RGIS Decides to Unify North America and International Organizations, Appoints Asaf Cohen as Global CEO

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Sep 15, 2020, 13:00 ET

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Sept. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- RGIS, LLC, the global market leader in inventory and data collection, appoints Asaf Cohen, current CEO of International, as CEO of the company effective immediately. The RGIS Board of Directors has decided that it is in the best interests of the company to operate under a single CEO globally to enable a unified strategy, drive innovation, share best practices and pursue an aligned set of strategic initiatives and priorities between the regions. Given this organizational change, Siegfried De Smedt, the CEO of U.S. and Canada, will pursue opportunities outside of the company. He wishes RGIS and its customers continued success.

"We thank Siegfried for his commitment to our customers and dedication to RGIS during his tenure as CEO of U.S. & Canada," said John Madden, RGIS Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Cohen will continue to report to the Board and will be relocating to Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Asaf Cohen has been the CEO of International since September 2017, and has been with RGIS since 2007. Mr. Cohen has over twenty years of operational and strategic experience in senior management roles, including global sales organization management and international acquisitions. Mr. Cohen excels at driving growth via innovative technologies and products. Prior to RGIS, he founded ISICS Software Systems in 1999, and served as CEO until 2007 when ISICS was acquired by RGIS. Mr. Cohen earned a B.A. in Economics and Logistics in 1992 from Bar Ilan University, a B.A. in Accounting in 2003 from Tel Aviv University, and an Accounting Management degree from the Israeli Ministry of Law in 2003. He commanded armored units in the Israeli Defense Forces from 1992-1997, and also completed an advanced officer's course in combined logistics from the U.S. Army Logistics Academy in Fort Lee, Virginia in 1995.

RGIS takes clients beyond the count with integrated inventory services that include store surveys, space management, store remodels and resets, RFID solutions and asset optimization. With proven successes in all aspects of retail, healthcare and manufacturing inventory, it is no surprise that more organizations, in more places, trust RGIS to provide the information and insight they need to fully understand their assets and make better business decisions.

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Harvard researchers say the AI accurately forecast the impact of life-extending treatment or diets on mice.

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A new AI system that predicts the health spans of mice could help develop life-extension interventions for humans, according to the tool’s inventors.

The system analyzes established measures of frailty to gauge a mouse’s chronological age and their so-called biological age — the condition of their physical and mental functions.

It was created by researchers from Harvard Medical School’s Sinclair Lab, who say it’s the first study to track a mouse’s frailty for the duration of its life.

They plan to use the predictions to quickly test interventions intended to extend the mice’s lives and move towards doing the same in humans.

“It can take up to three years to complete a longevity study in mice to see if a particular drug or diet slows the aging process,” said study co-first author Alice Kane, a research fellow in genetics at Harvard Medical School’s Sinclair Lab. “Predictive biometrics can accelerate such research by indicating whether an intervention is likely to work.”

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The team first tracked the health of 60 aging mice until they died naturally. For more than a year, they carried out non-invasive tests on the mice, such as measures of their walking ability, back curvature, and hearing loss.

They used this training data to develop two AI models: one that detects a mouse’s biological age based on its frailty, and another that predicts how much longer it will live. In tests, the forecasts were accurate to within two months.

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The researchers then tracked the frailty of two groups of mice given life-extending treatment or diets. The team claims the AI accurately predicted whether the interventions improved their health or age.

The system also found that certain measures of frailty had a stronger link to future health. For example, hearing loss and body tremors were more closely connected to biological age than vision and whisker loss. In the future, the researchers want to give these factors more weight in their calculations.

The team admits the AI can’t yet be used to predict human health, which is influenced by a far more complex range of factors than those that affect mice. Frailty indices already exist for people, but the researchers haven’t found a suitable dataset tracking people from their 60s to their 90s with significant mortality follow-up data.

Nonetheless, they hope to one day develop a system that can more quickly and accurately predict human health spans and the effectiveness of life-extending interventions.

“Diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, neurodegeneration, and even severe COVID-19 predominantly affect older people,” said Kane. “We want to understand how the aging process itself works so we can find ways to reduce the incidence of all these diseases together, rather than one at a time.”

Researchers who wanna check how long their own mice have left to live can try the tools out for themselves. You can also read the research paper in Nature Communications.

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Published September 15, 2020 — 16:38 UTC

Thomas Macaulay

September 15, 2020 — 16:38 UTC

RGIS Decides to Unify North America and International Organizations\, Appoints Asaf Cohen as Global CEO

RGIS Decides to Unify North America and International Organizations, Appoints Asaf Cohen as Global CEO

RGIS Decides to Unify North America and International Organizations\, Appoints Asaf Cohen as Global CEO

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