Sentences with phrase «among other boards»

I don't think it's any secret that a few years ago, Toronto had a reputation as being the 600 pound gorilla, the big entity on the block causing fear among other boards about expansion and takeovers.

He is also an active patron of institutions, serving — among other boards — on Tate's Middle East and North Africa Acquisition Committee.

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.

Reports that he wants to leave the board are incorrect, Peter Thiel said, noting that among other things that he brings «ideological diversity.»

An academic who served for a decade as President of McGill University, she is currently a Director of Royal Bank of Canada and CGI Group and previously served on the boards of Four Seasons Hotels, Alcan, Yellow Media Inc., and Ontario's Hydro One among others.

According to the bank's proxy, the board is supposed to authorize a clawback when, among other things, it is shown that an executive's behavior, or the division he or she is responsible for, damaged the reputation of the bank.

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.

The criticisms included, among other problems, inadequate board of directors» «playbooks» and lack of detail regarding what specific actions the boards would take and when.

At a companywide strategic - planning session — to which he invited, among others, the company's top 50 franchisees, as well as vendors and board members — he solicited ideas that would take the company forward and still fit its culture.

WHO: Joan P. Neuscheler, principal at Tullis - Dickerson & Co., a venture - capital firm in Greenwich, Conn., and board member of AmericasDoctor, which (among other things) offers a health - information Web site for consumers RATING: 4 «I think they have strong management and a good board of directors — and that's usually the first place I look for flaws.

Kalanick went on to commission an «urgent» investigation into the allegations, to be headed by former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and including, among others, Uber board member Arianna Huffington and the company's chief HR officer Liane Hornsey (who has only been on the job for a few months).

The letter urges five overall guiding principles and 10 best practices in order to get more women into the field generally and leadership positions, including: getting executives and boards to make gender diversity a priority; establishing mentorship programs that connect women with life sciences executives; and doing a better job tracking where female talent goes within biopharma firms, among other suggestions.

You're also on Finance Minister Joe Oliver's Economic Advisory Council and the Catalyst Canada Advisory Board, among others.

CtW, among others, has called for the board to appoint a separate food safety committee.

According to the New York Times, Khosrowshahi brought a proposal, co-authored by Goldman Sachs, to board members on Thursday that would, among other things, rein in Kalanick's voting power.

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).

Among other qualifications, Mr. Cook brings to the Board extensive executive leadership experience in the technology industry, including the management of worldwide operations, sales, service and support.

In determining to utilize a 15 % ownership threshold, the Board considered, among other things, investor feedback, peer practices and the Company's market capitalization.

That board, among its other responsibilities such as determining the dividend policy, hires the CEO.

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for, among other things, determining the criteria for membership to the Board and recommending candidates for election to the Board.

Of the Board's 15 nominees, 14 directors, or 93 %, are independent directors, and the Board has an actively involved and independent Lead Director who works closely with the Chairman and CEO and, among other things, approves Board meeting agendas and schedules.

He helped pilot Goldman Sachs to the forefront of investment banking and led the boards of Harvard, the Asia Society and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among other institutions.

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.

He is also the author of several IGOPP policy papers, which offer new perspectives on a range of controversial issues including: Dual - class voting shares, Corporate Citizenship, The place of women on boards of directors, Say - on - Pay by shareholders, The Gordian knot of executive compensation, The Troubling Case of Proxy Advisors, among others.

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.

But just hours later, David Bonderman, one of Uber's board members, resigned after coming under fire for making a sexist joke during an all - hands meeting to go over the results of an internal investigation that looked into reports of sexual harassment, among others.

She is also the winner of the Toronto Board of Trade Award for entrepreneurs under 30, among many other honours.

Economic Value Management has been selected as a Featured Book Recommendation or «Recommended Read» by numerous publications including, among others, Harvard Business School's HBS Working Knowledge, CEO Refresher, Directors Monthly, Global CEO, The Corporate Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Valuation Issues, On Philanthropy, Accounting Today, Cost Management, and The Journal of Accounting and Finance.

Ms. Bloxham is also the author of the Governance chapter in The Investor Relations Guide (published by Kennedy publications) and the Board chapter in Business Valuation Resource's Guide to Healthcare Valuation and the author / co-author of over 100 articles published by, among others Corporate Board Member, Directors Monthly, Directorship Magazine, International Finance and Treasury, Bank Accounting and Finance, American Banker, National Underwriter, Valuation Issues, Shareholder Value Magazine, CFO Magazine, Corporate Finance Review, the Wharton Leadership Digest, the Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement, Executive Talent, and the Journal of Cost Management.

Frequently called upon to provide her expertise to the financial, national and international press, Ms. Bloxham has appeared on the many shows of CNBC including appearances with Maria Baroilomo and Larry Kudlow, on Fox Business and Bloomberg TV, on National and German Public Radio, MSNBC, Business Week, USA Today, Les Echos, American Banker, New York's Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, Board Alert, Compliance Week and the Wall Street Journal, among many others, discussing the subjects of corporate governance, compensation, performance and value.

Peter Currie, as our current Lead Independent Director, is empowered to, among other things, preside over meetings of our independent directors, approve information to be sent to our board of directors if requested to do so by our board of directors, approve proposed meeting agendas and schedules and call meetings of our board of directors or independent directors.

The board and the talent and compensation committee, based on recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee, have determined that the deficient control environment, among other things, would impact executive compensation decisions with respect to 2015 compensation for certain members of senior management.

Among other things, It uses such factors as a school's diversity — in female faculty, staff and board members — to judge the «quality» of a program.

The purpose of the Board's Compensation Committee, which is composed solely of independent directors, is to help discharge this responsibility by, among other things:

The Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, who attends most meetings of the Compensation Committee by invitation of the Committee's chairman, assists the Committee in determining the compensation of all other executive officers by, among other things:

The separation is subject to certain conditions, including, among others, obtaining final approval from HP Co.'s board of directors, receipt of a private letter ruling from the IRS and one or more opinions with respect to certain U.S. federal income tax matters relating to the separation and the SEC declaring the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this information statement forms a part.

The separation is subject to certain conditions, including, among others, obtaining final approval from Parent's board of directors, receipt of a private letter ruling from the IRS and one or more opinions with respect to certain U.S. federal income tax matters relating to the separation and the SEC declaring the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this information statement forms a part.

Among other things, the compensation committee will review, and will make recommendations to the board of directors regarding, the compensation and benefits of our executive officers.

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.

The criteria used when assessing the qualifications of potential CEO successors include, among others, strategic vision and leadership, operational excellence, financial management, executive officer leadership development, ability to motivate employees, and an ability to develop an effective working relationship with the HP Co. board of directors.

Fearing a counterattack, Benchmark is suing to remove Kalanick from that perch and is also trying to forbid him from filling the open board seats that he was awarded — by, among others, Benchmark — last year.

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.

Melanie exemplifies her professional work by living a life of committed action: She is the Nominating Chair and a former board president of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation New York City chapter, President of Morgan Stanley GIFT, and Co-Chair of Inwood Charities, among other roles.

Among other affiliations, he is on the Stewardship Board of the World Economic Forum System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Mobility.

After moving into finance, Mr. Mock served with investment dealer Burns Fry (now BMO Nesbitt Burns), where he directed sales and trading staff in derivative products and held the firm's membership seat on the Chicago Board of Trade, among other exchanges.

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

Among other allegations, Benchmark accused Kalanick of trying to «acquire the power to pack the Board to facilitate his desired re-appointment as Uber's CEO.»

A number of issues were discussed including the impact of the proposed amendments to the Yukon Environmental and Socio - economic Assessment Board Act, which is currently before Parliament and which will among other things, remove set timelines for assessments as well as requiring re-assessments for large scale mining projects, where a full environmental screening has already been positively concluded.

Tamara Vrooman, President & CEO, Vancity; Wab Kinew, MLA - Fort Rouge, MB; Pramila Jayapal, Washington State Legislator and candidate for U.S. Congress; Ross Beaty, Executive Chairman, Alterra Power Corp; Janet Austin, CEO, YWCA Metro Vancouver, and former Chair, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade; Irene Lanzinger, President, BC Federation of Labour; Michael Tippett, CEO and founder, Wantoo; Tzeporah Berman, Adjunct Professor, York University Faculty of Environmental Studies; Prem Gill, CEO, Creative BC; Josha McNabb, Regional Director BC, Pembina Institute; Val Napoleon, Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance, UVic; and Heather Tremain, CEO, Options for Homes, among others.

For a corporation, the main documents include corporate bylaws, consent of sole incorporator, initial action by board of directors, and stock purchase agreements, among others.