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Ruth Handcock has stepped back from her role as CEO of Octopus Investments, with Benjamin Davis taking on the chief executive role.

Benjamin Davis was named CEO of U.K. private markets firm Octopus Investments.

VMLY&R – WPP’s Brand and Customer Experience Agency and Monolith Studios have created the world’s first-ever death metal Public Service Announcement for Skin Cancer – ‘Sunny Death Metal.’ Hellios, the band formed by Chris Themelco from Monolith Studios, has created “the first brutally honest son

Claudia Jones (1915–1964), an Afro-Caribbean woman born in Port of Spain, British West Indies (Trinidad), was a Communist activist in the U.S., holding several responsible positions within the Communist Party and for its publications until her deportation in 1955 to Great Britain.

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., in full Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr., (born July 1, 1877, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died November 26, 1970, North Chicago, Illinois), soldier who became the first black general in the U.S. Army. After serving as a volunteer in the Spanish-American War (1898), Benjamin Davis, Sr., enlisted as a private in the 9th Cavalry of the U.S. Army. He rose to sergeant major within two years and earned a commission as a second lieutenant in 1901. In the next four decades he served in Liberia and the Philippines and taught military science at the Tuskegee Institute and at Wilberforce