Sentences with phrase «directors on»

Comptroller hopeful and City Councilwoman Melinda Katz (D - Forest Hills) Monday called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to ratify proposed rule changes that would allow shareholders to nominate directors on corporate boards — a change she says would have tremendous impact on city pension funds.

The EFC Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan approved by the Thruway board of directors on August 6 will support more than $ 255 million in measures to protect the Hudson River and mitigate environmental impacts of the project.

One of the two Congressional District directors on Howard Dean's 2003 - 04 New Hampshire presidential primary.

The property has been in dispute between the defunct Noble Dream Microfinance, its former Chief Executive, Ezekiel Owusu Afriyie, Endurance Oti Boateng and other directors on one hand and Mr. Okyem Aboagye who had acquired it by auction, on the orders of a Kumasi High Court.

The argument that many proffer in favour of takeovers is that they are an essential tool that is required to keep management and boards of directors on top of their game.

Two veterans of Blue State Digital have left the firm to serve as digital directors on high - profile U.S. Senate campaigns.

Deutsche Presse - Agentur March 4, 1997 The worsening crisis in Albania jumped to the top of the European Union's political agenda on Tuesday but officials said the bloc would wait until a meeting of E.U. political directors on March 6 before taking any joint initiatives to try and quell the unrest.

But he's like a trade union general secretary elected by the workers who faces a hostile executive or a company chairman constantly battling directors on the boardroom despite a mandate for reform from shareholders.

There were also roundtable discussions, which provided opportunities for attendees to share their insights and gain knowledge from their peers on common issues all youth sports directors on military bases deal with.

Wenger made the final decision to leave earlier this week and, after discussions with directors on Thursday, he personally informed his staff and the players on Friday morning.

Current Athletics Directors on the Selection Committee: The management committee felt strongly that the service of current athletics directors (ADs) on the selection committee was essential for its success, since ADs are experts in college football and have careers spanning different schools, conferences and levels.

A. Continually berate him and the board of directors on social media in order to vent your frustrations?

Perez de la Mesa joins David W. Bullock and Robert E. Hill, Jr. as independent directors on the 10 - member board.

As revealed by Street Talk in September, Toys «R» Us hired Jason Preston and Jason Ireland from local insolvency and restructuring firm McGrathNicol to review the Australian operations, while Gilbert + Tobin says it has been advising the Australian subsidiary and its directors on the implications of the parent going into Chapter 11.

Foodservice directors on college and university campuses are experimenting with new foods, concepts and delivery systems.

I was appalled at how they mentioned how they gave lots of money to their child's activity foundation and they had a discussion with the directors on how that money should be distributed.

«They were literally the stylists and creative directors on the shoots.

In June, activist hedge fund Marcato Capital Management won a bitter proxy contest that put three of its directors on the chicken - wing restaurant's board following which the company's chief executive Sally Smith said she would retire by the end of the year.

By requiring individual elections instead of slate voting and limiting terms to one year, Bill C - 25 would ensure that directors on the board best reflect shareholder wishes.

What is clear is that INM has not yet announced his replacement as senior independent director, and now features only two independent directors on a board of eight.

New York Stock Exchange rules require that listed companies have a majority of independent directors on the Board.

Consistent with the evidence from other contexts, we show that the presence of female directors on target boards is positively and significantly associated with target boards seeking advice from top - ranked financial advisors.

In contrast, we do not observe any significant association between the presence of female directors on bidder boards and their engagement of top - ranked financial advisors.

All of the directors on this committee will be «independent» as defined under SEC rules and regulations applicable to audit committees.

All of the directors on this committee will be independent under Rules.

Webinar to 1,800 directors on not for profit governance, including recruitment, development, assessment, questions and answers.

Rule 10A - 3 of the Exchange Act and the New York Stock Exchange rules require us to have one independent audit committee member upon the listing of our common stock, a majority of independent directors on our audit committee within 90 days of the date of this prospectus and an audit committee composed entirely of independent directors within one year of the date of this prospectus.

In addition, the independent directors on the Board have appointed a lead director from the Board's independent directors, currently Mr. Alberg.

We believe this structure allows for a collective focus by our independent directors on the various complex matters that come before Board committees.

He is a partner of ValueAct Capital, a governance - oriented investment fund that invests in a concentrated portfolio of public companies and works actively with executives and boards of directors on issues of strategy, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and talent management.

And it will also raise alarms for those who oppose having lead directors on boards because of a fear of special communications between the lead director and CEO that never make it to the board, a hierarchy of communication that would not serve the board well.

The men served together as directors on those company's boards.

After the XL Foods crisis, I spoke to a room full of directors on beef association boards in Calgary.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch acted as adviser to the special committee of the Vizio board of directors on that deal.

Another prong in No Ceilings» new program is an effort by the nonprofit Catalyst to create what's being billed as an annual list of CEO - endorsed female candidates who are ready to serve as directors on U.S. corporate boards.

One thing I can say, however, is that I have had the good fortune of interviewing and seeing how one or two excellent board or committee chairs, or directors on a board, can completely reform and turn around risk management of an entire large, complex organization by pressing management and holding them accountable.

The researchers noted that even a 10 % increase in female directors on a board is linked to an increase in the likelihood of engaging a top - ranked advisor.

The dilemma facing the boards at Microsoft, Apple or any board of directors on the departure of an innovative CEO is strategic: Do we want still want to be a innovative, risk taking company?

Uber directors on Tuesday voted to allow Japan's SoftBank to invest in the ride services company and approved a series of governance changes that increases the independence of the board and decreases the influence of former CEO Travis Kalanick.

Activist investors in both Canada and the US recently proposed — for Hess Corporation and Agrium Inc. — that their nominees to serve as independent directors on the companies» boards should receive incentive pay directly from the activist investors themselves, with the amount that tied to share price appreciation.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

About 800 directors attend the NACD annual conference, but there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of directors on public, private and nonprofit boards within the U.S. alone.

Paying directors on long - term value could result in some of them making far more than they do now.

It makes little sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis of time — or, as one of my students put it, «showing up.»

Meanwhile, Bombardier spokesman Marc Duchesne said the delivery delay approved by Bombardier's board of directors on Wednesday would be the final one.

A Wall Street Journal report later quoted an anonymous source claiming that independent directors on RIM's board have long deferred to Balsillie, «the most forceful presence in the room by far.»

Harford was also a member of Citi's Pension Plan Investment Committee and a director on the board of Citibank Canada.

Jason is an Independent Director on the board of Australia's Sleep Health Foundation where he assists the national charity in its aim to increase community awareness of the importance of sleep for both physical and mental health.

About the Guest Speaker Michael Rodriguez serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Jervois Mining Board and has been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Poseidon Nickel since 2013.

Twitter Canada's new managing director on Twitter's place in the media landscape now — and why Canada is the perfect test market