Sentences with phrase «executive of a company called»

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Those numbers represent what's called «golden parachute compensation,» or severance packages allotted for executives who face a «qualifying termination» in connection with a sale of the company and change in command.

In April, the company established a new role called «global head of top creators» and appointed Laura Lee, an executive who's been with YouTube since 2007.

On May 12, Tim Hortons held a conference call with financial analysts who had plenty of questions for Don Schroeder, a long time executive who everybody assumed held the confidence of the board as company CEO at the time.

But while AIG's defenders have vilified Goldman Sachs for collateral calls that seemed timed to inflict maximum damage, Boyd pins the blame for the insurer's downfall on a handful of AIG executives too fixated on securing power and maximizing their bonuses to realize that their company was lurching along on a death march.

«Being there at the mouth of Central Park... we think it's a great platform for the brand,» Chief Executive Kevin Plank told Wall Street analysts during the company's second - quarter results conference call.

Top executives should be encouraging employees to share best practices or else the company will be stuck with what Hollis calls «incessant competition» with different parts of the same company.

Bates, a Brit with a deep technical background and big - company chops, was perhaps one of the few executives — «a needle in a haystack,» Durban calls him — who could wrangle strong - willed engineers spread across half the globe.

«We are really happy with the results of the first quarter,» Steven Boal, founder and chief executive of Coupons.com, said, in a conversation after the company's first earnings call earlier this month.

Musk, 46, has built up a showman's reputation as the founder and chief executive officer of Tesla (tsla), calling on true believers to help him overcome the «haters» who question his company's ability to usher in an electric - vehicle age on an ambitious timetable.

What makes the 401 (k) so complicated is something called «discrimination testing,» which consists of federal rules designed to ensure the company isn't giving better retirement benefits to its most highly paid workers, including executives and founders.

On the complicated end of the work - sample spectrum, Seymour Adler, the Aon Consulting psychologist, has created a four - hour online exercise called Leader, which Motorola and other companies use to test would - be executives.

On a recent conference call with analysts, company executives made a big deal about requiring full ownership of Canwest's TV operations to make this strategy work.

Among the entourage of government officials and prominent business leaders who accompanied Prime Minister Stephen Harper on an early - August trade mission to Brazil was the chief executive officer of a relatively obscure Canadian company called Weatherhaven.

Many drug company executives, including the CEOs of Pfizer and Allergan, were asked about the prospect of working with Amazon on their most recent quarterly earnings conference calls.

Elsewhere, company executives are also starting to talk up how they might start to extract more money from iPhone users — which have been called «the most lucrative installed base in the world» — in the form of related subscription services.

Today, Friedman, 38, and de Icaza, 43, are the chief executive and chief technology officer, respectively, of a San Francisco company called Xamarin.

Jeffries left the company last year amid tanking sales, and in the earnings call this week, the current executive team didn't have much of a strategy to revive the flagging brand.

«I was the first female executive in a division of a Fortune 50 company [ITT Corporation] that was totally dominated by men,» says Susan Solovic, who founded the St. Louis - based website for entrepreneurs called Small Business TV.

It was early 2003 when Ken Austin, executive vice president of Marquis Jet, a New York City company that leases time in corporate jets, got a call from the producers of The Apprentice asking if he would be interested in a barter deal.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

Susan St. Germain, a senior business recruiter for the state of Washington, says her office got a call from a Tesla executive who explained that the company had a «major» project to discuss in confidence.

In a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, HP executives said that nearly 3,000 workers will leave the company by the end of the year.

Now the monitor was questioning negotiations that Bristol executives had with a Canadian company called Apotex, which was planning to launch a generic version of Bristol's crown jewel: the blood thinner Plavix.

«We like to call it M&M s, meaning misfits and mavericks,» Stolberg says, laughing, «the kind of companies and executives that might otherwise fall through the cracks.»

A recent report in the Wall Street Journal said the company was «floundering» amid competition from Apple and others, and mentioned what it called an «exodus» of executives, including the company's chief financial officer, as well as co-founder Evan Doll.

Effects of currency movements in the quarter were more than the company's expectations due to the surprise Brexit vote in June, co-Chief Executive Safra Catz said on a conference call.

Years ago, Kevin Taweel, chief executive and co-founder of cellphone insurance provider Asurion, was grappling with high employee turnover and other issues in the company's round - the - clock call center.

Johnson & Johnson has about $ 16 billion in offshore cash, of which around $ 12 billion is set to be repatriated as a result of the U.S. tax overhaul, executives said on the company's earnings call on Tuesday.

Using our process of looking up specific goals and researching C - level executives, we booked calls with 6 enterprise companies in 6 days.

The proposed rules call for companies to report their annual total shareholder return (TSR) over time, along with annual TSR figures for their peer group, and to describe the relationships between their TSR and their executive compensation and between their TSR and the TSR of their peers.

Anand Janefalkar, founder and chief executive officer of UJET, says the company gives equal priority to all channels, so customers get the same quality of service whether they start an in - app chat or call an 1 - 800 number.

Those so - called buybacks are good for shareholders, including the senior executives who tend to be big owners of their companies» stock.

Soon after the results were released, the company's stock price plunged to its lowest level in a decade and a number of small shareholders called for the resignation of Karl - Johan Persson, chief executive and grandson of the company's founder.

Musk's tone on the call illustrates the pressure for the Model 3 to succeed if Tesla is to continue as a company, Jessica Caldwell, executive director of industry analysis at Edmunds, told CBS MoneyWatch.

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) earnings will also be in focus after Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday cut off analysts asking about profit potential in the company's first - quarter's earnings call, sending shares down 4 % in after - hours trading, despite promises that production of the troubled Model 3 electric car was on track.

Hiring, too, remains a focus for Wayfair — and that includes not only employees for the vanity category, whose annual run rate has doubled to $ 100 million — but also engineers, data scientists and other types of workers, company executives said during the call.

Cambridge Analytica executives — along with Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer, daughters of billionaire Trump backer Robert Mercer — have joined the board of directors of a new company, called Emerdata, in March.

In an investor call in October, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said the company may lengthen the window on what it sends to Netflix to perhaps as much as three years, and other media executives have made similar comments, as the industry struggles to deal with the decline of advertising revenue, as well as cord cutting.

«The day I heard Heinz was leaving, I called every food - related company I'd ever had contact with and said, «Look, here's what's going on in Florence,»» said Joe W. King, executive director of the Florence County Economic Development Partnership in Florence, South Carolina.

Mr. Collins, the British lawmaker, said he planned to call Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, to return to Parliament and answer questions about testimony last month in which he claimed that the company never obtained or used Facebook data.

Chipotle shareholders Amalgamated Bank and Change to Win Investment Group called on Nov. 1 for the company to strip co-Chief Executive Steve Ells of the chairmanship and install an independent director in the role.

Top technology companies have devoted lobbying dollars and dispatched their executives to the nation's capital in order to save the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which benefits some of their employees.

Prior to Thursday, only seven FTSE 100 companies had failed to secure approval of their remuneration report and the two defeats within hours of one other will undoubtedly call to mind memories of the 2012 AGM season, referred to as the «shareholder spring» due to a spate of revolts relating to executive pay, some of which engendered CEO resignations.

The two companies have long collaborated out of the public eye to meet customers» needs, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on a conference call.

Robert Bradway, chief executive of Amgen Inc., said in an Oct. 25 earnings call that the company has been «actively returning capital in the form of growing dividend and buyback and I'd expect us to continue that.»

And yet, across corporate America, we find today that the top executive of the company is typically also the Chair of the so - called «independent» Board.

AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson surprised investors last week when he said during trial testimony that the company would introduce a new video service called AT&T Watch, a package of TV channels without sports, for $ 15 per month.

On the company's second - quarter earnings call in July, Facebook executives said its «ad load» — the volume of ads its users typically see — was in a «good zone.»

Brian Kelly, founder and chief executive Officer of digital asset investment firm BKCM called the automakers» effort «very, very interesting» because it adds a fresh battleground for technology companies.

These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.