Sentences with phrase «executive of the company behind»

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After garnering feedback from more than 80 Kaplan executives and technology experts, and tinkering with their revenue models, design plans and presentation speeches for three months at Kaplan's New York City offices, the teams behind these disruptive education technology companies have learned their fair share of business lessons.

America's road network, which includes its bridges, was ranked third among the largest advanced economies by company executives, behind Japan and France but superior to those of Germany, Britain, Canada and Italy, according to the World Economic Forum's latest global competitiveness report.

The idea behind the platform, according to executives, is to tip the music business» scales in favor of artists, who will have a stake in the company.

Because Hamid has seen the numbers behind a lot of successful SaaS startups, this yardstick is incredibly valuable for founders and executives of SaaS companies.

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

SAN FRANCISCO — For weeks, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's chief executive, and some of his lieutenants had worked behind the scenes to repair the ride - hailing company's fractious relationship with Waymo, the self - driving business spun out of Google.

Signaling what it hopes will mark the start of a new phase of growth, Evernote, the company behind the popular cloud - based productivity app of the same name, announced today that Phil Libin will step down as CEO but remain as executive chairman.

Nolan Bushnell, the brains behind Atari; Hayao Nakayama, the previous president of Sega corporations; John Pleasants who used to be the chief running officer of digital Arts and former chief executive of Playdom; and Pieter Knook, who prior to now was an executive at Vodafone are all backing the company.

When scientists move in the company of senators, generals, and corporation executives, all the temptations to use power in the service of personal ambition are present, and can easily be disguised behind the pretext that decisions are «purely technical.»

Rosemount, which came into the firm's stable in 2001 when BRW Rich Lister Bob Oatley sold it for a whopping $ 1.4 billion after building it up as a private company over three decades, is one of the 15 «priority» brands that Mr Clarke has stepped up investment behind since taking over as Treasury chief executive in March 2014.

It is part of Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke's overhaul of the Treasury business, as he cuts costs in the supply chain and steps up investment behind the more prominent wine brands in the company's portfolio.

Confirming the news to Australian newspaper the Australian Financial Review in March, John Haddock, chief executive of Champ PE said there were a range of factors behind the decision, but added that the company was «adjusting» to the changing UK market, which has been hit by Brexit - related currency headwinds.

Both private equity firms have been privately signalling they are right behind the fix - it plans of Treasury chief executive Mike Clarke for the company, which means there is a strong likelihood he will remain at the helm of the company should a change of ownership happen.

The principle behind these measures would be to re-establish an understanding of the company as a self - governing association of citizens with a particular economic objective that has a public benefit beyond the making of profit for executives and corporate share - holders.

The company is now run by long - time executive Jacob and at least three of Litwin's family members, including his daughter, Carole Pittelman, who is lauded by many at REBNY as the brains behind many of the company's developments.

The studio behind «The Expendables» and «Saw» wanted «Beyond Deceit», tyro director Shintaro Shimosawa's movie about a young lawyer (Josh Duhamel of «Safe Haven») who who takes on a big case against a ruthless executive of a pharmaceutical company (Hopkins), only to find himself drawn into a murder case in which he is the prime suspect.

The people and the companies behind the scenes of Westworld: The series is executive produced and written Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy.

Included among the executive producers are some of the individuals behind this year's other Best Picture nominees: Harvey and Bob Weinstein, whose eponymous company produced and distributed the prize - winning The King's Speech; and Darren Aronofosky, who was once attached to direct this but left to make Black Swan instead.

Henrik Fisker, the founder and creative force behind the California - based car maker Fisker, has quit his position of executive chairman at the company, citing «several major disagreements with Fisker Automotive executive management on the business strategy».

Claudio Silvestri, president Premier Resorts, the management company behind Casa De Campo, welcomed guests, alongside Leading Hotels of the World chief executive Ted Teng.

Yoshinori Ono, Capcom Executive Producer for Street Fighter, has said that «After a long search, guided by the team behind Assassin's Fist, we are delighted to be partnering with a company with the outstanding TV experience of Mark Gordon...

Japanese video - game company Nintendo Co. says a movie starring the plumber in the Super Mario franchise is in the works, co-produced with Chris Meledandri, the chief executive of Illumination Entertainment, the U.S. animation studio behind the popular «Despicable Me» series.

The chief executive behind Spindle Law, David P. Gold, is a graduate of Columbia Law School who clerked for the 9th Circuit and became a litigator in New York City before founding the company.

That's one of the reasons behind the launch last year of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange, a not - for - profit organization formed by the Canadian Council For Chief Executives and companies such as Air Canada, RBC and CP Rail.

Netmaster Solutions, the company behind digital court platform CaseLines, has hired Jon McNerney, former senior vice president of sales for Europe at Forrester Research, as its chief executive officer.

Facebook revealed the information at the bottom of a substantial blog post penned by chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer, who is among the highest ranking executives at the company behind CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.

But even though he's a staple behind the scenes, top - level executives are becoming ever more frustrated over his not speaking more publicly on many of the complicated issues that have plagued the company in the last year.

The company has been slipping behind in terms of rankings for mobile advertising revenue; and it has lost a string of mobile executives to other companies like Zynga and Groupon, which could not have had a positive effect on how it has focused and invested in the space.

Lazarus is also said to be behind the Sony Pictures hack of 2014, which saw numerous executives depart the company as confidential information flooded the web.

Clifton is the chief executive of Princeton Identity, the company behind the iris recognition technology found on said handsets.

A joint Letter of Intent (LOI) announced today by Jaroslav Kacina, CEO of Equidato Technologies, the company behind the SophiaTX blockchain, and Davide Mancini, Finance Executive, GE Power, confirms that the two teams plan to collaborate on a blockchain initiative leveraging the SophiaTX platform.

Now for the less - talked - about psychology behind these actions: If you are indeed interested in a company such as Apple or Google (the examples I used above), go to their websites as part of this executive exercise; look at the CXO players, their website colors, the keywords they use over and over again — and let the feel of the culture and the website really sink in.

Indra Nooyi is chief executive of PepsiCo — one of the world's largest food and beverage companies and the organisation behind famous brands such as Pepsi, Quaker and Lipton.

«He was certainly the driving force behind the company being established and where it is today,» said George Good, executive vice president of CB Richard...

«He was certainly the driving force behind the company being established and where it is today,» said George Good, executive vice president of CB Richard Ellis, which now has more than 700 employees in the Chicago area.

«Our global trends survey uncovered two key issues behind the anticipated increase in corporate relocation activity: a need for companies to support their planned expansion into emerging markets, and a need to fill the void in available local talent in those markets,» says Matt Spinolo, executive vice president of Cartus.