Online he met Steven Lee, the chief telescope operator at a professional observatory in Coonabarabran, Australia.
Most unprepared of all was chief air-cargo operator HACTL, which was forced to stop processing freight at its spanking new Super Terminal 1.
Sir David also spoke to Dianne Thompson, chief executive of the lottery operator Camelot who announced that the main prize draw is to be rebranded as Lotto.
"We're not big in ERP, aren't aggressively exploring outsourcing and don't view the Web as so bizarre we can't get our head around it, " says Scott Hatfield, chief information officer at cable operator Cox Communications.
Although the firm runs a successful telecoms business, Infostrada, as well as Omnitel, Italy's second cell-phone operator, Roberto Colaninno, the chief executive, and his team cannot claim credit for this.
He is chief executive of the largest U.S. operator of full-service restaurants, Darden Restaurants.
In an interview last week, though, Lewis Hay, chief executive of NextEra Energy, the biggest solar operator in the U.S., said he has higher hopes for PV because panel prices are dropping so fast.
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"Offshore oil and gas production projects begin and end with the operator, in this case BP, " says Chief Executive StevenNewmanSteven Newman.
"Offshore oil and gas production projects begin and end with the operator, in this case BP, " says Chief Executive Steven Newman .
Arison is the chief executive of Carnival Corporation, the largest cruise ship operator in the world, with 98 ships sailing under 11 different brands.
Chief Cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told an urgent press conference that the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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And just to put the lid on any suppositions on that figure, BAA's Chief Executive Mike Clasper has said that the value of the airport operator is "way, way north of 810 pence" a share.
The presentation, which lasted almost three hours, was all but over for Virgin after Edward Boches, Mullen's chief creative officer, said he wasn't a hands-on operator.
The presentation, which lasted just under three hours, was all but over for Virgin after Edward Boches , Mullen's chief creative officer, said he wasn't a hands-on operator.
John Rogers, the chief officer of TTS, said his department had tried to make the transition to the new operator as smooth as possible.
Assistant Chief Constable James Vaughan told the inquest the officers involved had behaved correctly, but the control room operator had failed to carry out a full eight-point risk assessment.
Earlier this week, an e-mail dropped into my lap from Saudi Arabia's chief climate negotiator Mohammed Al-Sabban, a veteran of the process with a reputation for being a tough operator.
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