1.  Along the way, Gosman has surrounded himself with former Mediplex executives at PhyMatrix.

2.  I was transcribing an interview with a former administrative executive of a private, for-profit psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents.

3.  Of the first three franchises to be awarded, two went to management buyouts led by former BR executives.

4.  Also this year, Bagnasco issued arrest warrants for two current and two former IBM executives that were based in the United States at the time of the incident.

5.  Also not commenting were two other former EMC executives, Mark Ward and John McCarthy, who both bought shares in StorageNetworks just after Dixon.

6.  An attorney representing the shareholders, former executives of the failed investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., declined comment on the proposed settlement.

7.  Analysts and former Novell executives said they believed Schmidt could help Novell form strategic alliances with companies like Oracle, Netscape Communications, and of course, Sun.

8.  Analysts and former executives argue that his cutting was better than his rebuilding.

9.  And critics note that Schulte, the executive in charge of Pony, is a former licensing executive who has never run a shoe company.

10.  And last summer, Novartis promoted Thomas Ebeling, a former marketing executive at Pepsi-Cola, to be global head of pharmaceuticals.