Sentences with phrase «joining company boards»

Athena cultivates a network of female operators who are interested in joining company boards.

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Caroline Tsay has joined the board of the Coca - Cola Company, becoming the first Asian - American to do so.

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

Fledging Perth technology company APE Mobile has struck deals with some of the largest civil engineering contractors and secured Perth business leader Giles Everist to join its board.

Uber will get a 27.5 % stake in the combined company, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join Grab's board, 500 individuals of Uber's staff will transition to Grab, and its customers will be shifted over to Grab's app.

In 2015, Nassif — who sold her company to S.C. Johnson in 2008 — invested in Aunt Fannie's and joined its board.

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Two years later, Frank Yeary, Citigroup's former global head of mergers and acquisitions, invested in the company's Series A round and joined its board.

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner joined a board of advisors for cannabis company Acreage Holdings earlier this month after changing his own views on cannabis.

«On behalf of everyone at MTS, I want to thank Alon for his service and substantial contributions to the Company since he joined us in 2007 and wish him great success in his new professional path,» said Mr. Haim Mer, the Company's Chairman of the Board.

Dunn and the board say it was Dunn's idea to have Della Badia join the company as CEO.

On Wednesday, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who recently joined Valeant's board, pledged to end the company's practice of aggressively hiking drug prices.

Former House Speaker John Boehner — Nixon's ideological opposite in many ways — announced on Wednesday that he is joining the board of a marijuana company.

She joined the operating company board last year.

By investing in Hyperloop One and joining the company's board, Branson will turn his attention back to the ground.

TFS Corporation non-executive director Dalton Gooding has been promoted to the role of non-executive chairman after joining the company just one month ago, after Patrick O'Connor stood down from the role at a board meeting this morning.

In recent years, he's started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, «Hard, Valuable, and Fun»), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!'s Board of Directors.

Former Ford (F) CEO Alan Mulally also joined the company's board of directors in late May.

He had joined the company's board in 2006 after selling it a controlling stake in CPI.

Sequoia partner Michael Goguen has joined the company's board.

He will serve as Maple's Chief Culinary Officer, and he'll be recruiting other top New York City chefs to join the company's Culinary Board of Directors.

The company has also been bulking up its board: Obama's one - time Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, marketing consultant and philanthropist Lynne Benioff (who is an investor in Hampton Creek along with her husband, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff), and co-founder of artificial intelligence company DeepMind Mustafa Suleyman have joined as directors, Tetrick says.

In April 2017, Backchannel's Jessi Hempel reported that LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman had joined Microsoft's board and would be an ambassador to Silicon Valley during a time when the company needed to restore its innovative, collaborative reputation.

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

The company is headlined by Alan Stein and Jon Taylor, both of whom will join the Azonto board as Managing Director and Technical Director after Azonto receives shareholder approval to change its name to Calima Energy.

Jung's directors allowed her to join the Apple (AAPL) board in 2008 — Steve Jobs personally recruited her — and let her remain a director at both Apple and GE (GE) as her own company floundered.

Richard Yen of Saban Capital will join the company's board.

The billionaire media mogul joins the entertainment company's board as part of a stock swap between Lions Gate and Starz.

Ackman is joining Valeant's board and has said he is taking a more active role in trying to turn around the troubled drug company.

He also joined the board of an environmental remediation company, since renamed EnGlobe Corp., in 2004.

In January, he and his hedge fund nominated four people to join the company's board of directors.

The board of directors unanimously elected Krzanich, who has served as the company's chief operating officer since 2012 and first joined the company in 1982, to become Intel's new CEO.

Last month, the company announced that Pearson would be stepping down and that Ackman would be joining its board, after a board committee probe into the company's dealings with specialty pharmacy Philidor RX Services uncovered accounting problems dating back to December 2014.

Jarrett's appointment makes her the third woman and fourth person of color to join the company's board.

Prior to joining Lennar, he was previously on the Board of Directors of D.R. Horton, Inc., and held various executive officer positions including President of the company.

Last month, the company said Pearson would be departing as CEO and that billionaire investor William Ackman would join the board as it tries to clean up its accounting problems, which the company says were caused by «improper conduct» by certain top executives.

They along with several former members of Theranos» old board, including former cabinet members Henry A. Kissinger and George P. Shultz, will join an advisory board of counselors for the company.

He initially joined the company's board «to keep the company in Canada and make sure it survives and exists in Canada,» he told the Associated Press shortly after his takeover bid was made public.

As previously announced, Dr. Patrick Soon - Shiong also joined the Company's Board of Directors today as Vice-Chairman.

He became one of those executives with the «visionary» label, who can predict where a market is going before it happens, and was asked to join the board of directors of two of the most important companies in tech, Microsoft and Facebook.

A few months ago, a fellow I recruited as CEO to two of my Benchmark portfolio companies told me he never appreciated the value of the Wealthfront Equity Plan until he joined a board where the board members were too cheap to do the right thing for their employees.

Prior to joining Bellwether, archerETF's parent company, he was Head of HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada) Private Client investment business and a member of the Board of HSBC Trust Company (Ccompany, he was Head of HSBC Global Asset Management (Canada) Private Client investment business and a member of the Board of HSBC Trust Company (CCompany (Canada).

During the four years prior to joining Technology Crossover Ventures, Mr. Meresman was a private investor and board member and advisor to several technology companies.

Mr. Nandwani joined Blue Wolf in 2013 and serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Wolf's portfolio company Pearl Technologies, Inc. (Gloucester).

Though Mr. Koum joined the board of Facebook after his company was acquired, WhatsApp continued to operate independently in many ways.

Mr. Groberg joined Blue Wolf in 2016 and serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Wolf's portfolio company Novo Building Products and is currently involved in Blue Wolf's investment in Twin Rivers Paper Ccompany Novo Building Products and is currently involved in Blue Wolf's investment in Twin Rivers Paper CompanyCompany.

He also will join the company's Board of Directors.

Currently responsible for guiding the company's strategy as President and CEO, Jeff has been involved in this dynamic company since he joined the Board of Directors in 2005.

HP Chairman Ray Lane, who joined the board when Apotheker was hired in 2010, still wasn't available for an interview as of late Tuesday, according to company spokesman Michael Thacker.

Mr. Patel joined Blue Wolf in 2013 and serves on the Board of Directors of Blue Wolf portfolio companies North American Rescue, LLC, Extreme Plastics Plus, LLC and Petrosmith, LLC.