Sentences with phrase «board seats»

Voters in school districts across the state head to the polls today to decide school budgets and candidates for school board seats.

So far, three candidates are seeking two town board seats.

They are also rare on corporate boards, holding less than 17 percent of board seats at these companies, a figure that has stayed flat for eight years.

This happens to be a hostile takeover attempt, but the next one might just be an activist fight for board seats or management changes.

Two other directors stayed on the board but picked up additional board seats at other firms within the year.

Currently, women hold just 10 % of board seats in Canadian public companies.

VIP membership (from $ 900 a year) comes with notifications for open board seats and access to the organization's «matchmaking» program.

We won't lead rounds and we won't take board seats.

Recruiting firms don't typically make much money by filling board seats.

But introducing the perfect candidate for a vacant board seat may be the «in» the recruiter is seeking to develop relationships in a company for future business.

With a certain degree of share concentration, some mutual funds may even seek board seats of their portfolio companies and try to exert a more active role in corporate governance.

Less than 7 percent of private tech company board seats are held by women.

Female leaders are still in a minority; they hold 12 percent of board seats globally and comprise just four percent of CEOs leading the world's 500 top corporations.

What these examples suggest is that directors will leave firms that experience negative attention, often obtaining board seats elsewhere.

Your investors likely hold numerous board seats, and have the benefit of having worked through some of the problems that you are facing.

Neither do we accept board seats or disclose confidential information we receive.

It's clear that if you measure the success of these programs purely on the basis of whether they get more women into board seats, they absolutely work.

Which ways of thinking about networking ended up landing participants the most real - life board seats?

They often don't have board seats attached to them.

Learn best practices on landing an ideal board seat and making the most of a board opportunity.

In cities, where it takes thousands of dollars to run, school board seats attract the politically ambitious.

Three school board seat races generated $ 6.7 million in campaign contributions, much of it from charter school advocates and labor groups.

[My new profile] led to many new business contacts as well as an invite for an advisory board seat at a top university.

He was unsuccessful in his pursuit of a town board seat a couple of months ago.

In a normal election, interest in school board seats have typically never included more than two candidates.

If they adopt the resolution's language, shareholders owning at least 3 percent of a company's stock for at least three years can nominate people for a limited number of board seats.

Instead, he is typically patient and cooperative, adding shares of stock on dips and steadily picking up board seats at each voting opportunity.

The Republicans have been reaching out to the Latino community, said Paul Giardina, who is seeking a town board seat on that ticket.

Mr. Gaines and Mr. Haeg will compete for town board seats with two Democrats, Sylvia Overby of Amagansett and Peter Van Scoyoc of East Hampton, as well as Bill Mott of East Hampton and Marilyn Behan of Montauk, the Independence Party nominees.

Mr. Mutch also joined activists to threaten proxy fights at Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: PTEC), Aspyra, Inc (PINK: APYI) and Agilysys, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ: AGYS), and eventually got board seats at all three companies.

ROZZANO, Italy, April 24 - Telecom Italia Chief Executive Amos Genish was backed by nearly all shareholders present at a general meeting on Tuesday, days before a showdown over board seats between the Italian phone group's top two investors.

Members of our training team hold Board seats on international animal behavior organizations, we travel nationally and internationally to host educational workshops and seminars for other dog trainers, we lecture at conferences and universities, and we regularly write articles and participate in media interviews on all things related to dog training and behavior consulting.

The ensuing debate — which has prompted opponents to find their own candidates for two open Park District Board seats also at stake April 3 — is the latest soul - searching about the role of historic preservation in one of McHenry County's booming cities.

Roberti threw his hat in the ring for a town board seat last summer.

The residents of Mattituck - Cutchogue have a choice of seven candidates for three open school board seats Tuesday.

So, in the hopes that it will help you fill your next independent board seat, here's how we ran the process after Brown's intros:

And most recently, he bought Cheniere Energy (lng) stock, demanded board seats and a CEO ouster, and once again got just what he wanted.

Some contracts stipulate that companies must hand over additional board seats if financial goals are not met.

Well - qualified northeasterners, for example, have lost board seats and CEO positions because their manners and style did not play well to boards in the Midwest or South.

He was previously an advisor to AirMap, but the new board seat means he will be more involved with the startup as it tries to take off.

He weathered a proxy fight by Altimeter Capital Management and PAR Capital Management Inc., with United replacing its chairman and giving board seats to the hedge funds.

«Beth Comstock of GE, who is on the board of Nike, told me that given the reality of our jobs, you can only take one public board seat with the time commitment and demands of our current careers.

The scuttlebutt is that if Altieri loses his bid for town board and Costello wins the supervisor's race, he'll nominate Altieri as his replacement for the then open board seat during January's organizational meeting.

In the letter, in addition to Mr. Kalanick's immediate resignation, the five shareholders asked for improved oversight of the company's board by filling two of three empty board seats with «truly independent directors.»

Goodman's first test will come with the election of the town board seat now held by David Lys, who was appointed last fall to fill a vacancy but faces a special election in November to keep the seat.

Three hundred Community Board seats are up for two - year appointments each year in Manhattan, and an additional seven one - year vacancies created by departing members will be filled in the 2016 application process.

While he became director on condition that his park board seat not be filled for two years «just in case, «he now sees the career move as a stroke of luck.