Sentences with phrase «by a consultant as»

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As a consultant, this one never really resonated much with me, because by definition, my mission was the client's mission.

Wells, the third - largest U.S. bank by assets, discovered the new issues as part of a review by a third - party consultant as required by the regulatory settlement.

The receivers of Quintis have sought to retain full control of the sandalwood producer, appointing Primary Securities as an independent consultant and arguing that plans by growers to take control of some forestry schemes would be counterproductive.

By aiming at male shoppers, Lululemon is trying to tap into what retail consultants see as a larger shift in the male fashion world.

Although he stepped down from his role, Ferro will still be paid $ 5 million - per - year by Tronc through Dec. 31, 2020, to serve as a consultant.

Then Lunar can add enhanced support — and an infusion of capital, if necessary — as the prospect blossoms, by hooking it into Lunar's virtual network of technologists, consultants, and other business experts.

Feinberg, who most recently advised on compensation issues related to the Boston Marathon bombing, was hired by GM as a consultant to advise the automaker how to respond to families of accident victims whose vehicles are being recalled for possible ignition switch defects.

In 2007, shortly after I began my career as a speaker and author I was told by a marketing and image consultant to ditch my jeans and boots for a suit.

For example, in an October interview with industry trade publication Digiday, media consultant Aram Zucker - Scharff compared the project to Facebook's Instant Articles project, which is pitched as making news articles easier to read by hosting them directly on the social network's site.

Roger Davidson, a consultant who has held key positions at chains such as Wild Oats, which was acquired by Whole Foods, Walmart and Texas grocer H - E-B, is betting on 365 succeeding.

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

By choosing relationship banks carefully, and selecting a bank that provides a single point of contact -; a single relationship manager that can be treated as a consultant as well as a credit manager — it creates a stronger bond.

The piece of the plane that was found, called a «flaperon,» was most likely «broken off by the engine pod ripping off as it was dragged through the water on the initial impact,» Tracy Lamb, an aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot, told Bloomberg.

Jarrett Walker, a prominent public transit advocate and consultant, entered the fray by describing Musk's disdain for public transit as «a luxury (or pathology) that only the rich can afford,» and accusing him, in essence, of attempting to impose his phobia of strangers on everyone.

University of Delaware professor Charles Elson and his graduate student, Craig Ferrere, have documented an annual, compounded structural 17 % increase in CEO pay over decades as a result of the way CEOs are paid at or above median and the marketing of peer group data by consultants.

Jung took a job at Avon as a consultant, assigned by Preston, then CEO, to look into the feasibility of retail outlets.

He wanted to study the claim by consultants that executives need to be paid extraordinarily high compensation or else they would migrate to other companies and jurisdictions, which — as it turned out — did not happen, Feinberg said, or is a «myth» as was stated in the U.K. this week.

That intensity is evident among cutting - edge companies, such as RMR, and reinforced by a chorus of business consultants.

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

Indeed, analysts and industry consultants have been urging retailers to better leverage their physical stores by also seeing them as warehouses from which goods can be shipped.

«In Canada as in the U.S. and Europe, the most common question investment consultants are asked by clients about ESG is whether an ESG - based approach will negatively impact investment performance,» said Andrew Sweeney, Institutional Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «This and other data from the survey reveal a high level of interest and curiosity about responsible investing, including areas of significant uncertainty.

As of December 31, 2010, we also had outstanding options to acquire 15,202,015 shares of common stock held by employees, directors and consultants, all of which will become options to acquire an equivalent number of shares of Class B common stock, immediately prior to the completion of this offering.

By then, Foreman was already working as a corporate consultant, but he came up with another scheme to get to Silicon Valley.

Last year, a handful of former Trump aides and Republican consultants dismissed the potency of Cambridge Analytica's so - called secret sauce as «exaggerated» in a profile by the New York Times.

The surveys and benchmark data are supplemented by input from the Compensation Committee's outside consultant on factors such as recent market trends.

(a) Schedule 2.7 (a) of the Disclosure Schedule contains a list setting forth each employee benefit plan, program, policy or arrangement (including any «employee benefit plan» as defined in Section 3 (3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended («ERISA»)(«ERISA Plan»)-RRB-, including, without limitation, employee pension benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (2) of ERISA, multi-employer plans, as defined in Section 3 (37) of ERISA, employee welfare benefit plans, as defined in Section 3 (1) of ERISA, deferred compensation plans, stock option plans, bonus plans, stock purchase plans, fringe benefit plans, life, hospitalization, disability and other insurance plans, severance or termination pay plans and policies, sick pay plans and vacation plans or arrangements, whether or not an ERISA Plan (including any funding mechanism therefore now in effect or required in the future as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or otherwise), whether formal or informal, oral or written, under which (i) any current or former employee, director or individual consultant of the Company (collectively, the «Company Employees») has any present or future right to benefits and which are contributed to, sponsored by or maintained by the Company or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate (as hereinafter defined) has had, has or may have any actual or contingent present or future liability or obligation.

Our general and administrative expenses increased sequentially in absolute dollars during 2009 and 2010, as we invested in our infrastructure to support our growth in operations by hiring employees and utilizing outside consultants on project initiatives, including international expansion efforts.

Corporate HR Departments Wake Up about the Contingent Workforce: Long viewed by corporate HR departments as a way to save money, the independent workforce (freelancers, contractors, independent consultants, etc.) is increasingly being seen as a strategic resource.

Driven by the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Team Hunter welcomes community entrepreneurs and industry experts as advisors, consultants and judges interested in supporting students in developing as entrepreneurial thinkers.

Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.

In addition, legal fees increased by $ 1.7 million primarily related to our legal proceedings and third - party consultant costs increased by $ 1.0 million as we continued to build out our general and administrative infrastructure.

Since early 2010, Pay Governance LLC («Pay Governance») has been engaged by the CNGC as its independent executive compensation consultant.

He also served as a portfolio consultant with HOLT Value Associates prior to their acquisition by Credit Suisse in 2002.

This includes starting and managing his own software company (Microline Software — acquired by Blaze Software) and acting as a value added board member and consultant to the founders and CEO of Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai), nCircle Network Security, StepUp Commerce (acquired by Intuit), Discovery Mining (acquired by Interwoven), etc..

WPP is seen by some media consultants as the holding company most likely to resist tough audit terms or demand to approve who could audit its media shops.

-- The majority of 401 consultants support additional services in defined contribution retirement plans as participants rely more heavily on such funds when they retire, according to according to the 12th annual PIMCO Defined Contribution Consulting Support and Trends Survey published by PIMCO, one of the world» s premier fixed income investment managers..

The compensation consultant (s), outside counsel and any other advisors retained by, or providing advice to, the Committee (other than the Company's in - house counsel) shall be independent as determined in the discretion of the Committee after considering the factors specified in the Rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc..

With his theory of disruption Christensen offered a compelling explanation for how it was big company managers, equipped with the best education and aided by the best consultants armed with the latest in best practices, fell prey again and again to upstart competitors with seemingly inferior products; technologists took it as a manual.

The Committee shall receive appropriate funding from the Company, as determined by the Committee in its capacity as a committee of the Board, for the payment of compensation to its compensation consultants, outside legal counsel and any other advisors.

Some Western companies, many of them guided by Western market entry consultants, tend to overstate the importance of relationship - building in China, in that they see it as a substitute to marketing effort, rather than a complement.

Approached more and more by other dispensaries hoping to get a leg up in quality, the folks behind Pinnacle began offering their services not only as consultants for the physical breeding of plants, but for the entire infrastructure required to begin a new cannabis business.

Except as otherwise noted, the Compensation Committee's executive compensation determinations are subjective and the result of the Compensation Committee's business judgment, which is informed by the experiences of the members of the Compensation Committee as well as the input from, and peer group data provided by, the Compensation Committee's independent executive compensation consultant.

The Enterprise Compensation Committee discharges the board of directors» responsibilities relating to the compensation of our executives and directors; reviews and discusses with management the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and performs other reviews and analyses and makes additional disclosures as required of compensation committees by the rules of the SEC or applicable exchange listing requirements; provides general oversight of our compensation structure, including our equity compensation plans and benefits programs, and confirms that these plans and programs do not encourage risk taking that is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on Hewlett Packard Enterprise; reviews and provides guidance on our human resources programs; and retains and approves the retention terms of the Enterprise Compensation Committee's independent compensation consultants and other independent compensation experts.

By: Sascha Solomons 22nd April 2016 To ensure that its consulting streams maintain their competitive edge, mining industry consultant Snowden continues to provide its technology solutions as commercial off - the - shelf solutions to improve performance at mining operations.

By: Victor Moolman 13th May 2016 An effective environmental management system (EMS) has to reduce the possible environmental damage caused by and the overall cost of a mine, as well as ensure that workers are safe and healthy, says mining industry consultant The MSA GrouBy: Victor Moolman 13th May 2016 An effective environmental management system (EMS) has to reduce the possible environmental damage caused by and the overall cost of a mine, as well as ensure that workers are safe and healthy, says mining industry consultant The MSA Grouby and the overall cost of a mine, as well as ensure that workers are safe and healthy, says mining industry consultant The MSA Group.

Akorn responded by saying that it fired an executive involved in the fraudulent scheme, while Fresenius said the executive is still being paid a salary of $ 250,000 as a consultant and stands to profit significantly from the merger.

He went on to make his mark in Silicon Valley by answering a call six years ago from former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who recognized he'd have regulatory battles to wage and enlisted Tusk as Uber's first outside consultant to aid in navigating them.

Erik got his start as a computer programmer and by the age of 17, he was already an independent software development and design consultant.

As profiled by CoinDesk, the announcement of an unaffiliated venture known as «litecoin cash» has boosted demand for the cryptocurrency, although consultants say these anticipating the ensuing tokens to be as priceless as bitcoin cash could need to assume once morAs profiled by CoinDesk, the announcement of an unaffiliated venture known as «litecoin cash» has boosted demand for the cryptocurrency, although consultants say these anticipating the ensuing tokens to be as priceless as bitcoin cash could need to assume once moras «litecoin cash» has boosted demand for the cryptocurrency, although consultants say these anticipating the ensuing tokens to be as priceless as bitcoin cash could need to assume once moras priceless as bitcoin cash could need to assume once moras bitcoin cash could need to assume once more.

«The key challenges faced by Cathay Pacific are stiff competition from well - funded, state - owned Chinese carriers, as well as Hong Kong Airlines and HK Express, which have aggressive fleet - expansion plans in the next two years,» said Corrine Png, the founder of Crucial Perspective, an Asian aviation industry consultant.