Sentences with phrase «as head of the company»

Church launched MacroFab after enduring similar pain manufacturing a time - lapse security camera as head of another company he founded, Dynamic Perception.

As the head of a company that sells fly - fishing equipment, I'm often asked the question: What will be the next boom in fly - fishing?

As the head of a company that seeks to encourage people pay more attention to automated telemarketing calls, Kelly knows she's got no more than two or three seconds to «earn the moment.»

When he was named as the head of the company in 2001, he became the third black CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

In an effort to turn the company around, CEO Steve Ells said in November that he would be stepping down from his post as head of the company as soon as Chipotle found someone to replace him.

Mr. Gorsky left Johnson & Johnson in 2004 to join the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, where he served as head of the company's pharmaceutical business in North America.

Samsung Replaces Bixby Chief Samsung has replaced Rhee In - jong, as head of the company's voice assistant Bixby.

The labour dispute is the first major test new CEO Ed Sims will face as head of the company.

Firstly, SNAP Interactive recently appointed former CFO Alex Harrington as its Chief Executive, replacing co-founder Cliff Lerner as head of the company.

As the head of a company devoted to servicing the e-book market, it's not surprising that Coker touted the functional and distribution advantages of e-books over published texts, or that he focused on the crushing costs associated with maintaining the traditional publishing model while ignoring e-book costs and the threat of digital piracy.

Newly minted Barnes & Noble CEO Michael Huseby — who was elevated to the chief exec slot on Wednesday after having served as head of the company's ailing digital division — did his best to put on a brave face in a canned statement released on Thursday.

Iwata, May he rest in peace, though was a good man, he made a lot of bad decisions as head of the company.

By the time the fledgling outfit's next project rolled around, Matsuzo Itakura, Koudelka «s art director and another Square alum, had taken Kikuta's place as head of the company, and Sony's shiny new PS2 was hungrily gobbling up the original Playstation's clout for itself.

Cape Town - based Petrus Marais has been appointed as head of the company in South Africa and of the new consulting team, which comprises senior managing directors Johan van der Walt and Calvin Isaacs, and senior directors Helena Potgieter and Kajen Subramoney.

As the head of a company that has a department that does nothing else but create leads for real estate professionals, I can tell you from firsthand experience that if you know how to do it, creating seller leads is a lot easier than converting them.

Not exact matches

He headed up Bausch & Lomb until the eye care specialist was snatched up by the (now - infamous) Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); sat at the top perch of Forest Laboratories before becoming CEO of that company's acquirer, Actavis, in 2014; and, finally, took over as the top dog at Allergan after Actavis bought it and adopted the Botox - maker's name.

Here are three off the top of my head: Record levels of household debt threaten future spending, too many of our companies need a weaker currency to be competitive, and international energy companies are giving up on Canada as a place to invest.

And, does it invite start - ups to fake it, using wives or girlfriends as the illusory heads of a companies that are actually run by their husbands or boyfriends?

«These companies are moving out of Asia and coming to Africa to save labor costs,» said Fitsum Arega, who recently stepped down as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission to become an adviser to the new prime minister.

In September, Ford confirmed that all of the company's small - car production will leave U.S. plants and head to lower - cost Mexico by 2019, but no plants would be closed as a result.

Martin Sorrell may be out as head of WPP, the ad giant he founded, but the company is not looking at a full break - up, even though some see it as unmanageable by anyone else.

«Going forward, the head of HR will also need to serve as the ethical voice of a company, coming up with a strategic plan to create and adhere to a zero - tolerance anti-harassment culture,» Mangan explained.

Throughout my career serving in roles at B2B technology companies as Director of Demand Generation, Head of Marketing, and now as a CMO & Co-Founder of Terminus, I have seen it work both ways (good and bad).

Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

«As the company runs out of reasons why the technology won't work, and gets closer and closer to illustrating that it will work, I think it's entirely possible that they will raise the billions of dollars they will need to prove this concept out,» he says, noting that it was Cenovus's investment, more than that of Bezos, that turned heads among investors.

If you really want to understand where robotics is heading, the following three themes — and the companies working on them, which generally are not well known outside their niches — can serve as a good introduction to the broader applications of this industry that are still yet to come.

Ailes isn't just some puppet to be swapped out for some other Murdoch drone — as the head of Fox News, he has been the architect of much of the company's media strategy for the better part of 20 years.

But it's Don Levine, then the company's head of research and development, who is often referred to as the «father» of G.I. Joe for shepherding the toy through design and development.

A coalition of smaller lab companies in Ontario — headed by former Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy, who now serves as CEO of Ontario's Alpha Labs — fought a noisy battle against the LifeLabs - CML merger.

I think after he joined there was pretty universal excitement and a strong hope of where we're headed as a company.

Steele, who was the head of the British intelligence agency MI6's Moscow desk and is known for his «knowledge of the intricate web» of Kremlin - tied companies and associates, wrote the dossier between July and December of 2016 as part of an opposition research project funded by anti-Trump Republicans.

Laurie announced on his Twitter page on Thursday he has joined the artificial intelligence research company — bought by Google for a reported # 400 million in 2014 — as head of security and transparency.

I first joined the company as the head of employee services, initially charged with running our global facilities, planning internal events like happy hours and offsites, driving our monthly all hands meeting and owning our annual company conference MeetUp.

The company has a loyal following in North America and is now looking to expand globally, tasks that Day is suited for after serving as head of Starbucks's Asia Pacific Group; she traveled 240 nights a year, running business operations in 10 countries in Asia.

People like to know who's actually leading the charge in their company, and where the business is headed, as well as what their own roles are — what's expected and not expected of them.

The Southern chain will retain the mark of its founder's personal beliefs as Dan Cathy continues to head the company.

The availability of dear old Dad has been an issue since September, when the 47 - year - old quit his former gig as head of Microsoft's business division in Redmond, Wash., and moved to snowy Espoo, near the Finnish capital of Helsinki, where he is currently trying to save the world's largest mobile phone company from itself.

Tillerson, who must step down as CEO after he turns 65 next March due to Exxon's mandatory retirement rules, is likely to be replaced by the head of the company's refining unit, a less - glamorous but more financially stable unit.

When Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its Office software in September, the company's head of marketing, hyping its new collaboration and chat features, hopefully described it as a «Slack killer.»

Holding dual roles as CEO and Head of People for a global learning and development company, Insights, I know how important it is to support HR and Talent leaders to garner internal support for the people development initiatives in their own organizations.

-- Mitch Wainer, co-founder and head of brand at DigitalOcean, which has a $ 175 million run rate and more than one million users at companies such as HP, Xerox, and Slack

The challenge for companies like Heineken is turning the perception of a zero - alcohol beer as a «distress purchase» on its head.

Given the low unemployment rate, anecdotal evidence from a variety of companies, and alternative measures such as the Atlanta Fed wage tracker showing stronger growth, wage growth may not be back at precrisis levels, but the trend over the past year shows wages are certainly headed in the right direction.

Further, PDC urges you to carefully review and consider the cautionary statements and disclosures, specifically those under the heading «Risk Factors,» made in its Quarterly Report on Form 10 - Q, its Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended December 31, 2016 (the «2016 Form 10 - K»), filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission («SEC») on February 28, 2017 and amended on May 1, 2018, and other filings with the SEC for further information on risks and uncertainties that could affect the Company's business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects, which are incorporated by this reference as though fully set forth herein.

The former head of power generation company Pacific Energy has emerged as the new chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji, replacing Andrew Vlahov, who stepped down last week.

Didier Evrard, executive vice president head of programs at Airbus, spoke to CNBC as his company delivered its first A350 - 1000 to Qatar Airways Tuesday.

The head of Leighton Contractors» west division has been poached by Brisbane - based construction company Seymour Whyte as its new chief executive.

«Sloan joined Wells Fargo 29 years ago, launching a career that would include numerous leadership roles across the Company's wholesale and commercial banking operations, including as head of Commercial Banking, Real Estate and Specialized Financial Services.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

Whether this practice is embraced by the head of a company as a business strategy or it just emerges in exchanges between employees, hypercompetition doesn't make anyone look like a high - level achiever.