Sentences with phrase «new chairman who»

Karl - Thomas Neumann, the lanky, wiry and notoriously optimistic new chairman who worked for supplier Continental and VW before defecting to the Blitz hosts dinner with Opel.

Wanting Wenger gone is simple minded, he is doing the best he can with what he has, and nothing bar a new chairman who is willing to plough millions and millions into the club is going to change that.

Not exact matches

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.

So Viacom's new chairman is not only unloved by some large shareholders, but also unloved by his own vice-chairman, the daughter of the company's controlling shareholder and one of the people who will direct Redstone's assets after his death.

Ackman, who is also chairman of the Howard Hughes board of directors, said the real estate company was poised to thrive in the current economic environment, with many strong land development projects in its pipeline, from New York City's South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan to Hawaii beachfront property.

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.

Hollender, who took the title of CEO and chairman, continued to live in New York City and commuted to Vermont a few days a week.

«No normal person could walk into a massive restructuring... with new subsidiaries and compensation and be completely fine,» says Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt, who calls Porat «extraordinary.»

Evan Williams, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who was once CEO and chairman of Twitter, apologized in an interview with the New York Times about Twitter's role in Trump's presidency.

The new owners will work with Maytag, who will serve as chairman emeritus of the new corporate entity, to «maintain the iconic brewery and distillery in San Francisco,» according to a release.

Its new chairman will be Bill Krauss, a Carlyle operating executive who previously served as chairman, president and CEO of 3Com (now owned by Hewlett Packard).

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.

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.

The new combined company will be run by Burger King chief executive Daniel Schwartz, who will oversee with overall day - to - day management and operational accountability, while Alex Behring, executive chairman of Burger King and managing partner at 3G Capital, will become executive chairman and director.

Some background: Those rules were approved this past October under previous FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, who stepped down once President Trump took office, giving new chairman Ajit Pai and GOP commissioner Michael O'Rielly a 2 - 1 majority at the agency.

That's the position Viacom now finds itself in, having chosen CEO Philippe Dauman as its new chairman, over the objections of Shari Redstone, who owns 20 % of the company's stock.

I'm here in New York right now with my brother and my dear colleague, Dr. Bob Hariri, who is the CEO and founder and chairman of Celularity.

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen, chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio.

«Future outcomes will also be materially affected by whether Chairman Bernanke remains in office next year, the composition of the new congress and who will be president.

There are some good names on the list including: Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999), venture capitalist Adam Dell, two Hollywood heavyweights (former Universal chairman and CEO Frank Biondi and New Lines Cinemas co-chairman and CEO Robert Shaye) and, of course, none other that Carl Icahn himself.

«I would not say it was a stellar year,» said Chairman Howard Lorber, who attributed increased sales volume to Elliman's new markets.

Great quote from PwC US Chairman Tim Ryan who told the New York Times that his philosophy in life is «bad news doesn't...

After touring the eatery, Miami - Dade Commissioner Dennis C. Moss, who also serves as Chairman of the Zoo Oversight Board, said «this is a beautiful addition to the Zoo that will be very popular with guests, and with its close proximity to the Zoo's front entrance, it may well become a new lunch spot for employees of local businesses near the Zoo.»

The Labor Department's proposal also has its share of critics on Capitol Hill, including Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - Utah), the new chairman of the Finance Committee, who argues that DoL is attempting to regulate outside its proper jurisdiction, and has authored legislation that would enshrine regulatory authority over the IRA sector within the Treasury Department.

«Our intention was never to build an iPhone killer but to build a killer Palm product,» Rubinstein, a former Apple executive who was brought in as the executive chairman of Palm to work miracles, told The New York Times.

Now, though, we've got a new Fed chairman who is, for the first time in decades, not an academic by training.

Co-founder Chris Costello, who has served for the past five years as chief executive officer, has stepped down and moved into a new role as chairman of Blooom's board of directors.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Viacom Inc's board of directors named Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman as executive chairman, replacing majority owner Sumner Redstone, overriding calls for an independent board chief from Redstone's daughter, who voted against Dauman.

Hopefully, like Churchill who prepared for WWII many year in advance, the new Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, who has studied the depression era extensively, is also well prepared for the worst of times in one or two generations.

The other day I was fortunate enough to have dinner with a new friend who presented his analysis of Fed Chairman Powell's policies in a way that really struck a chord with me.

He's chairman of the religion department at Columbia University, who a while back announced in the New York Times that his ambition is to make sure that students are more confused and troubled at the end of his course than they were at the beginning.

Napolitano's warning came at the first in a series of hearings convened by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Peter King, R - New York, who is determined to investigate what he terms the radicalization of Muslim - American communities, a problem he says is compounded by their lack of cooperation with law enforcement.

The Board of Directors also announced that it has elected Richard Golden, who has served on the Company's Board of Directors for the past three years, as the new Chairman and CEO.

«Reducing greenhouse gas emissions while still growing as a company is one of the defining business challenges of the 21st century, and we're proud to be addressing that challenge head - on, starting with our new 2025 goal to achieve absolute reductions of no less than three percent year - over-year,» said Dean Scarborough, Avery Dennison's chairman and CEO, who will travel to Paris this December to discuss climate change with other business leaders at COP21.

Terry O'Brien, who has been chief executive of one of Australia's biggest food groups for 16 years, is preparing to exit in late 2017 and says he has his «eyes wide open» ahead of a new post next year as chairman of an ASX - listed aquaculture company in a highly volatile sector.

The drinks business reported in September on the appointment of Schaafsma as Accolade's new CEO, a role he took over from John Ratcliffe, who became a non-executive deputy chairman of the company.

Mark Cropper, Chairman of James Cropper, said: «Being tasked to create a new paper product is always exciting for our product development team, who work closely with our clients to ensure they get the packaging solution they require.

Although supporters and visitors took a while to get used to the new healthier menu, vegetarian and vegan food is now hugely popular, according to Forest Green Rovers owner and chairman Dale Vince — who also owns green energy provider Ecotricity.

Chairman and CEO of Flagstone Group, Mehmet Bayraktar, assembled a dream team for The Deck at Island Gardens, starting with nightlife entrepreneurs Michael Capponi and Eric Milon; Bayraktar now adds Chef Alvarez, who will bring his international flair and pedigree of culinary experience to Miami's newest exquisite waterfront eatery.

It sadly is Sue, we have a divided fan base, an majority shareholder who is (in my opinion) using our clubs assets to secure lending on his other sporting investments, a board who quite frankly see us fans as customers rather than supporters as shown by the chairman's AGMs performance, players who aren't signing new contracts, if you cut Ian Wright and others open you'd see cannons in their blood with some of our players now you'd find image rights and pound signs.

Allowing him onto a committee with Barry Alvarez, who was his new football coach's former boss at Wisconsin, could be interesting, but otherwise Long looks to be as neutral a chairman as we could possibly hope for.

Lets have a think about the team whose chairman came out in public and stated that we had # 200 million to spend on new players — who have we signed?

Keeping Coleman at the club represents a fine piece of business for Martinez and chairman Bill Kenwright, who will now hope to bring new signings in to take the club forward after extending contracts including those of Coleman, Sylvain Distin and Tim Howard in recent weeks.

This was reported by the Evening Standard, who say that Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has said that he would love for the current Tottenham boss to still be at the club in «10 or 15 years time», which was something that was published in Guillem Balague's book «Brave New World».

From the Be Careful What You Wish For Dept.: Augusta National members tell SI that among the new additions to the club are Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who had been campaigning for membership for years.

Perhaps a slightly ill timed tweet this one from West Ham vice chairman Karren Brady, who reminded her followers about her new show «Give It a Year» on ITV.

Commissioner Charles Boxenbaum, who was selected as committee chairman, then convened the new committee, which reviewed the Park District's proposed $ 818 million 1998 budget, item by item.

The Bronx Democrats are scheduled to elect Assemblyman Marcus Crespo as their new chairman, replacing Carl Heastie, who gave up the post when he became speaker.

In what must be the shortest resignation in recent corporate history, Marcus Agius, who announced he was stepping down yesterday, is now set to stay as full - time chairman to search for a new chief executive.