Sentences with phrase «former company ceo»

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Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

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.

Apple won't be able to avoid the finger - wagging headed for any tech company doing business with companies like Foxconn, particularly when CEO Tim Cook, as Apple's former COO, is directly tied to such a partnership.

Former Telus top man Joe Natale officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. this year, signaling a return to stable leadership for the company after former CEO Guy Laurence was axed lastFormer Telus top man Joe Natale officially took over as CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. this year, signaling a return to stable leadership for the company after former CEO Guy Laurence was axed lastformer CEO Guy Laurence was axed last fall.

Chris Larsen, the cofounder, executive chairman, and former CEO of the cryptocurrency company Ripple, became the world's fifth wealthiest person as the price of Ripple's XRP cryptocurrency soared past the $ 3 mark this week.

Fast forward to 2017 and AIG finds itself with a new CEO, Brian Duperreault, a former employee who promises to return the company to growth rather than break it up.

There has been talk that former CEO Tom Freston might return to the helm of the company, although he said in a recent interview — in which he criticized Dauman's performance — that he has not cut any deals with Shari Redstone or her father.

But the trade - off of this focus on shareholder value is spending that benefits other stakeholders, like employees and customers, said Bill George, the former CEO of medical - device company Medtronic.

Four of the names had previously been reported in the press: attorney Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment; BuzzFeed chairman Kenneth Lerer, a co-founder of the Huffington Post; former Discovery Communications CEO Judith McHale, a former undersecretary of state who also served as general counsel for Viacom's MTV Networks division; and Bank of America (bac) director Thomas May, a former CEO of Eversource, a New England energy company.

Ultimately, while former CEO Klaus Kleinfeld could control his own company, but not the price of the commodity itself.

Pioneering maritime risk analytics startup, Windward, today announced that former BP CEO, Lord Browne of Madingley, has joined the company's Board of Directors.

Elaine Wynn, who co-founded the hospitality company with her ex-husband, Steve Wynn, is starting a campaign to remove one of the three board directors investigating the sexual misconduct allegations against the former CEO.

A former health care investment analyst with a degree in biology from Yale University and current CEO of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries of the genome and what it can reveal about the human body.

His efforts come after a year of distractions for the company as the Redstones battled to maintain control, resulting in the departure of former CEO Philippe Dauman.

Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is planning to sell a third of his 10 percent stake in the company for about $ 1.4 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

We needed nothing less but a marketing genius in order to turn the company around,» Rene Obermann, the former CEO of T - Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, who hired Legere, told «The Brave Ones.»

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, a rising star once compared to Steve Jobs, along with the company's former president Ramesh «Sunny» Balwani with fraud.

Axovant shares tumbled another 20 % Monday after CEO David Hung, the former chief of Medivation who orchestrated the latter company's sale to Pfizer, resigned from the post after less than a year on the job.

Former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas has demonstrated that a company should serve all of its stakeholders — that is, workers, employees, shareholders and the community.

After a year of Game of Thrones - style intrigue involving 93 - year - old billionaire Sumner Redstone, his daughter Shari, and former CEO Philippe Dauman, it looks as though the ultimate fate of Viacom could be settled relatively soon — and with it the fate of sister company CBS.

There were reports that pressure from Jana was behind the recent change of CEOs at Time, although the company's former CEO denied that this was the case.

The phrase was used by a former Shell CEO to describe the company's experimental strategy in an earlier round of investments in renewable energy.

Tony Haile, former CEO of media analytics company Chartbeat, told the Tow Center that there are two routes for publishers to take.

Thomas Fanning, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company, Mike Gregoire, CEO of CA Technologies, Robert Hannigan, former director of GCHQ and Rob Joyce, White House cybersecurity coordinator, talk with CNBC's Jon Fortt about developing a new, more robust and collaborative to national cyber defense.

Monica Nassif is the founder and former CEO of homekeeping products company Caldrea, maker of Mrs. Meyer's.

Among many other insights, former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès revealed in our interview his failure to anticipate how the growth of Bitcoin would affect his company.

Dataminr is the biggest player in a nascent industry — call it alternative big data for big finance — that has exploded in the past six months: In March it raised $ 130 million from Fidelity as well as other investors, including former Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit, valuing the company at $ 700 million.

(Meanwhile, Valeant's former CEO Michael Pearson, who preceded Papa, is suing the company for withholding $ 32 million in pay he claims he is owed.)

A former Yahoo CEO says it's time for Twitter to give up on trying to be a social media network and embrace being a media company.

Donning a long - sleeved pullover and jeans, Dorsey was joined by other prominent entrepreneurs, most notably Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and founder of financial information company Bloomberg.

It was right after Dara Khosrowshahi had been appointed CEO, and we had a pretty frank conversation about a company trying to undo months of damage from PR missteps including a video of its former chief, Travis Kalanick, berating a driver (he later apologized) and a passenger boycott promoted on social media.

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CurrentC was originally slated for launch early in 2015, but the launch has been delayed to midyear at the earliest and former CEO Davidson has departed from the company.

«They found socially relevant former athletes and movie stars — people that were able to masculinize a beer brand that it was a low - calorie beer that had «great taste, less filling,»» said Don Faust Jr., chairman and CEO of beer distributing company Faust Distributing.

A coalition of smaller lab companies in Ontario — headed by former Liberal MP Gerard Kennedy, who now serves as CEO of Ontario's Alpha Labs — fought a noisy battle against the LifeLabs - CML merger.

Martin Eberhard vs. Elon Musk In May, former Tesla Motors CEO Eberhard sued the electric car company and its CEO Musk, alleging slander, libel and breach of contract.

Mainardi is the former CEO of Booz & Company and Strategy &.

Calacanis, a former Twitter booster, was harsh in his criticism of the social media company, saying that under CEO Jack Dorsey — who is also chief executive of Square — Twitter has seen slow growth and little innovation when it comes to new products.

Rosalind Resnick, the founder and CEO of Axxess Business Consulting, a New York City consulting firm that advises startups and small businesses, is the co-founder and former CEO of NetCreations, a two - person homebased web design firm that grew to a $ 58 million public company and was acquired for $ 111 million in cash in 2001.

Jenkins turns the floor over to his keynote speaker, the former CEO of a major Fortune 500 aerospace and defense company and vocal supporter of the drone industry.

Rockstar's CEO, former Nortel chief IP officer John Veschi, recently told trade publication Intellectual Asset Management that many companies are using Nortel IP without a licence, and Rockstar is only getting started.

Uber directors on Tuesday voted to allow Japan's SoftBank to invest in the ride services company and approved a series of governance changes that increases the independence of the board and decreases the influence of former CEO Travis Kalanick.

On Monday, Ford replaced Fields with Jim Hackett, a former CEO of Steelcase, and a Ford board member who's said to be close to the company's chairman Bill Ford.

It's worth noting the team that brought the company to this point are all still on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March); former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and former chairman Michael Brown remains a director.

The appointment caps a management makeover that began in 2012 with the installation of Rick Wills, the former chairman and CEO of Portland, Ore. - based Tektronix, as chairman of the Burnaby, B.C. - based company.

True to former slogans like «Losing is not an option,» CEO Mark Simo said in a press release that the goal is to reorganize the company and surface from under its debt.

«Having the social goal as No. 1 is inadequate and won't make you successful,» said Robin Chase, the founder and former CEO of car - rental company Zipcar and the founder of peer - to - peer car rental company Buzzcar.

«It's tricky if the founder is a visionary, highly charismatic, has a strong personality — those are big shoes to fill,» says Molinaro, who suggests companies shouldn't be holding on to former leaders in formal roles if they want their new CEOs to succeed.

The former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley (ms) has been tangled up in issues at LendingClub (lc), the online lending company where he has sat on the board since 2012.

Former Apple CEO John Sculley told CNBC's «Fast Money» that Apple is a likely target for President Donald Trump, but the company will do just fine.