Sentences with phrase «executive of the company in»

Since this year Lloyd's has been run by Inga Beale, who became chief executive of the company in January.

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In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Whether it was taking part in a seminar on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies with other area executives, hanging out at a barbecue, or attending the opening of a new play, Dase made his presence felt, and he says he and the company were met with «an enormous receptivity.»

IF you measure the value of a chief executive by the salary he or she takes and compare it to what heads of similar size companies receive, Andrew Forrest would come out on top in Western Australia year in, year out.

«The FCA and PRA are not alleging that he acted with a lack of integrity or that he lacks fitness and propriety to continue to perform his role as Group Chief Executive Officer,» the company said Friday, adding its board «continues to have unanimous confidence in Mr. Staley.»

A Babson College study reported that in 1999, fewer than 5 percent of venture capital investments went to companies with a woman on the executive team.

A second Nike executive is leaving the the company in the wake of complaints about inappropriate behavior at the sneaker giant, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Aside from the arrest of former SNC Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime in early 2012 (and the subsequent arrests of other SNC executives), the RCMP unveiled its new National Division this past June, which will, among other responsibilities, oversee corruption involving Canadian companies and individuals both domestically and abroad.

Trump had previously celebrated the support of the Merck CEO, one of the few African - American chief executives of a Fortune 500 company, in his manufacturing initiative.

Two professors from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee found that when a company hires an attractive CEO, it sees a spike in its stock prices, and when the executive appears on TV, the effect is similar.

MEXICO CITY, April 24 - Helicopter booking app Voom expects its new Mexico City operations to capitalize on some of the worst traffic in the world to eclipse the growth it has seen in Brazil, the company's chief executive said.

«There are two types of people in this company: those who serve customers and those who serve those who serve customers,» adds Jon Freier, the executive vice president who oversees the company's retail chain.

Earlier this week, Mark Fields, who had overseen the company as its chief executive since 2014, was ousted in favor of his more self - driving car savvy subordinate, Jim Hackett.

Only two years later, in 2013, companies with a woman on the executive team were attracting 18 percent of venture investments.

The same restructuring appointed separate executives responsible for each of the Leon's stores and the Brick, which the company acquired in 2013, freeing the family to focus on further growing their empire.

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Friday requested public testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and CEO, adding to the list of congressional panels looking to haul in the company's top executives.

Kevin Johnson starting in April is going to be comprehensively all in the chief executive officer of Starbucks Coffee company.

While Toyota declined to comment on details of the meeting, Toyota «s North America Chief Executive Jim Lentz told Reuters earlier this week that the company was focused on reminding policymakers in Washington about the automaker's extensive U.S. manufacturing operations.

His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

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.

And in a true sign of the times, the company lured Microsoft's Xbox boss and Vancouver native Don Mattrick — the most powerful man in video games — to take over as chief executive in July.

Rob Ferguson has resigned as chairman of litigation funder IMF Bentham after failing in a push for the company's three executive directors, including founder Hugh McLernon, to retire from the board.

Chris Brogan, founder and chief executive of Human Business Works, a business - training company in Portland, Maine, is one example, says Smith.

Magento chief executive Mark Lavelle said in a statement that the company maintains a large global network of partners including system integrators to support some 250,000 customers.

Jersey Standard executives are properly proud of their unique photographic venture as a public service, but sometimes they are not quite sure what the company is getting out of it, times when they wonder if «documentary» pictures of such subjects as tombstones in New Orleans or cockfights in Venezuela are not merely irrelevant.

Starbucks executives Howard Schultz and Kevin Johnson sat down with CNBC for their first TV interview since the coffee giant announced Schultz would be handing over the reins of the company to Johnson in April.

J.P. Morgan also pointed to a handful of other executives making their way up the ranks in the company.

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.

Nike's vice president of footwear, Greg Thompson, has left the company, the latest in a string of executive departures at the sportswear maker.

Executives at the company said they do not expect to be adversely impacted by the onset of the data privacy regime known as GDPR in Europe either.

Nike's vice president of footwear, Greg Thompson, has left the company, a company spokesman said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of executive departures at the sportswear maker.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

Brand went on to share that companies should add data to «existing reporting and business intelligence tools that help those retailers make sense of these massive banks of in - store data with a new layer of intel to their decision - making at the executive level.»

Judge slams deception by Hardie board Ten former directors and executives of building materials group James Hardie have been found to have breached their duties by making misleading statements about the firm's ability to pay asbestos compensation, in a decision that has wide - ranging implications for company boards.

In fact, 81 percent of respondents in the study said they had more confidence in a company when its executive was using social mediIn fact, 81 percent of respondents in the study said they had more confidence in a company when its executive was using social mediin the study said they had more confidence in a company when its executive was using social mediin a company when its executive was using social media.

Through LinkedIn, I've met approximately 20 business professionals in person, including business owners, managing partners of large law firms, and executives of well - known companies.

«It's a culture of service,» says current chief executive Terry Davis in an interview at Home Hardware's headquarters, which adjoins the company's 1.5 million square - foot distribution centre at the edge of tiny St. Jacobs.

In a sign of its ambition, last month, CVS hired a senior executive from a startup that specializes in primary - care clinics to oversee expanded health - care services across the companIn a sign of its ambition, last month, CVS hired a senior executive from a startup that specializes in primary - care clinics to oversee expanded health - care services across the companin primary - care clinics to oversee expanded health - care services across the company.

Some accelerators are getting rid of the written application and selection process: Talk to the executive director, and if he or she likes your idea or company, you're in.

Or at least that is likely what executives at NBC and parent company Comcast (cmcsa) are hoping for in generating ratings and justifying billions of dollars in investments to secure the U.S. airtime rights for decades now.

That means they give executives the right to buy a number of the company's shares at today's prices, even if they appreciate in value in the near future.

A talented IBM junior executive once lost $ 10 million of company money in a risky venture, then slunk into company founder Tom Watson Sr.'s office expecting to be fired.

«We have people on our executive team who took major pay cuts to come here, because they feel they're really participating in the future of the company,» he says.

«We're an industry that is extremely effective at managing controlled substances,» Galen G. Weston, president and executive chairman of Shoppers parent company Loblaw, said in May.

That was chief executive Thorsten Heins's message at the annual shareholders meeting in Ontario today, as he tried to defend the company's trajectory after sales of the new BlackBerry 10 line of smartphones fell well below analyst expectations.

A short - term focus has also been linked to the heavy use of stock options in executive compensation and a high number of analysts following the company.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

In the decade since Skype launched in Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partnerIn the decade since Skype launched in Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partnerin Tallinn, the company has spawned legions of startups, venture capitalists, and executives known locally as the «Skype mafia,» offering emigrants (digital or otherwise) a built - in set of co-founders, funders, and partnerin set of co-founders, funders, and partners.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks during an event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 7, 2013

«When I stepped into the chief executive role in 2011, I was more connected to all facets of the company and saw for the first time how important it was to have a shared sense of purpose and identity that resonated across the entire organization.»