Sentences with phrase «new chair of the group»

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Judy Wicks, founder of White Dog Enterprises, is chairing the group's national advisory board, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's has agreed to donate $ 150,000 a year for three years to fund an ambitious new slate of projects.

As Aaron Wright, chair of the alliance's Legal Industry Working Group, told Coin Telegraph, «Lawyers are poised to serve as the catalysts for blockchain technology, and the Legal Working Group will serve as a neutral space to explore blockchain - based legal technology, develop standards for «smart» legal agreements, support emerging enterprise use cases, and tackle important policy issues raised by this new, impactful technology.»

«We only want warm referrals, and if you don't have one, get one,» says attorney Ed Zimmerman, chair of the tech group at Lowenstein Sandler in New York City and founder of the accelerator FirstGrowthVC, which doesn't take equity or provide co-working space.

Tom Angell, the chair of pro-legalization group Marijuana Majority, says this newest poll goes to show that cannabis reform is a mainstream issue that is supported by most Americans.

Subscription - based models a la Netflix or Rdio — where users pay a regular fee for access to the service's library without owning the movies or music — will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.

Uber is expanding its Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) with a new office in Toronto, headed by local AI researcher Raquel Urtasun, a University of Toronto professor and the Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision.

Any person who wishes to communicate with any of our directors, our committee Chairs, our Presiding Director, or with our independent directors as a group, may mail correspondence to John F. W. Rogers, Secretary to the Board of Directors, at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 200 West Street, New York, New York 1group, may mail correspondence to John F. W. Rogers, Secretary to the Board of Directors, at The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 200 West Street, New York, New York 1Group, Inc., 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282.

Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin will chair the Group of 20 (G20)-- a new organization of industrial and emerging nations that will work to improve the world financial system.

However, the majority of policymakers (certainly the «core» group within the FOMC led by Chair Yellen and New York Fed President Dudley) believe that monetary policy is not a suitable tool to address financial stability risk.

Dustin Stolly is the vice chair and co-head of Newmark Knight Frank's debt and structured finance group for the New York tri-state region.

Spring Harvest has announced Gavin Calver from the Evangelical Alliance will be the new Chair of the Spring Harvest Planning Group (SHPG).

From the United Nations General Assembly to the First Green Business Forum to World Water Week and her position as Chair of the Global Water Partnership, she continues to explain the far - reaching implications of food loss and waste to novel groups and to recruit new actors in the fight against food loss and waste.

Dr. Viehmann chairs the Physicians» Committee for Breastfeeding in Rhode Island, a group of health care professionals that successfully advocated for the new law and a 2003 law that requires employers to make a reasonable effort to provide a breastfeeding mother with flexible breaks and a safe, clean, private place to pump breastmilk or breastfeed her child.

Writing for Politics.co.uk, Stephen Lloyd, former chair of the all - party parliamentary group on religious education, said the group's new boss had pushed through changes to exclude the teaching of values of people with no faith.

Leaders of four New York government reform groups are calling for Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to stop allowing the unused stipends of Senate committee chairs to be passed to vice-chairs.

«I thought there had been enough of an opening up of debate under Ed [Miliband] that if Jeremy was on the ballot paper we would do quite well,» Jon Lansman, a close adviser of the Labour leader and chair of the pro-Corbyn Momentum group, told the New Statesman recently.

Into my inbox today came a press release from Total Politics, the outfit funded by the controversial Tory fundraiser Michael Ashcroft, advertising an interview by the Tory candidate Iain Dale with Michal Kaminski, chair of the new Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament, which includes the 24 Tory MEPs.

To call to order and adjourn regular monthly meetings; in consultation with the Executive Committee, to create new committees, working groups, and task forces of the Board including Standing Committees and to disband such committees as may exist; to appoint, suspend or remove Chairs of the Standing Committees of the Board and to establish and appoint, suspend or remove the Chairs of such special committees as may from time to time be deemed necessary for the best performance of the Board's function

A panel commissioned to review practices at New York's troubled ethics commission held its one and only public hearing Wednesday, as its Chair says lack of staff and excess of paperwork may make it difficult to meet the group's November 1st deadline.

Advocacy groups are encouraged by recent statements by the co - chair of New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's anti-corruption commission, who says he now favors public financing of political campaigns.

Andrew Selous is the Member of Parliament for South West Bedfordshire and is the new Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Brain Tumours.

E.J. McMahon with the Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, say there might be some positive political fallout if the attention on the criminal charges cause New Yorkers to look more closely at some of the big projects now financed with public dollars, like the $ 750 million subsidy to the Solar City factory in Buffalo, run by Tesla chair Elon Musk.

Victoria Bjorklund: Partner and Head of the Exempt Organizations Group, Simpson Thacher; Co-Author, New York Nonprofit Law and Practice; former Chair, American Bar Association Tax Section Committee on Exempt Organizations.

As a new MP, and new chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Boxing, I could not have had a finer, kinder, more experienced mentor.

At noon, Assemblyman David Weprin, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Correction, will be joined by fellow Elected Officials, members of clergy, and advocacy groups to speak out against the Executive Budget proposal to reduce visitation days for inmates at New York State's maximum - security prisons.

The new Chair of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has today urged the Government to provide greater support to help taxpayers on low incomes engage with and understand the tax system.

A freshman New York state senator from the Dutchess County is chair of a task force concerning Lyme disease while the Assembly has formed a group on climate change.

Republican Joe Lhota, a businessman, former chair of the city transit authority and deputy mayor under Republican Rudy Giuliani, has repeatedly accused Democrat Bill de Blasio of being soft on crime, lambasting de Blasio's reaction to a recent incident in New York involving a large group of motorcycle riders who chased and beat the driver of an SUV.

«Billion - dollar personnel costs in both counties should not only push officials to make some tough decisions here, but get citizens to demand action and realize this problem is one of the big reasons Long Island is so unaffordable,» said Doug Kellogg, communications director for Reclaim New York, a Manhattan - based government watchdog group chaired by Rebekah Mercer, a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump.

Larry Cohen, a former president of the Communications Workers of America, veteran of Sen. Bernie Sanders» campaign and chair of its successor group, Our Revolution, said he was engaged in a 2013 push to enact public campaign finance in New York and felt Cuomo didn't do enough to help.

Also on tap to speak tonight: A group of top labor leaders — SEIU President Mary Kay Henry, Building Trades President Sean McGarvey, AFSCME President Lee Saunders, AFL - CIO President Richard Trumka, and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, chair of the Democratic Governors Association.

New Zealand is to now chair a working group which will discuss the best way of accomplishing the reform in all the countries concerned, and legislation will need to be passed in the UK to change the rules on succession.

The group is chaired by Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul and Arlene Gonzalez - Sanchez, commissioner of the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services.

-- Politico, «Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign,» by Edward - Isaac Dovere: «As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year's Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.

Conservatives looking for a new deal with EU «want a better settlement for Britain» said the chair of the Fresh Start Group.

Iain Duncan Smith, the chair of the new policy group, followed with an engaging introduction on the role of the group and the challenges that need to be met.

What concerns me is the new group «Saving Labour» which apparently the Chair of the Party, John Cryer appears to be facilitating this.

«Albany spends a lot of time on the politics, but not nearly enough time tracking down real solutions to the problems everyday New Yorkers face,» Democratic Policy Group Chair Sen. Daniel Squadron, D - Brooklyn, said in a statement.

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Rules prohibit those with conflicts of interest from serving on the Commission including no person who has served in the last three years as a New York legislator, statewide elected official, member of congress, and spouses of the preceding groups, legislators» staff, lobbyists, state officers, state employees, or party chairs.

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The president of First Niagara Financial Group has been officially named to chair the New York Power Authority.

SPARC chair Kenneth Frazier of the University of Wisconsin Libraries says the 81 - library group will deliver a ready market as most are «expected» to subscribe to journals arising from the new collaboration.

The new study, a collaborative effort by groups led by Professor Gert Wörheide (Chair of Paleontology and Geobiology at LMU) and Dr. Davide Pisani (Bristol University, UK) reaffirms the traditional view that the sponges were the first phylum to diverge from the common ancestor of metazoans.

Choosing promising junior investigators as session chairs whenever possible helps introduce these younger scientists to the field as a whole, and it creates a new group with a stake in the success of the meeting.

«This group really seemed to go a long way toward identifying what may be an interesting new approach to treatment, and that's fantastic,» says Paul Kenny, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai Health System, who was not involved with the Amgen work.

THE «digital revolution» is creating a new culture of haves and have nots, warns Carlo de Benedetti, who chairs the European Union's working group on the information superhighway and heads the Italian computer company Olivetti.

De Groot chairs the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV), which took the initiative to find a new, widely accepted name.

«Given the fiscal situation in the State of New York, it's really up in the air if the cleanup will get done,» said Victor DiGiacomo, Jr., who chairs a local group of landowners, officials and others aiming to restore the area.