Sentences with phrase «executives of growing companies»

For chief executives of growing companies, fundraising is never far from mind.

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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.

This has a growing number of technology industry executives spooked, and for good reason: Companies including Amazon, Apple and Google rely on foreign talent, and have spent millions lobbying Congress to raise the H - 1B visa cap.

This will be the company's significant challenge going forward, with its new slate of C - suite executives, and as it grows past 100 employees this next year.

Mark Organ, chief executive of Toronto - based marketing startup Influitive, remembers being shocked when Price, president of a fast - growing software company at the time, offered to help him tweak his business model.

Some executives try to keep at arms - length to maintain a facade of power, but Kelleher demonstrated that a culture of connectedness and personal interest — from the top ranks to the bottom — could become a corporate asset, even as his company grew to massive proportions.

Berkshire Hathaway is adding two senior executives — Gregory E. Abel and Ajit Jain — to its board as speculation grows about who will replace the company's 87 - year - old chief executive officer, Warren Buffett, atop one of the world's largest companies.

In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 - Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks involving major U.S. companies.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters)- Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for a pair of massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks involving major U.S. companies.

Navitas chief executive Rod Jones says he has been impressed by the company's ability to retain earnings despite the closure of two university joint ventures in Australia, with the education provider growing net profit and maintaining guidance for the 2017 financial year.

The complaint added fuel to the fire of some on Capitol Hill, who have grown increasingly uneasy about the confusing ownership structure of the Chinese conglomerate since a July announcement revealed that a charitable foundation owned more than half of the firm and company executives and board members owned most of the rest.

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters)- Former Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer apologized on Wednesday for two massive data breaches at the internet company, blaming Russian agents for at least one of them, at a hearing on the growing number of cyber attacks on major U.S. companies.

Goldin, whose company is based in San Francisco, is part of a growing number of Silicon Valley executives speaking out against Trump and his controversial policies.

While the company has long focused on the benefits of its social network like connecting family members and helping small businesses grow, Facebook executives mistakenly overlooked its platform's negative effects, he said.

A quick turn onto a new path is desirable so that the company can grow faster and investors see the new executive as part of the solution.

As any local tech company grows, it must eventually confront the fact that the Canadian talent pool, in terms of both executives and engineers, is much smaller and less educated than those in Silicon Valley, Seattle or New York.

Joel Henry, Founder, Fig Food Company Fig Food Company's founder and CEO, 50 - year - old Joel Henry, a former executive at the Campbell Soup Company, wants to improve the health of people and the planet through sustainably - grown organic edibles.

In the spring of 1996 former J. Crew executive and wanna - be company owner Arnie Cohen made an unsolicited bid to buy J. Peterman Co., the panache - drenched clothing cataloger, which was then enjoying growing notoriety — thanks to Seinfeld — but was suffering losses and flat sales.

The company's chief executive has spent two years developing the idea, which could grow to eventually allow individuals to sell all sorts of services and ultimately even put it in competition with other sharing economy services, such as Uber or Lyft.

Being closely surrounded with mentors has changed how I approach all sorts of situations: what to say to the top executives to guarantee a meeting, how to build a strong network and use it regularly to strategically grow the company, how to start every day by visualizing and rehearsing events, how to constantly push everyone around me to their full potential, how to maintain confidence and cope with tremendous uncertainty and bad news, and on and on.

Also executive editor David Fielding talks about the new golden age of television and how difficult it is for media companies to turn a profit as the variety of viewing screens grow.

The latest survey of private - company executives by PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that almost two - thirds of U.S. business owners consider the U.S. economy growing.

Company leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer — have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news and the disclosure over the weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter - profiling cCompany leaders — including Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer — have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news and the disclosure over the weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter - profiling companycompany.

The company's co-founder and chief executive discusses Uber's growing profits, the timing of an I.P.O. and tech company valuations.

The transaction announced on Thursday helps P&G Chief Executive A.G. Lafley streamline his Cincinnati - based company by shedding slow - growing brands and focus on about 80 brands that generate most of its profit and revenue.

«These executives have made a lasting mark on our industry — growing and elevating partner programs, leading transitions to new business models, and introducing cutting - edge go - to - market strategies, among other remarkable achievements,» said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company.

Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, hit back at the notion that the iPhone business, which accounts for 62 percent of the company's overall revenue, had little room to grow.

But according to a company executive, who asked not to be identified because the details of Mr. Koum's departure were confidential, Mr. Koum had grown increasingly concerned about Facebook's position on user data in recent years.

Led by Chief Executive Patrick Dovigi, GFL has grown through acquisitions into one of Canada's biggest waste management companies.

Heidi Welsh, executive director, Si2 and co-author of Proxy Preview 2018, said, «The chasm between growing investor disclosure expectations and shrinking environmental protections emerging from Washington is widening, but companies answer to their investors, not politicians.

«The IS - 42 project is Recurrent Energy's first solar project in the North Carolina market and another example of the company's ability to grow its U.S. footprint,» said Dr. Shawn Qu, chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian Solar.

Cameron Herold, founder of the COO Alliance, helps companies grow by coaching executives on how to become better leaders.

An estimated 350,000 Canadian entrepreneurs and executives drawn by opportunity to Silicon Valley are creating a shortage of experienced managers and executives to help companies grow in Canada.

David joined Zillow in 2005 as one of the company's first executive leaders, and in addition to his CTO role, has been deeply involved in organizational development and growing the company to its size and strength today.

In this age of zero privacy, Mark Leonard has managed to maintain a practically unthinkable level of anonymity for just about any individual — let alone an IT executive who runs one of Canada's most dynamic, fastest - growing and most acquisitive software companies, and who has been compared favourably with Warren Buffett and Prem Watsa.»

Chief Executive Feike Sijbesma said that the company is growing ahead of the market but also benefited from higher vitamin prices after a fire at one of its rival's plants.

«Our members» balance sheets speak for themselves — health care is a growing cost at a time when other costs are either not rising or falling,» said Robert Andrews, chief executive of the Healthcare Transformation Alliance, a group of 46 companies, including Coca - Cola and American Express, that have banded together to lower health care costs.

Our firm has grown so large that I need to bring in a talented, experienced executive who can manage the firm day to day so that I can focus on other aspects of the company to help sustain its growth.

Though one of American's core arguments for the merger was that the company needed to grow to compete more aggressively with Delta and United, the chief executives of those companies came out in support of the deal and further industry consolidation.

«The exempt market is a crucial source of capital for growing companies, and it is critical that it is globally competitive and that investors can participate in the market with confidence,» said Howard Wetston, OSC Chair and Chief Executive Officer.

Company executives have repeatedly pointed to lunch and afternoon as important times of the day to grow their business.

Home grown Chinese companies are set to outperform their multinational rivals in winning over the next generation of Chinese executives in the coming decade, according to a report from Bain & Company.

Joaquin Duato, J&J's executive vice president and worldwide chairman of its pharmaceuticals segment, said earlier this year that the company intends to continue growing its pharma business in several ways.

In addition, Athene executives appear skilled at growing the company from within and hunting down new sources of capital from institutional investors to pay for operating expenses, A.M. Best analysts also said.

George Simmons § George Simmons has over 20 years of executive experience in Finance and in Operations at both public and private companies growing 30 % to 70 % per year.

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.»

Executives at the companies said they believe they'll both be able to grow faster together than separately, with P&G opening doors for Gillette in markets such as China and Japan while Gillette bringing P&G some product segments that are growing faster than the company's overall current portfolio of products.

Under CEO Jeff Reinstein, the company has grown from 9 locations to over 80 centers across 50 cities, and is the largest privately held provider of executive suites in the United States.