Sentences with phrase «managing board of a company»

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Former Bunnings managing director John Gillam has been named as the incoming chairman of building products company CSR while Macmahon Holdings has bolstered its board by recruiting former Alcoa executive Kim Horne.

When they are requesting money from the company or board of directors, they want to know it's being managed the best way possible.

Former Bunnings managing director John Gillam has been named as the incoming chairman of building products company CSR while Macmahon Holdings has bolstered its board by recruiting former Alcoa of Australia executive Kim Horne.

How to Manage Interns: Know What You Want When you decide to bring interns on board your company, you need to have a really clear vision of why you're creating the internship program.

Company director and former WA attorney general Cheryl Edwardes has been appointed as the new chairperson for agribusiness CropLogic while St John of God Health Care has appointed Azure Capital managing partner Adrian Arundell to its board.

Nabors» board has earned GovernanceMetrics International's distinction for worst pay practices, but it managed to avoid the worst board of the decade prize, and it did not make its recent list of at - risk companies.

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.

Other Roles: He's a Co-Founder & Managing Partner of 3G Capital, and is the company's prefered representative at newly - acquired subsidiaries, as a board member at several 3G properties.

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.

«The boards looked good on paper, but it's got to be diversity that's right for the company,» says Dominic Barton, global managing director of McKinsey & Co..

Bonnie Gwin, Vice Chairman and Managing Partner, Board of Directors Practice, Heidrick & Struggles Neelie Kroes, Advisor, Bank of America and Uber; Director, Salesforce Tracey Travis, Executive Vice President and CFO, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; Director, Accenture plc., Campbell Soup Company, the Lincoln Center Theater, Columbia University's Graduate School of Business Moderator: Maithreyi Seetharaman, Anchor and Executive Editor, Euronews; Co-chair, MPW International Summit, Fortune

The creation of the company, which will be managed by Alcan, has received government and company board approval.

Introduction and Celebration of the MPW High School Mentees Emcee: Michal Lev - Ram, Fortune Remarks: Nefertiti Greene, Vice President, Global Platform Leader, Wound Closure and Repair, Ethicon, Inc. — A Johnson and Johnson Medical Device Company Bonnie Gwin, Vice Chairman & Managing Partner, Board of Directors Practice, Heidrick & Struggles

«I think the CSA will start with a soft - glove approach and evolve to more iron - hand in a few years,» says Paul Gryglewicz, managing partner of Global Governance Advisors, a Toronto firm that advises company boards and senior managers on corporate government and executive pay issues.

Finally, while some companies have had problems with director independence because of the number of insiders on their boards, this was not true of all the failed boards, and board makeup was generally the same for companies with failed boards and those with well - managed ones.

Dominic Barton is Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, Chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance's Advisory Council on Economic Growth, and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

«Over the past year and a half, the ZeroFOX team has done an exemplary job of growing their company with purpose,» said Peter Barris, ZeroFOX board member and Managing General Partner at NEA.

This includes starting and managing his own software company (Microline Software — acquired by Blaze Software) and acting as a value added board member and consultant to the founders and CEO of Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai), nCircle Network Security, StepUp Commerce (acquired by Intuit), Discovery Mining (acquired by Interwoven), etc..

For over 20 years, Chris has raised capital, held board positions and managed several of the portfolio companies through successful IPO's or acquisitions, including DexCom (DXCM), DivX Networks (DivX), Khimetrics (Acquired by SAP) and Overture (Acquired by Yahoo).

BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry, and the company's previously disclosed review of strategic alternatives.

Also a member of the Seagate corporate venture team, Jeff helped manage the company's strategic investment portfolio, investing in innovative storage startups and serving as a board observer for several portfolio companies.

He is also currently Managing Director and a member of the Board of JAFCO Co., Ltd., Japan's largest venture capital company and the parent company of JAFCO Asia.

The expansion of the board is at the heart of the lawsuit: Benchmark says Kalanick committed fraud by pitching a board expansion while not informing them of the true crises the company was managing under his leadership.

National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ - NMS: NCMI)(«the Company» or «NCM»), the managing member and owner of 49.5 % of National CineMedia, LLC (NCM LLC), the operator of the largest in - theater digital media network in North America, today announced that Mark Segall and Renana Teperberg have been appointed to its board of directors.

Speakers include senior representatives from the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada, as well as Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director, McKinsey & Company; ABLAC Chair Rajiv Lall, CEO of India's IDFC Bank; BMO Financial Group Vice-chair Kevin Lynch; Mark Machin, ABLAC Vice-chair and President & CEO of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board; Global Affairs Canada's Jonathan Fried; and, APF Canada President and CEO, Stewart Beck.

The Wirlu - murra Tablelands Heritage Company aims to be the focus of capacity building projects that would enable it to manage a ranger program, a co-management board and Traditional Owner training.

Northern Star is still managed by a locally elected board of directors and any profits the company earns are distributed back to its 15,000 members through a year - end dividend.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In contrast to your board of directors (the «Board»), which has taken — and will continue to take — substantial steps to further drive high performance and long - term profitable growth at your Company, this dissident group has offered no specific plan to enhance shareholder value and is proposing to install as CEO a candidate with no experience managing a public company and no C - suite experience at any comboard of directors (the «Board»), which has taken — and will continue to take — substantial steps to further drive high performance and long - term profitable growth at your Company, this dissident group has offered no specific plan to enhance shareholder value and is proposing to install as CEO a candidate with no experience managing a public company and no C - suite experience at any comBoard»), which has taken — and will continue to take — substantial steps to further drive high performance and long - term profitable growth at your Company, this dissident group has offered no specific plan to enhance shareholder value and is proposing to install as CEO a candidate with no experience managing a public company and no C - suite experience at any cCompany, this dissident group has offered no specific plan to enhance shareholder value and is proposing to install as CEO a candidate with no experience managing a public company and no C - suite experience at any ccompany and no C - suite experience at any companycompany.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

The Public Safety Committee voted to recommend the board of trustees approve an agreement negotiated with Gatso USA, the company trustees selected to manage the village's red light camera system at a board meeting in May after its contract with Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. ended.

The Managing Director of the company, Mr Ken Ashigbey, said at a staff durbar in Accra on Wednesday that the board of the company had approved the process.

Now president and CEO of BioRAFT, a company that develops and sells software for managing university laboratories, Nathan Watson also serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit Laboratory Safety Institute.

PNP is a board - managed company under the direction of Chairman John C. Lankford, Ph.D., President James F. Fuqua, William B. Parker, Ph.D., Lawrence W. Greer Sr., DDS, J. Claude Bennett, M.D., and Charles K. Porter.

He was Venture Partner at MPM Capital, where he was coresponsible for their European deal flow, managed the European office in Munich, and served on the board of several portfolio companies.

She is also a member of the board of directors for the prêt à porter labels Céline, Loewe and Pucci, Moët Hennessy, and M6, as well as a managing partner of a wealth management company; more recently, she also became a member of the board of directors for 20th Century Fox as well as for Havas.

Roger is currently a board member at Friendster and was a board observer at Neoteris prior to its acquisition by NetScreen... Most recently, he was a co-founder of Corio... Also the co-founder and President of NetMarket... Roger graduated with distinction from Yale University with a BA in Political Science... Battery Ventures is focused on investing in technology companies at all stages of growth... Team of over 25 experienced investment professionals... Guides companies to category dominance... Manages over $ 1.6 billion in committed capital.

Despite having grown up with the Washington Post and her extensive social and political network, Kay's board of directors privately lack faith in her ability to manage the company as publisher because she is a woman.

Previously a Board Director at Cleanslate Ltd, a development and property consulting company, Lara worked with many of the UK's biggest landowners, agents and developers; prior to that, as Managing Director at Navigant Consulting, Lara specialised in property deals and complex capital investment projects for government education capital programmes.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform's Board of Directors includes the retired Chairman and CEO of The Hartford Insurance Company, the President and COO of the Travelers Companies, the President and CEO of Yale New Haven Hospital, a Managing Director at First Niagara Bank, the Lead Director at Webster Bank, the Chair of Nestle Waters North America, former gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont and others.

But upon learning of allegations and charges of academic fraud and other abuses at charter schools in Florida that are managed by Newpoint Education Partners — a company that hopes to open two charter schools in Wake and New Hanover counties — the Board indicated Wednesday that they are likely to temporarily put the brakes on allowing that charter management company to do business in North Carolina, a decision that will be determined in a final vote Thursday.

While the bill, SB 793, or Charter School Modifications, clarifies that the salaries of charter school teachers and non-profit boards of directors are subject to public disclosure, employees of for - profit companies that are contracted to manage the operations of charter schools would not be subject to those rules.

The company manages the school under a contract with its nonprofit board of trustees.

A Legal and Policy Making Guide for School Boards on International Student Travel,» provides vital information explaining the three types of international student travel, which include school sponsored and school district managed, school sponsored and tour - company managed, and non-school sponsored / private trips, providing guidance on recommended district - led policies for each.

Bruce W. Dougan is the Managing Director and Organization Design and Development Practice Lead for Group50 ® Consulting, and brings to the board over 30 years of HR and operational experience in companies ranging from start - ups to Fortune 50.

There is no word, at this point, as to why the Democrats felt there was no conflict of interest for a member of the State Board of Education and his company to collect money that is allocated and managed by the State Department of Education and its Board.

One of Governor Dannel Malloy's recent appointees to the Connecticut State Board of Education is not only a representative of the charter school industry but his company is collecting a multi-million dollar contract that is funded and managed by the State Department of Education and the very board he has been appointeBoard of Education is not only a representative of the charter school industry but his company is collecting a multi-million dollar contract that is funded and managed by the State Department of Education and the very board he has been appointeboard he has been appointed to.

But of course, Perry's private company has no contract to manage Capital Prep, let alone collect «excess management fees» from the Hartford Board of Education.

Founded in 1932, as the Massachusetts Investors Second Fund, it was, like its older sibling, Massachusetts Investors Trust, truly a mutual fund, in the sense that it was managed internally, supplemented by an advisory board of six prominent Boston businessmen.7 In 1969, when management was shifted to an external company, now known as MFS Investment Management, the total expense ratio was a modest 0.32 %.

San Mateo, CA, June 26, 2014 — The Board of Directors of the Franklin Templeton Limited Duration Income Trust (the «Fund»)[NYSE MKT: FTF], a closed - end investment company managed by Franklin Advisers, Inc., announced today that it has approved a name change of the Fund, effective June 30, 2014.