[Physics opps] FW: Coverago - recruiting at MIT info session 10/18

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From: Catherine A Modica
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:51 AM
To: Nancy E Savioli; Denise Wahkor
Subject: FW: Coverago - recruiting at MIT info session 10/18

Nancy, could you please send this out to students?

Denise, this is for your events-mailing draft.

Cathy

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Catherine Modica
Academic Administrator
Department of Physics, MIT 4-315
617 253-4842

From: Tobie Weiner [mailto:iguanatw at MIT.EDU]<mailto:[mailto:iguanatw at MIT.EDU]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 10:47 AM
To: ugadmins at mit.edu<mailto:ugadmins at mit.edu>
Subject: Coverago - recruiting at MIT info session 10/18

Hi,
One of our Course 17 alums is working at Coverago - a customized global media monitoring company.  They are hoping to recruit MIT students (undergrads) from many different majors and fields.  Please send this out to your students if you think it is relevant.

Thank you,

Tobie

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COVERAGO - Global Media Monitoring Co
Coverago Recruitment Info Session at MIT
DATE:           Tuesday, October 18
TIME:            5:30-7:30pm
ROOM:          Building 66-154 (Landau Building 25 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, 02139)

Speakers
John Cooper, Chief Executive Officer at Coverago
Tara Maller, Managing Director, Americas at Coverago (Ph.D. in Political Science, MIT 2011)

About Coverago:
Coverago is a new customized global media monitoring company that was founded in 2008.  Coverago tailors its information collection efforts to suit particular needs of its clients and enables institutions to stay aware of what is being published about them, anywhere in the world, in any language.  We work with our clients to understand the institutions, people and concepts they would like to follow, and the languages or regions that are relevant to their communications or information collection efforts  We then provide our clients with English-language summaries of the significant mentions, in both mainstream media and social media, on the topics that matter to them.  Our analysts monitor countless sources in over 40 languages, filter for materiality, capture the important facts in a concise, English language summary and deliver the news you need on any subject covered in the global media.  Our clients are many of the leading global corporations, investment management firms, investment banks, public relations firms, law firms and consultancies. We enable our clients to follow the companies, markets, events and issues of most interest to them, breaking through all barriers of language, geography and accessibility.

Bios:
John Cooper is the Chief Executive Officer of Coverago and is responsible for the direction and strategy of the company. Mr. Cooper has over a decade of experience in finance and software and was most recently an Investment Banker with Bear Stearns & Co. in their Technology, Media, and Telecommunications group. Prior to that, Mr. Cooper held engineering and sales management positions with Plumtree Software. Mr. Cooper was with Plumtree from the company's early stages as a Sequoia-backed start-up through its IPO and subsequent acquisition by BEA Systems. John began his career with Sun Microsystems in their Best-of-the-Best program as a Software Engineer. Mr. Cooper received his BA in Computer Science from Gettysburg College and MBA from Columbia Business School.

Tara Maller is the Managing Director, Americas at Coverago.  At Coverago, Ms. Maller manages research and operations out of Coverago's office in Newark, NJ.  Prior to Coverago, Ms. Maller completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at MIT, where her dissertation focused on U.S. economic sanctions and diplomacy.   During this time, she was also a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.   Previously, Ms. Maller was a military analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, focusing on the Iraq insurgency.  She received her MA in International Relations at the University of Chicago and her BA in Government at Dartmouth College.


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