Jonathan acts for and advises a number of SMEs and medium size private companies
on company director duties, regulatory matters, take - overs and mergers, rights issues and related party transactions.
Not exact matches
This is why, when the Twitter board of
directors assemble
on Thursday, they will discuss the possibility of selling the San Francisco
company, according to a report this week by Recode.
«U.S. stocks are probably among the more overvalued
companies on a global scale,» says Luc de la Durantaye, managing
director of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management.
On Dec. 10, the
company hired Laurent Potdevin as her successor and said Lululemon founder Chip Wilson would step aside as chairman of the board but remain a
director of the
company.
Accountant Neil Anthony Alessandrino has been released
on bail after presenting to the Magistrates Court today
on 65 charges of fraud or stealing as
director or officer of a
company.
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.
In a recent episode of CNBC's «The Job Interview,» Nadia Geller, owner and managing
director of California - based interior design
company Nadia Geller Designs, asked job applicants, «Is it better to be perfect and late, or good and
on time?»
She co-founded the media
company Huffington Post before launching the wellness site Thrive Global and is currently
on the board of
directors for ride - sharing app Uber.
Now, the
company holds biweekly meetings with mine managers and regional
directors to get updates
on their progress and discuss any issues.
There are also subscription services such as Hoover's, which provides detailed descriptions of
companies for a fee, and Dun & Bradstreet, which sells reports
on companies with information about history,
directors, customers, employees and recent developments.
By day, I reported
on risk to a board of
directors for a $ 2 billion US
company.
The FT had reported
on Friday that the
company's lawyers had refused independent
directors access to personnel files detailing allegations against Weinstein long before the issue erupted earlier this month.
At the end of 2016, 738
companies — roughly 25 percent of the list — had no women
on their boards of
directors.
Does our Chair (or Lead
Director) have the independence, attributes, experience and track record that the
company and senior management needs and respects — to lead the board, hold management to account, and focus
on value creation?
Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses
on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of
directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest
companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.
Activist investors in both Canada and the US recently proposed — for Hess Corporation and Agrium Inc. — that their nominees to serve as independent
directors on the
companies» boards should receive incentive pay directly from the activist investors themselves, with the amount that tied to share price appreciation.
We even know that, if there is even one woman
on a
company's board of
directors, attendance is better at board meetings.
Because these organizations are specialists at providing the type of hands -
on assistance that entrepreneurs need at the pre-seed stage, and because entrepreneurs are co-located with the accelerator
directors, the people running accelerators can provide more intense help to startup
companies than most angels and venture capitalists, speeding up the development of the
companies.
She is also the founder of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, a competitive private school in Mumbai, and a
director on the board of Reliance Industries, her husband's
company.
Mentors
on hand include Megan Adams,
director of communication strategy and public relations at Knock Twice New York, and Jim Belosic, the co-founder and CEO of software
company Pancake Laboratories in Reno, Nev..
Just as
directors don't want to work with demanding divas
on - set, customers don't want to work with
companies that are not understanding, irresponsible or otherwise difficult.
Those reforms include removing Kalanick's super-voting rights
on the board, increasing the
company's board size to 17, and adding new independent
directors to the board.
I am the executive
director / founder of an educational non-profit and was wondering what I should charge
companies that want to advertise
on my site?
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.
It's this last point that has the biggest effect
on private versus public
company returns, says Tim McPeak,
director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a
company that studies financial information of privately held
companies.
I'm
on the board of
directors of a temp staffing
company with one billion dollars in revenues.
It's worth noting the team that brought the
company to this point are all still
on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March); former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and former chairman Michael Brown remains a
director.
The dilemma facing the boards at Microsoft, Apple or any board of
directors on the departure of an innovative CEO is strategic: Do we want still want to be a innovative, risk taking
company?
«The value is that employees can understand what is expected of them and what they can expect from the
company,» adds Paul Rowson, managing
director at World at Work, a global human resources association that focuses
on compensation, benefits, work - life, and integrated total rewards.
The information you are required to provide is information
on your
company, personal information
on the applicant /
director, estimated turnover, where the business is trading from and what the business activities of the
company are.
The
company also announced that its three longest - serving
directors have opted to leave the board
on Jan. 2 with Tague.
The HR
director or HR coordinator no longer just focuses
on hiring and firing employees and making sure the
company is in compliance with benefits and payroll.
A lawyer, he was senior counsel and vice-president at ABB Group, a Swiss engineering giant, and then had a string of titles, including strategic development
director, at AMEC, a big London - based project - management
company focused
on the energy sector.
Heavy earthmoving equipment supplier Emeco Holdings has shrugged off a credit rating downgrade from Fitch Ratings, with managing
director Ian Testrow saying the market should focus
on the big picture of the
company's merger and restructuring plan.
On Wednesday, activist investor Starboard Value sent a letter to the
company threatening a proxy fight unless Yahoo replaces Mayer and a number of
directors.
And
on August 8, John Schappert, the chief operating officer and
director of Zynga, officially resigned from the
company.
Perth
company director Sharon Warburton has been named as the incoming chair of a soon - to - be-established federal government fund that will have $ 5 billion to spend
on infrastructure in northern Australia.
Atlas Iron non-executive
director David Hannon has resigned from the
company's board with immediate effect to focus
on family matters, with the
company yet to announce a replacement.
To encourage boards to understand their
companies» long - term needs, Wiseman also argues that
directors should be paid more and their compensation linked to
company performance beyond their term
on the board.
Mermaid Marine Australia managing
director Jeff Weber has defended the
company's stance
on negotiations with the Maritime Union of Australia, after employees at its Dampier Supply Base said
on Friday they would strike for 10 days.
Ferro sits
on the Board of
Directors of STS, the
Company's manufacturing joint venture in China, and holds board memberships at ST's affiliates in France and Italy.
Mungana Goldmines shares closed 20 per cent higher today
on news former Mutiny Gold managing
director Tony James would be the
company's new boss.
Kingsrose Mining managing
director Scott Huffadine has resigned following a series of operational setbacks at the
company's Indonesian gold mine,
on the same day Kingrose postponed repayments
on $ 10.1 million of debt to non-executive
director Bill Phillips.
Gus Moore,
director of Miami Tour
Company, describes the impact of Zika
on the travel industry in Miami.
«Even people buying the stock at this price think this is a great opportunity,» says Heather Beach, Siebel's
director of sales operations, who started out as the
company's office manager and loaded up
on options largely in lieu of salary in the
company's early days.
He founded his
company Weedmaps, a sort of Yelp for marijuana dispensaries, in 2008, and now serves
on the board of
directors for the National Cannabis Industry Association, the Marijuana Policy Project and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which most people know as NORML and for which he also serves as treasurer.
The managing
director of Summerhill Venture Partners
on the Radian6 deal, having a vision and why Canadian
companies need to be global
companies.
Intellifusion, a Shenzhen - based AI firm that provides technology to the city's police to display the faces of jaywalkers
on large LED screens at intersections, is now talking with local mobile phone carriers and social media platforms such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to develop a system where offenders will receive personal text messages as soon as they violate the rules, according to Wang Jun, the
company's
director of marketing solutions.
Its targets have included a Middle Eastern telecommunications
company doing business in North Korea, a Japan - based entity associated with a United Nations group
on sanctions and the general
director of a Vietnamese trading
company, FireEye said, declining to name the victims.
Former Icahn managing
director Jonathan Christodoro quit Xerox's board
on Friday, paving the way for Carl Icahn to introduce a new battle over the
company.