Blake Grossman

Blake Grossman was the chief executive officer of Barclays Global Investors, the investment management arm of Barclays Bank, the British financial institution.[1]

Biography

Blake Grossman is a native of Canoga Park, California (outside of Los Angeles). He earned his master's degree in economics from Stanford in 1985, where he studied under William Sharpe, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Global Investors, the institutional asset management subsidiary of Barclays PLC. In June it was announced that BlackRock Inc had reached an agreement to acquire Barclays Global Investors. Upon closing of that transaction, Grossman became a Vice Chairman of BlackRock, overseeing the firms Index and Scientific Active investment business, only to leave one year later.[2]

gollark: Oh, so you mean this `hdr` goes at the start and the `dofs` thing tells you where the bit appended to the end is?
gollark: Perhaps the headers should also store the location of the last header, in case of [DATA EXPUNGED].
gollark: There are some important considerations here: it should be able to deal with damaged/partial files, encryption would be nice to have (it would probably work to just run it through authenticated AES-whatever when writing), adding new files shouldn't require tons of seeking, and it might be necessary to store backups on FAT32 disks so maybe it needs to be able of using multiple files somehow.
gollark: Hmm, so, designoidal idea:- files have the following metadata: filename, last modified time, maybe permissions (I may not actually need this), size, checksum, flags (in case I need this later; probably just compression format?)- each version of a file in an archive has this metadata in front of it- when all the files in some set of data are archived, a header gets written to the end with all the file metadata plus positions- when backup is rerun, the system™ just checks the last modified time of everything and sees if its local copies are newer, and if so appends them to the end; when it is done a new header is added containing all the files- when a backup needs to be extracted, it just reads the end and decompresses stuff at the right offset
gollark: I don't know what you mean "dofs", data offsets?

References
  1. Blake R. Grossman businessweek.com. Retrieved February 2011
  2. Bhaktavatsalam, Sree Vidya, Blackrocks Blake Grossman will leave Firm one year after BGI Acquisition January 2011, bloomberg.com. Retrieved February 2011


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