Sentences with phrase «ceo runs the board»

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In 2014, Kaz Nejatian persuaded former Visa CEO Joseph Saunders to invest in and become the chairman of the board of his credit card payments startup: «Joe kept telling us to worry about scale — to worry about how this would work when we're running hundreds of thousands of transactions per second as opposed to one or two.

Yes, you're running a business, but it doesn't feel like a real business because you find yourself staring at your CEO, board of directors and staff while you're brushing your teeth in the morning and walk past your «world headquarters» as you make your way back to your bedroom to get dressed.

Chicago - based Groupon announced that Lefkofsky, who had been temporarily running the daily deals website since founding CEO Andrew Mason was ousted in February, has been appointed permanent CEO by the board of directors.

And so, this startup found itself with a «founder friendly» board that believed that the company could grow at a greater rate if the founding CEO continued to run the company.

Uber's Travis Kalanick was granted three extra board seats last year in order to give «the CEO the control he needs to run the company.»

When HP tapped L?o Apotheker, the former CEO of SAP, Oracle's archrival in business - application programs, as its new commander - in - chief, Ellison charged HP with «[picking] a guy who was recently fired because he did such a bad job of running SAP,» and called for the board's immediate, «en masse» resignation.

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.

The outgoing CEO noted in a regular update to the board that the new CEO had not asked a single question about how the business was currently running.

These may seem like arcane governance issues but they can make a big difference in how a board is run — and how well it acts as an effective control of a company's executives: in this case, both the executive chair and the CEO.

As Elliott ramped up its pressure on Arconic, friends and colleagues of Kleinfeld, along with board members of Arconic, reported more suspicious run - ins: Others who live near the CEO were followed to a local restaurant by strangers who then approached the couple; they claimed to be considering investing with Kleinfeld, but first had a few questions.

CEO Stephen Sadler used to run Geac Computer Corp. (he sold it for $ 1 billion), and he's on Open Text's board.

Salmon points out that «not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.»

John Cahill, Kraft chairman and CEO, will become vice chairman and run a newly formed operations and strategy committee on the board.

Famed economist Michael Jensen identified the potential benefits in his 1993 Presidential Address to the American Finance Association, arguing that: «The function of the chairman is to run the board meetings and oversee the process of hiring, firing, evaluation, and compensating the CEO.

Even if they're meeting the CEO of an organization, there's always a chance that CEO has to run decisions by a board or some subordinates.

Investors want the ailing burrito chain to split the chairman and CEO roles and appoint an independent to run the board.

Miyoko Schinner, CEO of Miyoko's Kitchen and a board member on the association, ran into trouble when she began selling «cheese» from nut proteins and reached out to Simon for assistance.

From the owner, to the board members, to big shareholders, to the CEO, to the manager, to the players how can you look yourself in the mirror and be proud of such a poorly ran football club?

its up to the ceo and and wenger to make sure results on the pitch are as good as of it the board does its part to make sure we run stability but the football side needs to catch up and take us forward.

As expected, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, a Democrat, appointed Tsunis, chairman and CEO of Chartwell Hotels, as the new chairman of the board for the Nassau Health Care Corp., the public benefit corporation that runs the hospital in East Meadow and associated facilities.

Tsunis, president and CEO of Chartwell Hotels and a major Democratic fundraiser, is expected to be installed before the 15 - member board of Nassau Health Care Corp., the public benefit corporation that runs the hospital in East Meadow and associated facilities, meets Thursday evening.

«This is a very good way to do things because it minimizes the cost to taxpayers without having to duplicate existing infrastructure,» says Frederick Dylla, CEO of the American Institute of Physics and a board member of a coalition of publishers that runs CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States), a system for providing links to papers on journal's sites.

But Frederick Dylla, executive director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and a board member of CHOR Inc., which runs CHORUS, says the group is «working towards» allowing full - text and data mining.

As Giuliani's intervention illustrates, the question of who should run big - city schools is not only who should be the CEO, but also who should serve on the board of directors.

At the same forum, Ben Kleban, CEO of New Orleans College Prep, said, «I don't think just because the school board isn't going to be directly running the schools as it used to that that means that there can't be appropriate engagement and oversight from our local community.»

Last week, the nonprofit board that runs the six - school charter network selected Kevin Guitterrez as its next CEO.

The nonprofit board that runs ReNEW Schools is poised to hire Kevin Guitterrez as its CEO tonight after interviewing three finalists in private, likely violating the state Open Meetings Law.

Mitchell is an Amazon bestselling author with forty business books, contributor at Entrepreneur Magazine, has provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, has advised over five hundred CEOs on critical business issues through the CEO networking groups he's run, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ - listed company.

The annual business - concept competition awards «the best entrepreneurial approaches that solve one or more of the challenges facing America's 193 - million - acre National Forest System,» according to the National Forest Foundation (NFF), which runs the competition with sponsorship from the Barrett Foundation, led by Craig R. Barrett, former CEO of Intel and current chairman of the NFF's Board of Directors.

Hutton says that because M's «google» everything, they're less apt to believe a CEO or other top - management level exec who claims cluelessness regarding what skullduggery her underlings were up to, figuring she should've searched for, say, «Ways my traitorous employees are undermining my fastidious, ethical and totally above - board running of this company.»

In order to get a company's CEO or COO on board with bringing in technology for in - house counsel, you need to get the CTO and IT department on board, and often that requires legal tech partners to bring in their own implementation team to help with the sometimes lengthy process of getting this new tech up and running.

Trump White House Senior Adviser Steve Bannon sat on Cambridge Analytica's board while running operations at Breitbart before becoming Trump's campaign CEO.

Adding even more credibility to the Hyperledger Blockchain run by the Linux Foundation — the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source has elected Jeff Garzik, CEO and co — founder of Bloq, as their representative to The Linux Foundation Board of Directors.

A CEO needs to implement high - level strategy; ensure that teams are functioning optimally; make key decisions that serve the best interest of both the company and its customers; keep operations running smoothly; and liaise between the board of directors and corporate operations.

«In those cases, the boards aren't going to let the CEOs do anything egregious,» says Ferguson, «but CEOs will get pretty free reign to run the business as they like.»

The Southland Regional Association of REALTORS ® in Van Nuys, Calif., specifically seeks out members of different backgrounds and areas of expertise to run for the board, says association CEO James Link, CAE.