John "Chip" Beake (born May 27, 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American football coach. Most recently, he served as wide receivers coach for the Amsterdam Admirals in NFL Europe.
Coaching career
His experience with coaching began when he was still young, with his father, John, who worked for the Denver Broncos for 22 years, including as general manager from 1985-1998, and who is now NFL Europa's Managing Director of Operations. Chip Beake himself also gained experience on the college level with Colorado School of Mines, McPherson College in Kansas, the University of Kentucky and Oklahoma State.
Beak's was already active in Europe in 1995 when the football league was still called the World League of American Football (WLAF). He spent five seasons (1995-2000) as an assistant coach, co-defensive coordinator, secondary coach and special teams coach with the Barcelona Dragons (where he met his wife), winning a World Bowl ring in 1997. During his time in NFL Europa, Beake spent his off-seasons working with NFL teams during training camp, gaining experience on both offensive and defensive sides of the ball. He helped prepare the Dallas Cowboys in 1997-1998, the Green Bay Packers in 1999 and the Tennessee Titans, as an intern, in 2000.
After this, Beake moved on to become an offensive assistant and quality control coach with the New Orleans Saints from 2001 to 2005. Here he was responsible for breaking down player footage and assisting with game preparation.
In 2006, he spent the NFL season serving as offensive quality control coach for the Denver Broncos, marking his sixth year working in the NFL.
Later Career
Chip works as an insurance agent in Fort Collins, CO.
Coaching career
His experience with coaching began when he was still young, with his father, John, who worked for the Denver Broncos for 22 years, including as general manager from 1985-1998, and who is now NFL Europa's Managing Director of Operations. Chip Beake himself also gained experience on the college level with Colorado School of Mines, McPherson College in Kansas, the University of Kentucky and Oklahoma State.
Beak's was already active in Europe in 1995 when the football league was still called the World League of American Football (WLAF). He spent five seasons (1995-2000) as an assistant coach, co-defensive coordinator, secondary coach and special teams coach with the Barcelona Dragons (where he met his wife), winning a World Bowl ring in 1997. During his time in NFL Europa, Beake spent his off-seasons working with NFL teams during training camp, gaining experience on both offensive and defensive sides of the ball. He helped prepare the Dallas Cowboys in 1997-1998, the Green Bay Packers in 1999 and the Tennessee Titans, as an intern, in 2000.
After this, Beake moved on to become an offensive assistant and quality control coach with the New Orleans Saints from 2001 to 2005. Here he was responsible for breaking down player footage and assisting with game preparation.
In 2006, he spent the NFL season serving as offensive quality control coach for the Denver Broncos, marking his sixth year working in the NFL.
Later Career
Chip works as an insurance agent in Fort Collins, CO.
Neo Financial Technologies Inc. is a Canadian financial technology company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. The company combines digital banking and credit card features, with a network of merchant reward offerings that are personalised to individual spending behaviour.
Company Overview
Neo Financial was founded in 2019 by Andrew Chau, Jeff Adamson, and Kris Read in Calgary, Alberta as a digital alternative to traditional banking. Neo Financial offers a no-annual-fee credit card and savings account that pays a high-interest on balances.
In comparison to standard cash back or points-based cards, Neo partners directly with merchants and provides customers with instant rewards that are tracked within the Neo app.
Neo is one of the first portfolio companies under Harvest, a venture builder in the Canadian Prairies, started by Chris Simair, a co-founder of SkipTheDishes.
Founding Team
The founding team of Neo Financial experienced success in the Canadian start-up world, founding SkipTheDishes in 2012. SkipTheDishes was sold to JustEat for $200 million in December 2016.
Funding
Neo has raised funds in an undisclosed round, as the company is currently privately funded.
Business Model
In contrast with traditional Canadian banks, Neo does not have any physical locations or branches and does not charge monthly fees for the high-interest Neo Savings account. For the Neo credit card, which is a Mastercard, it does not have an annual fee. Like other digital banks, customers can access their account through a mobile app for iOS and Android.
See Also
* Financial Technology
* Challenger Banks
* Revolut
* Monzo
Company Overview
Neo Financial was founded in 2019 by Andrew Chau, Jeff Adamson, and Kris Read in Calgary, Alberta as a digital alternative to traditional banking. Neo Financial offers a no-annual-fee credit card and savings account that pays a high-interest on balances.
In comparison to standard cash back or points-based cards, Neo partners directly with merchants and provides customers with instant rewards that are tracked within the Neo app.
Neo is one of the first portfolio companies under Harvest, a venture builder in the Canadian Prairies, started by Chris Simair, a co-founder of SkipTheDishes.
Founding Team
The founding team of Neo Financial experienced success in the Canadian start-up world, founding SkipTheDishes in 2012. SkipTheDishes was sold to JustEat for $200 million in December 2016.
Funding
Neo has raised funds in an undisclosed round, as the company is currently privately funded.
Business Model
In contrast with traditional Canadian banks, Neo does not have any physical locations or branches and does not charge monthly fees for the high-interest Neo Savings account. For the Neo credit card, which is a Mastercard, it does not have an annual fee. Like other digital banks, customers can access their account through a mobile app for iOS and Android.
See Also
* Financial Technology
* Challenger Banks
* Revolut
* Monzo
Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao is PhD student at Cornell known for his project HI-Light that converts CO2 into fuel such as syngas or methanol.
Education
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Cao obtained his joint Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Energy and Power, and English Literature in 2013 from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
McGill University
In 2014, Cao started studying at McGill University towards Master of Engineering in Materials Engineering with a joint training by MIT during his last year. He worked in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering along with Professor Michael Short & Professor Matteo Bucci, on developing ways to prevent accidents such as the Fukushima nuclear disaster from 2011. At McGill, he worked under the supervision Professor Roderick Guthrie & Dr. Mihaiela Isac, on developing a way to detect micro-bubbles enabling a clean steel production.
Cornell University
Cao is currently earning his PhD at Cornell University and working in the Erickson Lab, which is led by Prof. David Erickson, at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is majoring in Micro and Nanoscale Engineering with minors in Energy and Sustainability, Infection and Immunity, and Entrepreneurship. His thesis is on HI-Light - A new way of converting CO2 into fuels. He is also working on FeverPhone, a smartphone that can detect six acute febrile illness.
HI-Light
HI-Light is a project being developed by Cao during his PhD. Cao is working with Prof. David Erickson, the Mechanical Engineering professor in charge of the Erickson Lab and Tobias Hanrath, another professor of Cornell and a private company Dimensional Energy. HI-Light is a solar thermal chemical reactor technology for converting CO2 with water to hydrocarbons such as methanol. The reactor consists of tubes to guide the light into the reactor that acts as a photothermal catalyst thus allowing faster reaction rates and selectivity of higher hydrocarbons. This technique could reduce the carbon footprint of producing fossil carbon and use the carbon waste already present in our atmosphere. It was mentioned by Cao during an interview that another possible application for HI-Light could be to produce fuel on Mars, as there is a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thus maybe enabling people to go to Mars.
FeverPhone
FeverPhone is a portable disease diagnosis kit to work with a smartphone or a tablet enabling a differential diagnosis of acute febrile illnesses such as Dengue, Malaria and others in less than 15 minutes, when in the US it can take one day to get the results and in some countries they can't tell the difference. One drop of blood is taken by finger stick and placed on a test strip which is then inserted in a portable station which can test for the following six diseases : Dengue, malaria, chagas, leptospirosis, chikungunya, typhoid. This new technology would be efficient and inexpensive making it very attractive for the countries mostly affected by those diseases, this is why some are working in Ecuador.
In 2016, National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded to Cornell a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop FeverPhone.
Achievements
Future Energy Leader
In October 2019, Cao was name a Future Energy Leader by BP.
INK Fellow
In October 2019, Xiangkun Cao was selected as an INK fellow and spoke at INK Conference in 2019.
Honorable Mentions
Forbes 30 under 30
Cao was in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2019 in the Energy Category for his work on HI-Light.
AACYF Top 30 under 30
Cao is part of the All America Chinese Youth Federation Top 30 under 30, in 2019, for his work on both HI-Light and FeverPhone in the Art, Culture, Science domain.
EarthX 30 under 30: The Green Generation
In 2019, Cao was in EarthX 30 under 30: The Green Generation list.
Education
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Cao obtained his joint Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Energy and Power, and English Literature in 2013 from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
McGill University
In 2014, Cao started studying at McGill University towards Master of Engineering in Materials Engineering with a joint training by MIT during his last year. He worked in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering along with Professor Michael Short & Professor Matteo Bucci, on developing ways to prevent accidents such as the Fukushima nuclear disaster from 2011. At McGill, he worked under the supervision Professor Roderick Guthrie & Dr. Mihaiela Isac, on developing a way to detect micro-bubbles enabling a clean steel production.
Cornell University
Cao is currently earning his PhD at Cornell University and working in the Erickson Lab, which is led by Prof. David Erickson, at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is majoring in Micro and Nanoscale Engineering with minors in Energy and Sustainability, Infection and Immunity, and Entrepreneurship. His thesis is on HI-Light - A new way of converting CO2 into fuels. He is also working on FeverPhone, a smartphone that can detect six acute febrile illness.
HI-Light
HI-Light is a project being developed by Cao during his PhD. Cao is working with Prof. David Erickson, the Mechanical Engineering professor in charge of the Erickson Lab and Tobias Hanrath, another professor of Cornell and a private company Dimensional Energy. HI-Light is a solar thermal chemical reactor technology for converting CO2 with water to hydrocarbons such as methanol. The reactor consists of tubes to guide the light into the reactor that acts as a photothermal catalyst thus allowing faster reaction rates and selectivity of higher hydrocarbons. This technique could reduce the carbon footprint of producing fossil carbon and use the carbon waste already present in our atmosphere. It was mentioned by Cao during an interview that another possible application for HI-Light could be to produce fuel on Mars, as there is a lot of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thus maybe enabling people to go to Mars.
FeverPhone
FeverPhone is a portable disease diagnosis kit to work with a smartphone or a tablet enabling a differential diagnosis of acute febrile illnesses such as Dengue, Malaria and others in less than 15 minutes, when in the US it can take one day to get the results and in some countries they can't tell the difference. One drop of blood is taken by finger stick and placed on a test strip which is then inserted in a portable station which can test for the following six diseases : Dengue, malaria, chagas, leptospirosis, chikungunya, typhoid. This new technology would be efficient and inexpensive making it very attractive for the countries mostly affected by those diseases, this is why some are working in Ecuador.
In 2016, National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded to Cornell a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop FeverPhone.
Achievements
Future Energy Leader
In October 2019, Cao was name a Future Energy Leader by BP.
INK Fellow
In October 2019, Xiangkun Cao was selected as an INK fellow and spoke at INK Conference in 2019.
Honorable Mentions
Forbes 30 under 30
Cao was in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2019 in the Energy Category for his work on HI-Light.
AACYF Top 30 under 30
Cao is part of the All America Chinese Youth Federation Top 30 under 30, in 2019, for his work on both HI-Light and FeverPhone in the Art, Culture, Science domain.
EarthX 30 under 30: The Green Generation
In 2019, Cao was in EarthX 30 under 30: The Green Generation list.
William Benjamin "Bill" Dean (died 11 March 1942) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Arsenal. Joining in 1940, Dean appeared in 3 matches before joining the Royal Navy. He was killed in the sinking of the on 11 March 1942.
Football career
Dean made his first appearance in October 1940 for a match against Southend United. He made two more appearances in the 1940-41 season before joining the Royal Navy.
Military career and death
Dean was posted to the , a light cruiser which, at the time, was being used to resupply the defenders of Malta. On 11 March 1942, the Naiad sailed from Alexandria as the flagship of a convoy of 2 cruisers and 8 destroyers to attack a reportedly damaged Italian cruiser. This report turned out to be incorrect, and the convoy was joined by cruiser and destroyer , both from Malta. The convoy turned around and headed back toward Alexandria. Off the town of Sidi Barrani, the Naiad was torpedoed by , killing 82 people on board, including Dean, serving as a stoker second class. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
Football career
Dean made his first appearance in October 1940 for a match against Southend United. He made two more appearances in the 1940-41 season before joining the Royal Navy.
Military career and death
Dean was posted to the , a light cruiser which, at the time, was being used to resupply the defenders of Malta. On 11 March 1942, the Naiad sailed from Alexandria as the flagship of a convoy of 2 cruisers and 8 destroyers to attack a reportedly damaged Italian cruiser. This report turned out to be incorrect, and the convoy was joined by cruiser and destroyer , both from Malta. The convoy turned around and headed back toward Alexandria. Off the town of Sidi Barrani, the Naiad was torpedoed by , killing 82 people on board, including Dean, serving as a stoker second class. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.