Divurgent Hires New Executive Vice President, Consulting and Innovation, and Chief Strategy Officer, Sam Hanna
Sam Hanna to lead Divurgent s consulting teams and bring innovation to the firm s client partners and evolutionary strategy to the firm, as they position themselves for exponential growth in 2021 and beyond
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Divurgent, an international IT consulting company, announced today that it hired Sam Hanna, PhD as the new Executive Vice President of Innovation and Consulting, and Chief Strategy Officer. Sam joins the firm as a respected leader in the healthcare transformation space and brings cross-industry best practices to complement and further grow Divurgent s solution portfolio. Sam s experience includes leading a healthcare practice and an incubator at PwC and serving as an executive advisor to several innovative companies in the healthcare, technology, and consulting s
started this business called black hills minerals as this earth science supply house. eventually my younger brother neal, who was also a student at the school of mines, and bob farrar, one of his classmates, started working with us as well. with the three of us all going to the school of mines, we were problems there, because all of us chose not to go into industry. the first year was terrible, the second year was not so good but it was sort of turning into a business. as we kept going, we kept collecting more and more fossils and had the idea of it probably would work to sell these as display specimens. in 1978, we were going pretty strong. we were selling mostly fossils. we were going out and doing geological exploration. so by 1979, we created this new entity called black hills institute of geological research, incorporated, in the center of the black hills. we got sue back to hill city. we moved the big blocks into the warehouse, actually built a room around where we had put
the jury came back today in the hill city fossil hunter federal criminal trial. the jury said over and over again either not guilty or no unanimous verdict could be reached. of over 150 charges, the jury agreed to convict only 13 times, and five of those convictions are for misdemeanor crimes. so here is how the convictions break down. pete larson, co-owner and founder of the institute, is convicted on two counts of misdemeanor thefts and two felony counts of illegally transporting money in and out of a country. brother neal larson found guilty of one misdemeanor theft. the jury either acquitted neal or couldn t agree on a verdict for the others. bob farrar, a third co-owner of the institute, convicted of
that separation, that was probably the highest point of my life. how was that? champagne. hide it. hide it. there has to be a toast. who toasts? this whole i don t know. cheers. just, cheers. you ready? ready. sue. to old sue. sue. sue. sue. yeah. yeah. it s very good champagne. look at this. i know. we were riding on top of the world. we had everything going for us. less than a week after that, all hell broke loose. bob and i were downstairs. we were both in the prep lab. we had a buzzer on our door so that if anybody came in, it would buzz back in the prep lab, and we could go meet them in the front office. it was about 7:00 in the morning
and they re basically saying that pete and neal and bob and whoever was out there would go step over the fence, wrongly, knowingly pick up the fossil, that they re not supposed to pick up, carry it back over the fence, put it in their car. when they drive from wyoming to south dakota, they then have conducted an illegal act, which is called interstate transportation of stolen property. they get back to the institute, they would make a phone call, send a fax maybe to japan and say, we found the thing that we were looking for. do you want to buy it? well, that s wire fraud. and then if the japanese museum were to purchase that fossil and the guys would put that money in the bank, that s money laundering. so basically the guys were called conspirators who were creating this very elaborate scheme to intentionally steal things and sell them illegally. what struck me about the