Sentences with phrase «head of the company who»

The other yak - track reunites makeup head and creature performer Walter Phelan, creature effects head (and head of the company who did the effects for the series) Todd Masters, mechanical effects guy Thomas Bellissimo, and visual effects supervisor John van Vilet and is full of great information congenially delivered, along with a lot of fooling around.

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According to Ted Conley, who heads up North American marketing for the condom maker's parent company: «The category has traditionally been strong at times of economic downturn and we are getting anecdotal evidence that the same can be said for today.

Instead of trying to compete head - to - head, Under Armor went after youth, who unlike their parents, had not yet developed a brand loyalty to Nike or any apparel company.

«A lot of the time, Western companies have the advantage,» says Joshua Yau, who heads One Belt, One Road initiatives at Strategy &.

«These companies are moving out of Asia and coming to Africa to save labor costs,» said Fitsum Arega, who recently stepped down as head of the Ethiopian Investment Commission to become an adviser to the new prime minister.

In April, the company established a new role called «global head of top creators» and appointed Laura Lee, an executive who's been with YouTube since 2007.

(The company declined «for competitive reasons» to reveal when it plans to equip other outlets with such gadgetry, but the reality for the chain is that its dealers, who own their stores, have a long history of resisting new, and potentially costly, merchandising ideas from head office.)

No one who has seen the guy throwing up devil horns on Fast N» Loud would expect him to be the head of a home - healthcare company — easily the least likely part of his rock»n' roll portfolio.

But it's Don Levine, then the company's head of research and development, who is often referred to as the «father» of G.I. Joe for shepherding the toy through design and development.

In so doing, Pfender goes over the heads of those companies» traffic managers, who typically negotiate the rates for transporting their goods around the globe.

It was 2007, and Ross, who was by then the head of his nine - year - old company, Starvox Entertainment, decided to set up a booth at the Arts Presenters Conference, an influential New York trade show where the world's top theatre producers, promoters and venues converge.

In conversation with Adam Cahan, Yahoo's head of emerging products, who laments investors» disregard of the «massive, billion - dollar startups» inside the company.

James Fabricant, who founded the company in 2014, is the former head of MySpace Europe.

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.

On the subject of supporting employees, Marc Benioff, who co-founded and heads business software giant Salesforce (CRM), shared that his company has spent roughly $ 3 million this year to adjust the salaries of its female employees to match that of their male counterparts.

Steele, who was the head of the British intelligence agency MI6's Moscow desk and is known for his «knowledge of the intricate web» of Kremlin - tied companies and associates, wrote the dossier between July and December of 2016 as part of an opposition research project funded by anti-Trump Republicans.

In a recent public statement about the move, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler — who happens to be a former head of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association — said that for too long, the set - top box has been a boon for cable and satellite companies but a bane for users.

Ding and Gao's familiarity with Macau would have been useful to North Korean hackers, says Steve Vickers, a former head of the Hong Kong Police Force's Criminal Intelligence Bureau who now runs an eponymous risk consulting company.

Vas Narasimhan, a trained physician and former McKinsey consultant who is now global head of development at Novartis, has pursued a wide range of roles in his seven years at the drug company.

People like to know who's actually leading the charge in their company, and where the business is headed, as well as what their own roles are — what's expected and not expected of them.

«They weren't in a competitive position compared to all our employees,» said Becky Cantieri, head of human resources at SurveyMonkey, who explained the company's decision in a blog post.

Public companies often have boards composed of serial entrepreneurs or prominent industry figures who offer their insights, and it was probably this step that prompted Facebook executives to take the direct, head - on approach.

One unnamed source made it a point to applaud the efforts of Marty Lev, the former vice president of security at Google who left the company in 2016 and is now head of physical security at Amazon Web Services.

It's building insurance companies; it's building pension funds; it's building whole structures that we need for long - term investments,» said Mark Tinker, who is Head of Framlington Equities Asia at AXA Investment Managers.

Tillerson, who must step down as CEO after he turns 65 next March due to Exxon's mandatory retirement rules, is likely to be replaced by the head of the company's refining unit, a less - glamorous but more financially stable unit.

The former head of power generation company Pacific Energy has emerged as the new chief executive of thermal energy company Enerji, replacing Andrew Vlahov, who stepped down last week.

Drew Van Pelt, the head of Larson Juhl who was hired by Cool in 2011, says she connected him with other chiefs at sister companies like Johns Manville and molding - maker Marman Industries.

When it came time for serious work, son Nick got himself a desk job in IT, following in the footsteps of his dad, who formerly was head of international sales for an IT cloud and managed - services company.

Moreover, it's being prepped for a counter-strike under the leadership of former Sun Media boss Paul Godfrey, who now heads Postmedia, a company forged by the recent $ 1.1 - billion creditor acquisition of Canwest's distressed newspaper assets.

Nayfeld allegedly threatened a businessman who ran a New Jersey shipping company, putting a bounty of $ 125,000 on the man's head and threatening to kill him if he couldn't pay.

Tania Bryer speaks with Jochen Zeitz, who became the youngest ever head of a public company in German history when he was made CEO of Puma.

Nicolas Shea, who heads innovation initiatives for the Chilean Ministry of Economy and founded Start - Up Chile, says the government's $ 40 million investment in the program will be worthwhile if it can build ties with interesting new companies, even if they don't stay in the country over the long term.

«When the same people are controlling pay at a number of companies, that can cause a direct ratcheting up of pay,» says Eleanor Bloxham, who heads The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance, a board education and advisory firm, and is a regular contributor to Fortune.com.

«Under Rupert's leadership and with his total support, the company exited Roger Ailes, compensated numerous women who were mistreated; trained virtually all of its employees; exited its biggest star; and hired a new head of HR,» the spokesperson said.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

The Mary Kay style, with its pink Cadillacs and pep rallies, has turned Mary Kay Ash into a mentor to the 150,000 women who, as heads of their own small companies, sell $ 277.5 million worth of her cosmetics.

The breadth of P&G's talent, he adds, has always made it a training ground for executives who go on to head other companies.

SpaceX, the closely held company founded and led by chief executive officer Elon Musk — who also heads the electric auto manufacturer Tesla (tsla)-- is slated to demonstrate the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, a larger and more powerful rocket, later this month.

There are great managers who can make sure programs are executed on budget and on time, but what sets a company apart is a head of marketing that can devise a strategy and vision that transforms the company.

Did anyone really expect, for example, that the first - ever contestant on Shark Tank, who wanted backing for a company that would perform surgery to implant Bluetooth devices in people's heads, had any chance of getting funded?

«There are a lot of CEOs and presidents that are very smart business people, passionate and excited about the process of building a company, but not necessarily passionate about their product,» says Patch's wife and former Canadian Olympic rower Silken Laumann, who also heads up the GoodLife Kid's Foundation.

«When we first started Fairy Tales Hair Care for Children, a salon - only line of organic products created to deep clean and condition as well as prevent head lice, we spent thousands of dollars on a direct - mail piece bundled with other salon - only products,» says Barash, 43, who started her NYC - based company in 1999.

Riis, who joined the company in 1996 and has previously been regarded by analysts as heir apparent to Rebien Sorensen, is currently executive vice president in charge of marketing and head of the China and Pacific sales regions.

But the senior department head of an American company, who declined to be identified, added that it would be «stupid» to sell the flat to take short - term profits because prices would continue to rise in the future.

Contreras - Sweet, who served as head of the Small Business Administration under President Barack Obama, first made an offer for the studio in November, after a sex - harassment scandal forced co-founder Harvey Weinstein from the company.

«To do activism really, really well, you have to be not only smart and persistent, but you have to be willing,» says David Rosewater, who advises companies as the global head of Morgan Stanley's shareholder activism and corporate defense group, and who has previously represented Elliott as an attorney.

An important step was hiring Mohammad Sabah, the former head of Facebook's data team and ex-employee of Netflix, who helped develop the company's recommendation algorithm.

Part of the reason for his appointment was that he would stay the course after Jacques Lamarre's departure, and eventually hand off the company to Lamarre's son Patrick, who currently heads the power division.

Today the Virgin Group is made up of dozens of companies headed by CEOs and managers who have the freedom to run their businesses as they see fit.

Glenn Fogel, who is a 16 - year veteran of Priceline, has been serving as the company's head of strategy and planning since 2010.