Sentences with phrase «backing board member»

The left has gone after L.L. Bean (for a Trump - backing board member), QVC (for advertising on The Celebrity Apprentice), and Under Armour (its CEO said Trump was «good for business»).

Not exact matches

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In addition to Jacobson, six others of the 10 - member board will be replaced by members backed by Icahn and Deason, while the two shareholders will withdraw their proxy fight as part of the settlement.

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

You may need to alter your tone of voice, use more gestures or change the order of your talking points to get audience members back on board.

«The challenge that comes up is board members become friends, and it becomes social network, so knowing then when to flex, or push, or step back can be harder.

«We believe strongly that we should back our winners with as much capital as we have available if they are experiencing explosive growth in to huge markets with strong management teams that have a proven track record of success,» explains Foundation partner and AdRoll board member Charles Moldow.

«They're not building this business on the backs of banner ads,» says Eric Liaw, a general partner with IVP and new member of the board of The Players» Tribune.

The blood testing startup has shrunk its board from 12 members to five, a move it says happened back in July.

Having a couple of board members who have your back is the best feeling in the whole world and makes for a much better business as well.

The latest pits his 61 - year - old daughter, Shari Redstone, whose relationship with her father had run hot and cold over the years but who's recently worked her way back into his life, against two of her father's longtime friends and lieutenants, Viacom board member George Abrams and C.E.O. Philippe Dauman.

Theresia Gouw, a ForeScout board member, said fundraising was more difficult because once - active financiers had begun to pull back on late - stage tech investments.

Back in February, when Facebook board member Marc Andreessen made an offensive tweet toward Indians in the aftermath of Facebook's Free Basics mess, Mark Zuckerberg quickly distanced the company from Andreessen's remarks.

The IMF got «back in business» in 2010 when its head, Dominique Strauss - Kahn, overrode its staff and many Board members in order to join the troika and shift the country's bad debt from French and German bankers onto the Greek people.

Broward County School Board members are ready to fight back against what they call an increase in fake news.

Dietary supplements company Herbalife will add two new members to its board of directors at the request of billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has backed the company in a public spat with hedge fund manager Bill Ackman.

Since it's hard to get back stock options to advisory board members, I typically encourage entrepreneurs to hand out stock awards for specific work well done, rather than work that might never happen.

From public pot shots by then chief executive and co-founder Rahul Yadav, directed at the company's investors and board members, which led to his ouster later, to high cash burn, the once revered startup has been struggling to get back on its feet.

The Board of Directors, the members who are elected by the stockholders (the owners), has a meeting and listens to management's recommendation about how much of the profit should be reinvested in growth, how much should be used to pay down debt, how much should be used to buy back stock, and how much should be mailed to the owners.

«The paper's basic premise is that VC - backed boards are particularly prone to dysfunction, due to: (1) Conflicting interests; (2) The regular addition of new board members following financing rounds; and (3) The likely presence of inexperienced members like first - time entrepreneurs, junior VCs or independent directors with strong domain knowledge but no background on VC - backed boards.

In the midst of the Great Depression, Federal Reserve board member Adolph Miller looked back on the same error in the years before the 1929 peak.

A Staten Island Roman Catholic Church's board whose members include Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan backed out of a plan to sell a vacant convent to a Muslim organization on Thursday.

I was gone about two minutes, but when I came back, a board member had arrived at the camp and was frantically spraying down the fire.

But the Virginia parole board and its counterparts across America took careful note of the signs of the times — board members are political appointees — and dramatically cut back the number of discretionary discharges.

But while Tanya is a church deacon and a board member at the new Kentucky Baptist Seminary in Lexington, Berry's relationship to the church may be more like that of his fictional character Jayber Crow, who attends church but sits in the back pew.

A single board member determined to back an outspoken staff working for social justice can make all the difference in the world to staff morale and to a program's effectiveness.

«We note that under its 2018 voting policy the Church will not back members of nomination committees where less than 25 % of the board are women.

Northern Star is still managed by a locally elected board of directors and any profits the company earns are distributed back to its 15,000 members through a year - end dividend.

The idea for a back lit Bombers plane sign came from Fusion Tech General Manager, Dan Bentz, with lighting by Troy Rhoads, a board member for the Bomber Boosters who recommended and pitched the idea to the board.

Get rid of him with few board members bring back dein, big lose he was.invest in tactics.

Unfortunately the only people that can remove him is the ones that put him in charge of arsenal and the only way the board will move against wenger is when he does not meet their expectations, have you heard any one of the board members come out and say fourth is not acceptable, for several years he has guarantee the board money from the champions league, they also have several agreements or contract signed with major companies, all that points to money coming back to the board.

Take the final step and spend the warchest that our media friendly board members regularly boast of whenever the fans become restless, I am only me, Im not a skilled or qualified professional football manager BUT I am a lifelong fan of the club having supported Arsenal since the tender age of four and I have seen glory years and I have seen rubbish but what I have never ever seen in those 40 odd years is Arsenal Football club rise to the heights of the European Elite and I do feel that for a club that has been on the very brink and who have had to step back from it due to the worlds finances and the ever shifting world of the global media.

Would rather get rid of everyone that wants to leave including ozil, Do not buy anyone play the youngsters get rid of the whole lot Kronke and all the board members and manager, And start from scratch, All the fans unite for this season back the team then start the rebuilding next season, Will take a few years but i think the club would then come back stronger than ever.

am back again with my «wenger out» campaign in I'll remind you all that having known how powerful Wenger is amongst the board members, it's us fans who have the last say and as I used to urge y ’ all last season, BOYCOTT ALL HOME GAMES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON, you'll be all shocked at the speed with which the board will react to the resulting loss of revenues.

«This was our biggest win in a long, longtime,» declared Jim Lindsey, a running back for the Razorbacks» lonenational championship team (1964) and now a member of the university's board oftrustees.

6 - 3, 6 - 2 i think and now 6 - 0 is a score that you see when the top three play crystal palace, fulham and norwich and probably cardiff but for a top four side its a disgrace of a highest level, not sure if wenger see it that way as he still gets his fat salary in the bank and pat's on his back from the greedy board members and the stupid wenger lovers.

As Chair Ben Hawes is responsible for feeding the views of the Commission back to the BOA Board, of which he is a member.

United board member David Gill piled pressure on Van Gaal claiming he has under - achieved after being backed in the transfer market.

Unless Stan Kroenke suddenly has a change of heart - which may very well happen, depending on what his son and eventual Board member Josh Kroenke reports back to him following his two month - plus stay in London to get a sense of how the club is operating - it appears Wenger will continue on as manager.

Let's be honest all was not well with members of the board not backing the decision, even Josh Kroenke the son of Stan was hesitant and I am sure that unrest is still there.

Back in April Brynne Potter, CPM, in her role as a board member of NARM (North American Registry of Midwives) appeared on the Kojo Nnmadi radio show to defend Karen Carr, the midwife who pled guilty to felony charges in connection with the homebirth death of a breech baby.

Committee member Gary Grasso makes the motion to send the gas station proposal back to the zoning board for review.

After nearly two hours of testimony, zoning board members decided Thursday they did not want to change their original 4 to 2 vote in support of the project and are expected to send the matter back to the development committee this month.

Opponents of a proposed gas station on the northeast corner of Butterfield Road and Route 53 near Glen Ellyn caught a break Tuesday when members of the DuPage County Development Committee voted 5 to 1 in favor of sending the issue back to the Zoning Board of Appeals.

Several Cary homeowners and members of the Citizens for a Better Community, an activist group, told the board that they still back the effort to acquire the property and preserve it as open space.

I ask executives to reconsider the plan and board members such as Ann Veneman to encourage them to do so, with the backing of shareholders.

Lautz accused parks board members of maneuvering behind his back and lashed out at Park District Assistant Supt. Ken Kutska, who also sits on the Wheaton Plan Commission, for casting the lone Plan Commission vote against his development.

we have an entire committee that was developed from my initiative that has administrative members, board members, community members and food service... all were supposed to work together on this... but that never happened, as the food service would just go back and do what they wanted, it was more to appease the superintendent and the board that they attended and acted as though they were trying to work with us.

When Prisco was 35 and back in Aurora, he became the yongest member of the Park District board, the only appointed park board in Illinois besides the one in Chicago.

Blakeman, a former Nassau County legislator and ex-Port Authority Board member, was the first Republican to throw his hat into the ring against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, announcing his campaign back in January.