Sentences with phrase «now chairman of the board»

«It was highly successful,» says Mart Laar, 57, who became the first post-Soviet Prime Minister, at age 32, and is now chairman of the board of supervisors for the Bank of Estonia.

Among his top reasons is the compounded 21 % per year that it's returned ever since Pierre Lessard, former CEO and president and now chairman of the board, took over the company in 1990.

Gates, who is now chairman of the board, will be part of a small committee tasked with finding the successor.

Dan's son, Bill Turrentine, joined the company in 1977 and is now Chairman of the Board.

The directors of MoMA and the Studio Museum in Harlem traipsed through, as did Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor who's now chairman of the board at the Serpentine Gallery.

That came from serial tech entrepreneur Ali Riaz, an advisor and investor who is now chairman of the board of AltaClaro.

Mathias Sundin, Swedish Parliament member — and now chairman of the board for BTCX — talks about his love of bitcoin.

Not exact matches

But Ackman now finds himself planning a proxy battle, because CP's board and its chairman John Cleghorn have so far resisted the notion of Harrison as white knight.

Eugene Qian, chairman of UBS» China strategy board, says Chinese companies are still acquiring even though the size of each deal is now smaller.

Hobson, the 44 - year - old president of Chicago - based Ariel Investments, is now DreamWorks» nonexecutive chairman and also on the boards of Starbucks (SBUX), Estée Laude (EL) r, and Groupo (GRPN) n. She's a valuable adviser, the 62 - year - old Katzenberg explains, because she simplifies complex problems, always thinks long term, and asks questions in an unthreatening way.

Ferguson oversaw financial regulation at the Fed and was, for a period, chairman of the Financial Stability Forum, the predecessor of the Financial Stability Board now headed by Mark Carney.

Dr. Stephens has also been highly active throughout her career in industry and community activities, including serving as the Vice Chairman of the Orange County Council and National Board member of the American Electronics Association, now TechAmerica; participating on the University of California at Irvine School of the Arts Deans Advisory Council in the area of Digital Arts; and as a Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County Board member.

Even if splitting the posts makes it easier for the board to monitor the CEO, the board now has the new problem of monitoring a powerful non-executive Chairman.

He has also been on the Silicon Cape board for over 2 years, where he is now the chairman of the Community Council.

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

On October 21, 1994, political watchers were stunned when Mr. Kowalski was shuffled out of Premier Klein's cabinet and announced that he would resign as an MLA to become chairman of (now defunct) Alberta Utilities and Energy Board.

Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a network of Reformed church plants in 21 countries still dealing with the aftermath of an internal investigation of founder and president C. J. Mahaney's leadership, now faces allegations that its president and board chairman, among other leaders, covered up child sex abuse by church members.

I was chairman of the board of deacons for twenty - five years, at first the youngest one of them, and now I'm a lifelong deacon.

Archbishop Vigneron earned the doctorate in philosophy at the Catholic University of America and is now the chairman of CUA's board of directors.

Sherm is now retired, and Steve serves as chairman of the board.

Mike Lovsin, Frank's son is now president of Freson Market Ltd., with Frank serving as chairman of the board.

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.

Hill - Wood, who stood down as club chairman in 2013 has until now been one of Wenger's supporters has always had the respect of the Arsenal Board and his opinion will carry a lot of weight with the current members.

«As chairman of the supervisory board I'm very pleased with our transfer policy up until now because it was implemented with great care.

The Chairmen and board of West Ham United would like to place on record their thanks and gratitude to Slaven and his team for their services over the past two - and - a-half years, but believe a change is now necessary in order for the Club to move forward positively and in line with their ambition.

On 19th August 2016, Woyome's consultant, Albert Essamuah Associates Limited, now claiming to have been appointed as the Government's consultants (and we are yet to see evidence of any such appointment), wrote to the Chief of Staff demanding the latter «to issue an urgent directive from your august office, to SSNIT through its Board Chairman, to take up the 24 % stakeholding of the Government of Ghana in the Project SEZ on behalf of the people of Ghana.»

Doherty replaces Dikko Aliyu AbdulRahman who has now been appointed as Chairman, Governing Board of the Bank of Industry (BoI).

The Board of Regents and SUNY are the state's two charter - authorizing bodies, and McCall has to accept that, now that he's not just a trustee, but chairman.

And now Cuomo has his own man, H. Carl McCall, as chairman of its board of trustees.

Lawrence Waldman, who now serves as a LIPA trustee and chairman of the board's finance and audit committee, confirmed to Newsday that he had been appointed.

From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.

For the seats being vacated, the group endorsed Community Board 11 Chairman Jerry Iannece, a Democratic candidate for the 19th CD; John Choe, Liu's chief of staff, for the 20th CD; Deirdre Feerick for the 26th District seat now held by Gioia; Karen Koslowitz for the 29th CD, which she represented for 11 years until 2001; and Community Board 6 District Manager Frank Galluscio for the 32nd District seat now held by Councilman Eric Ulrich (R?Ozone Park.)

The contractor who is being paid was billed to supervise the very activity which the GNPC Board Chairman has now decided to put on hold, much to the chagrin of GNPC engineers and other staff working on the Voltaian Basin Project.

My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as civilian president.

The facility the company is proposing to use to manufacture medical marijuana, once used as a now - closed juvenile detention center, is within a START - UP NY economic development zone, said Fulton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ralph Ottuso.

Instead, he launched a series of ever - more outlandish claims, suggesting, for example, that his landlord (Dale Hemmerdinger, a Spitzer donor and now former MTA board chairman) let someone into his apartment — perhaps man of many voices, Randy Credico?

Board Chairman Carl McCall, in support of the loan, said the school was under new leadership now with Sammakia at the helm.

District leaders John Ruiz and Rev. Al Taylor and activist Joyce Johnson signed the missive, which accused Wright of using his position to attempt to deliver the seat that formerly belonged to now - Councilman Bill Perkins to his favored candidate, local community board chairman Brian Benjamin.

Orange County Democratic Chairman Brett Broge is asking a state attorney to investigate Sen. William Larkin Jr.'s failure to report his campaign contributions and expenditures from January to July, an accounting that he was supposed to file by July 15 and is now more than a month overdue.In a letter on Thursday to Risa Sugarman, chief enforcement counsel for the state Board of Elections, Broge noted that Larkin set up a new campaign account on July 8 and transferred his money there, but never submitted a semi-annual report itemizing the transactions that occurred before then.

Former President Kufuor, during the launch at the weekend, said: «After ending my term in political office, I decided not to retire from serving my country hence my decision to set up a Foundation to continue to work on my vision for a peaceful and prosperous nation with leadership as its flagship program», these are words from the former President of Ghana and now Board Chairman of The John A. Kufour Foundation, John Agyekum Kufour.

Teachout was the last Democrat to challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the gubernatorial primary (the first being Carl McCall, now the SUNY Board of Regents chairman, who would go on to lose to Republican George Pataki in 2002).

«Now the state folks know what an unfunded mandate feels like,» said Essex County Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Shaun Gillilland.

Now, according to Parker, Michael Kaplowitz, a Yorktown Democrat and chairman of the Board of Legislators, will continue to mull an override of Astorino's veto which would require a bipartisan supermajority vote of 12 legislators in order to overturn the decision.

«I'm not going to say one way or the other right now,» said Independence Party Chairman Len Bernardo outside Board of Elections headquarters on Wednesday, standing alongside Gallo.

And there have been other squeakers for town board and other seats,» said longtime Olive political player John Parete, who served as the Democrats chairman for years and is now a county legislator (as well as owner of the Boiceville Inn).

Among the wide variety of speakers asking the governor to do the humane thing and start issuing clemencies were Allen Roskoff, President of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Robert Dennison, retired Chairman, New York State Board of Parole, Philanthropist Bill Samuels, Zenaida Mendez, President of NYS NOW, and celebrities Kathryn Erbe, star of Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Cathrine Curtin from Orange is the New Black.

Past events with the hiring of the now convicted ex-Bronx GOP Chairman, Jay Savino, and the present employment of County Legislator, Frank Sparaco, have demonstrated that the Town Board was mistaken in failing to implement that prohibition.

Now it's been less than two weeks since Governor Cuomo opened up the idea of a fourth casino in the Southern Tier, and 72 hours since the chairman of the location board said he was open to that idea.

Moore went on to become the cofounder of chip giant Intel and now, at 76, is chairman emeritus of its board.

He previously served as Chairman and founding CEO of CoLucid Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CLCD)(acquired by Eli Lilly in 2017), and on the boards of Afferent Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Merck in 2016), Chimerix (NASDAQ: CMRX), Quintiles Transnational Corp. (NASDAQ: QTRN now NYSE: Q), TYRX (acquired by Medtronic in 2013), Syntonix Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Biogen IDEC in 2007), LEAD Therapeutics (acquired by BioMarin in 2010), CardioDx, and Embrex (NASDAQ: EMBX)(acquired by Pfizer in 2006).