Sentences with phrase «good of all board members»

Remember — it is your responsibility to stop investors who want to get into the weeds and it's important for the good of all board members.

Not exact matches

This is because very little is ever formally voted on so if they have the same amount of floor time they might as well be board members.

His philanthropic service includes founding and serving as former chairman and current board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, director of JUST Capital Foundation, as well as current advisory, chairman, director and trustee roles with a number of not - for - profit, educational and other charitable organizations.

The best advice I can give you is to try to make sure that you've got some board members and other advisors (not investors) who've actually run businesses to help take your side in some of the silliest of these arguments.

The best strategy is to let the board member ask his or her question, write it down, tell them it's a good question and one you're happy to spend time with them explaining after the meeting but that your goal for today is to address the bigger issue of X.

If you look at the composition of our board, the members are very well - informed people, with backgrounds in everything from IT to insurance.

Lululemon touted her decades of experience as a consultant, as well as her long tenure on the board, in lauding her abilities as a member of the board.

But I've heard CEOs of start - ups as well as big companies talking about how some board member or supplier or somebody is just treating them like shit.

There are quotations from a couple of board members, but no discussion of what hospital boards do and whether they've been doing it well.

«It is incomprehensible that the union is calling for the biggest pay increase for the most well - paid group of staff,» Lufthansa board member Bettina Volkens said in a statement.

They are seeking damages from former CEO Gene Isenberg and current CEO Anthony Petrello as well as members of the board of directors in a federal class action lawsuit filed by the Erie County Employees Retirement System.

The firm, which has vied for months to consummate its proposed deal, is leading an effort to replace six members of Qualcomm's 11 - person board of directors — a move that, if successful, may as well seal the tie - up.

WHO: Joan P. Neuscheler, principal at Tullis - Dickerson & Co., a venture - capital firm in Greenwich, Conn., and board member of AmericasDoctor, which (among other things) offers a health - information Web site for consumers RATING: 4 «I think they have strong management and a good board of directors — and that's usually the first place I look for flaws.

Ferguson will be part of the board's audit committee, joining existing board members such as former Pixar CFO Ann Mather as well as former president and CEO of Ford (f), Alan Mulally.

Current company / position: Reese currently serves as a board member for Spark Program — a career exploration program for middle schoolers — as well as an advisory board member of Harvard Medical School's Department of Biomedical Informatics.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

But, as a matter of governance, all board members should be acting in the best interests of all of its shareholders and stakeholders.

Viacom's former CEO Philippe Dauman was on the board of National Amusements as well as a member of the seven - person trust that takes over Sumner Redstone's stake in National Amusements after he dies or is declared incapacitated.

Having a couple of board members who have your back is the best feeling in the whole world and makes for a much better business as well.

Some of the busiest people you know still make the best board members because it's a matter of their commitment, not their calendar.

«We firmly believe that a diversity of perspectives leads to better decisions and helps drive corporate performance,» says Steve Williams, CEO of Suncor, whose 12 - member board includes three women and a First Nations executive, and factors in age, gender, ethnicity and aboriginal status in filling vacancies.

By providing a meaningful disclosure about potential Board members, shareholders will be better able to judge how well - suited individual board nominees are for the Company and whether their listed skills, experience and attributes are appropriate in light of the Company's overall business straBoard members, shareholders will be better able to judge how well - suited individual board nominees are for the Company and whether their listed skills, experience and attributes are appropriate in light of the Company's overall business straboard nominees are for the Company and whether their listed skills, experience and attributes are appropriate in light of the Company's overall business strategy.

In addition to being independent, each of these individuals is highly experienced as a senior executive and board member at multiple well - established companies.

In addition, the Board of Trade was also a founding member of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition — the most diverse coalition in B.C.'s history, comprised of 145 different organizations.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

Nix: Well, actually, I'm not going to speak about any of our investors or board members at all because we don't.

Long chided by analysts for its insular nature, the seven - member board included Koogle, Mallett, and Yang, as well as backers Moritz and Eric Hippeau of Softbank.

The money comes courtesy of a number of well - known Silicon Valley investors, including firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, and individual investors like Y Combinator President Sam Altman (also a board member) and SV Angel's Ron Conway.

Mr. Hernandez also has extensive experience in the banking and financial services industry, as well as banking and related financial management expertise as a former member of the boards and audit committees of two other large financial institutions, Great Western Financial Corporation from 1993 to 1997 and Washington Mutual, Inc. from 1997 to 2002.

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

In changing our name, the board believes we will better reflect our regional advocacy efforts and the 5,000 Members that we represent — nearly 50 per cent of whom make their living or own businesses that operate outside the City of Vancouver.

WHEREAS the Board of Directors believes that changing our name will enable VBOT to better represent the regional interests of our 5,000 Members, nearly 50 per cent of whom make their living or own businesses that operate outside the City of Vancouver.

When nominated, Directors must be members in good standing of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

«It's important to look at the types of jobs that are being created because those jobs will directly affect the fortunes and challenges of households and neighborhoods as well as the course of the recovery,» Sarah Bloom Raskin, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, said in a recent speech.

Peter Bakker joins General Secretary of the Norwegian WWF, Nina Jensen; Professor Katherine Richardson; Managing Director of the Global Economic Symposium, Thierry Malleret and professor Frank Geels as well as the five members from DNV GL in the Advisory Board.

After some 15 years of tweaking and polishing the theory and practice of «good» governance, perfectly independent board members remain surprise - prone, estranged from the goings - on in the company, partially informed and lacking the wherewithal to challenge management.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has long supported the Mayors» Council plan for transit and transportation, both as an independent organization, and as a founding member of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition.

Given the blood in the water, firms specializing in bringing such lawsuits — ones alleging that board members are illegally preventing a sale that is in the best financial interest of shareholders — are already out there, trolling for would - be investor litigants.

One of those shareholders — Starboard Value's managing member Jeffrey Smith — has been extremely critical of Mayer and Yahoo's board as well.

For example, the newspaper measures such things as the diversity of the faculty, staff, board members, and students at each school, «languages,» the «international reach of the EMBA,» as well as the amount of research published by professors from each school.

There are a good chunk of Class B shares that belong to other Alphabet board members and even some shareholders not on Alphabet's board.

Fellows are chosen by an in - house Selection Committee composed of a panel of experts, as well as members of APF Canada's Board of Directors.

Well, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz was until recently a long - time eBay board member.

He also serves on the board of the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative and is a member of the Forum's International Business Council, as well as on the International Advisory Boards of British American Business and the Atlantic Council.

After a year of hard work, we are very excited about the growth this will bring to both the Einsteinium Foundation and VoxTel billing integration as well as the adoption of crypto currency as a whole», said Jonathan Lauzière, Board member and Treasurer of EMC2.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

And there are many other managers needed, including a chief of its engineering unit and a head of marketing, as well as more board members, especially independent ones.

Mr. Bowsher also serves as a Director of DeVry Inc., Washington Mutual Investors Fund and SI International, as well as serving as a public member of the FINRA board.

He is presently a Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group and on the board of Bloomberg LLP as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Ian sits on the Faculty Advisory Board of the McGill Faculty of Law and is also a Trustee of the S.M. Blair Family Foundation as well as a proud member of Canada Company.