"Carl Bacon", is a founding member of GIPS, having forged a successful career in the asset management industry. He was Vice President Head of Performance at JPMorgan Chase/JP Morgan Investment Management Inc. (Europe), he worked at F&C Investment Management Ltd. as Director of Risk Control and Performance, and before was Head of Performance for Royal Insurance Asset Management, which following a merger became Royal & SunAlliance.

In addition to GIPS, Bacon was part of the establishment of the Investment Performance Council (IPC) that was set up in 1999 as a think tank for performance measurement. This Council replaced the Global Investment Performance Standards Committee. The IPC recently became the Executive Committee, which continues the IPC's aims to support and encourage the application and expansion of GIPS, which came into effect in January 2000.

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We were trying to find something that would fit with the landscape and not be outside of the University standard. The residence halls like [Mary Burke Hall] have some tables similar to these, so we brought that to the north side of the campus.

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With our increasing numbers, if there was a fire, if there was a problem, our concern was whether we could move people out if they were not perfectly aligned against the wall.

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