Sentences with phrase «held at a boarding»

Directors are required to bring their expertise, experience and leadership skills to all aspects of their role including the discussions held at board meetings in order to make them personally effective and the business successful.

Not exact matches

She held various senior positions at Petro - Canada until she left the company in 1991, going on to serve on numerous corporate boards and start a governance consulting firm.

NEW YORK / TOKYO, May 2 - Xerox Corp said its CEO and most of its board will step down to settle a suit brought by shareholders Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, with new management planning to look at restructuring or terminating a contentious deal with Fujifilm Holdings.

According to not - for - profit Catalyst, about 20 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies are held by women.

Pierce holds a B.S. in mathematics and writing from Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of the board of advisors for the computer science department at the University of Colorado.

On May 12, Tim Hortons held a conference call with financial analysts who had plenty of questions for Don Schroeder, a long time executive who everybody assumed held the confidence of the board as company CEO at the time.

In December 1991, at the end of another killer snowboard run at California's Squaw Valley, the two friends sat — yet again — to remove their boots from the large, bear - trap - like bindings holding them to their boards.

Dene Rogers, who held the top job at Sears since 2006, had told his board two years ago that he would be decamping with his family back to the United States once Sears weathered the recession and hired a management team that could take the business forward.

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

At 17, Rosemary was even younger than her niece when she took a seat on the board of the holding company that in turn owned Cara Operations.

Ferro sits on the Board of Directors of STS, the Company's manufacturing joint venture in China, and holds board memberships at ST's affiliates in France and IBoard of Directors of STS, the Company's manufacturing joint venture in China, and holds board memberships at ST's affiliates in France and Iboard memberships at ST's affiliates in France and Italy.

Shareholder returns at family - controlled corporations significantly outperform those of widely held public companies, even though family - controlled boards tend to break governance rules, such as having a certain number of independent directors.

According to Catalyst's figures, women held just 19.9 % of board seats at S&P 500 companies in 2015, up slightly from 19.2 % in 2014.

Giving a presentation entitled «Navigating Ambiguity» on Wednesday at the Fortune, Time and Wallpaper * Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, the executive director of Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school, observed that people seem to feel a heightened sense of uncertainty across the board — in politics, retirement, medical, disaster relief, even the weather.

At the special board of directors meeting held on 2nd, Hyundai Mobis resolved to retire all of the ordinary shares it acquired and holds within the range of profit available for dividends in next year and additionally purchase and retire ordinary shares worth 187.5 billion won for three years from next year.

He studied at Harvard Business School and has also held a number of community related board positions including Chair of the Board of Leadership WA and The Big Iboard positions including Chair of the Board of Leadership WA and The Big IBoard of Leadership WA and The Big Issue.

There have been numerous times when Musk's endeavors would have benefited by having more capital, yet he has resisted the urge to take SpaceX public because the board of directors of a publicly - held firm would undoubtedly force him to make changes in the company that would improve its profitability at the expense of its chances for reaching Mars.

At least one mandarin is usually assigned to the board of each corporation in which the government holds equity.

This particular story is especially useful, not because it teaches young officers how to command a boarding party but rather because it gets straight at two of the marines» most closely held beliefs.

Its board of directors is supporting the Loblaw takeover bid but the deal requires approval from at least two - thirds of the votes cast by QHR shareholders at a special meeting to be held in October.

Early on Wednesday, the board issued a statement saying, «The Board of Directors held a meeting Wednesday, October 29 at 8 am and decided unanimously to remove Christopher A. Viehbacher as Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi,» after six years of serboard issued a statement saying, «The Board of Directors held a meeting Wednesday, October 29 at 8 am and decided unanimously to remove Christopher A. Viehbacher as Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi,» after six years of serBoard of Directors held a meeting Wednesday, October 29 at 8 am and decided unanimously to remove Christopher A. Viehbacher as Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi,» after six years of service.

David Kerr, a managing partner at investment holding company Edper Financial Corporation, will step down from BlackBerry's board of directors — a role he held since July 2007.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

They came up with a two - part compensation package: a base salary, which the board pegs to what CEOs of similar - size companies in northeastern Ohio earn, and an annual bonus, fixed at 25 % of TRC's pretax profits, which board members feel is a typical CEO profit incentive at privately held growth companies in the region.

Executive sessions of independent directors are held in connection with each regularly scheduled Board of Directors meeting and at other times as necessary, and are chaired by the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Executive sessions of independent directors are held in connection with each regularly scheduled board of directors meeting and at other times as necessary, and are chaired by the Lead Independent Director.

In March, women held 23.5 % of board positions at FTSE 100 companies, close to the target set by Lord Mervyn Davies in his 2011 review.

Gavin is a Chartered Accountant by profession who has significant previous Board experience having held CFO, COO and CEO positions at both listed and private companies including Vertex Group, iSoft plc, Morse plc, Menvier Swain Group plc..

Accordingly, with the economy expected to pick up and the unemployment rate to come down gradually as the mining investment transition came to an end, the Board judged it appropriate to hold the cash rate at 1.5 per cent.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

At a special General Meeting held on Jan. 15, 2016, our Members voted overwhelmingly to change our organization's name to the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

The Board believes that its current leadership structure, in which the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer are held by Mr. Musk, together with a Lead Independent Director with broad authority, is appropriate at this time and provides the most effective leadership for Tesla in a highly competitive and rapidly changing technology industry.

An earlier version of this post misstated the day the editorial board meeting at The New York Times was held.

In Quebec, hearings on Energy East are on hold, as that pipeline's would - be builder chafes at the National Energy Board's new plan to weigh the impact of its upstream climate - change impact.

We have made the proxy materials available to you over the internet or, in some cases, mailed you paper copies of these materials because the Board is soliciting your proxy to vote your shares of our common stock at the annual meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 or at any adjournments or postponements of this meeting.

What no one outside the Fed knew at the time: Two weeks earlier, the Fed's Board of Governors had held an unannounced, closed - door meeting with top US bankers, including the heads of Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo (WFC), BB&T Corp (BBT), and Northern Trust (NTRS).

In addition, we held dinners, hosted by Egon Zehnder, in four major U.S. cities, at which 85 board members came together to discuss board trends and the most - pressing challenges facing directors.

He also serves as a Board Member for various privately held companies, including Arvinas Holding, LLC, and Synthorx, Inc. and is a Board Observer at RxSight, Inc..

The New York City Employees» Retirement System; the New York City Fire Department Pension Fund; the New York City Teachers» Retirement System; the New York City Police Pension Fund; and the New York Board of Education Retirement System, as joint filers (NYC Retirement System), c / o The City of New York, Officer of the Comptroller, 633 Third Avenue, 31st Floor, New York, New York 10017, which in the aggregate held 12,707,578 shares of common stock on November 15, 2011, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, whose address is the same as that of the NYC Retirement System, which held 19,560,008 shares of common stock on November 22, 2011, and the Illinois State Board of Investment on behalf of the State Employees» Retirement System of Illinois, c / o 180 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2015, Chicago, Illinois 60601, which in the aggregate held 928,927 shares of common stock on November 18, 2011, the Judges» Retirement System of Illinois and the General Assembly Retirement System of Illinois, as co-filers, intend to submit a resolution to stockholders for approval at the annual meeting.

Eventually, to avoid having to deal with Carl on the phone, I began holding half the board meetings at his New York office.

Aspect's companies are held through the entire process, from seed or series A to IPO, receiving a virtual sounding board of long - term partners at their beck and call who have the best interests of the company in mind, not themselves.

A key note speaker, and angel investor Marnie holds an ICD.D Board certification, teaches Entrepreneurship at the Schulich School of Business and is a Founding Board Member of Maple Leaf Angels investment group

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

In order to comply with requirements under U.S. law governing the ownership and control of U.S. airlines, at least 75 % of the voting stock of the Company must be held by U.S. citizens and at least two - thirds of the Board of Directors must be U.S. citizens.

The Creditor's Meeting is scheduled to be held on May 25, 2016 at 10:00 am at the Toronto Region Board of Trade, 77 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, ON M5X 1C1.

A second way to elevate the board's public visibility more systematically would be to have Yellen hold press conferences at every policy meeting, rather than just quarterly.

At a press conference held after the board meeting, Mr. Suzuki announced his resignation, citing no confidence from some of the inside directors and the non-director honorary chairman, Masatoshi Itoh, who is also the founding family member and who holds approximately 10 % of the Company's outstanding ordinary shares.

TransCanada put its application on hold in September after the National Energy Board said would use a tougher review process that would include looking at indirect emissions related to the pipeline, from production to end use of the oil.

Prior to joining WebVisible, Dr. LaBahn held senior product leadership positions focused on serving the small businesses and middle market companies at Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, Corporate Executive Board and LRN Corporation.

Twitter's board has, at least, stripped Dorsey of the executive chairmanship that he held alongside his interim CEO role.