Sentences with phrase «many other chief executives»

And in the United States the New England grocery chain Market Basket faced employee protests and lost $ 583 million in sales as two cousins — one a board member, the other the chief executive, both grandsons of the founder — publicly vied for control of the company.

A Boeing spokesman said that McNerney's compensation was in line with that of other chief executives.

The bill also uses a very broad definition of a Texas - based headquarters, which would include «any location at which the president or other chief executive officer of the entity, a general partner of the entity, or any other senior member of the entity's management team routinely performs duties.»

Even after Mr. Musk and Mr. Iger walked away in the wake of the president's withdrawal from the Paris agreement, most other chief executives stuck with President Trump.

Tom Glocer, the former chief executive of Thomson Reuters, offered his support for Mr. Frazier on Twitter and called for other chief executives to step down from the president's advisory councils.

Following Wagoner, GM had three other chief executives (Fritz Henderson, Ed Whitacre, and Dan Akerson) before Barra took over.

«Clearly something's gone awry in the business world if we can praise this one man for everything he does, and yet every other chief executive feels shackled into being nothing like him,» Cramer said.

CNN reports that he'll be joined by two other chief executives: Google's Sundar Pichai and Twitter's Jack Dorsey.

Not exact matches

While JPMorgan Chief Jamie Dimon has spoken out against bitcoin, he and other banking executives have lauded the technology.

-- BlackBerry plans to forge stronger partnerships with others in the tech industry and build better relationships with longtime business customers as the smartphone company attempts to turn around flagging operations, chief executive John Chen says.

Federal Labor MP Pat Conroy will demand to know why Australian banks have higher returns on equity than those in other countries when he questions bank chief executives attending a Canberra hearing next week.

Ausdrill has backed former Leighton Holdings chief executive Wal King to continue serving on its board despite allegations of bribery and corruption against Mr King and several other executives.

CrowdOptic, which uses Glass as portable computers for surgeons and other people out of offices, is currently in use at 19 U.S. hospitals and expects that to grow to 100 hospitals early next year, said Chief Executive Jon Fisher.

More than two - thirds of chief marketing officers don't think the role gets the same respect as other executive functions.

It comes as Uber tries to recover from a series of crises culminating in the ouster of Chief Executive Travis Kalanick and other top executives.

There's no market at this point,» said Tom Frencel, the Chief Executive of Little Guy Games, which put development of a Glass game on hold this year and is looking at other platforms, including the Facebook Inc - owned virtual - reality goggles Oculus Rift.

The pricing, as Sony Computer Entertainment group chief executive Andrew House affirmed at a press conference at the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, is important given what the other emergent VR powers are charging for their hardware.

Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

Other high - ranking executives have also departed, leaving it without a permanent chief financial officer and chief revenue officer.

Another industry lobbyist said Section 702 surveillance is «not a C - suite issue» that concerns chief executives in Silicon Valley like other issues, including encryption.

Today, Jumpstart not only helps Cleveland - based entrepreneurs get their businesses funded and supported, it also advises other communities around the country, says Jumpstart chief executive officer, Ray Leach, working with 18 different cities on how they too can create their own thriving entrepreneurial economies.

«If smokers switch to electronic cigarettes or other products that can be shown to cut the risks to their health, this could lead to a big improvement in public health,» said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of U.K. health charity Action on Smoking and Health.

It is a music genre like no other,» Cussion Pang, the chief executive of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, told the Post.

Kraft's comments on Fox News are part of an ongoing saga stretching back to 2005, when Kraft and other executives, including News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch and then Citigroup chief executive and chairman Stanford Weil met Putin in the Kremlin, allegedly to discuss business.

Any chief executive's ranking, in other words, might not tell the whole story about the person and how he or she is really viewed by the workforce.

The House committee Chairman Greg Walden told reporters he would discuss with his committee holding similar hearings with other technology chief executives.

Valeant Chief Executive Joseph Papa is working to narrow the company's focus to its dermatology, gastrointestinal and eye care businesses by pruning other assets to repay its debt of nearly $ 30 billion.

«By enabling Symphony to run on the OpenFin operating system, we are making it easy for our mutual customers to unify the Symphony desktop experience with their other OpenFin - based apps,» Mazy Dar, chief executive of OpenFin, said of the news.

OSLO, April 18 - Offshore oil driller Seadrill aims to expand relations with Schlumberger, the world's largest oil services firm, and other suppliers to the global oil and gas industry, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday.

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket flights by about one - third in response to mounting competition from rival SpaceX and others, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

Wells Fargo executives said each of the bank's 12 director nominees received more than about 89 percent support from investors and about 92 percent of shares were cast in favor of the pay of Chief Executive Tim Sloan and other leaders.

In late March, AWS chief executive Andy Jassy claimed the company had converted 22,000 databases from other vendors to its own database services.

Ackman did not say how he knows that Michael Johnson, Herbalife's chief executive, and other top executives are scouting for independent legal representation, but he said his firm's lawyers consider the news to be a material development.

Asked about the potential threat of Amazon and other tech giants entering the health - care market, Larry Renfro, the chief executive of the insurer's Optum unit, said the company is trying to catch up when it comes to early - stage companies.

Valukas exonerated Barra and two other top executives, Mark Reuss, chief of global product development, and general counsel Michael Millikin, saying there is no evidence they knew about the problems any earlier than last December.

Zynga, maker of the FarmVille franchise and other social games, has hired a new chief executive officer, who will take over from co-founder Mark Pincus.

As of Aug. 1, John Stankey, who currently leads DirecTV and other entertainment businesses for the No. 2 U.S. wireless carrier, will lead the team charged with Time Warner's integration before transitioning to chief executive of the media business once the merger is complete.

Chief executive Bob Iger said the company sold a staggering $ 3 billion in Star Wars merchandise in just three months, and saw growth at Disney's theme parks and other units.

«Our ambition for smart cards, and all other segments, is that we shall continue to be number one,» FPC's Chief Executive Jorgen Lantto told Reuters.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Apple chief executive Tim Cook, the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 1,000 company, is donating money to help fund a gay rights initiative in his native Alabama and two other Southern states, organizers said Thursday.

Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other Apple executives have a «major prove - me» period ahead, beginning with a new sales forecast and a conference call with analysts on Tuesday, GBH Insights analyst Daniel Ives said.

Other early investors included AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

As part of the changes, Time Inc., which owns Time, Fortune, People, Money, Sports Illustrated, and other magazines and websites, is officially centralizing its advertising sales under one executive, Mark Ford, who is the company's Chief Revenue Officer Global Advertising.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

Shares of Match Group Inc and its parent IAC plunged, wiping some $ 5 billion off their combined market values, after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said his social media platform would develop its own dating app to rival Tinder, Match and others.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other...

«All the other guys did comments; they were really ubiquitous, but they never really turned into something that exciting,» Karp, Tumblr's founder and chief executive, said onstage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in Manhattan on Wednesday.

While these chief executives received a 7.17 increase in collective direct compensation for the fiscal year, they received even more when taking into account other elements such as pension value.

The traditional process used to settle accounts and clear trades is «slow, archaic and high cost,» said the CSE's chief executive Richard Carleton, particularly compared to the other instant financial transaction systems used today, such as digital payments.

The children's media company says Dana Landry is stepping down as chief executive and as a member of the company's board of directors to pursue other projects.