Sentences with phrase «directors on all company boards»

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This is why, when the Twitter board of directors assemble on Thursday, they will discuss the possibility of selling the San Francisco company, according to a report this week by Recode.

On Dec. 10, the company hired Laurent Potdevin as her successor and said Lululemon founder Chip Wilson would step aside as chairman of the board but remain a director of the company.

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

She co-founded the media company Huffington Post before launching the wellness site Thrive Global and is currently on the board of directors for ride - sharing app Uber.

By day, I reported on risk to a board of directors for a $ 2 billion US company.

At the end of 2016, 738 companies — roughly 25 percent of the list — had no women on their boards of directors.

Does our Chair (or Lead Director) have the independence, attributes, experience and track record that the company and senior management needs and respects — to lead the board, hold management to account, and focus on value creation?

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.

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.

We even know that, if there is even one woman on a company's board of directors, attendance is better at board meetings.

She is also the founder of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, a competitive private school in Mumbai, and a director on the board of Reliance Industries, her husband's company.

Those reforms include removing Kalanick's super-voting rights on the board, increasing the company's board size to 17, and adding new independent directors to the board.

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.

I'm on the board of directors of a temp staffing company with one billion dollars in revenues.

It's worth noting the team that brought the company to this point are all still on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March); former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and former chairman Michael Brown remains a director.

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?

The company also announced that its three longest - serving directors have opted to leave the board on Jan. 2 with Tague.

Atlas Iron non-executive director David Hannon has resigned from the company's board with immediate effect to focus on family matters, with the company yet to announce a replacement.

To encourage boards to understand their companies» long - term needs, Wiseman also argues that directors should be paid more and their compensation linked to company performance beyond their term on the board.

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He founded his company Weedmaps, a sort of Yelp for marijuana dispensaries, in 2008, and now serves on the board of directors for the National Cannabis Industry Association, the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which most people know as NORML and for which he also serves as treasurer.

Former Icahn managing director Jonathan Christodoro quit Xerox's board on Friday, paving the way for Carl Icahn to introduce a new battle over the company.

Usher previously served on the Boards of Directors of Transtar, Inc., H.J. Heinz Company, PNC Financial Services, PPG Industries, and Marathon Oil.

And he has good corapany on what must be one of the country's most formidable game - company boards: Richard W. Melmon, co-founder and executive vice-president, who was formerly VisiCorp's director of marketing; Steve Wozniak, the company's technical adviser, renowned computer freak, co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple II: and Don Valentine the tough, well - connected Wall Street-wise general partner of Capital Management Services, and an early investor in Apple Computer.

Kalanick's leave of absence follows a day - long board meeting on Sunday during which members of Uber «s board of directors discussed the possibility of Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the company.

Even if they don't have a majority vote on the company's board of directors, investors are still part owners and have legal rights.

By the end of the day, Perrigo had basically reached the same conclusion: Just after U.S. markets closed at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Perrigo announced that its board of directors unanimously rejected Mylan's bid, saying it «substantially undervalues» the company and is not in its shareholders» best interests.

In a letter posted on PR Newswire addressed to Media General's Chairman, CEO, and Board of Directors, Starboard Value LP expressed its concerns about the company's stance regarding certain offers currently on the table — one is a merger deal with Meredith Corp. and the other an acquisition by Nexstar Broadcasting.

In a news release last week, Crescent Point said the Cation nominees are unqualified or offer experience that isn't needed on the board and that Howe and Pinder are too close to the company's director retirement age of 75.

I lean toward a system in which each new member of the board agrees to hand in their resignation every six to eight years, with the idea being that some directors will be asked to serve multiple terms it they are uniquely qualified to help the CEO and company build value, but most will be thanked for their service and move on after that time frame.

NEW YORK --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Cowen Inc. (NASDAQ: COWN)(«Cowen» or the «Company) today announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $ 14.06 per share on the Company's 5.625 % Series A Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Preferred Stock (the «Convertible Preferred Stock»).

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

Perth - based director Andrew Chapman has survived a leadership reshuffle at tech company 1 - Page after shareholders voted to keep him on the board but remove co-founder Joanna Riley as a director.

Marine generals are in some ways more like members of a company's board of directors, focusing on broader, long - term issues and leaving day - to - day management to the line executives.

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Board of Directors of The Kraft Heinz Company (NASDAQ: KHC) today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $ 0.625 per share of common stock payable on June 15, 2018, to stockholders of record as of May 18, 2018.

The Walt Disney chairman and CEO will stay in that role for a year longer than was previously planned after the company's board of directors said on Thursday that it has extended Iger's contract through July 2019.

You can sit on a major board of directors and not know anything about the company, its industry or even know how to read a financial statement.

In - person attendance at board meetings fosters far better communication and deliberations between board members, but it looks like Sanofi directors appear to attend these meetings by call or video so regularly that the company has set up a separate pay scale based on their location.

On April 17, 2018, I wrote to the board, seeking to restore the Company's reputation by reforming its corporate governance and reconstituting a majority of the board of directors.

With James taking a seat on the board, Oracle (ORCL) now has 13 directors, the company said on Wednesday.

February 2003: Scott Griffith replaces co-founder Robin Chase as company CEO, though Chase remains on Zipcar's board of directors.

Nash will remain on the board of directors of the company.

One thing she hasn't done, though, is sit on a public company's board of directors.

Prior to joining Lennar, he was previously on the Board of Directors of D.R. Horton, Inc., and held various executive officer positions including President of the company.

It is doubtful whether the roster of the leading twenty - five companies would show a single Jew from miner to manager or on up to the board of directors.

The company's outgoing CEO Michael Pearson will be testifying before the Senate Special Committee on Aging late Wednesday afternoon, along with activist investor William Ackman, a majority shareholder and board member, and Howard Schiller, a director and former chief financial officer.

As the owner of more than 90 % of voting stock at the company, Adderley has control over the election of the company's board directors, its advisory Say on Pay vote, and, at the coming May annual meeting, to renew the Kelly's short and long - term compensation plans.

And now, word on the street is that the company's board of directors has expressed concern about its pace of innovation.

Ever since the Ontario Securities Commission implemented a rule last year that TSX - listed companies must address gender diversity on their boards or explain why they haven't, corporate Canada has been scrambling to hire female directors.

The statement of claim also alleges that Ferro massively diluted the existing shareholders by issuing Soon - Shiong shares worth about 13 % of the company (Tribune says «The stock sales to Merrick Media and Nant Capital were approved by the Board of Directors and will provide valuable growth capital to allow the company to execute on its new value - creating business plan).