Sentences with phrase «executive chairwoman»

We spoke to Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, about the reasons for the update and the role of tech companies in society today.

As Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation says, the mood had turned around completely since 2010 — the year of the Arab Spring, when web companies were hailed as a tremendous force for positive change.

Cuomo, who lives in Westchester, picked the county's district attorney and his former JCOPE executive chairwoman, Janet DiFiore to become chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.

Sarah Brown established children's charity Theirworld and became the executive chairwoman of the Global Business Coalition for Education among other things.

While she's most widely known for her four - year stint as the administrator of the SBA under President Obama, she also served as executive chairwoman and founder of ProAmérica Bank, which services businesses within the Latino community.

According to a letter to the board of directors, Contreras - Sweet said she hopes to be executive chairwoman of a majority - female board heading Weinstein Co., which would be renamed.

Not exact matches

In corporate news, Australia's AMP on Monday said its chairwoman, Catherine Brenner, had resigned from the position, days after the departure of Craig Meller, its chief executive.

Thorsten Heins, the company's chief operating officer, was named to the chief executive job, while Barbara Stymiest was named chairwoman.

The Minneapolis - based company named Chief Financial Officer John Mulligan as interim chief executive, and Roxanne Austin, a member of the board of directors, as interim non-executive chairwoman of the board.

(Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks, Des Moines, IA, 1/3/08) in fact A list of Obama's own top fundraisers features a number of people involved in the business of influencing government, including the head of a lobbying and public relations firm, the corporate executive who oversees Comcast's lobbying efforts and the chairwoman of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's political action committee, among others.»

The aim of all the programs is to teach parents how to treat children positively, «and in so doing prevent child abuse,» said Anne Gormly, who was chairwoman of the board of Champions for Children when Mr. McEwen became executive director.

According to the paper, O'Neill — pictured her with her state chair replacement, Jay Jacobs — is leaving her position as state Executive Committee chairwoman and also from her post as vice chair of the St. Lawrence Democratic Party.

This time, the statement comes from June O'Neill, the former state party chairwoman and current chair of the Executive Committee.

I can only imagine that the phones of Schuyler County GOP Chairman Philip Barnes (previously with Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, now backing Mermel — according to Mermel), and Cortland County Chairwoman Elizabeth Larkin (another reported Lazio — to - Mermel flipper) are ringing quite frequently these days.

At a reorganization meeting earlier this year, she was officially made chairwoman, and the other executive posts were reassigned.

Though Giambra often blames the local business community for much of his troubles, a one - time merger commission member and former chairwoman of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, Marsha S. Henderson, still believes the county executive was on the right track.

Labour's Scottish executive committee chairwoman Cathy Peattie said: «Our next deputy leader in Scotland will have a crucial role in supporting Richard Leonard as we seek to form a government at British and Scottish levels, to deliver an economy that works for the many, not the few.»

BY HARRIET CORNELL Chairwoman, Rockland County Legislature To the Editor, While I am loathe to get into the middle of a contentious race for Rockland County Executive, I am not a candidate and feel compelled to respond to Legislator Day's misleading, erroneous, and mean - spirited comments regarding my relationship with the law enforcement community in Rockland -LSB-...]

Ms. Cumbo told Shola Olatoye, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority, at a hearing of the council's public housing committee that residents in her district are perplexed that so many non-English speaking immigrants are moving into certain developments.

(NEW CITY, NY) Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef and County Legislature Chairwoman Harriet Cornell will hold a press conference to announce the reappointment of Dan Masterson as Poet Laureate of Rockland County and the posthumous appointments of revered Rockland poets, Marya Zaturenska (1902 - 1982) and her husband Horace Gregory (1898 - 1982) as honorary Poets Laureate.

She is also a former RNC deputy chairwoman and was the executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee during the 1994 election.

At 12 noon, the official Kickoff Ceremony will feature original poetry, music by the Buffalo Chamber Players, and remarks by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Erie County Legislature Chairwoman Betty Jean Grant, Library Vice Chair Sharon Thomas, and YWCA Director Deborah Lynn Williams, facilitated by County Commission staff Sawrie Becker.

Cuffy has worked for Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who is on her way to an appointment as chairwoman of the authority.

Neither Orange County Republican Chairwoman Courtney Canfield Greene nor Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus had any objections to Basile's activities on Tuesday.

The City of Poughkeepsie will lose $ 2 million in Dutchess County sales tax revenue in 2013, but that was not the topic when County Executive Marcus Molinaro sat down with Mayor John Tkazyik and Common Council Chairwoman Gwen Johnson on Tuesday.

Maria Cuomo Cole, the chairwoman of Help USA and the sister of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has contributed $ 5,000 to Democrat George Latimer's county executive campaign, a 24 - hour notice filing Monday shows.

Poughkeepsie, New York — Marie Smith, the Chairwoman of the New York State Reform Party, announced today the Party's endorsement of County Executive Marc Molinaro for the upcoming November election.

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele's recommended budget, presented to the Board of Supervisors on Thursday, would not include a property tax increase, a plan the board chairwoman calls «overly simplistic and short - sighted.»

As part of the process for charter renewal (which expires at the end of 2016) the culture secretary, John Whittingdale, has recruited eight experts, among them former Channel 5 chair and chief executive Dawn Airey and Dame Colette Bowe, the former chairwoman of the regulator Ofcom, to oversee a «root - and - branch» review of the public broadcaster.

Former legislature chairwoman Terry Bernardo of Rochester says she'll run for county executive despite being denied the opportunity to have her name placed in nomination at the Republican Party's annual convention in Kingston on Wednesday night.

Shola Olatoye, Mr. de Blasio's NYCHA chairwoman, thanked the mayor for also baselining the $ 70 million the authority formerly paid to the NYPD for protection into his executive budget and for eliminating NYCHA's $ 30 million annual payment in lieu of property taxes.

I am honored to have the Reform Party's support and thank Chairwoman Smith for her endorsement,» said County Executive Molinaro.

Mr. Torres, who chairs the public housing committee, pressed Mr. Couch and Shola Olatoye — Mayor Bill de Blasio's Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer for NYCHA — on why the infamously underfunded authority had not converted the units.

Asked about the investigation on Wednesday night, during an appearance at a panel discussion at Cooper Union titled «The Next 100 Years of Affordable Housing,» the Housing Authority chairwoman and chief executive, Shola Olatoye, said she had no comment.

Brenda W. McDuffie, the Buffalo Urban League's president and chief executive officer, is expected to be named the new chairwoman of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency next week.

Ms. Barbizet will become vice chairwoman and will remain chief executive of the Artémis Group, the investment company founded by Mr. Pinault.

NEW CITY — During a meeting on the Rockland County Legislature on October 3, Chairwoman Harriet Cornell announced that County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef had vetoed a measure which would have declared Brega Transportation Corp. the lowest responsible bidder for a contested public transportation contract.

Former legislature chairwoman Terry Bernardo came to the convention with the idea she could be nominated for county executive.

The Erie Arts Board, led by Chairwoman Catherine Schweitzer (Executive Director of the Baird Foundation) and Vice Chair Ted Brinson (Board Chair of Elim Christian Fellowship Church), will be a thirteen («13») member board with a balanced mix of financial, legal and arts advocacy experience.

Chairwoman Schweitzer said, «I am humbled by the opportunity to lead the Erie Arts Board and I would like to thank County Executive Poloncarz for the tremendous amount of faith he has put in Ted and me to administer a ridged but fair County cultural funding process.

The ever - active Bernardo, a former candidate for county executive and husband of former county legislature chairwoman Terry Bernardo, is running for Rochester town supervisor this year.

Burns, who is currently the county party's vice chairwoman, accused the GOP of «handing» the county executive's office to Democrat Dan McCoy without a fight.

Shola Olatoye, the chairwoman and chief executive officer of the New York City Housing Authority under Mayor Bill de Blasio, said today that partnerships with private real estate interests may be the future for the cash - strapped agency.

«I am thankful for the endorsement of the Cayuga County Republican Executive Committee and Chairwoman Heary,» Paladino said.

Given the dearth of prominent Republican women in this county, it doesn't take a Nostradamus to dope out that former legislature chairwoman Bernardo might have had her hat in the ring for county executive before she actually said she was running on Wednesday at the county GOP convention.

Two - thirds of the GOP's executive committee voted to call for the governor's resignation at the end of an hour - long conference call organized by state Republican Party Chairwoman Karen Floyd.

As Ann Black, the chairwoman of Labour's National Executive Committee, announced the results of the fourth round of the contest and it became clear that Ed Miliband had won by the narrowest of margins (50.65 per cent compared to his brother David's 49.35 per cent), a collective sigh of relief rippled through the ranks of the Coalition.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, is pleased to announce that Ruthie's Law was signed by the County Executive on July 7.

The current Tappan Zee Bridge handles 140,000 vehicles per day and has been labeled by the federal government as «functionally obsolete,» said state Thruway Authority Chairwoman Joanie Mahoney, the Onondaga County executive.

Shola Olatoye, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Housing Authority, told the City Council today her agency — on orders from the de Blasio administration — would not set aside more than 1,250 units for the city's mushrooming indigent population.