Sentences with phrase «by others chiefs»

The chief who was impressively supported and cheered on by others chiefs, queen mothers, elders and opinion leaders and the ordinary people, described Mr. Mahama as their son, grandson and royal from Nyinahini, insisting they won't sit down for others to maltreat him.

Not exact matches

The other night, I had the pleasure of having dinner with Vivek Kundra, a big name in technology circles by virtue of his being the first ever Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Drew Van Pelt, the head of Larson Juhl who was hired by Cool in 2011, says she connected him with other chiefs at sister companies like Johns Manville and molding - maker Marman Industries.

Any chief executive's ranking, in other words, might not tell the whole story about the person and how he or she is really viewed by the workforce.

In a recent interview with Forbes, Google's Chief People Officer Laszlo Bock made public an even more astounding benefit offered by the company, eclipsing all the free haircuts, gourmet food, and other well - publicized sweeteners Google offers its staff.

Valeant Chief Executive Joseph Papa is working to narrow the company's focus to its dermatology, gastrointestinal and eye care businesses by pruning other assets to repay its debt of nearly $ 30 billion.

«By enabling Symphony to run on the OpenFin operating system, we are making it easy for our mutual customers to unify the Symphony desktop experience with their other OpenFin - based apps,» Mazy Dar, chief executive of OpenFin, said of the news.

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket flights by about one - third in response to mounting competition from rival SpaceX and others, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

Others estimate Harvey has destroyed up to five times more: Cox Automotive chief economist Jonathan Smoke told USA Today he believes 300,000 to 500,000 vehicles were destroyed by Harvey's path — with many of those covered by insurance.

Chief People Officer Chaz Hinkle noticed that while everyone on the team is motivated by helping others, they also needed to feel motivated to help themselves.

On the other hand, security firm Solutionary's Chief Security Strategist Jon Heimerl notes that some things won't change: «We will see errors in operating systems, configuration errors or lapses, errors in applications, and errors in judgment by people who fall for social engineering attacks.

Kalanick went on to commission an «urgent» investigation into the allegations, to be headed by former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and including, among others, Uber board member Arianna Huffington and the company's chief HR officer Liane Hornsey (who has only been on the job for a few months).

The firm's 2017 edition of its annual cybersecurity report entitled «Cybersecurity Report: Chief Security Officers Reveal True Cost of Breaches And The Actions That Organizations Are Taking,» provides insights based on threat intelligence gathered by Cisco's security experts, combined with input from nearly 3,000 Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and other security operations leaders from businesses in 13 countries.

The younger man's trauma was reported to DeLaurentis and the embassy's diplomatic security chief, Anthony Spotti, on Dec. 30, State Department officials said, and followed by word that the two other CIA officers had experienced something similar about a month before.

Members of the group, which was led by Blackstone CEO (bx) Stephen Schwarzman, included other chiefs of major U.S. corporations, among them PepsiCo's (pep) Indra Nooyi and BlackRock's (bhk) Larry Fink.

The new products and services are the backbone of BlackBerry Chief Executive John Chen's plan to turn around the smartphone pioneer, whose devices have lost ground to Apple's iPhone, Samsung's Galaxy devices and a slew of other gadgets powered by Google's Android operating system.

When asked about the other «tools» Facebook uses internally, Goler points to Quip — the document creation and collaboration service created by Facebook's former chief scientist Bret Taylor and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.

Brooks, president and CEO since August 2008, has accomplished many things in her three - plus years on the job — by the Bay's own accounting (and as a privately held company, there's no other kind), sales are stronger now than they've been in more than a decade, up 9 % in the second half of 2011 — but chief among them has been rebuilding the Bay brand in her own image.

Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors, reckons that new legislation that drops the rate all the way to 20 %, and contains other levy - lowering provisions such as immediate expensing of capital expenditure, could raise EPS for the S&P 500 by 8 % in the first year.

Travis VanderZanden, chief executive of electric scooter start - up Bird, is unperturbed by how San Francisco and other cities are in an uproar over the dockless vehicles.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Chief Executive Officer Michael Heyward, 26, says Whisper was inspired by the idea that people are sitting at home feeling lonely as they browse other people's party photos online.

For the individual serving as the chief executive officer of the Company at the end of the taxable year and for the individuals serving as officers of the Company or a subsidiary at the end of such year who are among the three highest compensated officers (other than the chief executive officer and chief financial officer) for proxy reporting purposes, Section 162 (m) of the Code limits the amount of compensation otherwise deductible by the Company and its subsidiaries for such year to $ 1,000,000 for each such individual except to the extent that such compensation is «performance - based compensation.»

And Hensarling has been the chief antagonist of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by Dodd - Frank to oversee credit cards, mortgages and other financial products.

The following table summarizes the compensation that we paid to or earned by our Chief Executive Officer, our Chief Financial Officer and each of our three other most highly compensated executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2010.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

The other five directors, Mr. Banerji, Mr. Reiner, Ms. Russo, Ms. Senequier and Ms. Whitman, were identified by an ad hoc committee of directors consisting of the Chief Executive Officer and three non-employee directors, which was formed in November 2010 to assist in the identification of new director candidates and to facilitate the process of evaluating those candidates as potential directors.

Chief Financial Officer Jason Hollar quickly dismissed concerns, saying that the language was required by regulators but that Sears was focused on turning itself around and was still «a viable business that can meet its financial and other obligations for the foreseeable future.»

Google's chief lawyer, David Drummond, last week lashed out against Apple and others, accusing them of «a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.»

Under Section 162 (m), the amount of compensation earned by the Chief Executive Officer, and any executive whose compensation is required to be reported to stockholders by reason of such executive being among the three other most highly - paid executive officers of the Company (excluding the Chief Financial Officer) in the year for which a deduction is claimed by the Company (including its subsidiaries) is limited to $ 1 million per person, except that compensation that is performance - based will be excluded for purposes of calculating the amount of compensation subject to the $ 1 million limitation.

SAN FRANCISCO — After nearly five months of digging into Uber's internal culture, its new chief human resources officer says the ride - hailing company's treatment of women — which gave it a public black eye after charges of persistent sexism and discrimination were detailed by a former employee — is no worse at Uber than at other companies.

«Institutional investors and other long - term funds have already unloaded Toshiba shares, so currently the stock price is being driven by short - term investors,» said Takatoshi Itoshima, chief portfolio manager at Commons Asset Management.

The complaint also outlines Gross» view of his ouster, a plan he said was «hatched» by Daniel Ivascyn, who succeeded him as Pimco's group chief investment officer and allegedly helped recruit others to the cause.

Led by chief investment officer Jonathan Horton, NWQ is a specialist money manager that invests across a range of hedge funds operated by other groups.

Other legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed by investor Benchmark against former chief executive officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

The following table provides information regarding all compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to our President and Chief Executive Officer and our two most highly compensated executive officers (other than our President and Chief Executive Officer) for 2014.

In determining the long - term incentive component of CEO compensation, the Committee shall consider, among other factors, the Company's performance and relative shareholder return, the value of similar incentive awards to chief executive officers at comparable companies, the awards given to the CEO in past years, and other factors considered relevant by the Committee.

Paul Bulcke, the chief executive officer of Vevey, Switzerland - based Nestle, the world's largest food company, said May 19 that food - price increases should be gradual and that companies would try to absorb commodity expenses by reducing costs in other areas.

The Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, who attends most meetings of the Compensation Committee by invitation of the Committee's chairman, assists the Committee in determining the compensation of all other executive officers by, among other things:

Based on the limitations imposed by Code Section 162 (m), we generally may receive a federal income tax deduction for compensation paid to our Chief Executive Officer and to certain of our other highly compensated officers only if the compensation is less than $ 1,000,000 per person during any year or is «performance - based» under Code Section 162 (m).

Canopy's EBITDA was impacted by investments in branding and expanding its international reach and other activities during the quarter, said Canopy's chief financial officer Tim Saunders.

Nchain is a blockchain technology - based research and development organization led by Jimmy Nguyen, chief scientist Dr. Craig Wright, and over sixty researchers, engineers, and other professionals based in Europe and Canada.

The company sold parts of its business to Kaiken Entertainment, a startup led by former Chief Executive Officer Mikael Hed and other company veterans, in March.

In «Miles to Go Before We Sleep,» Johnathon Stroud, chief intellectual property officer at Unified Patents, argues that Barnett ignores other evidence that supports the elimination of «weak» patents through an administrative process created by the 2011 America Invents Act.

Asked about cryptocurrencies, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi commented on 5 February 2018 that bank exposure was not evident: «Let me first say that we are not observing a systemically relevant holding of digital currencies by supervised institutions — by banks, in other words.»

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Finding joy, being grateful and helping others are key to being resilient and living a fulfilling life, said Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.

Chief Justice Roberts, joined by those freewheeling constitutional interpreters Justices Scalia and Thomas (among others), engaged in judging practices familiar from the common law.

With the exception of an August interview done by CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger for her documentary «Romney Revealed: Family, Faith and the Road to Power,» which airs Sunday, October 28, and Saturday, November 3, at 8 p.m. ET on CNN, all other interviews were conducted in the fall of 2011.