Alan Quasha Report

As reported recently in the Wall Street Journal, researchers have recently found an amazing link. They believe they’ve found that many people with alcoholism and homelessness actually suffered brain injuries or had a long-forgotten blow to the head.

Certainly, it’s already accepted that traumatic head injuries can lead to cognitive and behavioral problems. What many people hadn’t realized or thought of before this study is that a severe past blow to the head can be an unrecognized source of social and vocational issues.

The Brain Trauma Foundation, with Chairman Alan Quasha, works to increase knowledge about brain trauma through research, fundraising and other avenues.

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Richemont is a very interesting company with ties to many countries and to many types of products.  They are a number of the world’s leading companies who manufacture and sell luxury goods.  They are particularly focused in the fields of jewelry, luxury watches and writing instruments.

As one of the members of the Board of Directors of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, Alan Quasha is responsible, along with the other 14 members, for the strategic direction of the company and the appointment of senior management.  They also prepare the company and group’s financial statements and organize the shareholders’ annual meeting.

The Board of Directors, including Alan Quasha as a Non-Executive Director, represents a unique group.  It consists of leaders from nine countries including Norbert Platt from Germany, Johann Rupert from South Africa, Alain Dominique Perrin from Italy and many others.

While some business people like to be in the limelight, others prefer to work behind the scenes. Alan Quasha explains, for Leaders magazine, that he has always preferred to do his business quietly and to let the new CEO who comes in take the credit and the publicity.

One of the charitable organizations where Quasha works to make an impact is the Brain Trauma Foundation. Through his own experience, with a son who went into a coma due to a traumatic brain injury, Quasha learned a great deal about TBI and became involved with the organization. He is the Chairman of the Brain Trauma Foundation, where he brings his vast business experience to help the 5.3 million Americans who currently live with disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injuries.

Alan Quasha’s involvement in a wide range of business, philanthropic and research-related endeavors has led him to participate in the work of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Begun in 1958 as simply the Center for International Affairs, it changed its moniker to its present appellation as a result of and in gratitude to Celia and Albert Weatherhead and the Weatherhead Foundation who bequeathed a bountiful endowment to the Center in 1998.

The Center plays a significant role in understanding and developing solutions to international problems and issues as the largest international research center contained within the esteemed Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Taking part in the work that is going on at the Center, which is as relevant now as it was at is founding over 50 years ago, Alan Quasha expresses a concern for the well-being of citizens around the world.

Recent CDC Study findings demonstrate that the Brain Trauma Foundation’s Guidelines can not only save lives – but that they can save a great deal of money as well. Alan Quasha, in addition to his professional roles as President of Quadrant Management, Inc. and co-chairman of Carret Asset Management, serves as the chairman of the Brain Trauma Foundation.

Healthcare professional often have trouble assessing diagnostic and treatment options for traumatic brain injuries. In order to meet this need, the Brain Trauma Foundation created evidence-based Guidelines for healthcare professions. With these Guidelines, medical professionals can develop effective protocols to improve patient survival rates and outcomes.

One CDC Study has demonstrated that the BTF Guidelines could decrease deaths by 50% while improving quality of life and saving $288 million a year in medical and rehabilitation costs if these Guidelines were used more routinely.

I-Behavior offers a number of key features that make it stand apart from many other companies for its cooperative members. Headed by an amazing team, including the Acting Director of the Board of Directors, Mr. Alan Quasha, I-Behavior leads the pack in behavior targeting and more.

Here is a rundown of many of the key advantages offered by I-Behavior:

* Their B2B database includes data on more than 18 million businesses. These include everything from Fortune 100 companies to hard-to-find small businesses. I-Behavior can build the correct model for each specific business with their SIC and firmographic data.

* Behavior has the ability to link the predictive power of behavioral targeting with the attitudes that drive the purchase behavior of individuals.

* The I-Behavior cooperative database includes 1700 multi-channel merchants with a total representation of 171 million consumers.

* I-Behavior customizes targeting models for each individual Cooperative member by looking at individual purchase behavior

Alan Quasha serves on the board of directors at I-Behavior, as the acting director. Founded in 1999, I-Behavior is the firm to bring cooperative database marketing to the next level. Created by the man who is considered the father of modern-day direct marketing, Lester Wunderman, I-Behavior was the first to develop the SKU-level purchase date cooperative. This cooperative proved that a detailed purchase history is the most successful predictor of future buying behavior.

aCerno came into existence in 2006 when this idea was expanded. aCerno was the original on-line data cooperative which was anonymous, and showed that similar marketing principles and analytics can transfer to on-line advertising.

Now, ten years later, in 2009, I-Behavior is still leading the marketplace in behavioral targeting. I-Behavior links the predictive power of behavioral targeting with the reasons, motivations and desires that seem to drive purchasing decisions.

Alan Quasha, in addition to being a partner at Vanterra and President of Quadrant Management, he is the director of I-Behavior, a provider of premier database marketing solutions and a behavioral targeting firm.

Established as a service for multi-channel marketers and advertisers, I-Behavior, will help companies create, build, as well as maintain more profitable relationships with customers, both on and off-line. I-Behavior gives companies the modeling performance, excellent price and superb bottom-line results which you desire in conjunction with I-Behaviors unique marketing solutions.

At I-Behaviour, Alan Quasha director, they help companies meet their marketing objectives. In order to do this consistently I-Behavior looks beyond the demographic profiles and strives to understand the interests and buying patterns of consumers.

Those who want to attract new customers and keep the customers they already have will be wise to form a partnership with the I-Behavior cooperative.

Alan Quasha, in addition to his professional roles as President of Quadrant Management, Inc. and co-chairman of Carret Asset Management, he serves as the chairman of the Brain Trauma Foundation.

This foundation was created to help improve the outcomes for those suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) by supporting the development of guidelines for best practices when treating these injuries; conducting clinical research; and educating, informing and generally keeping health care providers up to date on the latest news in treating TBI.

Alan Quasha is a principal in the alternative investment management firm of Quadrant Management, Inc., based in New York. The firm focuses its investments on the U.S. market as well as the emerging markets sectors. Quadrant, along with its affiliates controls assets valuing over 3 billion dollars. Quadrant has offices in China, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, India and the United States.

Quadrant specializes in restructuring companies, which is popular at this juncture in time due to the pressure from the difficult economic environment.  Quadrant, with Alan Quasha at its helm, began restructuring companies over thirty years ago. At that time there was no money in this activity as an agent, so the reality was that it had to be done by Quasha as a principal.