Sentences with phrase «person board in»

When Lopez was named to the Housing Authority's three - person board in 2006, she hired her upstairs neighbor as her executive assistant, paying her $ 121,000 a year.

Not exact matches

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

«If you bring in more external people in the firm and board, it'll be positive for the company,» said Einar Lier Madsen, the study's author and a researcher at the Nordland Research Institute in Norway.

At the University of Southern California this year, Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments and chairwoman on several boards, not only spurred students to find someone to be passionate about — but also to expand their bandwidth of diversity by getting to know people with whom they have seemingly nothing in common.

Once you're ready to start interviewing, vet the candidate's skill in these six areas to be sure you're bringing the right person on board:

But for the most part observers should stay silent unless engaged because otherwise you find out that some board meetings have 14 people in them and become totally unproductive.

New research by the Conference Board of Canada identifies several manufacturing industries that can expect growing U.S. demand and that are competitive in U.S. markets, but that do not yet have sufficient people and physical capacity to ramp up production.

«Peter is one of the two people... who has taught me the most about how to invest in startups,» Altman wrote, when Thiel came on board in 2015.

«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.

It's very common that low or mid impact issues are discussed at length at the start of the meetings and key issues are rushed in the final 20 minutes of a board meeting when people are tired or in a hurry to get to the next board meeting.

Prior to Tuesday, the most recent fatal accident came in February 2009 near Buffalo, New York, when an aircraft operated by the now - defunct regional airline Colgan Air crashed and killed 50 people, including 49 on board and one person on the ground.

Ari was named among the Top 20 Most Influential People in VoIP 2012 and currently serves on several boards, including the New Jersey Tech Council.

If you look at the composition of our board, the members are very well - informed people, with backgrounds in everything from IT to insurance.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

There are times when a given board member can't be in person.

There's no one single development that changes everything, but Katie's appointment changed our perception of what a bank board chair could look like, and this will change people's notions about cabinet in a similar way.

Auris Minerals chairman Bronwyn Barnes has disclosed that some of the people seeking to oust her had been negotiating a farm - in proposal last year without the knowledge of the company's board.

The one thing we took away was that, across the board, these people were looking for someone to show genuine interest in their businesses, not simply push them toward a sale.

Imagine sitting in a board room and one person is texting, the other is dazing out the window, and the other is grilling you about the why?

Most board directors don't attend in - person conferences.

But The Street struggled to get in touch with one board member, Rhoda Pitcher, and even questioned if she was a real person.

Early this week, Lululemon Athletica found itself in the news for a very peculiar reason: a news outlet questioned if apparel maker's longest - serving board member was an actual person.

Since being bought by the McCain family in 1995, Maple Leaf has lived through a tainted - meat tragedy that killed 21 people, a messy divorce with longtime shareholders and, recently, a near proxy battle and board shakeup.

United also extended a deadline for PAR and Altimeter to propose its own names for the board, and amended its bylaws in line with shareholder interests, two of the people said.

The company, which employs approximately 400 people in King's Cross, is perhaps best known for developing an AI agent that defeated the world champion of the ancient Chinese board, Go.

The short - term rental site has pledged that its next board hire will be female, saying that it is already in «serious discussions with a number of incredible people.»

In a statement Tuesday, Qantas Head of Fuel and Environment Alan Milne said the airline ranked poorly because «we use larger aircraft, fly very long distances and have premium cabins that naturally have fewer people on board.»

In practice, it's simple: A gate agent will announce to passengers in the boarding area that the flight is over-full or over-capacity (rarely have I heard them say «over-sold,» since that tends to piss people off) and they are looking for volunteers to take a later flighIn practice, it's simple: A gate agent will announce to passengers in the boarding area that the flight is over-full or over-capacity (rarely have I heard them say «over-sold,» since that tends to piss people off) and they are looking for volunteers to take a later flighin the boarding area that the flight is over-full or over-capacity (rarely have I heard them say «over-sold,» since that tends to piss people off) and they are looking for volunteers to take a later flight.

Board members and senior executives are ready to invest in people development and training.

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

In my thirty - year career, I've never seen a board room resolve not to invest in professional development because they don't care about peoplIn my thirty - year career, I've never seen a board room resolve not to invest in professional development because they don't care about peoplin professional development because they don't care about people.

These are people who've already bought in; they're as much stakeholders as anyone sitting on your board.

New York's three - person fast food wage board voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers, which it defines as working in an establishment with 30 or more locations.

Some job boards like WeWorkRemotely.com and Angel.co allow you to post jobs for people who are specifically interested in remote work.

«If you have a woman in a board meeting who is very direct, people may ascribe a particular adjective to her,» Frame says.

There were committees that scrutinized everything, from whether the windows would open, to where the white boards would go, to the type of furniture involved, including the option of getting standing desks... I became very interested in how all of this would impact how people interact with one another at work.

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 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.

Giving a presentation entitled «Navigating Ambiguity» on Wednesday at the Fortune, Time and Wallpaper * Brainstorm Design conference held in Singapore, the executive director of Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, also known as the d.school, observed that people seem to feel a heightened sense of uncertainty across the board — in politics, retirement, medical, disaster relief, even the weather.

Now, roughly 80 % of the city's population — nearly six million people — lives in these buildings, which are known as HDBs, from the name of the Housing and Development Board.

What's next In March Wanelo added the ability for retailers to claim store pages on the site; Urban Outfitters, Free People and ModCloth are among those that jumped on board early.

By moving in the direction of having publicly traded companies have a policy that includes consideration of gender representation on boards and in senior management, we hope that they will really take that issue seriously, that they'll consider how they're finding people to be on their boards, how they're moving women through senior management roles and making them eligible for boards appointments.

When I first joined the board [in 2010], there were two other women on the board out of 10 people.

Instead of assigning one person to handle social media, members of the management team chip in to update the salon's Pinterest boards and Facebook page, yet Lee says Twitter remains a challenge.

When I decided to come on board as a startup co-founder, I created a list of the best people to connect with to help guide me and (in some cases) tell me what I was doing was wrong.

«An advisory board of 10 people, each with 25 years experience, and they are in leadership positions in their companies — that creates huge credibility,» he says.

I now travel for board meetings and paid speaking engagements but almost never for a two - hour meeting because I have senior people in major markets who can represent the firm well.

The guest list included the several of the most successful people in the Canadian business community: GE Canada CEO Elyse Allan, Linamar CEO Linda Hasenfratz, T&T Supermarket's Tina Lee, NRStor's Annette Verschuren, GM board member Carol Stephenson, and foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland.

Trump has some strong views on the type of people who should be playing golf, in general, but the billionaire real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate is apparently on board with the PGA's plans to find a new venue for this year's Grand Slam.

But the fact that both kinds of reasons might occur to a single group of people — a Board of Directors — in a single situation implies an interesting question.