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Title: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: bloodmoney on February 23, 2007, 07:56:01 PM
http://stoneridgepartners.biz/principals.htm (http://stoneridgepartners.biz/principals.htm)
 :-D  :lol:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Doobrey on February 23, 2007, 08:11:43 PM
Nice find, always wondered what happened to him

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His prior experience includes serving as the President of Commodore International, where he accomplished a major operational turnaround.


Hmmm, that's a novel way of saying 'he drove the company so far into the ground that it resurfaced in Australia' :lol:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Zac67 on February 23, 2007, 08:33:32 PM
 :roflmao:  :laughing:  :roflmao:

Look closely: there are even TWO Mehdi Alis - this time they probably resurface on Mars!

 :smack:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: bloodmoney on February 23, 2007, 08:39:44 PM
One to take over each of the two amiga inc.s
 :lol:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Plaz on February 23, 2007, 10:03:17 PM
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where he accomplished a major operational turnaround


Oh, man. I just don't have any comment that does this line justice.

And as for the rest of the resume, it could just as easily say...
"I hung around while stuff got done.":-P

Plaz
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Amiduffer on February 23, 2007, 10:14:12 PM
 :getmad: Grrrr. Stoneridge seems to a bit player in the lucrative "business" of looting companies to death. No surprise that Ali would wind up in such a place.

Pay attention to German Vice-Chancellor Franz Muentefering's comments on "locusts" i.e. hedge funds.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Vlabguy1 on February 23, 2007, 10:21:20 PM
Ha..We should all email him..just to say hi..say thanks for NOTHING..that SOB


We should tell him what we all think of him...
He worked for GM..and look at them now the're doing great..yeah right..
He will prob. run that place into the ground and bring his son down with him

Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: LoadWB on February 23, 2007, 10:51:31 PM
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major operational turnaround


That's market-speak for "ran it into the ground and robbed it blind in the process."
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Vlabguy1 on February 23, 2007, 10:58:52 PM
Wow..that place is not too far from me..

Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Fester on February 23, 2007, 11:03:20 PM
"...His prior experience includes serving as the President of Commodore International, where he accomplished a major operational turnaround...."

Yes yes, that's all very true indeed. The "On The Edge" book however, didn't quite spin the whole situation in quite the same light.

"major operational turnaround." :-) ...A guy with a sense of humor.

Fester
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Markus_Bieler on February 23, 2007, 11:04:00 PM
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We should tell him what we all think of him...


We should tell him "to rescue AmigaInc"

Markus
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Vlabguy1 on February 23, 2007, 11:29:12 PM
remember when Billy boy Gates got Pied in the face.....mmmmm..
That would be great to see on video..Mehdi Ali ..gettin a face full of pie
a red and white checked pie at that..


Man I hate that guy
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Akiko on February 24, 2007, 12:51:21 AM

Isn't he like ancient now?
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Matt_H on February 24, 2007, 04:02:34 AM
So after all these years he turns up. I thought he was hiding out in the Bahamas, or in jail, or something.

It might be fun to set up a fake company for him to ruin... along with whatever professional credibility he has left.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: TjLaZer on February 24, 2007, 04:16:38 AM
"major operational turnaround"  That is an understatement!!  He helped kill the company!! LOL

Heh I was just watching The Deathbed Vigil and saw his name on speed bumps, that was funny.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: seanys on February 24, 2007, 05:14:48 AM
Reading that I can't help but think that he was specifically brought in to break up C=. Every position listed there mentions restructuring.

What if he was just doing what he was told? ie. break it up so it can be sold.

Either way, we all lost.

Damn, I just made myself sad :-(
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: justthatgood on February 24, 2007, 01:08:42 PM
There are actually some companies that hire people like that to assassinate the companies they own. I know it's all about conspiracies and stuff, but that kind of stuff happens.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: jkirk on February 24, 2007, 01:22:45 PM
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Plaz wrote:
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where he accomplished a major operational turnaround


Oh, man. I just don't have any comment that does this line justice.


but he was right. wasn't commodore doing reasonably well before he took over? i call that an operations turnaround. marketing speak while hoping nobody digs into his credentials.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: The_Editor on February 24, 2007, 11:44:39 PM
Well I hope there are RSS feeds on these threads so if anyone googles the *unt they WONT see sugar coated BullSHyte
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: bloodline on February 25, 2007, 03:10:40 AM
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seanys wrote:
Reading that I can't help but think that he was specifically brought in to break up C=. Every position listed there mentions restructuring.


I don't think he was brought in  to break Commodore Up, I think he just found that it was very profitable and enjoyed the process so much he turned it into a career :-)

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What if he was just doing what he was told? ie. break it up so it can be sold.



I think he was someone who didn't understand the computer industry, so decided to set himself up by robbing the company blind and smahing it to peices.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: kvasir on February 25, 2007, 08:17:37 AM
Isn't this the guy who a bunch of commodore techs made a doll out of and torched after the drunken night after commodore went under? I remember seeing that on deathbed vigil a while back.  Nice site, though. stole the marble background.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: weirdami on February 25, 2007, 08:31:47 AM
All the "transactions" are generically listed as "company". They did so well, those companies don't even need names!
 :crazy:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: da9000 on March 17, 2007, 12:55:18 PM
@Vlabguy1:

I like that idea. Maybe we should setup a fund for this?
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Karlos on March 17, 2007, 01:26:40 PM
There's no accident "unfortunate" enough for that b*stard.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: da9000 on March 17, 2007, 02:24:29 PM
Hehehehe, true indeed! :-D
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: Floid on March 17, 2007, 05:15:19 PM
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Vlabguy1 wrote:
Wow..that place is not too far from me..


Ugh, not too far from you?  I went to school there and still drive through it on the way to work.

Probably a rough second to Greenwich as an enclave for money, so it's not really a surprise... but with all the media attention such funds are getting, it would be nice to attract some to these claims.

As to the real fate of CBM, I get the impression that most late management, especially management brought in, just figured it was doomed for not focusing on the growing and lucrative 'IBM'/Windows market and acted 'appropriately.'  Since none of the other players left (excluding failing Atari, struggling Apple, and layoff-happy IBM) were very reliant on in-house R&D, CBM was in a rough position no matter what... and Hombre-as-a-GPU could've been the product to make the R&D business profitable, but by then the looting was in full swing.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: 57goldtop on October 06, 2008, 11:06:43 AM
He is actually involved in at least one more start-up company.

http://meridianassociates.biz/professional.htm

"Mr. Mehdi Ali is a Principal at Stone Ridge Partners. He has held the position since the firm’s inception in 1996. His background includes more than 20 years of operating experience. Mr. Ali is also a Founder of Meridian Consulting. He served as the President of Commodore International, where he accomplished a major operational turnaround. Mr. Ali served as a Vice President at General Motors Corporation and was instrumental in improving the performance of a number of ..."


SRP on businessweek.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=12677932&privcapId=12675601&previousCapId=0&previousTitle=



Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: impactor on October 06, 2008, 02:55:30 PM
Whose up for some trolling of stone ridge partners?!   :lol:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: hooligan on October 06, 2008, 03:12:09 PM
This might be illegal, but are there any volunteersnipers around here for hire. Maybe we could come up with a bounty.



 :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: impactor on October 06, 2008, 03:18:26 PM
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hooligan wrote:
This might be illegal, but are there any volunteersnipers around here for hire. Maybe we could come up with a bounty.



 :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:  :crazy:


I think death by dropping an A4000 on him from a great height (like off of stone ridge partners building) would be proper.   :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: ZeBeeDee on October 06, 2008, 03:32:22 PM
Waste of a perfectly good A4000 there @ impactor ...

" death by bunda (http://www.infolanka.com/jokes/messages/1985.html) " would be more appropriate in this instance, me thinks ... anybody know where we can get a rampant wildebeast???

Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: 57goldtop on October 06, 2008, 04:04:48 PM
I am thinking of sending him a copy of The Deathbed Vigil.
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: huronking on October 06, 2008, 04:12:20 PM
Wow, quite the Midas touch there, Mehdi.

Now, don't rush to color me skeptical, but is there a reason
such a financial powerhouse would have a .BIZ domain?
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: 57goldtop on October 06, 2008, 04:32:36 PM
Good question.

Both domains were registered by Jim Laird.

Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: impactor on October 06, 2008, 04:37:59 PM
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57goldtop wrote:
Good question.

Both domains were registered by Jim Laird.



The plot thickens...

http://meridianassociates.biz/professional.htm

And it seems .biz domains are the order of the day for company smasher Ali and co.  :lol:
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: cv643d on October 06, 2008, 04:44:59 PM
.biz is associated with spammers because they are so cheap to buy in bulk, other than that there is nothing wrong with them (no matter how much SEO-nerds speculate of how much Google punish such domains even if they are WH).
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: impactor on October 06, 2008, 06:19:24 PM
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ZeBeeDee wrote:
Waste of a perfectly good A4000 there @ impactor ...

" death by bunda (http://www.infolanka.com/jokes/messages/1985.html) " would be more appropriate in this instance, me thinks ... anybody know where we can get a rampant wildebeast???



Yes, you're quite right, and also that would be too honourable a death for him!

Death by bunda it is  :-D
Title: Re: He he.. look who I found.
Post by: HopperJF on October 06, 2008, 10:29:01 PM
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Mehdi’s background includes more than twenty years of operating experience. His prior experience includes serving as the President of Commodore International, where he accomplished a major operational turnaround.


Pah!!!
You all beat me to it  :-P