Sentences with phrase «tech executive in»

Edmonton police charge former tech executive in multimillion - dollar fraud case, Canadian Press

Brad and I had such a positive experience that we've committed to now leading a delegation of VC and tech executives in the Bay Area as soon as we can coordinate it.

Tech executives in Idaho, for example, are calling for the repeal of a 2016 noncompete law — one of the most restrictive in the nation — that impedes an employee's ability to change jobs.

«Law enforcement officials described him as stung by what they called Mr. Cook's «rant,» although tech executives in the room insisted that Apple's chief executive was respectful.

The Apple executive joined fellow tech executives in December 2016, before Trump officially entered the White House, at a session designed to foster a peace between the new president - elect and some of his most outspoken critics.

Not exact matches

Then there's this comment by a female tech executive McClure quotes: «There's a special place in Hell for women who «make it,» but aren't willing to turn around and help their peers who haven't.»

«While C - level personnel changes are important, Twitter has also been quietly hiring experienced tech executives — mostly from Google — for other departments,» Rao writes in a January 2013 Greencrest report on Twitter, which was made available to Inc. «The hiring of these seasoned executives suggests a possible positioning for an initial public offering in the next 12 to 18 months, in our view.»

The claim: After Trump met with Japanese tech billionaire Masayoshi Son, the chief executive of SoftBank, on Dec. 6, 2016, the two announced that Son would invest $ 50 billion in the U.S. and create 50,000 new jobs.

-- BlackBerry plans to forge stronger partnerships with others in the tech industry and build better relationships with longtime business customers as the smartphone company attempts to turn around flagging operations, chief executive John Chen says.

U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order banning travellers and refugees from seven predominantly Muslim countries has stoked ire and concern from tech communities down south and here in Canada.

(Pascal Pilon, a Montreal tech executive, later invested in Landr and joined as CEO.)

While addressing tech executives at a White House - sponsored summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University, Obama said it is «hard» to navigate competing imperatives in the digital world's «sort of Wild Wild West.»

This was Hamilton's dream job, but she noticed that many of the artists and music executives she admired were investing their music money in tech.

The tech executive said policy restrictions will make it more difficult for companies in the U.S. to remain competitive.

«Last year, Parkwood Entertainment created new departments and recruited new executives from the tech, business and entertainment sectors who joined the team to help grow Parkwood and its interests,» Beyoncé's rep, Yvette Noel - Schure, said in a statement to Page Six.

Now, as the Trump administration threatens to withdraw the U.S. from the deal, many tech executives, including executives at Tesla, HPE and Salesforce, are urging President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. in the agreement.

It took a while to learn the skills that would ultimately make me a senior executive in the high - tech industry and then, a successful management consultant, but I can attribute everything good that happened to me over the next 20 years to that fateful day and the relationships I've built since.

At Stanford, his connections landed him opportunities to meet major players in tech, including Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube.

Asian tech employees, though the largest racial cohort in the industry, were the least likely to be promoted to manager or executive roles.

Earlier this November, Cornell Tech, a joint venture between Cornell University and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, said Denise Young Smith would join the engineering school as its executive - in - residence starting Jan. 2018.

The mentors with whom the companies are paired for an hour at a time — VCs, tech executives, and angel investors — review the statements in advance, and come prepared for an in - depth discussion of how specifically to move the business forward.

When Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo's chief executive one year ago today, the world knew her as a woman who could pretty much write her own ticket in the tech industry.

But over a career at the highest levels in corporate finance, Porat has been equally unflappable, navigating physical obstacles and fighting great metaphorical discomfort — the race - the - clock stress of the financial crisis, the tension of negotiations among big - ego executives, and now the culture clash of imposing financial discipline at tech's biggest idea factory.

The day after Trump signed the executive order, CEO Travis Kalanick released a statement that was relatively in line with other tech companies.

Those battles are still being fought by three - dimensional women in the engineering departments of tech companies, in political campaigns, and in the plush offices of VCs and studio executives.

The tacit endorsement of the event by top U.S. tech executives comes as China introduces strict new rules on censorship and data storage, causing headaches for foreign tech firms permitted to do business in China and signaling that restrictions banning others are unlikely to be lifted any time soon.

Square shares the same building Uber in San Francisco and Friar is one of a handful of high - powered C - level female executives within the tech world.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 - Reddit Inc, the tech firm behind one of the most popular websites in the world, said on Thursday it had hired former Time Inc executive Jen Wong as its chief operating officer.

Many graduates accept jobs in the tech industry, where notable alumni include YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and a number of Google executives.

As any local tech company grows, it must eventually confront the fact that the Canadian talent pool, in terms of both executives and engineers, is much smaller and less educated than those in Silicon Valley, Seattle or New York.

The NBA star has partnered with former NBC executive Stuart Goldfab to create M7 Tech Partners, a venture capital firm that will invest in early - stage startups.

And Zuckerberg could be part of a wave of tech executives seeking office in 2020: Y Combinator head Sam Altman is considering a gubernatorial bid in 2020 and Mark Cuban has flirted with the idea of running for president.

In most recent news Carmelo, the eight - time All Star and two - time Olympic champion has partnered with former NBC executive vice president Stuart Goldfarb to launch M7 Tech Partners, an early - stage seed fund for digital media and consumer technology.

Before joining private equity firm Capital Advisors as an executive vice president, she had worked at a couple of tech companies — including as CFO of General Magic, a spin - off from Apple (AAPL) that closed in 2002 — and in all of those positions her job was to obsess over quarterly results, meeting demands of investors.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this month became the latest tech executive to demonstrate, at best, a lack of understanding of the systemic discrimination facing women, suggesting that women not ask for raises in order to have «good karma.»

That was current GoDaddy chief executive Blake Irving, writing in Fortune this month about «why women are so turned off by the tech industry.»

McDonnell, who has years of experience in senior executive posts in the tech world, stepped into the top job four years ago and moved quickly to create a sales - oriented ethos at the firm.

Colin Gillis, tech analyst at BGC Partners in New York, said BlackBerry Chief Executive Officer John Chen did a good job controlling expenses to boost the company's cash pile.

Steckler was a great candidate for renting space at an executive suite or office business center — furnished buildings in which tenants share a common administrative staff, the use of conference rooms, and high - tech accoutrements (videoconferencing and high - speed Internet access).

President Trump has already received blowback for his decision to ban immigrants from seven Muslim nations, and a potential executive order could have the tech community up in arms.

In November, BuzzFeed reported that an Uber executive, Emil Michael, had suggested using the company's customer data to dig up dirt on long - time tech reporter, Sarah Lacy, who is known for being critical of the startup.

He's a technology executive who has scaled B2C and B2B tech companies in mobile, social, e-commerce, and advertising.

But Lauder and others stressed that in the end, tech executives and non-tech executives alike would be most likely to provide financial and intellectual support to causes that they flet most passionate about.

Michalska was paired with Kasha Cacy, CEO of Universal McCann U.S., who connected her to executives at some of the biggest tech companies in the world.

Former Cisco marketing executive Catherine Muther founded the WTC to help female entrepreneurs compete more effectively in high tech.

Before moving to Vegas, he was the executive director at tech accelerator BoomStartup in Salt Lake City.

According to a recent Inc.com interview with Poshmark co-founder Tracy Sun, executives might not be the only men in the tech industry occasionally oblivious to female - focused business opportunities.

He has been described as steeped in the tech industry, close to executives, and is married to an executive at an Amazon - owned e-commerce company.

The fund comes during a tumultuous year for the venture capital and tech industries as they deal with sexism scandals that have resulted in the ouster of notable investors and executives at firms like Ignition Partners and startups like Uber and SoFi.

Health IT and electronic medical records specialist Allscripts» chief executive is out with a new op - ed in Healthcare IT News, ahead of this year's HIMSS conference (the biggest health tech and digital infrastructure meeting of the year).