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FT awards Devin Wenig, ex-markets CEO, for jargon

Devin Wenig, the former markets division chief executive who left Thomson Reuters abruptly last July after slower than expected Q2 growth, has been named by the Financial Times as a winner of its annual jargon awards.

Wenig, pictured, receives the FT’s so-called guff award for the most spurious use of percentages over 100 per cent, said the newspaper’s associate editor, Lucy Kellaway

Now eBay’s president of global marketplaces business, “He said he was a mere ‘1,000 per cent committed’ to his new job but added an explanation that craftily kept up the mathematical theme. ‘At this point in my career, a big platform, big brand, and global impact were all part of what I was solving for in prioritising opportunities’”.

 

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