Sentences with phrase «on board a partner»

This may sound like a lot to do, but keep in mind we're talking about bringing on board a partner who is going to be vested in and engaged with growing your business for the long haul.

«Away from the rugby, there is so much for visitors to do in this part of the US so to have on board a partner like San Francisco Travel is going to make the fan experience even better as they make the most of this opportunity.»

Giske brought on board partner Mike Keogh, who had lost his longtime post as council finance director in 2007 amid a scandal over taxpayer funds being allocated to fake charities for members» later distribution.

Not exact matches

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

«I wouldn't say he's the only person in the world who heard something similar last year, but it was fairly unusual,» said Lars Daalgard, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who brokered the Imgur investment and now sits on Imgur's board.

Before you even start thinking about bringing another business partner on board, find out what this legal expert has to say about the pitfalls of partnerships.

• Karin Klein of Bloomberg Beta writes that LPs should force their GPs to report data on how many female founders they back, how many female non-partner investors the firm hires, the number of female partners, and the composition of VC - backed startup boards:

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

It was a strange formulation, given that the occasion for the reading was Etsy's acceptance of a $ 27 million investment led by Jim Breyer, a venture capitalist with Accel Partners who sits on the boards of Facebook, Dell, and, to the consternation of the Etsy faithful, Walmart.

JA: You're partnering with major companies such as Uber, Marriott, and JetBlue and they seem to be getting on board with your effort to value sleep.

Rabois is now a partner at venture capital outfit Khosla Ventures and serves on the board of directors at Yelp and Xoom.

Meanwhile, Y Combinator President Sam Altman vowed to keep Thiel on his company's board regardless, but the two quietly split ways about two years after Thiel became a partner.

Travelers using United's app can download all of their boarding passes on itineraries that include both United and one of its 19 partner carriers, such as Lufthansa or Turkish Airlines, the carrier said Tuesday.

Dan Scholnick, a general partner at Trinity Ventures, is on the board of Bulletproof, which sells coffee blended with butter and triglyceride oil that claims to help consumers «perform better» and «think faster.»

«It's a $ 36 - billion investment that they are making, so it was always clear that once they got our piece completed that they would move on to making sure that their numbers across the board with their partners work,» he said.

Dalgaard will remain a board partner at Andreessen Horowitz, staying on the boards of several companies in which he led investments, including HR software start - up Zenefits and viral image warehouse Imgur.

MOSCOW, April 30 - SUAL Partners, a co-owner of Russian aluminium producer Rusal, said on Monday that Rusal's board and shareholders needed to start work as soon as possible on a new strategy after the company was hit by U.S. sanctions.

As for his venture capital fund, Lowercase partner Matt Mazzeo will manage the existing portfolios and sit on several related boards.

And he has good corapany on what must be one of the country's most formidable game - company boards: Richard W. Melmon, co-founder and executive vice-president, who was formerly VisiCorp's director of marketing; Steve Wozniak, the company's technical adviser, renowned computer freak, co-founder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple II: and Don Valentine the tough, well - connected Wall Street-wise general partner of Capital Management Services, and an early investor in Apple Computer.

But KPCB general partner Ted Schlein is convinced that, given the heightened awareness of security risks, Synack will get some big names on board.

You may be a generous person who wants to lavishly reward your new partner for coming on board.

Google said it has several developer partners on board for Fit, which connects to apps and devices, but did not comment on its outreach to hospitals.

(A sixth partner, not on the board, owns the remaining 5 %.)

Lightspeed's first female investing partner, Nicole Quinn, came on board just three years ago.

«I think you're going to see a lot of failure in 2015,» says Benchmark Capital partner Bill Gurley, who sits on Uber's board of directors.

Diverse talent pools value transparency and will get on board for the longer - term when they partner with those that share the same goals and ideals.

At the beginning of April, Apple announced that it was now run entirely on clean energy — including its stores, offices and data centers in 43 countries — and that 23 manufacturing partners were also on board.

She managed to largely fend Peltz off with a compromise: Earlier this year the two sides agreed on a «neutral» nominee to the board, former Heinz CEO Bill Johnson, an adviser to Peltz's Trian Partners.

San Francisco - based Airware brings the former CEO of Cisco on board and partners with insurance giant State Farm.

LinkedIn plans to partner with schools and their own job boards so it can feed appropriate job listings from them to students on the app, along with the listings posted on LinkedIn.

Venture Capital: Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Board Member, 23 and Me and Open Humans Foundation M&A: Christopher O'Connor, Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners Moderator: Jim Cramer, Host, «Mad Money w / Jim Cramer;» Co-Anchor, «Squawk on the Street,», CNBC

Procter & Gamble is fiercely battling to keep Trian Partners» Nelson Peltz from winning a board seat at its annual meeting on October 10th.

«They're not building this business on the backs of banner ads,» says Eric Liaw, a general partner with IVP and new member of the board of The Players» Tribune.

He is a partner of ValueAct Capital, a governance - oriented investment fund that invests in a concentrated portfolio of public companies and works actively with executives and boards of directors on issues of strategy, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and talent management.

On Deck's board of directors includes experienced investors and financial services executives, including James D. Robinson III, the former chairman and CEO of American Express Company and currently a general partner at RRE Ventures.

As a partner in Big 4 focused on the transaction world, Elise advised Boards and senior management on complex issues for Global Corporations as well as Private Equity and Sovereign Wealth Funds.

It has raised $ 83 million and has nearly half that amount in the bank, said Ethan Kurzweil, a partner at Bessemer who sits on the startup's board.

«As the system grows and the likelihood of it scaling grows, and as new speculators come on board with piles of cash, it compounds together and has created this exponential growth,» said McKie, the crypto firm partner.

In another unprecedented cooperative initiative, The Vancouver Board of Trade supported the efforts of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce and partnered with 12 others chambers of commerce across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley to release a landmark research study on the economic importance of the Fraser River.

IVP has been incredibly helpful on the board, and they're one of our most valuable investment partners.»

Grant Morse told Huffington Post he and his husband weren't allowed to use their family boarding privileges on a Southwest flight on Saturday (May 20) and that he suspects this was because the two are same - sex partners.

One of those people calling for Kalanick to go was one of the company's biggest shareholders, the venture capital firm Benchmark, which has one of its partners, Bill Gurley, on Uber's board.

As part of the deal, Growth Street Partners» co-founder, Stephen Wolfe, and Victoria Fram, co-founder and Managing Director of Village Capital, will get seats on Pear Deck's Board of Directors.

An internationally respected authority on finance and economics, Dr. Cooper is a member of the C.D. Howe Institute's National Counsel, TMX Industry Professor at DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University and advises the Board of MDC Partners, a Nasdaq / TMX listed communications and media company.

They have performed beyond our expectations, acting like a true marketing partner in our business by expanding the amount we can get done, helping us stay on top of opportunities to brand and grow our business, as well as being an effective sounding board.

The partners are California - based Vidtel, whose cloud - based, high - definition MeetMe video conferencing system accommodates up to 12 users on a conferencing «bridge»; and Oregon - based InFocus, whose 55 - inch giant tablet has a touch screen, digital white boarding and high - quality audio and is powered by an integrated Windows 7 Pro PC.

One of Carrick's founders was on our board prior to the formation of Carrick Capital Partners.

I'm looking for strategies on how to handle facing opposition to the pursuit of my goals when my partners and team are not on board?

The Advisory Board acts as the sparring partner for the Steering Committee and the secretariat advising on a range of issues but most notably on the selection of opportunities for the report.

«I think the CSA will start with a soft - glove approach and evolve to more iron - hand in a few years,» says Paul Gryglewicz, managing partner of Global Governance Advisors, a Toronto firm that advises company boards and senior managers on corporate government and executive pay issues.