Sentences with phrase «including board governance»

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«The successful candidate will have prior experience as GC or deputy GC of a multi-billion dollar public company responsible for all legal matters (including corporate & other regulatory matters, board governance, legal aspects of M&A, legal aspects of commercial contracts, litigation & dispute resolution, privacy, employment contracts, global public policy, etc.).»

The person and a second source said governance changes include expanding the size of the board to 17 directors from 11.

Boards also sometimes look to outsiders, a category that includes consultants (such as compensation consultants, strategy consultants, and governance consultants) and professionals (such as external accountants and outside legal counsel).

Northern Star Resources has announced a major board restructure that includes the recruitment of two new directors and, in an unusual move that is at odds with corporate governance guidelines, the promotion of managing director Bill Beament to executive chairman.

IT governance: Is IT risk and opportunity management adequately overseen by the board (or a committee), including over IT investment, cloud computing, social media, security of information, privacy, business interruption and crisis planning?

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

HP's corporate governance guidelines say the board «oversees HP's strategic and business planning process,» which includes «a Board review of HP's updated Corporate Strategic Plan.&rboard «oversees HP's strategic and business planning process,» which includes «a Board review of HP's updated Corporate Strategic Plan.&rBoard review of HP's updated Corporate Strategic Plan.»

For better or for worse, shareholders are, under most companies» systems of governance, the ones to whom all insiders, including the CEO and Board of Directors, swear allegiance.

• Governance reform: Uber's board approved governance reforms that are contingent on completion of the SoftBank deal, including the removal of super-voting rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size of the board to Governance reform: Uber's board approved governance reforms that are contingent on completion of the SoftBank deal, including the removal of super-voting rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size of the board to governance reforms that are contingent on completion of the SoftBank deal, including the removal of super-voting rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size of the board to 17 people.

Mr. Shea is well qualified to serve as a director due to his experience in public and private company governance and private equity, including his service on numerous corporate boards and on audit and compensation committees, including his experience with Hennessy I and Hennessy II.

> Maintenance of Board Committees including Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees, all comprised entirely of fully independent directors;

All five resolutions submitted or supported by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade were adopted at the BC Chamber of Commerce's 2017 AGM in Victoria, including a key resolution on the governance of Canada's ports and airports.

The Board periodically evaluates the compensation of our non-employee directors, including the recommendations of the Governance Committee.

The Board benefits from the valuable corporate governance and board leadership experience and expertise that Mr. Hernandez has acquired, including as chairman of Nordstrom, particularly in areas such as business strategy, risk assessment and succession planBoard benefits from the valuable corporate governance and board leadership experience and expertise that Mr. Hernandez has acquired, including as chairman of Nordstrom, particularly in areas such as business strategy, risk assessment and succession planboard leadership experience and expertise that Mr. Hernandez has acquired, including as chairman of Nordstrom, particularly in areas such as business strategy, risk assessment and succession planning.

These governance policies include the annual election of all Board members and a majority voting requirement for the election of directors.

He is a member of various advisory boards including: NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq, The Conference Board Global Corporate Governance Center, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Weinberg Corporate Governance Center and wallstreetlawyer.com.

Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies... The responsibilities of the board include setting the company's strategic aims, providing the leadership to put them into effect, supervising the management of the business and reporting to shareholders on their stewardship...»

IDRs contain key data points that are central to Glass Lewis corporate governance analysis, such as information about a company's board of directors, including board composition, governing documents, independent public auditor, compensation practices, summary compensation data and equity plans.

Having previously worked across the corporate governance, equities research, private equity and strategy consulting sectors, Michael now advises ASX boards and senior managers on governance - related matters and in the execution of corporate actions and vote - related company meetings, including shareholder activism campaigns and proxy battles both in Australia and abroad.

He has over 25 years experience in commercial management and corporate governance areas including experience on various boards, both in an executive and non-executive capacity, across a range of businesses.

Since January 2003, Ms. Bloxham has published The Corporate Governance Alliance Digest, a publication on current value and corporate governance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and theGovernance Alliance Digest, a publication on current value and corporate governance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and thegovernance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

As such, we are exempt from certain corporate governance requirements of the New York Stock Exchange, including (i) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (ii) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors and (iii) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors.

Frequently called upon to provide her expertise to the financial, national and international press, Ms. Bloxham has appeared on the many shows of CNBC including appearances with Maria Baroilomo and Larry Kudlow, on Fox Business and Bloomberg TV, on National and German Public Radio, MSNBC, Business Week, USA Today, Les Echos, American Banker, New York's Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, Board Alert, Compliance Week and the Wall Street Journal, among many others, discussing the subjects of corporate governance, compensation, performance and value.

An irony that social dialogues have often revolved around competition regarding social models, US vis a vis EU vis a vis Japan, that these corporates, whose governance boards, even States in the case of Germany, include Union membership at the table, but when their hands were forced they chose Right to Work states in the US.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

Practical Relevance of Dr Leblanc's Work: Dr Leblanc has facilitated the assessment of boards of directors of public companies that have won governance awards and other forms of peer recognition for their best practices, including from the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Chartered Accountants of Canada, the Conference Board of Canada, and the Globegovernance awards and other forms of peer recognition for their best practices, including from the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Chartered Accountants of Canada, the Conference Board of Canada, and the GlobeGovernance, the Chartered Accountants of Canada, the Conference Board of Canada, and the Globe and Mail.

Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that a substantial majority of our board of directors will consist of independent directors and that our board of directors can include no more than three directors who are not independent directors.

Consequently, at the 2016 AGM, Toshiba completed a total overhaul of its board of directors, including the appointment of a new chair and CEO, and a pledge for greater transparency in order to reform the company's governance structure.

Greenlight discussed its plan privately with GM for a number of months but went public after the board dismissed the plan citing a number of concerns, including valuation uncertainty, the potential to jeopardize GM's investment grade credit rating, a lack of established market demand and governance conflicts associated with a dual - class structure.

The company has also proposed several charter amendments as part of its efforts to adopt corporate governance best practices, including board declassification, providing for the removal of directors with or without cause, a reduced supermajority requirement to amend bylaws regarding special meeting rights and the elimination of supermajority requirements for certain provisions of the bylaws.

Following the merger between Gamesa and Siemens Wind into Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Siemens AG and Iberdrola, S.A. entered into a shareholder agreement which includes some commitments related to corporate governance and composition of the newly combined company's board.

Magna said the company has put in place a wide range of new governance practices since the deal was concluded, including adding two new independent directors to the board this year and formally separating the role of chairman and CEO.

The Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) collects data to support analyses of corporate governance practices, including the Globe and Mail's annual ranking of S&P / TSX Composite Index corporations, Board Games.

Beyond his extensive writings on corporate governance, Professor Cunningham regularly advises and serves on corporate boards, including service for such companies as Constellation Software Inc., a Toronto stock exchange maker of software products globally, and Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc., a NYSE - listed investor in luxury hotels.

Flight Centre took a unique approach to this particular disclosure challenge in their FY2016 corporate governance statement, disclosing a board skills matrix that matches the template CGI Glass Lewis includes in our reports.

As described above, the Nominating and Governance Committee considers properly submitted stockholder recommendations for candidates for the Board to be included in HP's proxy statement.

The president also noted: «Because concerns have been raised about many aspects of this complex situation — including concerns related to academic freedom, due process, the leaking of confidential information, possible violations of faculty governance, and gender and racial discrimination — I have asked the Board of Trustees to conduct a thorough review.

There were detailed comparisons of and various characteristics including income sources, chain of custody methods, and governance (the charts on page 39 showing board representation by stakeholder and geographic region was quite an eye - opener).

At least six members of The College of Saint Rose's board of trustees, including the chair, have resigned in recent weeks following intense division over the leadership of the school and governance of the board.

According to a person who received a letter to SUNY board members from Zimpher and SUNY Board Chairman Carl Hayden about the report, the report describes the foundation as underperforming for a number of reasons, «including organization, leadership and governance issues.&rboard members from Zimpher and SUNY Board Chairman Carl Hayden about the report, the report describes the foundation as underperforming for a number of reasons, «including organization, leadership and governance issues.&rBoard Chairman Carl Hayden about the report, the report describes the foundation as underperforming for a number of reasons, «including organization, leadership and governance issues.»

The bylaws for the two boards are also being rewritten to include more stringent conflict of interest rules and other corporate governance enhancements such a whistleblower policies, audit committees and rules to comply with state open meetings laws.

The paradigm shift must include a new look at governance at all levels — school boards, mayoral control, etc. — looking at the best structure to support our agents of change.

And a number of community groups proposed other changes in the system's governance — including the suggestion that Mayor Michael R. White appoint the school board.

There were approximately 4,000 attendees representing all aspects of the charter spectrum including charter CEOs, teachers and staff, governance boards, state charter support organizations (CSO) like TCSA, -LSB-...]

The Governance Committee of the Metro Nashville School Board met on Saturday and made recommendations for policy changes that will result in more financial transparency for all schools, including publicly - funded, privately run charter schools.

The language of the new resolution that the Hartford Board intends to vote on also appears to try and appease parents at SAND elementary by suggesting that rather than target SAND from the outset, Kishimoto must go through a review process of up to three schools, and include the local school governance councils, before picking a school for some sort of takeover / makeover.

The other interim charges considered by the committee at the hearing included examining current school board governance policies and practices and making recommendations that could improve the focus, attitudes and outcomes of Texas school boards, districts and students; studying existing board training requirements and making suggestions to educate school board trustees on policies that could achieve better student outcomes, particularly within the framework set for low - performing schools in House Bill 1842; and monitoring initiatives to build a high - quality pre-kindergarten grant program (HB 4).

Managing Director, Knowledge Management 415-534-8130 [email protected] Alice provides charter school leaders with information and training on all charter school issues, including finance, board governance, petition writing, curriculum and facilities.

Freed from burdens like fundraising, our partner boards can focus on governance and oversight... NHA and its partner schools comply fully with state and federal laws, authorizer oversight requirements and education department regulations — including everything related to transparency.»)

The center will continue to provide support services for the new schools during their first year of operation, including interim assessments of student performance in all grades, governance training for board members, and operation and finance reviews.