Sentences with phrase «among boards of companies»

In addition, a recent study by the executive data firm Equilar tracks perceptible progress among boards of companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index in reaching gender diversity.

Not exact matches

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.

«The investigations, along with current discussions among shareholders, possible changes in the board of directors and management, will be a distraction,» Moody's said in a statement March 6, also highlighting the company's «weak credit metrics.»

As Aimia's largest shareholder with nearly 20 per cent of the company, Mittleman said he's going to be an advocate on the board for creating shareholder value, something he predicted will spread among management and fellow board members.

The firm's investigation seeks to determine, among other things, whether the Company's Board of Directors failed to satisfy their duties to shareholders, including whether the Board adequately pursued alternatives to the acquisition and whether the Board obtained the best price possible for the Company's shares of common stock.

Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

Prominent Perth company director Tracey Horton is among a group of business leaders appointed to a new federal Treasury advisory council designed to replicate the discipline provided by a private sector governance board.

Consulting firm Spencer Stuart reports that last year 43 % of new board appointments among Canada's 100 largest companies were women, a leap from 28 % in 2013 and three times the rate in 2009.

Among his top reasons is the compounded 21 % per year that it's returned ever since Pierre Lessard, former CEO and president and now chairman of the board, took over the company in 1990.

We discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers matters that independent registered public accounting firms must discuss with audit committees under generally accepted auditing standards and standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications with Audit Committees).

RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board Compensation Committee prepare a report assessing the feasibility of integrating sustainability metrics, including metrics regarding diversity among senior executives, into the performance measures of the CEO under the Company's compensation incentive plans.

The survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder among 88 executives ages 18 and over (CEO, Chairman / Board Member, Partner / Principal, Owner, or Company President with company revenue of at least $ 50 million) from April 14 to 21Company President with company revenue of at least $ 50 million) from April 14 to 21company revenue of at least $ 50 million) from April 14 to 21, 2015.

He has served as director on 20 public company boards; among them, Manulife, AEC, Crestar, EnCana Corporation, Weyerhauser Company and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Cocompany boards; among them, Manulife, AEC, Crestar, EnCana Corporation, Weyerhauser Company and the Canadian Imperial Bank of CoCompany and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

The Vancouver Board of Trade is strongly supportive of the announced Action Plan for Women Entrepreneurs, as well as its promise to modernize Canada's corporate governance framework through amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act to promote gender diversity among public companies, using the widely recognized «comply or explain» model.

Effective on June 16, 2015, the Corporate Governance Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company amended and restated the Code to, among other things, reflect the following amendments: (1) added a new Whistleblower Exception provision under the Confidentiality section; (2) modified the provision regarding Protection of Covered Persons to clarify that such protections apply to any Covered Person who provides information or makes other disclosures that are protected under whistleblower provisions; and (3) updated the policy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines Policy.

The Board has concluded that Mr. Nickerson is qualified to serve as a Director because, among other things, he has over 30 years of experience in oil and gas operations, with a focus on midstream asset development and management, a critical element of the Company's current strategy.

The result: Only about 22 % to 25 % of private tech boards include any women, compared with 97 % among S&P 500 companies.

There are three women on its 12 - person board of directors and three women among the fast - food chain's top - ranking 10 corporate executives, according to the company website.

The GNC reviews the individual components and total amount of director compensation at least annually and may recommend changes in director compensation to the Board for its approval more or less frequently based on, among other factors, competitive pay data for non-employee directors of the financial services companies in the Company's Labor Market Peer Group.

Payment of a dividend is subject to the approval of the Board of Directors in its sole discretion and is dependent upon, among other things, the financial condition of and outlook for the Company, general business conditions, legal restrictions and the Company's cash flow and financing needs.

He is also on the Board of other public limited companies like Apollo Tyres Limited, Dabur India Limited and Godrej Properties Limited, among others.

RBC Vision Women's Leadership MSCI Canada Index ETF aims to replicate the performance of the MSCI Canada IMI Women's Leadership Select Index, a broad Canadian equity markets index with a focus on companies domiciled in Canada that exhibit a commitment towards women leadership among their board of directors and executive leadership positions.

Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's newly appointed CEO, will inherit a company that has been wracked with public scandal, infighting among its board members, an investigation into workplace harassment and a slew of lawsuits.

Conceptually, the optimal approach is to require each investor to purchase a percentage equal to its pro rata ownership among the investor group of that portion of the financing allocated to the existing investors by the board of directors of the company, with the balance of the financing (if any) being purchased by the new investors.

Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is among six directors who plan to leave the board of the investment company that will be left after the closing of the proposed sale of Yahoo's main internet properties to Verizon Communications.

Another source said Mr Nguyen was among a group of the mega-daigou who stopped buying infant formula from Bellamy's Organic last year, contributing to the company's near - death experience and the board turmoil that followed.

In a statement to the ASX on Monday WCB said Saputo has requested «a number of modifications to the company's constitution to, among other things, allow a restructure of the WCB board».

Among those voting against the reelection of Rupert Murdoch, his two sons, and six other family allies for reelection to the company board will likely be representatives from New York City's big pension funds, which hold more than $ 92 million worth of shares in News Corp..

The PAC, which counts the Related Companies, Brookfield Office Properties and Fisher Brothers among its major donors, raised $ 6.8 million in contributions this year and spent $ 3.4 million as of Sept. 1, the city's Campaign Finance Board reported.

For example, JetBlue partners with small, sustainably minded producers to bring healthier food on board, and the company has even started a farm of its own at JFK airport — a green outcome among the concrete jungle where employees can escape to pick produce between flights.

Silver has plenty of company among alumni from the Ed School who have established new schools from California to New York City, creating charter schools outside the purview of local school boards, innovative schools within municipal school districts, or independent schools with a new twist.

The Chief Actuary for Copperpoint Mutual Insurance Company has joined the Board of Directors for College Success Arizona, a leading organization in increasing college graduation rates among Arizona students.

The FairTest survey results also come as the two companies that administer the tests, the College Board and ACT Inc., recently implemented stricter security measures to curb cheating following the discovery last fall of a cheating scandal among 20 students from Great Neck, N.Y..

The device comes pre-installed with gaming titles, such as the Windows 8 version of the popular board game, Monopoly, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, FishingJoy, Bluestacks, and Raiding Company, among a few others.

Prior to establishing REH Advisors, Hundt served as an Adviser to McKinsey and Company for more than 10 years, as well as a Member of the National Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, among other distinguished roles.

Their election to Readium's representative board increases its geographic diversity, with members now based in France, Germany, Norway and the U.S., as well as its diversity of organization type, now ranging from leading digital publishing specialists to organizations who are among world's largest publishers, IT companies, telecom / ISPs, and public libraries.

Dividend: A per - share payment designated by a company's board of directors to be distributed among shareholders.

A per - share payment designated by a company «s board of directors to be distributed among shareholders.

On the same date, Tang Capital also delivered a notice (the «Notice») to the Company of its intention to, among other things, nominate Mr. Tang and Dr. Levin for election to the Board and propose the stockholder resolution described herein.

ROCKVILLE, MD. — February 23, 2009 — Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VNDA)(«Vanda» or the «Company») today issued the following statement regarding two letters sent to Vanda by Tang Capital Partners, LP («TCP») and a SEC filing by TCP stating its intent to, among other things, nominate two directors to stand for election at Vanda's 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and submit proposals at the 2009 Annual Meeting to amend Vanda's bylaws and request that the Board of Directors of Vanda take action to liquidate the Company.

ZeniMax, parent company of the developer of the «Fallout» and «Elder Scrolls» franchises, has Trump's younger brother, Robert S. Trump, among its board of directors.

Before vaulting into the highest echelons of several world class institutions — the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Leadership Council of the New Museum, the Tate International Council, among others — Mr. Daskalopoulos built his family's modest dairy company into Viviartia, the greek foodstuffs behemoth.

He was also on the board of several other companies, among them (1973 — 80) Extel, Chicago.

Commonly, they are written when a new member of board is voted in, but they can also be created when the company wants to hire employees, sell shares of the corporation, purchase an existing patent, among other big decisions.

How many Boards of Directors have decided that among all the things on fire in their companies, legal spend is anywhere near the top two or three?

Due to the fact that the company did not have an in - house lawyer it required my total and direct involvement in the company's affairs on a daily basis, consisting, among other things, in internal legal advisory, project coordination, supporting the management board and the employees in this extraordinary process, and a multiplicity of other tasks that had to be undertaken as legal project manager.

And then finally, on the non-engineering projects, we use Trello, which is kind of the digital kanban board for keeping track of projects and tasks among different parts of the company.

TC: What's the sense among the board as far as the health of the company and your role, versus a year ago?

The Ontario Pension Board and wealth advisory firm Glenmede Trust, both of which already have a stake in the firm via venture capital (VC) investments, are among new investors to put $ 30m (# 24.2 m) into the startup, which specialises in high - calibre tech and sales jobs for top companies such as Facebook and Uber.