Sentences with phrase «new chairman for»

Along with a new chairman for the Championship, ex-Formula 1 driver Gerhard Berger, there are a host of new rules.

While the debate on Oteh's saga was yet to subside, a coalition of youths, led by human rights activist and President of Civil Rights Congress, Shehu Sani, queried the rationale behind the appointment of a new Chairman for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) when a northerner, Kabir Mashi was already in the position and improving the revenue base of the agency, especially VAT collection for the Federation Account.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday appointed a new chairman for the Long Island Power Authority in an effort to stabilize the utility company amid investigations in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, according to a published report.

All the men also pointed to the things they did get done, including a five - year renewal of Kendra's law, the appointment of a new chairman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Court of Appeals judge, legislation requiring state contracts to use American - made steel and allow medical marijuana to be prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Georg Chmiel, previously managing director of iProperty Group, will succeed outgoing Chairman Richard Kuo as the new Chairman for Juwai.

Not exact matches

And Garrett Camp, cofounder and chairman of Uber, unveiled a proposal for a brand new cryptocurrency, called Eco, that he hopes to transform into a global payment system.

Four of the names had previously been reported in the press: attorney Nicole Seligman, a former president of Sony Entertainment; BuzzFeed chairman Kenneth Lerer, a co-founder of the Huffington Post; former Discovery Communications CEO Judith McHale, a former undersecretary of state who also served as general counsel for Viacom's MTV Networks division; and Bank of America (bac) director Thomas May, a former CEO of Eversource, a New England energy company.

Rio chairman on cue for Chinalco deal Rio Tinto's new chairman, Jan du Plessis, has defended its $ US38 billion purchase of Alcan and the proposed $ US19.5 billion bailout by China's Chinalco, after a heated annual general meeting in Sydney yesterday.

New leaders for Gold Corp The state government has appointed Donald Mackay - Coghill as chairman of Gold Corporation and Richard Hayes as chief executive, effective from next month.

«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.

The term can sound a little woo - woo at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.

In my new role as Digium chief technology officer and chairman of the board, I am 100 % dedicated to my quest of developing open source telephony solutions for the enterprise market.

Buffett, a widely followed investor who is chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), scorned Trump's 1995 move to list Trump hotels and casino resorts on the New York Stock Exchange, saying it lost money for the next decade and that «a monkey» would have outperformed Trump's company.

The committee is considering anti-money laundering legislation that would deploy new tools and close loopholes to undercut terrorism financing, counterfeiting and other criminal activity, Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said in a prepared statement for a Nov. 28 hearing.

Board member Alex Mandl, chairman of the special committee overseeing the buyout, set the new meeting date for Wednesday.

Rep. Sam Graves (R, Mo.), the chairman of the House Small Business Committee, called it «very disappointing» that the Obama administration had not come up with a new leader for the SBA yet.

NEW YORK, March 27 - Saudi Arabia will sign a non-binding agreement with Boeing Co for the U.S. planemaker to provide support and training to the kingdom's fleet, the chairman of the state - owned military industrial company said on Tuesday.

Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma poses for a photo outside the New York Stock Exchange prior to the company's initial price offering (IPO) on September 19, 2014.

Lachlan, 42, is the new nonexecutive chairman of both News Corp. and 21st Century Fox — a stunning comeback for Murdoch's elder son, who in 2005 quit his News Corp. job over clashes with senior management and returned to Australia to build his own empire.

In September, after a lengthy investigation by staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) blasted the service for using forfeiture funds to pay for perks and luxury items such as «high - end granite countertops and expensive custom artwork,» much of it installed, appropriately enough, at a new Asset Forfeiture Academy in Houston.

Joseph Lhota, the former chairman of New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)-- he resigned just a few days ago in preparation for a mayoral bid — jumped into action after the storm and got the subways running again within less than three days.

Lowe also mentors new entrepreneurs; serves as past chairman of the board for Biztech, a nonprofit high - tech business incubator; and is a co-founder and officer for the Alabama Information Technology Association.

Nadella will also have a new chairman at his side — former Symantec CEO John Thompson, who takes over for the outgoing Gates — as he tries to make Microsoft relevant again.

At the dinner, I was seated next to a sponsor for two hours, and the Chairman introduced us by saying «Neil's a New York Times bestselling author who's sold a million books and Nancy wants to be a writer.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley just escalated the brewing judicial war to a new high, ditching what is known as the «blue slip» process for some of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees.

Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos bought the paper three years ago for about $ 250 million and picked Ryan, co-founder of Politico, as the new publisher.

«The animal terminal will set new international airport standards for comprehensive veterinary, kenneling and quarantine services,» John J. Cuticelli Jr., Founder of Ark Development LLC and Racebrook Chairman, said in a statement.

Speaking of sexual harassment: If you haven't yet read Kristen Bellstrom and Beth Kowitt's extraordinary report for Fortune on Michael Ferro, the former chairman of the company that publishes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and New York Daily News, among many other American newspapers, set aside the time.

I see incredible opportunity for our members and customers and look forward to supporting this new and combined business,» LinkedIn co-founder and chairman Reid Hoffman said in a statement.

Republican lawmakers from high - tax states such as New York exited meetings this week with Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax - writing committee of the House of Representatives, saying there would be some sort of compromise on repealing the deduction for state and local tax payments.

The rules for this new generation of online, equity crowdfunding got a «yes» vote from Chairman Mary Jo White, Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar and Commissioner Kara M. Stein.

As Corporate Development and Finance Director of Swire Pacific Limited, Martin Cubbon is responsible for all aspects of the group's new business development and finance, reporting to the Chairman.

David Ellis of Morningstar says the new AMP chairman Mike Wilkins» focus will likely be on finding an appropriate replacement CEO for the company.

It began with founder and chairman Chip Wilson's sense of a market that even after 12 years defies explanation in an elevator pitch: clothing that is functional but also fashionable, designed for athletic use but often worn for other purposes, appealing to a New Age, anti-consumer aesthetic while occupying pricey real estate in shopping meccas, and all the while pushing a potpourri of empowering self - help messages.

NEW YORK, April 13 - BlackRock Inc, the world's largest asset manager, raised the total compensation for chairman and chief executive officer Larry Fink by 8.9 percent in 2017, according to a filing on Friday.

CB Media's new chair, Michael de Pencier, chairman of Key Publishers, was well known for turning around such magazines as Toronto Life, Quill & Quire and Owl.

Wage growth statistics for March are coming out Friday and new Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will speak about the economy.

«We believe this transaction will open an exciting new private chapter for BlackBerry, its customers, carriers and employees,» Fairfax chairman and chief executive Prem Watsa said in a statement.

On Wednesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposed a new technology mandate that would require satellite and cable TV providers to disaggregate or separate their services so that a few companies could repackage them as their own without negotiating for content rights like everybody else in the market does today.

In addition, Mr. Tansky will be provided with office space and appropriate staff assistance at Bergdorf Goodman in New York and reimbursement for travel and other expenses incurred in the fulfillment of his responsibilities as non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder / CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder / CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder / CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder / CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder / CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder / CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President / CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder / Chairman / CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder / Chairman / CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder / Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co - Founder / Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co - Founder / Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder / CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc..

Chairman Ferro — absent from Wednesday's call, as he was for the company's overall 2015 report in March — has talked of harnessing Tribune user data to create large new revenue streams.

Tim Höttges, current T - Mobile US Chairman of the Board, will serve as Chairman of the Board for the new company.

The L.A. Times is «on a par with the New York Times and other international publications, that no one has properly cared for, and we are going to do that,» Tribune chairman and majority shareholder Michael Ferro said in an April 26 interview with one of the paper's reporters.

A majority of the following are often true of potential turnarounds: • within the past 1 - 2 years, there has been a major change in top management — a new chairman or chief executive officer, for example; • unprofitable or marginally profitable operations have been discontinued; • corporate officers or directors have been buying the company's stock.

INTERVIEW: NEW FRONTIERS From English teacher to Chinese e-commerce titan to global commercial spokesman, the founder and executive chairman of the world's largest e-commerce platform operator discusses the future of commerce, entrepreneurship, and sustainability, and shares his thoughts on what's next for China and the world.

After reviewing the revised peer group director compensation data in June 2009, the committee 1) set pay for the new non-executive Chairman of the Board, 2) increased the value of the annual equity award from $ 145,000 to $ 175,000, since the previous level of compensation was deemed below the market median, and 3) changed the equity grant vehicle from 100 % restricted stock units (RSUs) to 50 % RSUs and 50 % outperformance stock units (OSUs) in order to more closely align with the equity package that Intel executives receive.

This echoed an earlier proposal by center - right former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to levy a new border tariff on U.S. exports seeking to enter the EU in the event of a Paris withdrawal, as well as a call from the chairman of ArcelorMittal, a major global steel company, for Europe to establish a carbon border tax.

There is only a «New Normal» economy at best and a global recession at worst to look forward to, PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross writes in his monthly commentary for October.

BYD chairman Wang Chuanfu has drawn up an ambitious plan for the Chinese carmaker, envisioning the creation of a new - energy corporate giant with sales of a trillion yuan (US$ 151 billion) by 2025, nearly 10 times its revenue last year.