Saturday 10 October 2009
"Not having set goals financial or personal that needed to be achieved by a date certain, I am free to pursue my open-ended objectives: a happy marriage, kids who seek success for their own fulfillment and not for the greater glory of their parents, friends who share universal values but present them in novel and fun packages, a dog who is always happy to see me, and the sort of work at which one does not eagerly count the days to retirement,” he writes.
Glocer quotes philosopher-poet George Santayana thus: “For these once mine, my heart is rich with these.” But on the eve of his 50th birthday, he admits to fearing one aspect of the anniversary.
"In the Pyrrhic battle against aging but not age, I put in my time at the gym and its sweaty blend of weights and technology. I have long since resigned myself to punching my true body weight into treadmills, cross-trainers and stationary bicycles, and I had little trouble entering ‘49’ this time last year. However, I can’t quite yet see myself entering ‘50’ tomorrow. Perhaps for all sorts of good reasons, I should get to the gym still tonight.”
Glocer turned 50 on 8 October.
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Party animals at the museum
Saturday 27 June 2009
There was much lamenting by guests of CEO Tom Glocer at his UK summer party on that day’s news that Thomson Reuters was leaving the London Stock Exchange, the Financial Times reported.
It was notable that while co-deputy chairman Niall FitzGerald was there, his fellow co-deputy chair and president of the Thomson family investment arm, Geoff Beattie, stayed in New York, it said.
“Although the event had moved from the main hall of the British Museum to the Nereid Gallery, fellow Thomson Reuters director Ken Olisa teased Mr Glocer about his love of parties.”
Thomson Reuters deal banker Robin Budenburg of UBS appeared cheerful despite the dual listing being abandoned, the FT said. JPMorgan Cazenove’s Charlie Harman – also part of the banking team which advised Thomson Reuters on the “unification” – seemed relieved that the news had gone down fairly smoothly.
The skiing Glocers
Saturday 14 February 2009
Tom Glocer’ s prowess on the ski slopes rates a mention in the Financial Times magazine in a light-hearted sidebar to reports of sombre discussions at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.
“A few highs - but mountains still to climb” runs the headline, with this paragraph:
“So, plenty of gloom at Davos, but here are 10 of the less serious revelations from the snow this year… Robin Buchanan, president of the London Business School, can ski - but not as well as Reuters' Tom Glocer and his wife Maarit…”
