its board of directors effective May 13, 2024.
  • Heller joined both Bank of Marin Bancorp and Bank of Marin boards in 2005.
  • “It has been a great pleasure to serve on the boards of Bank of Marin and Bank of Marin Bancorp, the preeminent community banking institution of northern California, for the last two decades.
  • During this time, the Bank grew its assets five-fold while maintaining a pristine credit quality and paying consistent dividends to its shareholders,” said Heller.

Berkeley SkyDeck Offers Hardware Startups Access to State-of-the-Art Design and Manufacturing Prototyping

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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The partnership will allow for selected companies from each SkyDeck accelerator cohort access to the Jacobs Institute’s extensive and comprehensive facilities for prototyping hardware and products.

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  • The partnership will allow for selected companies from each SkyDeck accelerator cohort access to the Jacobs Institute’s extensive and comprehensive facilities for prototyping hardware and products.
  • Hardware startups accepted to Berkeley SkyDeck’s accelerator program will be granted Entrepreneur Maker Passes, which provide access to the state of the art Jacobs Makerspace.
  • With the assistance of the Jacobs Institute’s in-house design advisors, startups can also design iteratively and fine-tune their prototypes.
  • Berkeley SkyDeck accepts around 1% of startups that apply and approximately 20 to 25 startups overall for each of its Cohort accelerator programs.

Otolith Labs Expands Leadership Team with the Appointment of Dan Wagner as its Chief Commercial Officer and Raphael Michel to its Board of Directors

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024
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Otolith Labs, a medical technology company developing non-invasive wearable medical devices for the treatment of vestibular disorders, appointed Dan Wagner as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Raphael Michel as an independent Board member.

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  • Otolith Labs, a medical technology company developing non-invasive wearable medical devices for the treatment of vestibular disorders, appointed Dan Wagner as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Raphael Michel as an independent Board member.
  • Otolith Labs’ technology is a head-worn wearable device being investigated for the treatment of vertigo episode symptoms associated with vestibular migraines.
  • “Dan has been working with Otolith in an advisory role for over 5 years, so we are thrilled to have him full-time.
  • “Raphael is one of our earliest industry advisors and has been providing critical counsel to Otolith Labs since 2016.