Archive for November, 2009
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Sam Foti – Professional excellence at its best
The top leadership of companies and major businesses is the main deciding factor of its success. Sam Foti, President and Chief Operating Officer of The MONY Group Inc., is a perfect example of this excellence. He has over three decades of experience in this field and has helped his company to shed its losses and turn to the path of profitability.
Samuel J. Foti is a graduate of Wharton Business School. He later pursued his Masters Degree in Finance and Investments from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He joined Metropolitan Life Insurance Company afterwards. He served in the company for around 11 years but left the company in 1988 to join MONY as the National Director of Agency Operations. He was promoted to Executive Vice President, Insurance Operations in 1991; he finally bagged the position of COO in 1994 and has been working in this capacity since then.
Samuel Foti had to face many challenges during this time. MONY was suffering from losses and there were inherent flaws in its working procedure. He rose to the challenge by listing it on stock exchanges and eliminating extra workforce by offering them lucrative packages. The company has remained profitable since that time.
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I’m Free of the Office! Hooray for WebPoint!
I’m a pretty cool boss, but it bothers me that with so many employees on the road we can’t even keep our pricelists synched, let alone collaborate on sales numbers or other data.
I’ve tried high end collaboration tools, but they’re expensive to deploy and often take so much training that it’s just not viable in our company. That’s until I tried WebPoint VPN by Vedivi. I took the free trial and within 30 minutes I’d downloaded and set up the VPN for remote access.
It’s frankly amazing. I’m not sure how exactly it connects, but it does and it allows secure access to keep all the prying eyes out. Basically you install the software on one pc in the network and it’ll discover all the other machines and servers in your network.
You log on via the WebPoint website, which then creates a secure connection between your remote PC and the Network.
Best of all, it actually uses your Windows authentication on your remote pc to connect to the network, so you can control access to data and servers!
I took the enterprise free trial and it works really well. Try it for yourself.