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Soccer/Football Olympian?[edit]

I cannot find any source that lists Kavanaugh as part of the US Men's Olympic team (that doesn't appear to be referencing Kavanaugh's personal bio). He was not listed on the roster - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/14/The-final-roster-for-the-US-Olympic-soccer-team/7764458625600/ - he may have been part of the Men's National Team in 1984, but if he didn't play in the Olympics, is he an Olympian? Noblet97 (talk) 20:04, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're right. I've researched this further and discovered a headline from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 08 Sep 1984 that says "Olympic Disappointment Fails to Slow Billikens' Kavanaugh." In the article it states: "Just before the squads were to be made final, the United States Soccer Federation was told that professional players who never had taken part in World Cup competition could play on the Olympic team. . . . Fourteen professional players including St. Louisans David Brcic and Steve Moyers and the Steamers' Ricky Davis, were placed on the team. Kavanaugh, among others, was dropped."Writethisway (talk) 17:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request[edit]

NOTE: I am proposing these edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of World Wide Technology. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 02:10, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Business career

  • We propose updating the second to last line of this section (“WWT’s annual revenue…”) to reflect current information about the company’s annual revenue and total number of employees from a third-party source (The Wall Street Journal), as well as updated sourcing for the company’s ranking as one of the United States’ largest private companies. Revised, this sentence would read as follows:

WWT has an annual revenue of $13.4 billion, [1] ranking it as one of the largest private companies in the United States.[2] The company employs nearly 7,000 people. [3]

I tend to think the generic information about WWT belongs on the WWT page and not on this page. I removed most of the generic background. CapitalSasha ~ talk 23:59, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "How WWT's Jim Kavanaugh Got the Goal He Wanted". The Wall Street Journal. January 2, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2021. Today, the WWT chief executive presides over a global enterprise with $13.4 billion in annual revenue and about 7,000 employees.
  2. ^ "America's Largest Private Companies". Forbes. November 23, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  3. ^ "How WWT's Jim Kavanaugh Got the Goal He Wanted". The Wall Street Journal. January 2, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2021. Today, the WWT chief executive presides over a global enterprise with $13.4 billion in annual revenue and about 7,000 employees.

Wondering about "MS"?[edit]

For many years it appears this article said he was "MS amateur player of the year". Anyone know what the MS stands for? First I thought it meant "Missouri", but the abbreviation for the state is "MO", while MS stands for Mississippi. Could have also been MLS, for Major League Soccer, but could not find evidence there is such an award. Sadly, it looks like this was added anonymously back in April 2016. W Nowicki (talk) 22:30, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request[edit]

NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of World Wide Technology. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I’m proposing the following edits in an attempt to improve article organization and include missing information. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 21:39, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Lead

  • Kavanaugh is correctly listed as CEO of World Wide Technology, but he is also a the company’s co-founder. [1][2] As such, recommend updating the lead to read “CEO and co-founder of World Wide Technology.”

Infobox

  • Given the citations above that validate Kavanaugh as being World Wide Technology’s co-founder, propose updating “Occupation” to read “CEO and co-founder of World Wide Technology.”
  • Please also add Stifel[3] and Privoro[4] under the “Board Member of” line.

Education (newly proposed section)

  • To aid in flow of the article’s narrative, I propose adding a new “Education” section after the Lead section and before “Sports Involvement” that reads as follows:

Kavanaugh received his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Saint Louis University in 1986.[5]

World Wide Technology (proposed section rename and content edits)

  • Since this section includes information about Kavanaugh’s pre-World Wide Technology career, I propose changing the name of this section to “Career.”
  • To more accurately reflect the partnership between Steward and Kavanaugh in co-founding World Wide Technology, I propose updating the second sentence in this section to read “In 1990, Kavanaugh and David Steward co-founded World Wide Technology[6][7]…”
  • Please correct spelling of the word “dollors” in the third sentence (should read “dollars”).
  • Please correct spelling of the word “reveues” in the third sentence (should read “revenues”).
  • Recommend adding the following sentences to the end of this section to add more information about a milestone in Kavanaugh’s career/time at World Wide Technology:

In 2010, Kavanaugh led development of World Wide Technology’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC).[8] The ATC allows WWT’s engineers and customers to evaluate hardware and software offerings from Cisco, Vmware, NetApp, Dell, F5 Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and other tech firms.[9][10]

 Partly done: Cofounder is not an occupation so I didn’t add that. Since it only includes one sentence I added the Education to the lead instead. The ATC part sounds promotional and doesn’t have much relevance. Aaron Liu (talk) 14:14, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Aaron Liu All makes sense - thank you! Jon Gray (talk) 22:21, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You too, thanks for your patience! Aaron Liu (talk) 22:55, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Lublin, Joann (January 2, 2021). "How WWT's Jim Kavanaugh Got the Goal He Wanted". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 12, 2022. Jim Kavanaugh, a former professional soccer player with blue-collar roots, lacked money to help kick off World Wide Technology LLC when he co-founded the reseller of tech equipment at age 28 in 1990.
  2. ^ Debter, Lauren (August 8, 2019). "The Billionaires Behind The Secret Tech Mecca In America's Heartland". Forbes. Retrieved September 12, 2022. World Wide Technology's cofounder Jim Kavanaugh.
  3. ^ "Board of Directors". Stifel. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  4. ^ "Advisors & Investors". Privoro. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  5. ^ {{cite web |url= https://slubillikens.com/news/2014/9/26/209678918.aspx |title= Jim Kavanaugh Honored by St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame |author= |date= September 26, 2014 |publisher= [[Saint_Louis_University|Saint Louis University |access-date= September 12, 2022 |quote= Kavanaugh graduated from Saint Louis University in 1986.}}
  6. ^ Lublin, Joann (January 2, 2021). "How WWT's Jim Kavanaugh Got the Goal He Wanted". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 12, 2022. Jim Kavanaugh, a former professional soccer player with blue-collar roots, lacked money to help kick off World Wide Technology LLC when he co-founded the reseller of tech equipment at age 28 in 1990.
  7. ^ Debter, Lauren (August 8, 2019). "The Billionaires Behind The Secret Tech Mecca In America's Heartland". Forbes. Retrieved September 12, 2022. World Wide Technology's cofounder Jim Kavanaugh.
  8. ^ Feldt, Brian (January 13, 2017). "How World Wide Technology used innovation to become a $9 billion giant". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved September 12, 2022. Kavanaugh proposed World Wide invest heavily in establishing advanced technology centers. That was a departure for the company, which was founded in 1990 by Kavanaugh and now-Chairman David Steward as a reseller of computer gear…Now nearly eight years later — and with at least $100 million invested in the company's Advanced Technology Centers(ATC) — it's hard to argue with the results.
  9. ^ Debter, Lauren (August 8, 2019). "The Billionaires Behind The Secret Tech Mecca In America's Heartland". Forbes. Retrieved September 12, 2022. Kavanaugh swipes his badge and enters the so-called Advanced Technology Center. Here his company, World Wide Technology, has assembled thousands of hardware and software offerings from Microsoft, Cisco, Dell and more than 100 other tech firms in one place. An army of engineers (3,000 strong) are on hand to run demos, conduct bake-offs and make recommendations.
  10. ^ Robuck, Mike (January 16, 2019). "World Wide Technology takes on industry challenges for service providers and enterprises". Fierce Telecom. Retrieved September 12, 2022. While WWT is somewhat closed-mouthed about some of the service providers that it works with in its Advanced Technology Center (ATC) labs, which are used for product demonstrations, proofs of concept, building reference architectures and other tasks, it counts Cisco, VMware, NetApp, Dell EMC, F5 Networks, and HPE among its vendor customers.

Photo Change Request[edit]

NOTE: I’m proposing the following edit and photo change request for FleishmanHillard on behalf of World_Wide_Technology. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines.

Photo Change Request

The photo currently in this article is from 2007. I recently submitted a current photo (2022) to Wikimedia Commons on World Wide Technology’s behalf. I am hoping to have the photo currently used on this article exchanged for this current photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Kavanaugh,_World_Wide_Technology.jpg

Per the guidelines, I know editors with a COI may add/update article photos, which I’m happy to do, but first wanted to confirm I am clear to do so, or turn this over to another editor to handle. Please let me know how I should proceed. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 15:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That photo needs to be cropped to a more close-up view. Can you do it? GenQuest "scribble" 17:50, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@User:GenQuest Thanks for your reply - i absolutely can do that. Once cropped, would you like to give it another look or would I be clear to make the swap? Thanks again. Jon Gray (talk) 21:04, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Go for it. If anything is ever a problem, they're easily reversed and fixed. I'll review after it's done if you want. Thanks, GenQuest "scribble" 02:41, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Jon Gray (talk) 14:59, 21 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Edit Request – Sports Involvement & Awards[edit]

NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of World Wide Technology. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 22:48, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Sports Involvement

  • Second paragraph: Propose adding the following sentence after the first sentence in the second paragraph to round out information about his playing career:

The following year, he was traded to the St. Louis Steamers.[1]


  • Second paragraph: Propose replacing the existing third and fourth sentences of the second paragraph with the following to round out the info those sentences contain and add new information:

Kavanaugh served as CEO of the United Soccer League’s Saint Louis FC from 2014 – 2020, as well as president of the St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club.[2][3]

In 2012, Kavanaugh purchased a minority stake in the St. Louis Blues hockey team.[4] He is also a minority investor in St. Louis City SC, a Major League Soccer franchise launching in 2023.[5]

Awards

  • Propose adding the following awards to the current list:
  • Also propose the following corrections to two existing entries:


References

  1. ^ Debter, Lauren (August 8, 2019). "The Billionaires Behind The Secret Tech Mecca In America's Heartland". Forbes. Retrieved February 15, 2023. In 1986, her was drafted by the Los Angeles Lazers and mov across the country with $25 in his pocket. The next year he was traded to the St. Louis Steamers.
  2. ^ Lyons, Joe (July 26, 2015). "5 Questions with St. Louis FC's Jim Kavanaugh". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Kavanaugh, 52, is also president of the board for St. Louis Scott Gallagher, CEO of St. Louis FC and an investor/owner of the St. Louis Blues.
  3. ^ "Jim Kavanaugh Honored by St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame". Saint Louis University. September 26, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Kavanaugh remains highly active in the soccer world. He is president of the St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club (SLSG).
  4. ^ Lyons, Joe (July 26, 2015). "5 Questions with St. Louis FC's Jim Kavanaugh". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Kavanaugh, 52, is also president of the board for St. Louis Scott Gallagher, CEO of St. Louis FC and an investor/owner of the St. Louis Blues.
  5. ^ Lyons, Joe (August 25, 2020). "St. Louis FC to shut down after 2020 season". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved February 15, 2023. According to a story posted by Sports Illustrated on Tuesday morning, STLFC will shut at the end of the 2020 season. The club's owner, World Wide Technology CEO and former St. Louis University soccer standout Jim Kavanaugh, is also a minority investor in the new MLS team, St. Louis City SC... St. Louis City SC is expected to begin MLS play in 2023 at a 22,500-seat stadium downtown.
  6. ^ "Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis names two to Hall of Fame". Illinois Business Journal. May 17, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2022. David Farr, former CEO of Emerson, also serving as the 2022 Junior Achievement Hall of Fame event chair, has announced that Jim Kavanaugh, co-founder and CEO of World Wide Technology and Rob Vitale, president and CEO of Post Holdings Inc., will be inducted into the JA Business Hall of Fame.
  7. ^ Winter, Christine (April 19, 2021). "American Cancer Society Honors St. Louis Resident With Distinguished National Award for Volunteer Service". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology, was presented with the 2020 American Cancer Society St. George National Award.
  8. ^ "Jim Kavanaugh Honored by St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame". Saint Louis University. September 26, 2014. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Jim Kavanaugh, a SLU men's soccer alum and CEO and co-founder of St. Louis-based World Wide Technology, was recognized Wednesday night as the President's Choice Award recipient at the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.
  9. ^ "Leadership Takes Guts with Jim Kavanaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of World Wide Technology". Mission.org. Retrieved February 15, 2023. Kavanaugh has won numerous business, entrepreneurial and charitable awards over the years and earned a position in Saint Louis University's Smurfit-Stone Entrepreneurial Alumni Hall of Fame.
  10. ^ Rizvic, Veneta (July 20, 2015). "Jim Kavanaugh is most popular 40 Under 40 alum from class of 1998". St. Louis Business Journal. Jim Kavanaugh took the top spot in our most popular contest for the 40 Under 40 class of 1998 after battling it out all week with Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
 Done Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 18:50, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Johannes Maximilian Thank you! Jon Gray (talk) 20:08, 12 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]


Edit Request – Chronology Correction, Other Proposed Additions[edit]

NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of World Wide Technology. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. Please let me know of any questions or comments as you review. Thanks for your time and consideration. Jon Gray (talk) 15:29, 25 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Awards

  • For ease of reading, I propose reordering the awards currently listed on the page by chronological order – preferably in descending order (2022, 2020, 2014, 2010, 2007, 1998) but I’m totally open to the editor’s preference if ascending order is preferred.
  • I also propose adding the following awards to this list (if accepted, following the same chronological order mentioned above):
    • 2021: Ranked #24 on Glassdoor’s Top CEO list[1]
    • 2020: Ranked #9 on Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs During the COVID-19 Crisis in the ­U.S.[2]
    • 2019: Ranked #86 on Glassdoor’s Top CEO list[3]
    • 2018: Ranked #11 on Glassdoor’s Top CEO list[4]
    • 2017: Ranked #2 on Glassdoor’s CEOs for large businesses in the U.S.[5]


References

  1. ^ Steele, Chandra (June 16, 2023). "Glassdoor's Top Tech CEOs of 2021: The Usual Suspects, With One Big Exception". PCMag. Retrieved May 17, 2023. GLASSDOOR TOP TECH CEOS 2021 - #24 World Wide Technology's Jim Kavanaugh
  2. ^ Connley, Courtney (September 16, 2020). "These are the 10 highest-rated CEOs during the coronavirus crisis, according to employee reviews". CNBC. Retrieved May 17, 2023. 9. Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology
  3. ^ Brown, Shelby (June 19, 2019). "Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg make top CEO list for 7th year in a row". CNET. Retrieved May 17, 2023. Jim Kavanaugh: No. 86. World Wide Technology
  4. ^ Canales, Katie (June 24, 2018). "Here are the 26 top tech CEOs of 2018, according to the employees who work for them". Business Insider. Retrieved May 17, 2023. World Wide Technology — Jim Kavanaugh; #11 out of the top 100 CEOs
  5. ^ Snyder, Benjamin (June 21, 2017). "10 Highest Rated CEOS During the Coronavirus Crisis". CNBC. Retrieved May 17, 2023. 2. Jim Kavanaugh; Company: World Wide Technology

Reply 30-JUN-2023[edit]

🔼  Clarification requested  

  1. By their very nature, awards can be subjective, in that they represent a very specific point of view: that of the individual or organization which determines who wins the award and why. To counter this, a good practice is to limit the listing of awards to only those which are independently notable in Wikipedia.[a]
  2. To include a list of awards here, please ensure that only awards which are independently notable in Wikipedia are listed in the request.[b]
  3. When ready to proceed with the list of independently notable awards, kindly change the {{request edit}} template's answer parameter to read from |ans=yes to |ans=no. Thank you!

Regards,  Spintendo  19:54, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Notes

  1. ^ An award which is independently notable is recognized by having its own article in Wikipedia.
  2. ^ What the reviewer is asking for here is not due to WP:N (which is not a content requirement). The request for notability in this case is to ensure WP:NPOV. The adding of several points of view to an article in the form of an awards section may skew the article's balance.[1] Thus, this reviewer's own practice is to limit the listing of awards to those which are independently notable in Wikipedia.

References

  1. ^ "WP:BALANCE". Wikipedia. 20 July 2019. ...articles should not give minority views or aspects as much of or as detailed a description as more widely held views or widely supported aspects.
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