Sentences with phrase «board directors who»

We find senior leaders and board directors who can develop a clear digital strategy and address the talent, operational and cultural changes that are required to transform businesses.

Rajeev Misra, a SoftBank board director who also sits on Uber's board, told the Financial Times in January that Uber should focus on its core markets, which he identified as the US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia.

Not exact matches

By replacing the directors — who presumably would side with Dauman — Redstone and his daughter Shari, who serves as Viacom's vice-chair, have given themselves a solid majority of the company's 11 - member board, aimed at withstanding even a challenge to Redstone's mental capacity.

Barbara Stymiest, who became a director in 2007, will now chair the board.

«Some funeral home directors are saying, «Cremation isn't paying the bills anymore, so let me see if I can help people harvest body parts,»» said Steve Palmer, an Arizona mortician who serves on the National Funeral Directors Association's polidirectors are saying, «Cremation isn't paying the bills anymore, so let me see if I can help people harvest body parts,»» said Steve Palmer, an Arizona mortician who serves on the National Funeral Directors Association's poliDirectors Association's policy board.

Apache's move does not affect the timing of a final investment decision for Kitimat LNG, said Kirkland, who is also vice-chairman of Chevron's board of directors.

Inside GE's 125,000 - square foot showroom for 3D printing machinery, shareholders called for ouster of directors who served on the board as GE's performance declined.

Cornell's emphasis on analytics appealed to Target's board as it looked for a new CEO, according to the director who oversaw the search, Roxanne Austin, head of Austin Investment Advisors, a private investment and consulting firm.

Elaine Wynn, who co-founded the hospitality company with her ex-husband, Steve Wynn, is starting a campaign to remove one of the three board directors investigating the sexual misconduct allegations against the former CEO.

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.

The sanctioned officials are Willian Antonio Contreras, the vice minister of internal commerce; Nelson Reinaldo Lepaje Salazar, who is acting as head of the office of the national treasury, according to the U.S.; Americo Alex Mata Garcia, an alternate director on the board of the National Bank of Housing and Habitat; and Carlos Alberto Rotondaro Cova, the former president of the board of directors of the Venezuela Institute of Social Security.

While the details of the hacks differ, the same thing happened to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, whose emails to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, a member of Snapchat's board of directors, were released by North Koreans who hacked Sony.

Ackman, who is also chairman of the Howard Hughes board of directors, said the real estate company was poised to thrive in the current economic environment, with many strong land development projects in its pipeline, from New York City's South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan to Hawaii beachfront property.

Shortly after the sale, a proxy battle nearly ensued when West Face sought to shake up the board and oust directors who it considered too close to the McCain family.

«We love Blekko and think it's a great product — a quality search engine that organically combines search algorithms with expert opinions,» said Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh, who will join Blekko's board of directors, in a statement.

Chicago - based Groupon announced that Lefkofsky, who had been temporarily running the daily deals website since founding CEO Andrew Mason was ousted in February, has been appointed permanent CEO by the board of directors.

Jeffrey Gandz, who also chaired the group, says, «There were some lively debates as you would expect from a board of directors.

Class C directors are elected by the Board of Governors to represent the public, in contrast to Class A and B directors, who are elected by member banks.

«Rhoda M. Pitcher is a valued member of the Lululemon Board of Directors who has contributed to our collective success for more than a decade.

According to Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila, the board of directors spent months looking, inside the company and out, for someone who could inject «oxygen» into management and «gear up» Nokia to be a top player in «all industry segments.»

Koum, who is originally from Ukraine, will join Facebook's board of directors.

Khosrowshahi was meeting with regulators in London who had revoked Uber's license when he had to work with the board of directors over a deal for SoftBank Group Corp. to invest in the company.

Look for two or three people with whom you don't compete and who don't work with you and use them to form your own «board of directors,» a strategy promoted by Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Jeffrey Pfeffer.

«There is no major city of Toronto's stature with an airport this close to its downtown,» says Don Carty, the Canadian - born former CEO of Canadian Pacific Airlines and American Airlines who chairs Porter's board of directors.

I have taught and advised hundreds of women who are enormously frustrated at the blockage on boards by over-tenured, over-boarded, entrenched pedigree directors.

Former mining services company Viento Group is under new leadership after a board restructure replaced all directors, including John Silverthorne, who in July struck a deal to buy all of the company ’s

Arianna Huffington, who serves on Uber's board of directors, also tweeted that she'll be working with Ms. Hornsey to make sure the probe is «independent.»

The beverage giant taking harsh criticism from value fund Wintergreen Advisers, who sent letters to Coca - Cola shareholders, the Coca - Cola Board of Directors and Warren Buffett, detailing concerns with the company's proposed 2014 Equity Plan.

Anyone who read Isabelle Hudon's resumé would expect she struggled with work - life balance: in addition to serving as president of Quebec operations for Sun Life Financial, she chairs two boards of directors and sits on five more.

American venture capital firms have shown mounting interest in Canada, according to Stephen Partridge, who sits on Startup Canada's board of directors.

Still, the 57 - year - old Dimon must grapple moving forward with a third of his shareholder base who are dissatisfied with him, the bank's board structure and its directors.

Scaramucci, who is widely known for his explosive 10 - day tenure as President Donald Trump's White House communications director, also happened to be a member of the board of advisors of the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Another prong in No Ceilings» new program is an effort by the nonprofit Catalyst to create what's being billed as an annual list of CEO - endorsed female candidates who are ready to serve as directors on U.S. corporate boards.

When interests between management and shareholders become adverse, even through the regular course of events, it's important for boards to have their own set of lawyers who are independent from management and seen as objective and willing to act in the interest of directors, not management, and ultimately shareholders.

The company has also been bulking up its board: Obama's one - time Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, marketing consultant and philanthropist Lynne Benioff (who is an investor in Hampton Creek along with her husband, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff), and co-founder of artificial intelligence company DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman have joined as directors, Tetrick says.

Should lawyers who act for management also advise the board of directors?

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.

GE said nine of the company's directors will stand for re-election including major shareholder Trian Fund Management's Edward Garden, who was appointed to GE's board in October.

Dotz Nano has appointed John Bullwinkel and Uzi Breier as non-executive directors, replacing Menashe Baruch and Antony Sormann who have both resigned from the board to focus on other business interests.

Jonathan Chadwick, a British cybersecurity industry veteran who most recently served as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer of VMware (vmw), has joined the board of directors at Tanium, the world's highest valued cybersecurity startup.

Then again, most boards have at least one or maybe a few directors who are not adding as much value as a new member might bring and therefore represent an «opportunity cost.»

Thiel, who cofounded PayPal and sits on Facebook's board of directors, provided millions of dollars for Hogan's lawsuit and is apparently funding other cases.

Whether a Board of Directors should attempt to fight in order not to pay severance to an executive who has brought disgrace upon the organization is clearly going to depend on the circumstances.

There's a board of directors who sometimes seemed more concerned with what they'd be served for dessert than with the fate of the company.

The academic evidence however does not support excessively long - serving directors, or directors who are serving on multiple boards (known as «over-tenured» and «over-boarded» directors, respectively).

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.

But Netflix's board is full of directors who are too close to each other, too close to CEO Reed Hastings and too insulated from shareholders.

I said to the audience this morning that every board has one (or more) underperforming or dysfunctional directors, and if you don't know who it is on your board, then it is you.

The most excessive example of long service occurred once when a director of a community bank board said, «Richard we have four directors who have been on our board for over 50 years.»

That's the phrase used to describe a board made up of directors who have overlapping relationships with each other aside from serving on the same board.