Sentences with phrase «company board at»

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Now, it appears Whitman traded her HP Inc. board slot for one at Dropbox, a company that is a close partner of HPE.

She held various senior positions at Petro - Canada until she left the company in 1991, going on to serve on numerous corporate boards and start a governance consulting firm.

Learn how to get your entire company on board so customers see your brand at work in every aspect of your business.

British bank Barclays recently started issuing exchange - traded notes on the NYSE Arca exchange (similar to ETFs, only they are derivatives guaranteed by the bank rather than invested in the underlying securities) that track a Women in Leadership index of U.S. companies whose CEOs are women or whose boards are at least one - quarter female.

By replacing the directors — who presumably would side with Dauman — Redstone and his daughter Shari, who serves as Viacom's vice-chair, have given themselves a solid majority of the company's 11 - member board, aimed at withstanding even a challenge to Redstone's mental capacity.

«If you bring in more external people in the firm and board, it'll be positive for the company,» said Einar Lier Madsen, the study's author and a researcher at the Nordland Research Institute in Norway.

Intense international pressure at the government and company board level either shocked or shamed most brands into action.

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity at board level.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced Wednesday that he would be stepping down from his daily role at the company (he will continue to serve on Reddit's board).

Valeant's largest shareholder, billionaire and hedge funder John Paulson, has gained a seat on the drug maker's board, sending the beleaguered company's stock spiking more than 6 % in Monday trading (although it's still hovering at around the $ 13 mark).

Domestically, the company has also launched mobile boarding passes which further facilitates the process of flying by eliminating paper printouts and waiting in long check - in lines at the airport.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced Wednesday that he would be stepping down from his daily role at the company (he will continue to serve on its board).

Netflix CEO and Facebook board member Reed Hastings spoke on his company's culture and Facebook's recent privacy scandals at a TED conference in Vancouver on Saturday.

We looked at annual reports, board memberships, media clippings and more to find the leaders of Canada's public companies with real clout

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

The Catalyst global survey measured women's share of board seats at stock market index companies in 20 countries (Canada's figures come from companies included in the S&P / TSX index).

The board also promised to establish «a new mind - set» at the company, with «more capacity for criticism» — seemingly conceding there was something poisonous about the culture Winterkorn presided over.

Having counseled boards at major companies including General Motors, General Electric, American Express, Macy's, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Westinghouse, and countless others, he believes most U.S. directors still aren't doing their job well enough.

«On behalf of everyone at MTS, I want to thank Alon for his service and substantial contributions to the Company since he joined us in 2007 and wish him great success in his new professional path,» said Mr. Haim Mer, the Company's Chairman of the Board.

At the end of 2016, 738 companies — roughly 25 percent of the list — had no women on their boards of directors.

Even when comparing the sexes with the same job title at the same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.

On May 12, Tim Hortons held a conference call with financial analysts who had plenty of questions for Don Schroeder, a long time executive who everybody assumed held the confidence of the board as company CEO at the time.

The company has had its fair share of attention as of late, as it was revealed this week that Sean Rad is stepping down as CEO, but staying on at the company as president and board member.

Microsoft has diverse representation at its highest ranks, including an African - American board chairman, an Indian CEO and a female CFO, but the overall statistics aren't flattering: the company is 61 % white and 71 % male.

The Equilar Gender Diversity Index looks at the female representation on the boards of the biggest companies in the United States.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

Benchmark Capital, which has a board seat at Uber, first invested $ 11 million in the company during its Series A funding round in 2011.

At the White House's first United States of Women Summit in 2016, Buffett confessed that he only thought to put a woman on the Berkshire Hathaway board in 2003 — nearly 40 years after taking over the company — by the suggestion of his wife Susie.

At least one portfolio company has reacted: Havenly, a startup backed by Binary, reportedly asked Caldbeck to step down as a board observer.

Looking at the number of options awarded by S&P 500 companies for the roughly two decades between 1992 and 2010, they found about 20 % of the time boards simply kept the number of options they granted to their top executive the same from one year to the next.

The appointments are significant at a time when more and more companies are coming under fire for their lack of board diversity.

Yet somehow, in the U.S., large public companies can't seem to seem to make any progress at all in getting more women onto their boards of directors.

We even know that, if there is even one woman on a company's board of directors, attendance is better at board meetings.

After that news unfolded, The Street started calling board members, especially angling to chat with the three longest - serving directors at the company.

While it may seem counterintuitive that board members at publicly traded companies can remain so secretive, experts say that isn't so unusual.

By law, labor receives board representation at all but the smallest German companies.

In a further sign of change at the beleaguered BlackBerry maker, former co-CEO Jim Balsillie departed from the company's board just two months after he and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-CEOs.

The second conundrum is that if the board decides that the company needs another innovator at the helm, you can almost guarantee that the best executor - the number 2 and / or 3 vice president in the company - will leave, feeling that they deserved the job.

Cohen, 51, first caught Trump's eye in the early 2000s when, as a member of the condo board at a Trump property, he took it upon himself to wade into a nasty dispute between Trump's management company and some residents at a skyscraper near the United Nations.

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.

It's worth noting the team that brought the company to this point are all still on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March); former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and former chairman Michael Brown remains a director.

At a time when a stock market rally has made private equity firms reluctant to take companies private for fear of overpaying, the deal illustrates how activist investors have the potential to drive corporate boards to explore such deals and accept a price that makes a leveraged buyout possible.

The dilemma facing the boards at Microsoft, Apple or any board of directors on the departure of an innovative CEO is strategic: Do we want still want to be a innovative, risk taking company?

Have you ever seen a situation where a new manager comes on board but it's his or her admin who has worked at the company forever who everyone goes to for advice?

The former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley (ms) has been tangled up in issues at LendingClub (lc), the online lending company where he has sat on the board since 2012.

With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had built SinglePlatform's entire product team — on board as a cofounder, and got started on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.

One board member at an energy company carries around a wooden phone — as a joke mocking his colleagues» smartphone dependency.

Shares in junior miner Excelsior Gold were pummelled today after the company's new board revealed the full extent of operational issues at its flagship Kalgoorlie North mine.