Sentences with phrase «firm board committees»

The research revealed that family firm board committees often benefit from a balance of points of view, including that of the controlling family.

Not exact matches

The board's audit committee, for example, ought to be able to get information directly from the firm's accounting department, but such direct access is not universally available.

The list of potential directors, chosen by a committee expected to be made up of sitting directors and search - firm consultants, will eventually be available online to assist boards looking for female directors.

Sanger is a member of the board committee that, according to the firm's proxy statement, «oversees the company's incentive compensation practices so that they are consistent with the safety and soundness of the company.»

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

Further, instead of having companies pay an audit firm directly, Turner would have the PCAOB collect money from the companies for the services that a board's audit committee negotiates, using the same mechanism companies use today to pay the PCAOB for oversight of auditors.

On March 26, the company revealed the results of an independent board committee investigation into $ 56 million in payments the firm made to commercial agents, typically people on the ground in foreign countries who help SNC - Lavalin win contracts.

Candidates may come to the attention of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee through stockholders, management, current members of the board of directors, or search firms.

We discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers matters that independent registered public accounting firms must discuss with audit committees under generally accepted auditing standards and standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications with Audit Cocommittees under generally accepted auditing standards and standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board («PCAOB»), including, among other things, matters related to the conduct of the audit of the Company's consolidated financial statements and the matters required to be discussed by PCAOB AU 380 (Communications with Audit CommitteesCommittees).

Candidates may come to the attention of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee through stockholders, management, current members of the Board of Directors, or search firms.

The independent registered public accounting firm shall also submit on a periodic basis, but at least annually, to the Audit Committee a formal written statement delineating all relationships between the audit firm and the corporation, including each non-audit service provided to the corporation and at least the matters set forth in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Rule 3526.

We believe that the Board and the firm benefit from having a committee that can focus specifically on risk - related issues and our firm's risk management structure.

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.

In addition to being one of the top three revenue producers in the history of the firm, Frank is a member of the DHR Board, Senior Operating Committee, DHR Hall of Fame and was an equity partner in the company for over 10 years.

Erskine Bowles, 68, who joined the firm's board in 2005, is chairman of the compensation committee.

The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm the audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2014, the firm's judgments as to the acceptability and quality of FedEx's accounting principles and such other matters as are required to be discussed with the Audit Committee under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States)(the «PCAOB»), including those matters required to be discussed by Auditing Standard No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees.

The Nominating & Governance Committee considers and evaluates a director candidate recommended by a stockholder in the same manner as a nominee recommended by a Board member, management, search firm or other sources.

Following several autumn 2016 news articles and blog posts which raised concerns regarding transactions with related parties, particularly with then - CEO Steven Sugarman and members of his family, in October the company issued a press release indicating that the board's «disinterested directors» had hired a law firm and formed a special committee to review the alleged connections and transactions.

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 EngCommittee; and on the «Making Value for America» expert advisory committee for the National Academy of Engcommittee for the National Academy of Engineering.

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.

Our Nomination and Governance Committee evaluates and considers director nominees proposed by our stockholders in the same manner as a nominee recommended by a Board member, management, search firm or other source.

The committee formed to promote the passage of an amendment to raise the retirement age for state judges is being paid for by some of New York's most prominent law firms, according to a filing with the state Board of Elections.

A state Board of Elections memorandum made public last week details allegations of a complex partnership between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a number of political consulting firms and labor unions and also county Democratic committees to influence contested state Senate races in 2014.

Rep. Chris Collins won re-election to the board of directors of the struggling Australian biotech firm he invested in at a discount and touted to his colleagues, prompting a House Ethics Committee investigation.

The report also showed, SBF did not disclose to the state a conflict of interest involving the affiliation between one of its board members, who served on the foundation's investment committee, and a firm that provides investment services to the foundation.

Mr. Goodman, who is 34 and runs a corporate advisory firm focused on aerospace and defense industries, takes the helm of the Republican Committee after a disappointing campaign in which its candidates for supervisor and town board were defeated by wide margins and just two of its nine candidates for town trustee prevailed in the November election.

Combined, the firms have given $ 415,000 in contributions to Jobs For New York, an independent expenditure committee that is aligned with the Real Estate Board of New York.

End Citizens United's entry into the Minnesota race is particularly odd, given that Craig, while at the medical device company St. Jude Medical, directed the firm's political action committee in the 2012 election cycle, after spending the previous six years on its board.

Then there's those official Board of Elections records being passed around that detail how the Roemer law firm donated $ 3,250 to the executive's campaign committee over the last few years.

Levenson failed to maintain a «firewall» between his firm's work for candidates and independent political action committees, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the Campaign Finance Board said Thursday in announcing the settlement.

Those fears increased last August when a government committee choose David Thodey, chief executive of Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunication firm, to chair CSIRO's board.

Hatch and Art Gibel, CEO of Goodwill Industries of Northwest North Carolina and Medical Center Board member will co-chair a committee to conduct a national search for the new CEO, assisted by a leading executive search consulting firm.

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Board Certified: American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (A.C.V.I.M., Internal Medicine) Member: American Veterinary Medical Association (A.V.M.A.) Member: Florida Veterinary Medical Association (F.V.M.A.) Member / President: Treasure Coast Veterinary Medical Association (T.C.V.M.A.) The Ohio State University Alumni Association The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine Alumni Association Member: Veterinary Medical Hyperbaric Society Examination Committee Medical Director for Veterinary Hyperbaric Safety (VHS) an RKLyman, LLC company Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Consulting Firm Invited speaker to the 2014 ACVIM Forum, presenting «HBOT in Complete Global Ischemia in Small Animals» Reviewer: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal Licensed Foster Parent, St. Lucie County, Florida (Emergency Care) Editorial Perspective Author, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal, Jan / Feb 2015

Given that I have served as president, chief executive officer, chief technology officer, as well as director in my professional career and also have served as VP Faculty / Student Liaison on the Executive Committee of the CUAA for several terms, I believe I have the experience, network, and understanding of leadership, fundraising, and board operations to serve as a Trustee of Cooper Union to firmly ensure a firm, sustainable foundation for our alma mater for many years to come.

The Clark's board plans to form a committee and bring on a firm to conduct an international firm to find his successor.

The Panter firm appealed to the Board of Governors, which reversed the Standing Committee's decision on a voice vote.

Companies (or the boards or committees of directors thereof) and financial services firms for which Mark has served as legal counsel include Affiliated Computer Services, Acxiom, Albertsons, Alon USA Energy, Cisco Systems, Credit Suisse, Dell, Dow Corning, EXCO Resources, Gillette, Granite Construction, J.C. Penney, Kinko's, Louisiana - Pacific, Macy's, Maybelline, Michael's Stores, Micron Technology, Monsanto, Pillowtex, Piper Jaffray, Quicksilver Resources, Procter & Gamble, RadioShack, Sterling Software, Trammell Crow, The Washington Post, and Washington Group International.

A Partner at McInnes Cooper's Halifax office, Mr. Baxter is an elected member of the firm's board of directors and a member of several committees and the Tax, Estate Planning and Cross-Border practice groups.

ILTA's Board of Directors has formed a search committee to oversee the process of selecting a new executive director and has retained executive search firm Vetted Solutions to coordinate the process.

Within the firm, Mr. Tufts previously served as a member of the Board of Directors for six years, and before that as Chairman of the firm's Recruiting Committee and as Chairman of the firm's Associate Development Committee.

David has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers, the Ontario Bar Association (Labour and Employment Law Section) and he is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee.

Mr. Dell is a member of the firm's Operating Management Group and Enterprise Risk Committee, and he serves as an independent advisor to the firm's Management Committee and Board.

Prior to that, McKeon served multiple terms on the firm's Advisory Board and Compensation Committee while chairing and expanding its Litigation Practice, the firm's largest group.

Renee Thompson, who chairs the communications committee of the Bar's governing board, said the proposal was changed to make it clear that the board, not Abadin, had hired the firm.

The total amount shared by the 12 members of the firm's executive committee and the chair of the firm's partnership board — senior partner Charlie Jacobs — is up 4 % on 2014 - 15, when the group shared # 18.9 m.

Twenty - three percent of the firm's UK partners are women, alongside 42 % of its executive committee, 23 % of its partnership board and 43 % of its director group.

The committee replaces the existing diversity and board diversity committees with a single body with the responsibility for both developing the firm's strategy and the power to implement it.

David is a member of the global Womble Bond Dickinson Board and the US Firm's Management Committee, and he serves as the Managing Partner and founder of the Baltimore office.

Her representative matters include advising boards and companies on board and disclosure issues, including director independence, board and committee structure, securities law compliance, board leadership structures, board composition, proxy disclosure, listing standards, shareholder proposals, shareholder engagement and relationships, annual meetings, committee charters, listing standards and the impact of proxy advisory firms.