Sentences with phrase «chairman of the group last»

Obama asked Holder to be chairman of the group last year.

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Fox Networks Group Chairman Peter Rice said at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week that Fox was looking to buy Tribune Media because «having more scale and more control of distribution is important.»

Last month, Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire chairman of Interactive Brokers Group Inc., wrote an open letter to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on platforms that clear other derichairman of Interactive Brokers Group Inc., wrote an open letter to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on platforms that clear other deriChairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on platforms that clear other derivatives.

As of last August, Forbes had ranked Ma, the Executive Chairman of the Alibaba Group, as the wealthiest man in all of Asia, with a net worth of $ 37.4 billion.

Dalian Wanda Group has filed at least 10 lawsuits with the Chinese courts and intends to press criminal charges against online rumor mongers, after word spread last week that Wang Jianlin, the group's founder and chairman, was removed from a flight out of CGroup has filed at least 10 lawsuits with the Chinese courts and intends to press criminal charges against online rumor mongers, after word spread last week that Wang Jianlin, the group's founder and chairman, was removed from a flight out of Cgroup's founder and chairman, was removed from a flight out of China.

Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, chairman of SoftBank, a telecommunications and tech investment group, revealed plans for the fund last October and since then it has obtained commitments from some of the world's most deep - pocketed investors.

The pricing issue, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, and Chairman Robert Coury's nearly $ 100 million pay package last year have caused a group of investors to launch an effort to vote down the company's board at its annual meeting on Thursday.

Ma stepped down as the CEO of the Alibaba Group last year, but still retains significant control as Executive Chairman.

Thomas Peterffy, chairman of the broker - dealer Interactive Brokers Group, expressed deep concerns about the trading of bitcoin futures last month, saying «there is no fundamental basis for valuation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and they may assume any price from one day to the next.»

Wu Xiaohui, chairman of Anbang Insurance Group, was detained last year.

Southeast Asian economies are reaching a stage similar to China's at the end of the last decade, when e-commerce began to take off, Alibaba Group Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai told an industry conference in Singapore on Tuesday.

Last - minute hotel booking startup HotelTonight just announced that it has landed a personal investment from Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Capital Group and former chairman and CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

Former Foster's Group chief executive Trevor O'Hoy became chairman of Maggie Beer Products last year and has overseen a review of the business, which triggered a subtle shift in strategy to try to deliver more growth from faster - growing food segments embraced by Millennials.

Former Foster's Group chief executive Trevor O'Hoy became chairman of Maggie Beer Products last year and has overseen a review of the business, with an eye to capturing more of the younger market while still having a major focus on the core products.

Mr O'Hoy, a former chief executive of beer company Foster's Group, became the chairman of Maggie Beer Products in September last year.

Larry Pope (left), president and CEO of Smithfield Foods, shakes hands with Wan Long, chairman and CEO of WH Group, formerly Shuanghui International, at a press conference in Hong Kong last year.

The last four formal sessions were dominated by Mr. Costello, the head of research and development; Mr. Robertson, the experienced director of operations in the field (see cover); and Mr. Alcindor, the group's young chairman.

A well - known industry figure, Cartwright was last year's Public Relations Consultants Association (PRCA) Personality of the Year and, in January this year, became the inaugural chairman of the PRCA's Public Affairs Group.

«No government wants to get into that sticky business of legislating around football,» Clive Betts, chairman of the all - party parliamentary group on football, told politics.co.uk last year.

Mr. Cuomo, an aggressive and prodigious fund - raiser, did travel to Los Angeles last year to raise money from gay and lesbian supporters, and this year, in Manhattan, he was chairman of a panel for the Democratic Governors Association, an important networking group for politicians with national aspirations.

The ethics panel's chairman, Dan Horwitz, emerged from a closed - door executive session to announce the applications from three of the groups had only been received in the last day, and said the commission needed more time to determine whether they should receive the exemptions under source of funding regulations.

David Burrowes, the Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate and chairman of the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Umbilical Cord Blood and Adult Stem Cells, was granted the adjournment debate at the end of business last Thursday.

In his address, the Chairman of the group, Mr. Abiodun Muritala, said over 600 forms had been given out in the last three years to indigent pupils from 30 wards which make up the Epe division.

Last week, House Science, Space and Technology Chairman Lamar Smith (R - Texas) subpoenaed the attorneys general of New York and Massachusetts, who are each investigating if Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about climate change threats, and several environmental groups (ClimateWire, July 14).

Barry Diller is currently standing as Chairman and Senior Executive of InterActive Corp (IAC), the conglomerate which took its online dating subsidiary, The Match Group public last week.

Washington — The chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights told members of a House education panel last week that he has «grave reservations» about a bill that would guarantee the right of student religious groups to hold meetings on school grounds.

That last group probably consisted of rather charismatic personalities — Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca or former Boston Celtics basketball coach Red Auerbach, for example.

Washington — Business leaders should push to raise local taxes to pay for early - childhood and other education efforts if money can not be found in other public programs, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman of the President's Education Policy Advisory Committee, told a group of business leaders here last week.

In the days leading up to last night's Hartford Board of Education vote, Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra, his hand - picked board Chairman, Republican Richard Wareing, and the corporate education reform groups, Achieve Hartford!

In the course of the last year, we asked VW Group chief Martin Winterkorn, design director Walter de Silva, and Bentley chairman Wolfgang Durheimer to name their most - hoped - for addition to the Bentley portfolio.

«At last year's fair it seemed every conversation touched on digital, and this year will obviously be no different in that regard,» said David Young, Chairman and CEO of Hachette Book Group.

Now those proposals are facing widespread opposition from the same groups who fought the dog law last year: the PVMA, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which represents pet stores, the Sportsmen's Alliance, Republican members of the House Agriculture Committee and Sen. Michael Brubaker — chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee - whose committee created the board to appease the aforementioned groups in 2008.

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.

Jack Whitten's Ghost of Joseph Beuys (1986) sold to a bidder on the phone with Sotheby's Europe chairman Helena Newman for a $ 700,000 hammer, or $ 855,000 with fees, beating out the record set at the Sotheby's day sales last May, when Epsilon Group, III (1976) sold for $ 672,500.

Last night, the Stuckists called for the resignation of the Tate's director, Sir Nicholas Serota, and its chairman, Paul Myners, who also chairs the Guardian Media Group.

Martin Rapaport, chairman of Rapaport Group, which runs a diamond - pricing service, said last month, «Even a child can see the [Kimberley Process]'s emperor has no clothes.

Eddie O'Connor, the company's founder and Chief Executive Officer for the last nine years has assumed the role of Executive Chairman, while Andy Kinsella, currently Group Chief Operating Officer becomes Group Chief Executive.

On the eve of the One Planet Summit in Paris last week, I joined Jean - Bernard Lévy, EDF's Chairman and CEO, together with 30 senior international executives and the company's automotive supplier base, to celebrate EDF joining The Climate Group's EV100 campaign.

«It was not an easy decision to take a new partner on board with whom to continue the rapid growth phase that this group has undergone over the last ten years of towage services,» admits Gregorio Gavarone, Chief Executive Officer of RR and Chairman of RM.

Sir Bill Callaghan, chairman of the LSC, reflected on that point at last year's Legal Aid Practitioners Group conference.

In a Bloomberg interview last October, Citi's Dan DiPietro, chairman of the bank's law firm group, said that he maintained a «somewhat robust watch list» of firms in potential trouble, ranging from «very slight concern to oh my God!»

Anirban Basu, chairman and CEO of the Sage Policy Group, a local consulting firm, said the last very good local market was in 2005, and «this is shaping up to be the best year for the housing market since that time.»