Sentences with phrase «on board governance»

Kim Jonker and William F. Meehan, two experts on board governance, state that they believe in limiting terms — but not in term limits.

«In the work I've done recently for Calgary Legal Guidance I've written policy, contracts, some guidance on board governance and there is a lot of value in that.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

She held various senior positions at Petro - Canada until she left the company in 1991, going on to serve on numerous corporate boards and start a governance consulting firm.

«He may believe (possibly correctly) that the next day, trade ministers will be lining up in Washington to negotiate bilateral FTAs, ready to accept U.S. terms, thus handing him another victory,» Oonagh Fitzgerald, director of the international law program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and Hector Torres, a member of the International Monetary Fund's executive board, wrote in an op - ed on January 30.

Uber directors on Tuesday voted to allow Japan's SoftBank to invest in the ride services company and approved a series of governance changes that increases the independence of the board and decreases the influence of former CEO Travis Kalanick.

The CtW Investment Group has called for changes in Tesla and SolarCity's governance given there's only one person on SolarCity's board who isn't tied to Tesla.

Contrast that with private equity governance, where directors are picked solely based on strategic requirements, where value creation is an obsession, and where the board is knowledgeable and demanding.

Be careful about overvaluing your startup with faulty assumptions; it will only make your life more difficult - particularly if your investors have governance rights, such as positions on the company's board.

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist, or even a corporate governance expert, to understand that having a former Ontario premier on a company's board can offer plenty of potential upside, especially for an Ontario - based auto parts maker such as Magna International.

The greater focus on executive pay means investors also care more about board pay, said Pat McGurn, head of strategic research and analysis at corporate governance firm ISS.

• Governance reform: Uber's board approved governance reforms that are contingent on completion of the SoftBank deal, including the removal of super-voting rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size of the board to Governance reform: Uber's board approved governance reforms that are contingent on completion of the SoftBank deal, including the removal of super-voting rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size of the board to governance reforms that are contingent on completion of the SoftBank deal, including the removal of super-voting rights that gave Kalanick and his allies outsized power, adding new independent directors, and increasing the size of the board to 17 people.

Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

Many boards find it vital to reconsider the people who sit on their nominating and governance committees in order to facilitate director exits and find the best candidates.

But formalized corporate governance is designed to be executed by boards, investors, and government on behalf of the public good, and the active efforts of all three are required.

On April 17, 2018, I wrote to the board, seeking to restore the Company's reputation by reforming its corporate governance and reconstituting a majority of the board of directors.

The AMD board's corporate governance guidelines place the responsibility for succession planning on the CEO.

«When you truly start looking at what is an independent board, what truly is an outside director, the way you define it is really difficult,» says Larry Fauver, a professor at the University of Tennessee who focuses on governance.

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.

The IBM Board Corporate Governance Guidelines reflect IBM's principles on corporate governancGovernance Guidelines reflect IBM's principles on corporate governancegovernance matters.

Mr. Shea is well qualified to serve as a director due to his experience in public and private company governance and private equity, including his service on numerous corporate boards and on audit and compensation committees, including his experience with Hennessy I and Hennessy II.

The Board has adopted and reviews on an on - going basis corporate governance guidelines for the company, which further strengthen Valeant's platform.

In addition, his current service on other public company boards of directors provides us with important perspectives on corporate governance matters.

One distinguishing feature of our corporate governance is that all of our independent directors serve on all of our Board's four standing committees.

All five resolutions submitted or supported by the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade were adopted at the BC Chamber of Commerce's 2017 AGM in Victoria, including a key resolution on the governance of Canada's ports and airports.

Upon the recommendation of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, our Board has nominated the persons listed below to serve as directors for the one - year term beginning at our annual meeting on May 19, 2010 or until their successors, if any, are elected or appointed.

Corporate Governance of Political Expenditures: 2011 Benchmark Report on S&P 500 Companiesfinds that corporate accountability and disclosure of political expenditures is on the upswing, with the boards of 31 % of S&P 500 companies now explicitly overseeing such spending, compared to 23 % in 2010.

Members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Board based on nominations submitted by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board and for such terms as the Board may determine.

Tom served on the board of directors of ACE Limited (renamed Chubb), a Zurich - based insurance company, where he was chair of the nominating and governance committees.

Ms. Sheehan served two terms as the Chair of the Council of Institutional Investors, is a member of the SEC Investor Advisory Committee, the NASDAQ Listing Council, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

«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.

His many years of experience helping companies shape and implement strategy provide Zillow Group's board of directors with unique perspectives on matters such as risk management, corporate governance, talent selection and leadership development.

Finally, nonfinancial metrics on environmental, social, and governance performance are top of mind for many boards.

The Company's corporate governance structure, with its strong emphasis on Board independence, makes an absolute independent chairman requirement unnecessary.

Mr. Green is on the Board of Directors of the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC), the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) and Business for the Arts (BftA).

He is the author of treatises on proxy voting and shareholder communications and his articles have appeared in The London Financial Times, The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Insights, Pensions & Investments, The Corporate Governance Advisor, Directors & Boards, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and other publications and professional blogs.

After some 15 years of tweaking and polishing the theory and practice of «good» governance, perfectly independent board members remain surprise - prone, estranged from the goings - on in the company, partially informed and lacking the wherewithal to challenge management.

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

Boards of directors are responsible for the governance of their companies... The responsibilities of the board include setting the company's strategic aims, providing the leadership to put them into effect, supervising the management of the business and reporting to shareholders on their stewardship...»

Effective on June 16, 2015, the Corporate Governance Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company amended and restated the Code to, among other things, reflect the following amendments: (1) added a new Whistleblower Exception provision under the Confidentiality section; (2) modified the provision regarding Protection of Covered Persons to clarify that such protections apply to any Covered Person who provides information or makes other disclosures that are protected under whistleblower provisions; and (3) updated the policy reference to the Franklin Templeton Investments Social Media Guidelines Policy.

Having previously worked across the corporate governance, equities research, private equity and strategy consulting sectors, Michael now advises ASX boards and senior managers on governance - related matters and in the execution of corporate actions and vote - related company meetings, including shareholder activism campaigns and proxy battles both in Australia and abroad.

Investor relations and governance teams working on and around AGMs this proxy season should be paying particular attention to the stories their companies are telling about strategy, who is on the board and ESG - related efforts, according to new research.

He has over 25 years experience in commercial management and corporate governance areas including experience on various boards, both in an executive and non-executive capacity, across a range of businesses.

Since January 2003, Ms. Bloxham has published The Corporate Governance Alliance Digest, a publication on current value and corporate governance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and theGovernance Alliance Digest, a publication on current value and corporate governance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and thegovernance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

Chief Executive Officer, The Value Alliance [and] Corporate Governance Alliance Recognized internationally as an expert on Corporate Governance and a pioneer in the area of Economic Value Management, Ms. Bloxham is an author, speaker and advisor who provides advisory and education services for organizations, their CEOs and Board members.

The model can be used to examine the gender diversity implications of four key governance decisions on the composition of corporate boards.

Richard LeBlanc, corporate governance professor at York University joins BNN to provide perspective on the Steve Wynn misconduct claims, what could be next for Wynn Resorts, and the company board's role in all of this.

Members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Board based on nominations recommended by the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Board and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board and for such terms as the Board may determine.

Frequently called upon to provide her expertise to the financial, national and international press, Ms. Bloxham has appeared on the many shows of CNBC including appearances with Maria Baroilomo and Larry Kudlow, on Fox Business and Bloomberg TV, on National and German Public Radio, MSNBC, Business Week, USA Today, Les Echos, American Banker, New York's Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, Board Alert, Compliance Week and the Wall Street Journal, among many others, discussing the subjects of corporate governance, compensation, performance and value.