Sentences with phrase «sit on the boards»
He dabbled in other industries, including film and television, but never left the energy sector entirely, continuing to sit on boards for oil companies and teach geophysics.
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Ravichandran has founded other successful businesses focused on business - process outsourcing and web security, and sits on the boards of a number of growing companies.
Arianna Huffington, an advocate for women and the CEO of a wellness company, also sits on the board.
Johnson also sits on the board of Personal Capital.
Facebook, where Thiel sits on the board, has been at the center of calls for greater regulation in recent months.
He's held three chief executive posts and sat on boards including Telus, Visa Canada, Citizens Bank Canada.
Sits on the board and consults numerous startups, including tech platform Frenzy, inside the USC accelerator program
The Microsoft cofounder gets a daily news digest with a wide array of topics, and he gets alerts for stories on Berkshire Hathaway, where he sits on the board of directors.
The former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley (ms) has been tangled up in issues at LendingClub (lc), the online lending company where he has sat on the board since 2012.
These are people who've already bought in; they're as much stakeholders as anyone sitting on your board.
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.
«It's highly anomalous to have a CFO sit on the board of a publicly traded company,» he says.
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.
(His wife, Carol Reiley, is the company's former president and also sits on the board; they met at a robotics conference.)
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.
May also called for big changes to who sits on boards so that they include employees, as is the case in some European countries: «In practice, [board members] are drawn from the same, narrow social and professional circles as the executive team and — as we have seen time and time again — the scrutiny they provide is just not good enough.
She currently sits on the board of directors and coaches for Brookline Soccer Club, serves on boards of advisors to Northeastern University, Bentley University and ALPFA.
Our other cofounder and head of product Aaron Welch has a background in technical theatrical production and sits on the board of the Obie Award Winning Bushwick Starr Theatre in Brooklyn.
Today Hughes is the nation's leading urban media specialists and still sits on the board of Radio One.
She is an Australia Day Ambassador for Western Australia, sits on the Board of Directors of the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance Western Australia, and is the Founding Director of the Whande Group, a premier diversity consultancy and program development organisation specialising in global diversity.
He sits on the board of trustees for the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and volunteers for the Preble Street Resource Center in Portland.
Schmidt asked Woodman as they sat on their boards waiting for a wave.
He was the first president of CBS Digital and sits on the Boards of Discovery Communications, Inc., American Media Inc., Freedom Communications, Inc., Appinions, Inc., Black Arrow Inc., and Harvard Business School Publishing.
He also sits on the Board of Directors, and in May 2015 he made a donation of $ 133,000 to the foundation to make up for funding it had lost as a part of the austerity measures put in place by Governor Bruce Rauner to address the state's $ 1.5 billion budget deficit.
CB: You sit on boards at Bank of Montreal, Onex and George Weston.
He has two businesses, owns two dozen properties, is an art dealer, and sits on the board of another organization.
Never mind that Amazon owned a significant stake in Drugstore.com at the time and that Bezos sat on its board.
He also sits on the board of Heinz, a role he added when 3G Capital bought the ketchup maker in 2013.
I received an awards banquet invitation from Shad, a non-profit organization where I sit on the board.
Writing a in a blog post published on Thursday, Gurley — who sits on the board of companies like Uber — discussed the current start - up environment and trends that are concerning him.
Hoag and Barton also sit on the board of Avvo Inc..»
The startup also announced that it raised $ 25 million in funding, led by Breyer Capital, whose CEO sits on the board.
She also serves on the board or advisory board of a slew of other start - ups and sits on the board of the Palo Alto - based Center for Venture Education and the University of Hawaii, Maui College.
She chairs the board of trustees for Ariel Investment Trust and sits on the boards of several notable companies, from Starbucks (SBUX) to Dreamworks (DWA).
His daughter doesn't sit on the board.»
He sits on the board of directors for the Advertising and Design Club of Canada.
Sitting on boards is not just a means for investors to monitor their investments; it's also a formal platform from which to offer expertise and value without interfering in day - to - day operations.
Fortune has learned that Redstone and his representatives (including Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, Sumner's longtime personal attorney) have been in discussions with Shari, his one - time heir apparent, and her lawyers about reducing her influence in the affairs of CBS and Viacom, where she sits on both boards as non-executive vice chairman.
She sits on the Board of Trustees of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and on the corporate board of directors of the Waters Corporation and GlaxoSmithKline plc..
While my other investments were doing well, I couldn't tell a story about being a long - term investor who sits on boards eight years until an IPO.
I don't understand it, because I see white - haired men sitting on these boards falling asleep and drooling.»
He has no desire to sit on boards or get involved in company direction.
Even if she doesn't become chairman at the next opportunity, she'll be sitting on the Board of Governors for a good while longer.
People who sit on your board have the power to make big time decisions, and these people are key to your company's success.
He currently sits on the board of directors for Bear Creek Mining Corp. and True Gold Mining Inc..
Wrixen is also an active investor in SaaS businesses, sits on the board of numerous exciting SaaS start - ups, including MageMail and MRR Media and is and a member of the Forbes Finance Council.
Mr. Brickman and his wife, Patrice, are involved in many philanthropic causes, including Neediest Kids and Visible Men, where Mr. Brickman sits on the Board, the National Center for Women and Children, Stepping Stones Shelter, the Barbara Bush Foundation Celebration of Reading and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
In the past, Schmidt sat on the Board of Governors for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, has also served as Director of INHOUSE Attainable Housing Society of Calgary, and Director for Elkhorn Resources Inc..
Todd serves as Vice Chairman of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, and sits on the board of Opportunity Education Foundation.
At both the individual and firm level, we volunteer time, sit on boards, and launch and underwrite impactful visions.