Sentences with phrase «firm be on board»

So, despite the high initial rejection rate from the system the panel firms are on board with it.»

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The musician — real name Jayceon Terell Taylor — is sitting on the advisory board of Paragon, a tech firm that hopes to use the blockchain to shake up the marijuana market.

Simply building platforms for others to test their drugs on, Tehrani and his board soon realized, would have failed to capitalize on the expertise the firm was developing in the process.

That bleak irony was hammered home earlier this month when John Boehner, a former leader in the political party that formally initiated the War on Drugs, joined the advisory board of a marijuana firm.

Pressure is mounting on boards to take a firmer grasp of everything from strategy to compensation.

The billionaire investor is expected to stay on the board in the near term, while investment firms Thiel Capital and Thiel Foundation will relocate to Los Angeles later this year, according to the report.

If you're trying to hire an ad agency to help you with your Google AdWords campaign, don't bring any firm on board until you've done your homework.

«It's baked into their DNA to be focused on the long term, as their focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of family firms.

Bonnie Gwin, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than Board of Directors Practice at the executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, agreed with the advice, adding that at this moment of rising activist pressure, mounting cyber security concerns, and a more constant media spotlight, being on a board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than board is harder, higher - stakes and more demanding than ever.

eBay CEO John Donahoe met Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky in 2012 through Marc Andreessen, the influential venture capitalist who sits on eBay's (EBAY) board and whose firm, Andreessen Horowitz, is an investor in Airbnb.

«Investors» calls for greater gender diversity appear to be nudging nominating committees to find more women to serve on boards at U.S. firms.»

Sathe admits it's challenging to bring corporations on - board with the idea of «Outplacement 2.0,» let alone the idea of parting ways with outplacement firms used in the past.

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.

While Singer eschews sitting on corporate boards, Cohn sits on four, and has become so integral to the firm that some of Elliott's investors mistakenly believe Cohn is Singer's nephew.

He's also on the board of Komplett, the largest e-commerce firm in Scandinavia, with his sister Caroline.

Additionally, Freston serves on the board of DreamWorks Animation and is a principal for Firefly3, a New York media consulting firm.

Even with the bigger stake, a takeover would be difficult because the controlling owners — the Ochs - Sulzberger family — hold voting shares that give them a firm grip on board seats.

The Audit Committee has met with the internal auditors and independent registered public accounting firm, separately and together, with and without management present, to discuss IBM's financial reporting process and internal accounting controls in addition to other matters required to be discussed by the statement on Auditing Standards No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees, as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), as may be modified or supplemented.

The development comes almost 10 months after the exit of managing director Gautam Mago from Sequoia, who was representing the venture capital firm on the board of Capital Float.

Cambridge Analytica, which grew out of the London - based SCL Group, was founded in 2014 with a $ 15 million investment from Mr. Mercer, whose daughter Rebekah sits on the firm's board of directors.

And while he was fuzzy on many details, giving lots of partial answers and promises to «follow up», one thing he did confirm was that Facebook board member Peter Thiel's secretive big data analytics firm, Palantir, is one of the companies Facebook is investigating as part of a historical audit of app developers» use of its platform.

Meanwhile, the company said that a meeting of the board of directors will be held on June 4, to consider the proposal to buy - back the fully paid - up equity shares of the firm.

When a venture firm invests in a high - growth company, the investor expects to either be a member of the company's management team or sit on its board of directors, thereby taking an active role in the operations of the business.

With board - level voting rights on equal footing, it's time for it's CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, to lead the firm to a new tomorrow

Ray Ferrara, the former chairman of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards who's chairman and CEO of dually registered ProVise Management Group in Clearwater, Florida, noted on a panel discussion at the event that he expects his firm to shell out «less than $ 10,000 in our hard costs» to comply with the fiduciary rule, but didn't anticipate «any significant ongoing [compliance] costs.»

If you vote by proxy card or voting instruction card and sign the card without giving specific instructions, your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board (FOR all of HP's nominees to the Board, FOR ratification of the appointment of HP's independent registered public accounting firm, FOR the approval of the compensation of HP's named executive officers, FOR the approval of an annual advisory vote on executive compensation, FOR the Hewlett - Packard Company 2011 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and FOR the approval of an amendment to the Hewlett - Packard Company 2005 Pay - for - Results Plan to extend the term of the plan).

He was awarded a seat on the company's board of directors as it rebranded itself to reflect his other firm.

Up until now, researchers weren't able to quantify the impact diverse boards had on businesses because there weren't enough women sitting on boards of major companies, according to the firm.

One of those people calling for Kalanick to go was one of the company's biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber's board.

The firm was led by Alexander Nix while Steve Bannon, a former White House chief of staff under Trump, once served on the company's board.

Qualifications, Attributes, Skills and Experience: Gordon is qualified to serve on Zillow Group's board of directors because he brings extensive experience in the residential real estate industry as a founder and manager of a real estate brokerage firm.

If valid, this explanation would suggest that it would be a good idea for any legislation on board leadership to (a) limit any mandate to the largest firms and (b) permit even those firms to «opt out» of the requirement through periodic shareholder votes (e.g., once every five years).

«The Pin That's Going to Pop the Bubble» Matonis, who sat on the board of Bitcoin Foundation for two years between 2012 and 2014 and is currently an executive director, maintains his firm,

He is on the boards of UpWind Solutions and Choose Energy, a board observer at OSIsoft, and led the firm's investment in ServiceMax.

Tim is also a partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O'Reilly's early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O'Reilly Media.

With the exception of the partner firms that are already on board with the project, there's not much of a precedent to determine if merchants will play nice.

Stumpf, however, did not seem to express regret for how he handled those initial weeks after the bank was fined, including where he initially levied most of the blame on low - level employees for the sales practices problems instead of management, said Stuart Baskin, lawyer with Shearman & Sterling, the firm that the board hired to investigate the sales scandal.

Ira Kay, a founder of compensation - consulting firm Pay Governance, has made a career out of advising executives and boards on compensation issues; he argues that existing compensation structures are generally fair and driven by market forces.

Mr. Bowsher was also Chairman of the Public Oversight Board, an independent, private sector body that monitored and reported on the self - regulatory programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Bonnie Hill is president of B. Hill Enterprises, LLC, a consulting firm focusing on corporate governance and board organizational and public policy issues.

Michael Pachter, a research analyst at investment banking and brokerage firm Wedbush Morgan Securities, said he was unimpressed with the appointment of an acting CEO instead of a permanent one and the board's lack of clarity on how to return the company to profitability.

He is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, the Turnaround Management Association, and has held posts in the American Electronics Association New England Council and serves on the boards of directors or advisers of several firms in the New England area.

The Glass Lewis Advisory Board's mission is to inform the firm on emerging trends and help it focus on issues of importance to institutional investors.

William H. Harris Jr. is the founder of Personal Capital Corporation, a digital wealth management firm that provides personal financial software and investment services, where he sits on the board of directors.

She is also a member of Astia Angels; on the Advisory Boards of two venture capital firms, StarVest Partners and Illuminate Ventures; the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst Experts Advisor Group; the AAAS - Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Advisory Committee; and on the «Making Value for America» expert advisory committee for the National Academy of Engineering.

In other words, if we accept that there is value in having family representation on the board of directors of a family firm, then The Long View is no more lenient on family firms than BSCI is on widely - held issuers.

SPOTLIGHT ON THE FIRM Into the Spotlight: How to Be a Successful Public Director For many VC and PE professionals having a portfolio company go public used to mean it was time to give up their board seat.

Canaccord Genuity, the leading independent advisory and restructuring firm in Canada, was the first company to come on board in a sponsorship capacity — providing the funds to launch the program.

Mr. Jiwan has served on numerous boards of directors and advisors, including: (i) Future Finance Loan Corporation, a European private student lender that has helped students at over 130 universities fund their education, where Mr. Jiwan is a co-founder and non-executive Chairman; (ii) BFRE, a Brazilian private real estate finance company, which was subsequently sold to affiliates of BTG Pactual; (iii) GP Investimentos, one of Latin America's leading private equity firms, where he served on its shareholder advisory board; (iv) NewPoint Re, a Bermuda - based reinsurance business; and (v) Kaletra QD product development program with Abbott Pharmaceuticals, where he served on the Joint Oversight Committee.