Sentences with phrase «chairman of a company called»

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Mr Hyslop has also become non-executive chairman of Kwinana - based company Total Corrosion Control, a company that was once strongly linked to United Construction Group (now called United KG).

Although Zuckerberg maintains voting control of the company, some are calling for Zuckerberg's resignation from one or both of his posts as CEO and chairman of the board.

This news comes a day after Michael Dell, who will be the chairman of the converged Dell - EMC entity if the $ 67 billion plan passes muster, pledged to keep VMware, which he called «a crown jewel,» functionally independent within the broader company.

On the conference call Michael Dell, who will be the chairman of the combined company, said he's studied the Federation carefully.

The CEO and chairman of Avon Products was fielding questions during the company's third - quarter earnings call from a pack of frustrated analysts — and they weren't holding back.

For his part, David Kenny, the chairman and CEO of The Weather Company, which owns The Weather Channel, called the blackout a «dangerous gamble» given the network's relatively diminutive request.

Chairman Ferro — absent from Wednesday's call, as he was for the company's overall 2015 report in March — has talked of harnessing Tribune user data to create large new revenue streams.

This echoed an earlier proposal by center - right former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to levy a new border tariff on U.S. exports seeking to enter the EU in the event of a Paris withdrawal, as well as a call from the chairman of ArcelorMittal, a major global steel company, for Europe to establish a carbon border tax.

One of the first things the companies did after sending out the deal's news release was to call Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

The TRAI chairman Rahul Khullar told the press that, the free roaming regime, will result is cross-subsidization as only 13 percent of the mobile subscribers use roaming facility and telecom companies could recover their cost by the local call charges, and the impact of this move will be reviewed after a year instead of three years.

After a lengthy inquiry, the committee found that the company had avoided tens of billions of dollars in taxes by shifting profits into Irish subsidiaries that the panel's chairman called «ghost companies.»

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.

After Barington Capital Group representing a group of shareholders released a letter to Bloomin» Brands, Inc. chairman and CEO Liz Smith on Feb. 21, calling for sweeping changes in the company's brand and leadership structure, as well as marketing and financial strategy, many were anticipating the earnings report released the following day to be poor.

Republican Sen. Kemp Hannon, the chairman of the chamber's Health Committee, called last month for Schneiderman to investigate the company.

A local group of activists called «Save North Cove» issued a statement Tuesday saying authority chairman Dennis Mehiel should recuse himself from the vote because he has patronized marinas run by Farkas's company.

Greenfield, chairman of the City Council's Committee on Land Use, has $ 308,641.71 in a campaign account called «GreenfieldNY,» most of which came from real estate companies, the New York Observer reported.

They had earlier called on the Minister of Trade and Industry, President of the Association of Ghana Industries, Board Chairman of the Ghana Export Promotion Board, Chief Executive of the Ghana Investment Promotion Council and the National Coordinator of the One District One Factory Secretariat, the Precious Minerals Marketing Company and the Food and Drugs Authority.

David Ward, Global NCAP Secretary General, has now written to Mary Barra, chairman and CEO of General Motors, calling on her company to address safety concerns in Latin America.

Woong - chul Yang, a vice chairman at Hyundai Motor Company, calls the Intrado «a vision of how eco-friendly cars will deliver delight to our customers.»

Penguin chairman and c.e.o. John Makinson called 2011 «the most turbulent book market that anyone can remember», but said the company's growth had been driven by «excellent publishing around the globe, demonstrated by market share growth in our three biggest markets, and innovation in every aspect of our digital publishing».

On Thursday, Christophe Cuvilier, Chairman and CEO of Fnac, France and Europe's largest cultural and electronic retail chain, introduced the company's new ereader called FnacBook.

«At the invitation of the Chairman of [AVGN], [Biotechnology Value Fund] articulated their views regarding the future of the Company in a conference call with the Board of Directors held on October 30, 2008.

The late John Bierre, who had been the chairman of the pantry, had a vision to use a 97,000 - pound donation from the Royal Canin pet food company to launch a program nationwide called Cats Helping Dogs.

The new plan calls for Radisson to gain ground and become one of the top three hotel companies in the world as it heads into the «start of an exciting era,» said Federico J. González, president and chief executive of the Rezidor Hotel Group and chairman of the new global steering committee of Radisson Hotel Group, in an announcement last week about the name change.

When both companies were called in front of a senate hearing about video game violence, Nintendo US chairman Howard Lincoln launched a scathing attack on Sega for the violence portrayed in Mega Drive titles like Mortal Kombat and Night Trap.

In addition to committing all of the group's companies to set science based targets, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra has called on all of his peers to set targets for their companies and to cut their emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

With Anand Mahindra, Chairman of the Mahindra Group, calling on his business peers to join his companies in committing to the Science Based Targets initiative, there are encouraging signs it is becoming a truly universal movement.

He has recently taken on the role as chairman of an unlisted tin mining company, called TNT Limited.

Already, CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein has rejected calls to broaden the scope of the hearings by considering the prices Canadians, including those who are direct customers of the big telecommunications companies, pay in general for Internet services.

Their corporate President and Chairman of the board was Darwin Kingsley at this time who called the shots and brought the young company into a life insurance behemoth and one of the largest life insurance companies in the world.

Facebook is facing calls to separate the chairman and CEO roles, and some investors and observers want more oversight of Zuckerberg, the founder of the company, who has a controlling stake.

On Monday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, and John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, jointly called for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to hold a hearing at which senators can publicly question the CEOs of technology companies.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify at two congressional hearings next week, but he and the company are doing plenty of talking in advance, in an effort to contain the damage from the company's latest privacy scandal — including calls for him to step down as chairman of the company he founded.

The first, a non-profit called Blockchain Labs, was co-founded by Buterin, BitShares co-founder Bo Shen and Feng Xiao, vice chairman and executive director of Wanxiang Holdings, the company's investment arm.

U.S. SENS. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota and John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, have called on the chairman of the Judiciary Committee to bring in technology company CEOs, including from Twitter and Google, for public questioning.

«The recent turmoil in the debt and equity markets has resulted in a collateral call from our lenders,» says William Dockser, chairman of the company.