Sentences with phrase «companies met with president»

The CEOs of health - care tech companies met with President Obama to discuss how technology can be used to bring down the cost of health care for Americans.

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Toyota Motor (tm) on Thursday said that company President Akio Toyoda met with U.S. Vice President - elect Mike Pence in Washington earlier this week as the incoming U.S. administration pressures automakers to build more cars locally.

Marsha Smith, the incoming president of IKEA Canada, for instance, is starting her tenure by travelling to across the country with the goal of meeting personally with every one of the company's employees.

Apple (aapl) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday as the company looks to head off a brewing trade war between the U.S. and China.

Sacca, who in a December Recode story loudly criticized leaders from tech's biggest companies for meeting with the president, tweeted that he could barely keep up with the response and continued to increase the amount he said he would donate.

President Obama is slated to meet with the CEOs of 12 companies on Tuesday, including Lloyd Blankfein from Goldman Sachs and Marissa Mayer from Yahoo to discuss immigration and deficit reduction, the White House said.

According to Nick Hedges, president and CEO of sales acceleration software company Velocify, collaborative technology has evolved to the point where sales reps can serve clients well without ever having to meet with them in person.

For example, it was in a SWOT meeting that the product development director of my company, who was in his late twenties at the time, suggested that one of my company's weaknesses was my messing with the software code instead of just being the president.

As Exxon Mobil's CEO, Tillerson helped steward the company's entry into post-Soviet Union Russia, developing deep connections with the Russia elite business class and meeting with President Vladimir Putin repeatedly to discuss issues such as the joint Arctic drilling project Exxon Mobil developed with Russian government - backed energy companies.

Last year, EllisDon president and CEO Geoff Smith went on a listening tour, visiting each of the construction company's 11 offices to meet with every employee in small groups.

Mark Slusher, senior vice president of Thalhimer Realty Partners, which owns the mall with The Rebkee Company, explained the idea behind the proposal at a recent meeting with local government officials.

Despite meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week, U.K. prime minister Theresa May will not give written support for China's ambitious Belt and Road project, due to concerns that contracts under the scheme will unfairly favour Chinese companies.

When Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM (ibm), strolled across the atrium connecting her company's New York City office building and Trump Tower for a meeting with the President - elect's incoming administration and tech industry leaders last month, she had a report in hand.

Unveiled at the end of January, the Startup America Partnership has just announced a slew of new company commitments, in conjunction with President Obama's Town Hall meeting at Facebook today.

snip snip: Dr. Jacqueline Shan, president of CV Technologies, Inc. of Edmonton, accompanied by hockey commentator and PAID company spokesman Don Cherry, met with 20 Tory MPs, including several cabinet ministers, in the exclusive Parliamentary Dining Room in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill.

Plank also mentioned his meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss jobs in U.S. Plank described Trump as «highly passionate» and a pro-business man who is a «real asset» for U.S. companies.

After meeting with the president - elect this week, Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba, said he was committed to adding 1 million U.S. companies to his hugely popular online shopping platform.

Donald Jr.'s meeting with Sajwani is a reminder of these inadequacies, especially because Sajwani posted the picture to Instagram, thus increasing the lunch's visibility and, along with it, the likelihood that the president will know about the ongoing interactions between his company and Sajwani's (that is, if Donald Jr. hasn't already made his father aware of them).

Jones spent much of the beginning of his tenure as the president of ride - sharing driving for Uber and meeting with drivers, after which he sent drivers an email about what he learned and what the company intends to do.

Kalanick, along with Rachel Whetstone, Uber's head of comms at the time, Rachel Holt, the company's general manager of U.S. and Canada, former Uber president Jeff Jones and others agreed that he should meet with Kamel to apologize.

He met with a small group of Uber executives to discuss company issues at the home of Jill Hazelbaker, now Uber's senior vice president of policy and communications, on the evening the video surfaced.

Reportedly, billionaires Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of rocket company Blue Origin, have met with President Trump several times for talks about the proposed moon missions and partnership with NASA.

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Ford Motor Company CEO Mark Fields as he hosts a meeting with U.S. auto industry CEOs at the White House in Washington January 24, 2017.

In a memorandum about an October Oval Office meeting, for example, Mr. Broidy wrote that he had volunteered to Mr. Trump that his company was seeking a contract from the United Arab Emirates and had tried to arrange a private meeting for the president to discuss the matter with their leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

USCBC President John Frisbie met with Che Jun, Party Secretary of China's Zhejiang province, along with the Zhejiang delegation and members of American companies operating in China.

NRF took CEOs from some of the nation's largest and best known retail companies to the White House to meet with President Trump on tax reform, regulatory reform, the economy and other issues facing the industry.

Chilton and President and COO Rex Parrott meet with the company's department heads to consider potential new business, review Wyandot's performance with each customer and examine any issues that have arisen and how they are being resolved.

In 2010, President Obama announced his support for more reliance on private companies to launch astronauts, a decision then met with significant resistance.

Executives from 10 auto companies will meet with President Donald Trump and cabinet officials Friday to discuss the administration's plan to reduce gas mileage and pollution requirements enacted during the Obama administration.

The borough president will meet with the company by June 30 to discuss ways Fresh Direct can expand its service to include more areas of the Bronx.

The borough president's staff met with James Capalino's company one other time to discuss Airbnb.

«CPV has met and exceeded every state and federal standard to operate this plant and build the pipeline needed to supply it with natural gas, winning hard - fought battles against the Cuomo administration in court as a result,» said Tom Rumsey, the company's vice president for external affairs.

At 9:30 a.m., President Trump and VP Mike Pence attend the National Governors Association meeting, and then — at about 10:30 a.m. — participate in a listening session with health insurance company CEOs, followed by lunch with UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Ingrid Dodd, Coastal's president, said in an email that the company's work included «meeting and greeting filmmakers, locations scouts, directors and producers to encourage them to film here in Nassau,» as well as «working with area hotels for lodging crew and talent.»

What's more, the source said, Cuomo has turned down offers to tour ongoing fracking operations just across the New York border in Pennsylvania and, in at least one case, «insulted» a major energy - company president by not even responding to a formal letter requesting a meeting on the gas - drilling issue with the governor.

Saratoga Partnership President Marty Vanags and Director of Business Retention & Expansion Shelby Schneider are meeting one - on - one with executives from companies across the microelectronics supply chain, including manufacturers, materials and equipment suppliers, and in new vertical markets such as flexible hybrid electronics, system integration and the Internet of Things.

Zipline was one of the many companies with cutting - edge technology who met and held discussions with the Vice President and the founders and leaders of a number of Ghanaian ICT firms a few weeks ago during Dr Bawumia's working visit to Silicon Valley, California, USA.

In September, economic espionage and cyber espionage were forefront at the meeting between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with the two leaders vowing in a landmark agreement not to target each other's companies.

It's written in a language pretty close to English, with very little finance - speak, and is meant to be something close to what the president of the company would say as an introductory speech at the company's annual shareholders meeting.

Though Peter Ginsberg, NC Biotech's vice president of business and technology development, admits that no VCs have so far announced plans to move to the state, «A number of the companies that took part have had significant follow - up discussions with the participating VCs, and one of the companies has made two follow - up visits to the Bay Area to meet with the VCs,» he says, adding that a similar event is planned for Boston this spring.

At last night's New Haven Board of Education meeting, New Haven Board of Education President Carlos Torre and member Alicia Caraballo, «peppered proponents with skeptical questions and declared themselves unprepared to vote yet» on the plan to divert even more New Haven and Connecticut taxpayer funds to Achievement First Inc., the large charter school management company with operations in Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island.

Jay Leno has recently met with Stephan Winkelmann, President and CEO of Lamborghini Automobili in order to discuss about the company's latest hypercar, the Aventador LP700 - 4.

On the latest episode of Jay Leno's Garage, host and comedian Jay Leno meets with SpeedKore Vice President and Builder David Salvaggio to talk about the company's new «Carbon Series» Shelby GT350R (and GT350) Mustangs.

The day ended on a high note when I met with the President of the company, Scott Liles who was gracious enough to stay a little late and spend a few minutes talking about the vision for the future of the company.

«The category is steady but growing in the ultra / natural space, as well as with products that are formulated to meet specific needs of the pet,» says Paul Cooke, vice president / director of industry development at Nestlé Purina PetCare Company in St. Louis.

Nintendo has suffered a loss over its last two fiscal years with Satoru Iwata at the helm, but at an analyst presentation meeting on Thursday, the company president set a goal of $ 1.1 billion profit for the fiscal year starting in April.

ESA and our member companies have not received an invitation to meet with President Trump.

The ESA, the trade association representing the US games industry and which organises E3, told Kotaku that they and their «member companies have not received an invitation to meet with President Trump.»

Similarly, but on a much larger scale, Wal - Mart president and CEO Lee Scott recently announced that the company is going to require its suppliers to meet specific environmental, social and quality standards, and it will make compliance with those standards part of all its contracts.

Top executives of these companies were among those present at a 90 - minute meeting that Ritter and others held with President Obama last March, when work on the report began.