Sentences with phrase «served as a shareholder»

Duncan, 32, now serves as shareholder of Enterprise Products Partners and as a director of the Dan L. Duncan Family Foundation, whose donations exceed $ 200 million, and mostly go to medical charities.

Not exact matches

We feel very strongly as a company that our role and responsibility in addition to making money and building shareholder value, as you know, is to demonstrate a level of social impact in the communities that we serve.

Inside GE's 125,000 - square foot showroom for 3D printing machinery, shareholders called for ouster of directors who served on the board as GE's performance declined.

On the other side (social impact), the argument says that the community the business serves is also a shareholder and so deserves consideration as well.

Pearson, who also served as Valeant's chairman, has said that the company's responsibility is to maximize shareholder value.

«We do believe the current governance structure, with Jamie Dimon serving as both chairman and CEO, and an independent minded board, has served the shareholders well and is right for the company at this time,» said Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase's presiding director and the former CEO of Exxon Mobil.

Carlo Ferro is Executive Vice President, Finance, Legal, Infrastructure and Services, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of STMicroelectronics and has held the CFO position since May 2003, with temporary suspension during his tenure at ST - Ericsson, where he first served as Chief Operating Officer (February 2012 — March 2013) and then was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2013 to lead the re-organization to split up the joint - venture business and resources to the two shareholders and wind down the JV.

Goldman Sachs International served as exclusive financial advisor and Taylor Wessing LLP as legal advisor to Outfit7 and its shareholders.

If past serves as precedent, the battle to fight Amazon can be painful for a company and its shareholders.

The shareholders are ultimately the «boss» of the board in the sense that the board serves as their proxy for enhancing intrinsic value, yet boards typically hear about shareholder concerns indirectly and often not attributed to any specific shareholder.

Serving as CEO of a public company typically involves a lot more work than running a private startup, such as dealing with quarterly earnings calls, ramping up sales and marketing teams, while being transparent with shareholders.

Persson inherited his massive fortune and is still a shareholder of the company (his father, Stefan, serves as chairman of H&M and his older brother, Karl - Johan, is CEO).

He served as CEO of the software titan until 2000 and was its chairman and largest shareholder until 2014.

Along with a new independent chairman expected to be named later this month, the reconfigured board will effectively be controlled by shareholders — a shift expected to serve as a check on McClendon.

Ms. Devine served as President and Managing Director of a Norwegian affiliate of ExxonMobil from 1996 to 2000, and since 1988 held various corporate positions responsible for shareholder relations and governance issues, as well as international government relations with an emphasis on Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria and Russia.

«You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three,» Mr. Bezos wrote in his 1997 letter to shareholders, when the company sold only books, and which still serves as a manifesto.

She is active in numerous outside groups and shareholder coalitions focusing on responsible investment practices including the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment, for which she served as the Co-Chair of the Small Funds Initiative Work Stream.

From 2001 through October 2003, he served as Senior Policy Analyst for Proxy Voter Services, a division of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) serving the Taft - Hartley community.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Upon the completion of Mr. Breyer's term at the 2013 Annual Shareholders» Meeting, the Board will appoint another Independent Director to serve as presiding director.

Oclaro would be better served tying executive compensation to metrics such as economic earnings or ROIC that have proven links to shareholder value.

Mr. Hillman has previously served as Director of Answers (internet lead generation and search engine company) and founding shareholder and Board member of Hoover's, Inc. (public business content and research company).

Dr Leblanc has served as an external advisor to boards that have won national awards and peer endorsement from institutional shareholders for their corporate governance practices and has also acted as a corporate governance expert witness in recent years.

The move likely appeased Whole Foods» shareholders, who had been laying siege to the company's executives for relatively poor performance, but moreover it served as a harbinger of significant disruption in the grocery market.

Even misconduct involving only $ 50,000 could be seen as material to a leader's ability to serve a company's shareholders.

Previously, Mr. Mills served as Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MI Developments Inc. which is one the largest shareholder and operator of thoroughbred racetracks in the United States of America.

In other words, shareholders would follow a common procedure to vote «for» or «against» a candidate, and only those candidates who receive majority support would serve as directors.

We feel we serve as a shepherd of our concentrated stock portfolio and of our end clients / shareholders.

Igor Sechin, Rosneft's chief executive and a long - serving ally of Putin, said: «We welcome BP as the major shareholder of Rosneft, which will take part in shaping the company's strategy.

«We were attracted to Picard because of its history and the unique products it has developed,» says Vincent Tourigny, a shareholder in the unified company who also serves as its CFO.

It is the duty of the Board of Directors to serve as a prudent fiduciary for shareholders and to oversee the management of our business.

Through its Core Values, Tyson Foods strives to operate with integrity, create value for its shareholders, customers, communities and team members and serve as a steward of the animals, land and environment entrusted to it.

Blakeman, a Republican who has served on the town board since 2015, is a shareholder in PalliaTech, a Massachusetts - based biotech firm that plans to open a dispensary in Nassau, as well as in Orange and Queens counties.

We will be stronger in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world, even if we forego some short - term gains.

«Shareholders have the right to know if their investment dollars are being spent on political agendas that are not in the company's best interest,» DiNapoli, who serves as trustee of the $ 209 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund, said in a statement.

In that capacity, she's also served as a trusted advisor to many corporate management teams, helping them unlock shareholder value.

Steve serves as counsel to several corporations providing services ranging from corporate organization and shareholders agreements.

Mr. Ghosn will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and he will seek a renewal of his mandate at the company's general shareholders meeting in June 2017.

New York — Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., and Professor Ronald J. Gilson, who has been nominated by Pershing Square to serve as an independent director of Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT), expressed disappointment with Target's response to Professor Gilson's letter seeking the use of a universal proxy card, naming both Target's and Pershing Square's nominees, for use in connection with Target's upcoming Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

It has no profit motive, as it doesn't have any outside shareholders to serve.

It serves as the total value of the company's assets that shareholders would theoretically receive if a company were liquidated.

May they serve us well as shareholders!

In an effort to better serve our investors, Green Century has selected Atlantic Shareholder Services as the Transfer Agent and shareholder Shareholder Services as the Transfer Agent and shareholder shareholder services...

«We believe this will best serve customers — both those seeking homeownership and those who face mortgage challenges — as well as our shareholders and the communities we serve.»

David Kass, a professor at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business who studies Buffett and is a Berkshire shareholder, notes that customer devotion to Apple products and services almost serve as an annuity.

Henry Tippie serves as Chairman of the Board of Dover Motorsports, as well as controlling Trustee of RMT Trust (Dover's largest shareholder), and in these capacities exercises control over 54.4 % of the combined voting power of the two classes of the Company's common stock.

Ceros Financial Services, Inc., located at 1445 Research Boulevard, Suite 530 Rockville, MD 20850, serves as principal underwriter for the Tree Ring Stock Fund and maintains all records required to be maintained pursuant to the Fund's Master Distribution and Shareholder Servicing Plan and Agreements adopted pursuant to Rule 12b - 1 under the 1940 Act.

The investment adviser and its affiliates have agreed to maintain the «net operating expenses» of each of the funds (including shareholder servicing fees and acquired fund fees and expenses, but excluding interest, taxes and certain non-routine expenses) at [X.XX %] for Investor Shares and [X.XX %] for Institutional Shares for so long as the investment adviser serves as adviser to the funds.

The Board has concluded that each of the trustees should initially and continue to serve on the Board because of (i) his or her ability to review and understand information about the Trust provided to them by management, to identify and request other information they may deem relevant to the performance of their duties, to question management regarding material factors bearing on the management of the trust, and to exercise their business judgment in a manner that serves the best interests of the trust's shareholders and (ii) the trustee's experience, qualifications, attributes or skills as described below.

Between 1981 and 1992 Mr. Foudy served as Executive Director of the Arizona Public Service Company Shareholder's Association, later the Pinnacle West Capital Corporation Shareholder's Association.