Sentences with phrase «test company ceos»

It's time legislators and policy makers started listening to teachers rather than test company CEOs.

Not exact matches

In November 2013, the FDA sent 23andMe cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki a stern warning saying that the company's tests and health reports, which it was already selling straight to customers, were unapproved medical devices that hadn't been cleared by the agency.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

Matt de Silva, CEO of drug testing firm Notable Labs, said he co-founded the company after his father was diagnosed with multiple glioblastomas and was excluded from many trials because of the nature of his condition.

The company's CEO Anne Wojcicki said in an interview that her company's research demonstrates that patients can understand genetic testing results.

After five long years of innovation, research, and testing, David Dickinson, CEO of start - up Zeo, based in Newton, Massachusetts, was confident that the product his company introduced last year»» a personal sleep monitor that gathers data from brain waves during sleep»» was unlike anything on the market.

-- Fred Stevens - Smith, co-founder and CEO of QA testing company Rainforest QA, a Y Combinator company that raised $ 25 million in funding earlier this year with a team spread across 16 countries on five continents

When I think about that QA testing software company, and he's probably calling a thousand CEOs, and he's probably got a hundred sales reps over there, and they're just destroying their brand.

At last year's Brainstorm Health conference in San Diego, Bergh found himself sitting at dinner with Othman Laraki, the cofounder and CEO of Color Genomics — a company that extracts the DNA from a customer's submitted saliva sample and then looks for a set number of gene mutations known to be associated with increased risk for developing certain hereditary cancers or heart conditions (depending on the test).

«It turns out 4 to 5 percent is enough of a discount for shoppers,» CEO Marc Lore said, discussing the results of tests the company ran over the past few weeks by raising the prices of some products.

These people should test and push, so CEOs are forced to question the decisions that they're making and plan for the inevitable ups and downs that building a company will bring.

But then the CEO of Needls, a Toronto - based creator of marketing automation software for small businesses, approached him to beta - test the company's product.

Their most famous ad showed Tim (now the company's CEO) submitting to a run through the car wash to test a Columbia parka, at his mother's behest.

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.

Mircea Capatina - CEO ✮ Engagement growth hack In the desktop version of our product, Invoicing Software, we introduced a test database so when the user installed and opened Smart Bill it had 2 options: to configure the product with its company's data or to test it with dummy data.

A U.S. health regulator has barred blood - testing company Theranos Inc.'s founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, from operating a lab for at least two years, the latest blow for a company that is under scrutiny for the accuracy and quality of its tests.

Theranos also faced allegations that most of its tests were in fact performed with traditional lab machines, not its proprietary Edison device, prompting potential sanctions against the company's CEO, Elizabeth Holmes.

With industry and situational experience necessary for success so varied between companies, offering some sort of qualifying test for CEOs was ruled out as a possibility.

Under Muhlhauser — who joined the company in 2005 and became CEO the following year — Celestica is focused less on such «commoditized» products and instead establishing itself in new, higher - margin fields where major players currently do the majority of design, testing, manufacturing and quality control themselves.

Ducey said in a letter to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised concerns about the company's ability to safely test its technology in Arizona.

Management Auto Manufacturers The Volkswagen emissions scandal, which saw the company fudge emissions tests to make its cars appear less polluting, has resulted in a new CEO appointment, the suspension of key executives and a proposed group restructure.

Ducey told company CEO Dara Khosrowshahi that video footage of the crash raised concerns about the company's ability to safely test its technology in Arizona.

We tested out the Beam app for ourselves and spoke with Beam's CEO to find out how the company plans to offer interest rates so far above the industry average.

Ranga Reddy, CEO and co-founder, Maveric Systems, software testing company which provides lifecycle assurance for software applications

The labour dispute is the first major test new CEO Ed Sims will face as head of the company.

«The issuance of the drilling permit and plans for Phase 1 exploration drilling program at Copper Duke is a milestone for the company as it represents the beginning of testing of one of the world's best undrilled gold - copper porphyry targets,» said Core Gold CEO Keith Piggott.

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) has built 130 autonomous Chevrolet Bolt test vehicles in a factory setting and is deploying them in three American cities, CEO Mary Barra said Tuesday.

In many cases, the primary reason to establish a COO position is to groom — or test — a company's CEO - elect.

The new tool is based on an earlier one that the company tested out in fall 2011 during the battle in Ohio over public sector unions, said Stuart Trevelyan, NGP VAN's CEO.

«Some companies like to test and see how well your community is prepared, if what you put in the package, the response to the RFP or whatever they're asking for, matches up with your ability to deliver it,» Tom Kucharski, Invest Buffalo Niagara President & CEO, said.

Markus Moser, CEO of Prionics, a BSE test manufacturer in Zurich, Switzerland, says his company and the National Institutes of Health in the US have developed the eQuIC assay, which detects prions at low enough levels that «in hamster and sheep, it works as a blood test».

«Being the first and only direct - to - consumer genetics company to receive FDA authorization to test for cancer risk without a prescription is a major milestone for 23andMe and for the consumer,» Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.

Steven Laken, the president and CEO of Cephos Corp., the company in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, that conducted Semrau's tests, said the company would press ahead with efforts to admit lie detection fMRIs as evidence in court.

The company's innovation is to combine the best of two worlds: «in vivo testing at the scale of in vitro,» says CEO Gregory Lemkine.

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged Theranos and CEO Elizabeth Holmes with fraud, capping off a remarkable downfall for a once high - flying company that promised to revolutionize the blood testing industry but instead became a parable for Silicon Valley hype and hubris.

Blue Origin's CEO says he expects the company's BE-4 engine to complete qualification testing by the end of the year as the company ramps up work on its New Glenn orbital rocket.

Karina Drees is the CEO and General Manager of Mojave Air & Space Port, home to numerous companies manufacturing and testing airplanes and space equipment.

According to Dr. John McKeon, the CEO of Allergy Standards, Ltd. (ASL)-- a physician - led certification company that prepares independent standards for testing a wide range of products to determine their suitability for asthma and allergy patients — this means your products could contain unsavory characters.

The Big Idea: The rich CEO of a search engine company invites one (un) lucky staff programmer to visit his isolated home to see and test out the humanoid robot with artificial intelligence he's been working on.

But the heist, it turns out, was merely a test engineered by Pym, who needs a new Ant - Man to infiltrate his old company, whose current CEO (Stoller) is about to unleash global chaos by beginning production of his own shrinking - soldier costume, the Yellowjacket.

As CEO of Edgenuity, a company that offers online and blended learning programs delivered by highly qualified teachers, Factor is putting that belief to the test.

PRICE AS TESTED: $ 22,870 Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota Motor Company, has talked a lot about making mainstream cars more exciting and youthful.

If the company can weather the recall crisis, it will have a battle - tested CEO who's comfortable in the public eye.

Volkswagen's scandal over cheating on U.S. emissions tests has expanded to 11 million cars worldwide, has cost the company $ 26 billion in shareholder value so far, and has already claimed CEO Martin Winterkorn, who announced his resignation on Wednesday.

It was initially thought the company would be unveiling an SUV to rival Bentley's upcoming 4x4, but Rolls - Royce CEO Torsten Müller - Ötvös told the media that the new model being undergoing testing is a drophead: «We are currently developing an exciting and thoroughly contemporary interpretation of a pinnacle drophead tourer».

«We have a lot to learn, but I'm excited to say that it's working, and it's working in a manner that we believe can scale across the country,» Overdrive CEO Steve Potash said, adding that the company was looking for other libraries and consortia that would be interested in working on the pilot test.

The facility comprises of a 3800m ² clean room area, for backplane processing and test and assembly processes as well as a pilot production line for large area, smart, flexible electronic applications on plastic substrates,» says the company's CEO Tim Burne.

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has said that as BlackBerry 10 enters its final stages of testing, the company is looking at how to deploy it in other areas, saying that «the platform can be licensed.»

«Based upon these test findings, we decided to become a totally «sludge - free» company,» Edwin Lelands, AWF president and CEO, said.

The recall is a direct result of the company having received an undisclosed number of owner complaints that their dogs and cats were vomiting and / or suffering kidney failure - related issues from eating its products, but exhaustive tests by both internal and external specialists have so far failed to identify the specific problem, according to the CEO for Menu Foods, Paul Henderson.