Sentences with phrase «board a partner who»

This may sound like a lot to do, but keep in mind we're talking about bringing on board a partner who is going to be vested in and engaged with growing your business for the long haul.

Not exact matches

Steven Sinofksy, the former Microsoft executive who recently joined the VC firm as an Andreessen partner, will join Local Motion's board.

«I wouldn't say he's the only person in the world who heard something similar last year, but it was fairly unusual,» said Lars Daalgard, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who brokered the Imgur investment and now sits on Imgur's board.

«Probably for the foreseeable future, bitcoin is just a pure digital gold,» said the CEO, who is also a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital firm.

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

«These guys just need a clear understanding of what to build, and how to build it,» says Andreessen Horowitz partner and former SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard, who's joining the Gigster board with this announcement.

It was a strange formulation, given that the occasion for the reading was Etsy's acceptance of a $ 27 million investment led by Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners who sits on the boards of Facebook, Dell, and, to the consternation of the Etsy faithful, Walmart.

And he has good corapany on what must be one of the country's most formidable game - company boards: Richard W. Melmon, co-founder and executive vice-president, who was formerly VisiCorp's director of marketing; Steve Wozniak, the company's technical adviser, renowned computer freak, co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple II: and Don Valentine the tough, well - connected Wall Street-wise general partner of Capital Management Services, and an early investor in Apple Computer.

You may be a generous person who wants to lavishly reward your new partner for coming on board.

With every firm that grants you a meeting, take time to get to know the partner who will be your company's primary contact (and possibly a board member).

Even Trian Partners» Nelson Peltz, who narrowly won a blockbuster proxy campaign with P&G (pg) this fall, is still feuding with that company to accept him onto its board.

Get a prenuptial agreement, says Michael Gilden, a partner at law firm Kopelwitz Ostrow in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who is board certified in marital and family law.

«I think you're going to see a lot of failure in 2015,» says Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley, who sits on Uber's board of directors.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

It has raised $ 83 million and has nearly half that amount in the bank, said Ethan Kurzweil, a partner at Bessemer who sits on the startup's board.

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

«Phil was the person who led the search process,» said Roelof Botha, a former PayPal executive and now a Sequoia Capital partner who sits on the company's board.

Commenting on their investment, David Rhee, partner, Hillhouse Capital, who heads its international investments and will join CarDekho board, said, «We see tremendous growth opportunities in the online automobile classified market in India.

Aspect's companies are held through the entire process, from seed or series A to IPO, receiving a virtual sounding board of long - term partners at their beck and call who have the best interests of the company in mind, not themselves.

Whenever I see something in financial services I always ask my partner Brian McLoughlin who has spent more than a decade looking at Fin Services deals or I might send it through to Mark Goines who is a phenomenal angel investor (invested and on the board of Mint.com) and was previous SVP at Intuit.

Andreessen Horowitz has eight general partners — eight guys who make the investment decisions and take seats on the boards of the startups they fund.

That might not be so far - fetched given the deep tension between Benchmark's Bill Gurley — who left the Uber board in favor of his partner Cohler — and Kalanick and the level of mistrust that has developed over time.

Though divorce rates have risen pretty much across the board in the last three decades, the group with the lowest divorce rates was those who had zero sexual partners before tying the knot.

An inquiry by Wolverhampton Safeguarding Children Board found the death of Jeremiah Regis - Ngaujah - who was fatally beaten by his mother's partner - could not have been predicted.

The ambitious plan to create an Australian - owned partner for the Chinese investor Dakang's massive new cattle station business was seen by some as an attempt to help appease demands from the Foreign Investment Review Board, as well as quell some of the political backlash from voters who are against foreign investment.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

«America's beverage companies understand they have a role to play in improving the health of our nation, which is why the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America is proud to partner with the U.S. Conference of Mayors to support the great work of mayors across the country who are proactively tackling obesity in their communities,» said Susan Neely, president of the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America (ABFHA) Board of Directors and president and CEO of the American Beverage Association.

Arsenal will not progress until a forward thinking board, owner and managers are in place, clearly this club is just a money making venture for the greedy Stan who cares only for his pocket, wenger sadly is his puppet and gazidis is the silent partner, turmoil and lack of profit in business is a sure thing to sell and move on, this is needed so we / us supporters have a voice and direction in our club, the previous board are to blame for selling to Kroenke & co we are now reaping the benefits of ill thought, blinded, pathetic former directors who were only interested in profits not the club, we are a laughing stock, i will be happy if we finish mid table with this lot... when you are on the bottom there is only one way to go..

Lactation Partners is a private practice of registered nurses (RN's) who are board certified lactation consultants (IBCLC's).

Let's prove to her husband and his partner in crime (Daddy on Board) that we aren't cloth diaper nazi's — instead we are just parents who are trying our hardest to make a difference in this world — one baby at a time.

Having a supportive partner who's totally on board with everything!

Complementing these efforts and continuing its commitment to create memorable experiences for all families, Beaches Resorts has partnered with The International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES), a global leader in training and certification programs, created to meet the training needs of professionals who work with individuals with special needs and cognitive disorders.

I come across a lot of people online who think that using cloth diapers is a great idea, but the partner is on board.

NYC's biggest police union is demanding a do - over of the recent parole board decision to free convicted cop killer Herman Bell, requesting a hearing on behalf of the widow of Officer Joseph Piagentini, who was assassinated with his partner, Waverly Jones, in 1971.

Also on board is Nick Wood, the former adviser to Iain Duncan Smith who now runs Media Intelligence Partners.

These days, former Republican state Attorney General Dennis Vacco is a partner at Lippes Mathias Wexler Friedman LLP in Buffalo, and among his clients is Buffalo Board of Education member Carl Paladino, who is currently facing four separate appeals to the state education commissioner for his removal from office.

Giske brought on board partner Mike Keogh, who had lost his longtime post as council finance director in 2007 amid a scandal over taxpayer funds being allocated to fake charities for members» later distribution.

The town board heard from Woodstock Land Conservancy board chairman Kevin Smith, who said that the organization was partnering with the Riverkeeper organization in utilizing engineering resources and that «we have to keep our eyes on the prize here...» as they seek to become involved in the process.

Dr. Kee, whose District Leader partner is Jenny L. Low who is the Board Chair of Chinese - American Planning Council, went with his wife, Virginia Kee, to file his petition at the Board of Elections.

The city's Department of Investigation found that in 2004 and 2005, Martinez arranged for the Upper Manhattan Council Assisting Neighbors — a nonprofit affiliated with his sister Maria, who sat on the board — to partner with an unnamed developer to build low - income homes.

«We also want to thank the Board of Legislators, Paul Feiner who's been a very strong advocate for cycling, as well as my late law partner, former County Executive Al Del Bello, who began this pro-cycling effort way back in the 1970s.

Rodriguez, who came before the Community Board 12's business committee in January, said the landord, Benenson Capital Partners, LLC, wasn't interested in renewing the lease because «they already had someone that was going to pay them a lot more money.»

BioFulcrum aims to accelerate the discovery of cures by bringing together scientists, multiple non-profit institutions, and industry partners such as Goeddel, who sits on the board of BioFulcrum.

Since then, Filling Pieces — with the help of a private partner who came on board in 2013 and today holds a minority stake in the company — has seen revenue grow by 130 percent CAGR over the last five years, generating $ 20 million ($ 23.5 million) in revenue in 2017.

Across the board, people who were previously married were more selective about what they wanted in a partner.

We hope November has been as good for you as it was for the Dating Factory system with hundreds new partners on board and more than two hundred thousand new members who joined our network in one month.

It is a really useful tool for every new partner who comes on board to help them get started with the Dating Factory platform.

Not her bedraggled excuse for a husband Phil (William Fichter) who, while keeping his marriage vows, sneaks off to the local love shack for some illicit playings of the Wheel of Fortune board game with local diner waitress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis); Not her dimbulb, lackadaisical moron of a son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) whose lust for Lite, as in Miller, cost him the use of his right hand (how the residents tell the story is one of the highlights of the flick); Not Jeff's partner Bobby Calzone (Casey Affleck) who takes it on the chin from every member of the Dearly family or his fiancé Ellen (Neve Campbell) who giggles hysterically when she hears the news of Mona's demise.

Farrell was first to get on board when the screenplay, co-scripted with the director's usual writing partner Efthymis Filippou, was finished; the actor, who starred in Lanthimos's last film The Lobster, recalled how he felt «perturbed, confused and ultimately moved» when he read it, just as he had been by their previous collaboration.

Among McLaughlin's goals is a commitment to «working as partners with colleges and universities to identify individuals who can serve as talented trustees and to think with colleges and universities about how to strengthen boards,» she says.