Sentences with phrase «first global president»

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On his first visit to Facebook - crazy Indonesia, Mark Zuckerberg met the president - elect, spread the word about his company's global Internet - access initiative and posted a photo of himself at an ancient Buddhist temple.

President Donald Trump landed in Switzerland this morning, and will spend the next two days among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he is expected to advocate for an «America First» agenda in an environment that is antithetical to those principles.

I launched it at the Clinton Global Initiative with President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush by my side.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 - Alphabet Inc President Sergey Brin said on Friday that technology companies must take greater responsibility for the social impact of their work, his first comments following a year of heightened global awareness about misuse of digital services.

While South Korea's economy started the year on a high note with exports enjoying booming global demand, policymakers are struggling to reduce trade friction with the United States stoked by President Donald Trump's «America First» policy.

Now, Gavet, Priceline's executive vice president of global operations, is also quitting the company, she announced for the first time Wednesday at Fortune «s Most Powerful Women NextGen conference in Laguna Niguel, Ca.

European stocks closed higher on Tuesday as global investors digested U.S. President Donald Trump's ability to deliver on campaign pledges after his first major setback.

Ahead of the address, the conference buzzed with speculation of how the president, elected to office on an «America First» platform, would play on a stage built to toast global integration.

LeapFrog's first fund was launched at the Clinton Global Initiative, with former President Clinton on hand.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

With his announcement last week of broad tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, President Trump launched what could be the first salvo of an all - out global trade war.

In the four weeks that it began shipping cars with an AT&T 4G LTE radio embedded inside, 98 percent of its customers have opted to try out the free trial, which lasts for three months or 3 GB, whichever comes first, according to Mary Chan, president of GM's global connected consumer business.

Mr. Robertson, president of Potomac Global Advisors, an international strategic and financial consultancy based in Washington, DC, announced that based on an internal market analysis, the U.S. arm of the company is prepared to invest as much as 50 million USD in the market, including 20 million USD in the first year.

«Although revenue declined, the first quarter of 2016 continued with a trend of low - level shipments growth on a global level with a variation in results by region,» said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner.

Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..

The U.S. president's «America First» agenda is the antithesis of the Swiss conflab's global ethos.

Skoll, the first president of eBay, who has committed much of his early dot - com wealth to building the global entrepreneurship community, was at home recovering from spinal surgery.

Prior to that he worked for Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, for over 20 years in roles with increasing responsibility, including positions as its Vice President, Global Business Services from October 2012 to March 2014, its Vice President, Supply Chain from October 2011 to October 2012 and its first - ever Global Accounting Dirglobal technology and specialty materials company, for over 20 years in roles with increasing responsibility, including positions as its Vice President, Global Business Services from October 2012 to March 2014, its Vice President, Supply Chain from October 2011 to October 2012 and its first - ever Global Accounting DirGlobal Business Services from October 2012 to March 2014, its Vice President, Supply Chain from October 2011 to October 2012 and its first - ever Global Accounting DirGlobal Accounting Director.

In China, state - run newspaper Global Times is reporting that President Trump can expect a «State visit - plus experience» when he arrives in Beijing for his first official visit to China on November 8.

«Alibaba Group has been incubating this country pavilion project for some time now,» said Jeff Zhang, president of China retail marketplaces for Alibaba Group, calling the 11 sites launched today the «first fruit of this ongoing project to make global trade easier.»

In 1993 there appeared two books with a similar theme, Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty - first Century by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Moynihan, who had had a distinguished career as a Harvard professor, US ambassador to the UN, president of the Security Council and then senior US senator.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — May 11, 2016 — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that W. John Short, Chief Executive Officer & President of RBT, will host a conference call on Monday, May 16th at 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016.

We've seen first - hand what this organisation has done not only for the current packaging industry, but for the next generation of professionals that will lead this industry into the future,» says Christopher Zei, vice president Global OEM and Global Industries, Rockwell Automation.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - May 11, 2016 - RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that W. John Short, Chief Executive Officer & President of RBT, will host a conference call on Monday, May 16th at 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 8, 2015 — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that W. John Short, Chief Executive Officer & President of RBT, will host a conference call on Wednesday, May 13th at 4:30 p.m. EDT to discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.

Among her accomplishments, Julie became the youngest and first female Vice President at Standard Oil (now BP Global), a Fortune 10 company.

If Texas congressman Ron Paul is elected president in 2008, he may be the first leader of the free world put into power with the help of a global network of hacked PCs spewing spam, according to computer - security researchers who've analyzed a recent flurry of e-mail supporting the long - shot Republican candidate.

More than 100,000 people from 130 countries took part in the first ever Global Vote for a U.S. president, and Clinton won with 52 percent of the vote.

First Session: Oral Evidence will be heard from Helen Jones, Senior Vice President, Global Tax, GSK, John Bartlett, Group Head of Tax, BP and Paul Morton, Head of Group Tax, Reed Elsevier Group, at about 3.35 pm.

President Donald Trump, the apostle of America First who has heaped scorn on global institutions, ripped up international agreements and quarreled even with allies, offered a subdued and largely friendly performance on the opening day of his inaugural visit to the United Nations.

Joseph Sitt, president and founder of the Global Gateway Alliance, a group that has pushed for modernization of New York City's airports, called the proposal just a first step.

The first blow to Britain's efforts to combat global warming is the decision by President of the Board of Trade, Michael Heseltine, that the «nuclear levy» will end next year, reducing electricity prices by 8 per cent.

In his first major commitment on global environmental issues as President, Bill Clinton has overturned decisions made by his predecessor George Bush at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro last June.

«It's so powerful that the first Afghan Muppet is a girl,» Sherrie Westin, Sesame Workshop's executive vice president of global impact and philanthropy, told Reuters.

Spira also held the positions of Vice President, Broadcast Sales of IDB Communications Group, Vice President Sales — Xing Technology — the first online streaming software company, and Executive Vice President at InterPacket Networks — a global provider of high - speed Internet via Satellite which was acquired by American Tower.

«Most first dates involve food, so partnering with Grubhub to learn more about how eating preferences affect compatibility was a perfect fit for us,» said Rosette Pambakian, vice president, global communications and brand of Tinder.

«In just six episodes, Star Trek: Discovery has driven subscriber growth, critical acclaim and huge global fan interest for the first premium version of this great franchise,» Marc DeBevoise, President and Chief Operating Officer, CBS Interactive, said in a statement.

Forgetting for a moment the movie's many slick but false moves, and the manner in which it contrives to put Palicki in first workout clothes and then a cocktail dress, what's most notable about «Retaliation» is the litany of small indignities it foists upon its big - stakes, wham - bang conceit, like the fact that the American President's national popularity is said to soar after, in the wake of a nuke going missing, he decides to push for a worldwide nuclear disarmament summit; or that Israel — who's never officially admitted to possessing nuclear weapons — is part of the gathering, along with global pariah North Korea.

After a career that includes stints teaching high school history, vetting nominees for President Clinton's first presidential administration, running a couple of businesses (Edison Schools and Sangari Global Education), and helping Joel Klein reinvent New York City's education system, he is arguably one of the most seasoned education - reform leaders in the land.

«It's a fantastic time to be joining the company, as we prepare to launch Infiniti's first premium compact entry for global markets,» says Colin Lawther, Senior Vice President for Manufacturing, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management in Europe.

In the first episode of a new behind - the - scenes documentary about the development of the 2016 Ford Focus RS, Block meets Ford global product development group vice president Raj Nair and takes a prototype of the Focus RS to the company's test track.

«HUMMER appeals to young people globally and served as a perfect first assignment for our newest talent,» said Ed Welburn, vice president, Global Design.

The newly - formed Lincoln Motor Company was run at first by Jim Farley, now Ford President of Global Markets, before the reins were passed to Kumar Galhotra in September, 2014.

«Value is a hallmark for Chevrolet and the pricing of the Bolt EV proves we're serious about delivering the first affordable EV with plenty of range for our customers,» said Alan Batey, president of GM North America and leader of Global Chevrolet.

«During the first quarter, we continued to focus our efforts on the global roll out of the BlackBerry 10 platform,» said Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of BlackBerry.

When the service first launched ten years ago it was said «tens of thousands of people signed up on Prime's first day,» Greg Greeley, vice president of Amazon Prime Global, told the Washington Post.

India presents some of the best growth opportunities for smartphones and tablets, which is why it is one of the first few markets where we are launching these new, revolutionary tablets,» said Ms. Y.H. Lee, Senior Vice President, Global Marketing, Mobile Communications Business, Samsung Electronics.

The Merge is HTC's first CDMA world phone based on Android, providing global 3G roaming, said Jason Mackenzie, president of HTC Americas in a statement.

HTC isn't just planning one or two successors to its first Android tablet — the HTC Flyer — instead the company plans to deploy an entire range of Android tablets, said HTC's European president, Florian Seiche, during the Reuters Global Technology Summit.