Sentences with phrase «sitting at the board»

Yannick Bolloré, 38, already sits at the board of Vivendi and heads advertising group Havas, which was absorbed by Vivendi last year.

That is how she remembers him best, sitting at the board and having fun playing games.

When it comes to improving the number of women who sit at board tables, Casey says while she believes discrimination is still an issue, the solution is a two - way street.

Not exact matches

Investors sit on many boards and have many other job tasks so often if you get a deck the day before and you're in back - to - back meetings and a dinner you're only likely to have a cursory look at the materials prior to meeting.

Facebook, where Thiel sits on the board, has been at the center of calls for greater regulation in recent months.

To compensate for limited counter space, I have to sit down at our kitchen table to prep any food, and it's just far enough away from the stovetop to mean some food might fall off the cutting board and onto the ground en route.

In December 1991, at the end of another killer snowboard run at California's Squaw Valley, the two friends sat — yet again — to remove their boots from the large, bear - trap - like bindings holding them to their boards.

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.

At 24, he returned to Japan to start Softbank and the rest is history, except for one interesting twist: Years later, Son actually managed to get his childhood hero, Fujita, to sit on Softbank's board of directors.

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 IBoard of Directors of STS, the Company's manufacturing joint venture in China, and holds board memberships at ST's affiliates in France and Iboard memberships at ST's affiliates in France and Italy.

A few years ago, Schwartz was a guest at the annual meeting of Baron Capital, where he was introduced to Yemenidjian, who sits on the mutual fund?s board.?

(His wife, Carol Reiley, is the company's former president and also sits on the board; they met at a robotics conference.)

In Canada and the U.S., the number of women on boards of publicly traded companies sits at about 20 %.

Two weeks ago, the teams sat down at their first collective board meeting in Denver.

CB: You sit on boards at Bank of Montreal, Onex and George Weston.

Never mind that Amazon owned a significant stake in Drugstore.com at the time and that Bezos sat on its board.

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.

An investor sits in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Beijing.

«It has to be something that says you didn't just sit at a white board and you decided it was fun to start a company and you came up with ideas to start something,» Kupor says.

Though he still sits on the company's board, Gates — whose net worth sits a league above the rest at $ 87.4 billion — is no longer actively involved in Microsoft.

At both the individual and firm level, we volunteer time, sit on boards, and launch and underwrite impactful visions.

It has raised $ 83 million and has nearly half that amount in the bank, said Ethan Kurzweil, a partner at Bessemer who sits on the startup's board.

Rick Osterloh, SVP of hardware at Google, sits on Lytro's board.

In addition, Mr. Baird currently sits on the advisory board of Barrick Gold Corp., the corporate boards of Canadian Pacific, FWD Group and PineBridge Investments, is a Global Strategic Advisor to Hatch Ltd. and is a Senior Advisor at Eurasia Group.

At one time, he sat on six corporate boards.

Mahtani also sits on the board of TiE Singapore and is a mentor at JFDI.Asia and CRIB Singapore where she works with early stage startups

Martin, a former director of global business strategy at Google with more than 20 years of experience advising companies on how to drive growth, was certainly qualified to sit on a board.

After leaving the Justice Department last May, she now teaches a class on cryptocurrency at Stanford's business school, with economist Susan Athey, and sits on the board of Coinbase, one of the biggest crypto exchanges.

Carroll became a partner at Social Capital in 2015 and settled into the standard investor's life: visiting founders, sitting on a handful of boards, leading three investments.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

Author Bio: Patrick O'Brien sits on the ESOP Association Canada board of directors and is one of approximately 50 employee owners at Metcalf Archaeological Consultants.

Catherine is a co-founder of the Vancouver chapter of Women in Capital Markets, is a member of the Portfolio Review Committee for the Beedie Endowment Asset Management program at Simon Fraser University, and sits on the SFU Business Dean's Advisory Board.

Beyond her role at George Brown, she also sits on the boards of numerous organizations, which give her a 360 - degree perspective on the social and economic challenges facing the GTA.

Ms Broadbent is a career banker who left her senior executive position at Bankers Trust to become a non-executive director; she sits on the boards of Woolworths and Swiss Re.

I sit on a bunch of boards at companies I am invested in.

He was formerly an adjunct professor at New York University and currently sits on the board of United Cerebral Palsy of New York.

Mr. Hodgson currently sits on the boards of The Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) where he chairs the Investment Committee which oversees net investments of $ 99.5 billion as at September 30, 2014, KGS - Alpha Capital Markets, The Global Risk Institute, The Ivey School of Business and The Next36.

Mr. Natale currently sits on the Board of Directors at The Hospital for Sick Children, Celestica, Inc., Soulpepper Theatre Co. and the campaign cabinet of the United Way Toronto.

Overnight comments from the US Fed saw the USD sold off across the board and the Aussie dollar rallied back above yesterday's open to sit this morning stronger at 0.7835.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who was seen wearing a FuelBand at the company's launch of the iPad Mini in October 2012, sits on Nike's board, and has for the last nine years.

They are aimed at trying to cast doubt on science with lay people, many of whom sit on boards which allot funding into this research.

«At first the physical discomfort of sitting cross-legged on the floor, sleeping on a hard board and readapting to an Indian way of life made concentration difficult.

Jeremy Yang, a senior at Harvard who sits on the board of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship, said his group offers a place where faith and culture intersect.

But while Tanya is a church deacon and a board member at the new Kentucky Baptist Seminary in Lexington, Berry's relationship to the church may be more like that of his fictional character Jayber Crow, who attends church but sits in the back pew.

Leave everything at @hm and buy BLACK... they will take our dollars but won't let us sit on board of directors.»

He has held senior executive roles at Kraft Foods, where he was President of the Company's European business and sat on the global operating board, The Coca - Cola Company and Reebok International.

So sitting perfectly at room temperature on the cheese board are a buttery brie — Cremeux D'Argental — Delice de Poitou, a young Goat's cheese with a slightly tangy, salted ash coating, a strong Tasmanian Cheddar — Ashgrove Farm Cheese — and a sneaky English blue — Colston Bassett Stilton.

As I write this post, I'm sitting at LAX waiting to board a flight to St. Louis.

Remove your perfectly - roasted tenderloin to a cutting board and let it sit for at least five minutes before slicing it across the grain into ready - to - eat medallions.

Transfer to a cutting board and let rest at least 10 minutes (pork will come to 145 ° as it sits).