Sentences with phrase «many company boards»

Intense international pressure at the government and company board level either shocked or shamed most brands into action.

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

He's a corporate keynote speaker, and sits on several company boards and advisory boards, as well as an angel investor in multiple companies including Daily Worth and Namely.

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Judge slams deception by Hardie board Ten former directors and executives of building materials group James Hardie have been found to have breached their duties by making misleading statements about the firm's ability to pay asbestos compensation, in a decision that has wide - ranging implications for company boards.

«Her broad industry insights, business acumen and experience serving in public company boards will bring invaluable perspective to our investment activities and to the growth of our portfolio companies.

Less than 7 percent of private tech company board seats are held by women.

Asked whether he and the company board have seriously considered breaking up BlackBerry — perhaps splitting off the devices business from the enterprise services business — Heins demurred.

Going into 2017, 21 on the list had total gender parity, and 42 company boards had between 40 percent and 50 percent women.

Political risk wasn't something company boards assessed in a consistent fashion.

She joined the operating company board last year.

«Canada has left the impression that we'll sell anything,» says Dick Haskayne, a Potash Corp. shareholder who has served on 20 company boards, chairing six of them, including TransAlta and Nova Corp. «The world thinks buying Canadian companies is just a matter of price.

DST doesn't even ask for a seat on the company board.

In fact, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Chancery Court actually had some positive words for the company board's conduct.

Company boards must ensure that the crisis is genuine.

And he has good corapany on what must be one of the country's most formidable game - company boards: Richard W. Melmon, co-founder and executive vice-president, who was formerly VisiCorp's director of marketing; Steve Wozniak, the company's technical adviser, renowned computer freak, co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple II: and Don Valentine the tough, well - connected Wall Street-wise general partner of Capital Management Services, and an early investor in Apple Computer.

But there are many things public company boards can do to better align with their core responsibility to the stockholders — and they can do it in a way that is proactive and more long - term in nature than if it is in response to an activist.

Today, the average S&P 500 company board has 10 members and 99 percent contain at least one woman.

He has served on more than 20 public company boards, including Xstrata Canada and Norbord Inc..

As co-founder of Fabletics, Hudson is particularly focused on having better representation of women on company boards.

Few public company leaders could have done this, in part because few public company boards would have supported it.

Tony Fitzgerald has resigned as executive chairman of Nedlands - based opthalmic specialty company Advanced Ocular Systems, as a part of further restructuring to the company board and operating procedures.

This Super-Successful Entrepreneur Can't Get a Public Company Board Seat.

The Weinstein Company board, which fired Weinstein from the company on Sunday after an explosive story in The Times, has reportedly been working with advertising agencies to create a new name for the company.

Even though the announcement indicated that this change in direction had yet to be reflected in any real actions other than a discussion by the company board of directors, NextGen's share price jumped 22 %.

In addition, his current service on other public company boards of directors provides us with important perspectives on corporate governance matters.

On Oct. 24, the Ontario Securities Commission held a roundtable on the 22nd floor of the OSC's downtown Toronto office to discuss the results of the Canadian Securities Administrators» annual report on women's representation on public company boards.

He has served as director on 20 public company boards; among them, Manulife, AEC, Crestar, EnCana Corporation, Weyerhauser Company and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

How many of you sit on private company boards?

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

The Hewlett - Packard Company Board of Directors (the «Board») has made these materials available to you over the Internet or delivered paper copies of these materials to you by mail in connection with HP's annual meeting of stockholders, which will take place on Wednesday, March 23, 2011.

How many of those private company boards have a lead independent?

«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.

The directors of our operating company Board include McCain family members, McCain executives (including the CEO) and highly experienced independent directors.

A 2001 survey by the NACD and Institutional Shareholder Services of 5,000 public company boards shows that 99 % have audit committees, and 91 % have compensation committees.

Mr. Palmer also sits on the following public company board: Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited: 2012 - present

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Also, Neuberger filings show three private company board appointments for Stavridis since his military service ended.

Richard LeBlanc, corporate governance professor at York University joins BNN to provide perspective on the Steve Wynn misconduct claims, what could be next for Wynn Resorts, and the company board's role in all of this.

Since July 2016, 74 % of board seats of unicorn tech companies and 81 % of private company board seats were filled by men.

One of the tricks that large LBO firms use is to purchase at just enough of a «premium» to essentially force a sale as the company board has to satisfy their fiduciary responsibility to shareholders....

A good size for an early - stage company board is five people.

Flatt has also served on more than 20 public company boards over the past two decades.

«Bonnie's insights on governance and business, based on her extensive experience on large - company boards, will complement the skills and experience of the other Council members.»

The result was term sheets that were so complex even good lawyers couldn't fully understand what they really meant unless they had been practicing in the specific area, and sitting on venture backed company boards, for many years.

Nearly half, 45 %, of the new directors are first - time independent directors, serving on their first public company board, up from 32 % last year.

Mr. Hemmer served on many of GTCR's portfolio companies boards, including Prestige Brands, listed on the NYSE, Synagro Technologies, which was listed on NASDAQ, and numerous private boards including Alliant Resources Group, Coinmach, Health!Quest, Wilton Brands, Student Transportation of America and Fairmount Food Group.

Anthony has served on a variety of charitable boards focused on university fundraising and entrepreneur advisory boards, as well as several public company boards.

Signed by the leading deal lawyer Martin Lipton and seven other Wachtell partners, the memo proposes that company boards consider adopting a bylaw prohibiting shareholder activists from compensating director nominees.

With a renewed understanding of the potential of Hershey Lodge, the Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company Board of Directors approved the largest investment of capital ever into an additional expansion and renovation effort.