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Rebekah also has ties to Stephen Bannon, the controversial Breitbart News Network executive chairman who was recently named the new administration's chief strategist and senior counselor, records show.

Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman who went on to become the CEO of the Trump campaign and then the short - lived senior counselor to President Trump, was deeply involved in the formation of Cambridge Analytica, and served as a vice president of the London - based start - up.

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Outgoing CEO Schultz, who for many investors is closely tied with Starbucks» identity, will be executive chairman and focus on the brand's Reserve roasteries around the world, its Reserve retail store format and social impact initiatives for the company.

Kinross Gold's Tye Burt, Centerra Gold's Stephen Lang (he's now chairman) and Great Basin Gold's Ferdi Dippenaar are just three of the many gold company executives who found themselves out of a job or kicked upstairs.

Buffett, a widely followed investor who is chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), scorned Trump's 1995 move to list Trump hotels and casino resorts on the New York Stock Exchange, saying it lost money for the next decade and that «a monkey» would have outperformed Trump's company.

The most notable Trump private equity executive is Steve Schwarzman, who is still the head of Blackstone, but has taken on being chairman of Trump's recently created Strategic and Policy Forum, an advisory board made up of CEOs.

Hortons chairman Paul House, who was Schroeder predecessor as chief executive, returned to the corner office on an interim basis.

Headquartered in Calgary, Hopewell began in 1991 as the single operating company of Sanders Lee, a Hong Kong — born businessman who now sits as executive chairman.

SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg, who died this month at age 47, embodied the idea of the tech disruptor, the company's temporary executive chairman said Friday.

«To be able to effect change that quickly, you have to have a lot of self - confidence, but you also have to know what you're doing,» says Chris Rudge, executive chairman and CEO of the Toronto Argonauts Football Club, who was part of the Canadian Business judging panel that selected this year's top CEOs.

By 1998, Musk, who remained chairman and executive vice president, was thoroughly frustrated with the direction of his company but found himself unable to do anything about it.

Venture capitalist Keith Rabois, who is also executive chairman of real estate platform OpenDoor, praised this aspect of the GOP's tax plan on Twitter (although he was not pleased with the rest of the bill):

Schultz, who is now executive chairman of Starbucks, also announced the return of the company's original series Upstanders.

Oracle spent $ 1.5 million on security for Larry Ellison, who recently stepped down as CEO of Oracle but will serve as executive chairman and chief technology officer of the business software company.

Dell's board has set up the special committee to independently assess the best option for shareholders, without influence from Michael Dell, who is the company's chairman and chief executive officer.

Its new chairman will be Bill Krauss, a Carlyle operating executive who previously served as chairman, president and CEO of 3Com (now owned by Hewlett Packard).

The board currently includes four family members, Aerin Lauder, William Lauder who serves as executive chairman of the group, chairman emeritus Leonard Lauder and Aerin's sister Jane, who works as global president of Clinique, another skincare line launched under the brand.

Notably, the start - up's chairman is Mickey Drexler, who previously held chief executive roles at J.Crew and Gap.

Past winners include: Howard W. Lutnick, chief executive of BGC Partners, who was credited with rebuilding BGC's predecessor Cantor Fitzgerald after two - thirds of its headquarters workers were killed in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2010; Tom Adams, chief executive of language - learning software Rosetta Stone, in 2009, and Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat open - source software, in 2008.

Starbucks COO Kevin Johnson is slated to replace Schultz, who will become executive chairman.

Co-founder and executive chairman Hoffman, who is also a partner at Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that led a $ 10 million funding round in LinkedIn in 2004, started the company in 2002 in his living room.

Despite very modest beginnings (he was an English teacher who reportedly earned only $ 12 a month teaching at university), Ma founded Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce colossus, where he now serves as executive chairman.

On the day the announcement was made, Dorsey, who declined requests to be interviewed for this article, tweeted, «Today I'm thrilled to get back to work at @Twitter leading product as Executive Chairman.

The new combined company will be run by Burger King chief executive Daniel Schwartz, who will oversee with overall day - to - day management and operational accountability, while Alex Behring, executive chairman of Burger King and managing partner at 3G Capital, will become executive chairman and director.

Schultz, who built Starbucks into a global public company, stepped down from his role as CEO in April this year but will remain as executive chairman of the company.

Woodside Petroleum chief executive Peter Coleman and chairman Michael Chaney have paid tribute to company founder Geoff Donaldson, who passed away last week aged 99.

Yet in March, CBS said Sumner, who is executive chairman, agreed to a revised compensation package that was tied to shareholder returns.

Sumner Redstone often referred to the Viacom chairman and CEO — who has been chief executive since 2006 — as «the wisest man I've ever known,» and Dauman called Redstone a mentor.

Richard Baker, who has been acting interim CEO, will continue as governor and executive chairman of HBC.

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In March 2015, Alibaba Singapore E-commerce, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, where Ma is Executive Chairman, operating in Taiwan, was ordered to close its business or sell it within six months by the Taiwan economic authorities, who accused the affiliate of being a Chinese mainland company and violated some registration rules which are mandatory for a Chinese company.

But U.S. officials have since received intelligence reports that during that same three - day trip, Page met with Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin associate and former Russian deputy prime minister who is now the executive chairman of Rosneft, Russian's leading oil company, a well - placed Western intelligence source tells Yahoo News.

Both CBS and Shari Redstone have embraced the choice of Parsons, who served as chairman and chief executive of Time Warner Inc. from 2003 to 2008, after its turbulent takeover by internet upstart AOL.

This table and the related tables that follow present the compensation paid for 2007 to Richard M. Kovacevich, Chairman (who also served as CEO until June 2007); John G. Stumpf, President and, since June 2007, CEO; Howard I. Atkins, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO); and the next three highest paid executive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO); and the next three highest paid executive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, Communityexecutive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President, Community Banking.

This will mean that Lei Jun, Xiaomi's founder, chairman and chief executive, will have the ultimate say over the company's operations, rather than investors who buy its shares, even if they end up owning more stock than he decides to hold on to.

Mr. Walker recently helped the organization's chairman, Jay Fishman, recruit prominent African - Americans like Debra Martin Chase (Harvard Law, 1981), a film producer who has worked with Denzel Washington; and Ursula Burns, the departing chief executive officer of Xerox.

A few projects are underway to address the concerns, and the company seems interested in recruiting a chairman who might help things along — during an investor call, executives said they planned to appoint an outsider to the role, one with public company experience, a global perspective, and a focus on products.

Chen, an energetic 58 - year - old Hong Kong native, who immigrated to the United States in 1973, was named executive chairman and interim chief executive of Blackberry on Monday as the company unexpectedly abandoned a plan to sell itself.

The chairman of a U.K. parliamentary committee announced Tuesday he was requesting that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has remained silent for days, appear before the panel to supplement prior testimony by the company's executives.

Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

Zimmer, who had been with the company for forty years, was fired by the board of directors as Executive Chairman on June 19.

Four current Goldman Sachs executives aside from Blankfein each own more than $ 175 million in company stock, including President Gary Cohn, Chief Financial Officer Harvey Schwartz, General Counsel Greg Palm and Vice Chairman John S. Weinberg, who announced his retirement this month.

«We're really fortunate to have Hazem join Predata as our CEO,» commented James Shinn, the company's co-founder and its chief executive for the last the three years, who is moving to the role of chairman.

The man Mr. Asper replaced at the time - Peter Viner, who had stepped in as CEO two years earlier, after Izzy Asper retired from running the company and took the title of executive vice chairman - now steps back into the role at CanWest's broadcast division.

Richard Braddock, the former Citicorp and Priceline executive who is now FreshDirect's chairman, said he thought the company could eventually have operating margins of about 10 percent, compared with 3 or 4 percent at a typical supermarket chain.

However, if circumstances change in the future, our Board of Directors may revert to a structure that relies on a lead independent director who works with our Chief Executive Officer who is also Chairman of the Board.

These named executives are: John G. Stumpf, Chairman, President and CEO; Timothy J. Sloan, Senior Executive Vice President and CFO; David M. Carroll, Senior Executive Vice President, Wealth, Brokerage and Retirement; David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, Community Banking; Mark C. Oman, former Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance, who retired on December 1, 2011; and Howard I. Atkins, former Senior Executive Vice President and CFO, who resigned as CFO on February 8, 2011.

The recent decline is due in part to concerns over cord - cutting and increasing competition for ad dollars, as well as questions over the health of executive chairman Sumner Redstone, who owns 80 % of the company's shares.

«The company's founding values are based on humanity and inclusion,» said Executive Chairman Howard Schultz, who was also in Philadelphia to meet with community leaders and Starbucks employees, the company said.

«Each of those companies has extensive experience using transformative technology in their own businesses,» said John Sculley, the former chief executive of Apple who is now chairman of a health care start - up, RxAdvance.