Sentences with phrase «up to the board of»

It is doubtful whether the roster of the leading twenty - five companies would show a single Jew from miner to manager or on up to the board of directors.

It is up to the board of directors, CEO and CFO to loop everyone in and help them understand how their department's practices play a role in maintaining strong internal control.

While the ultimate disposition of this future multi-billion dollar cash hoard will be up to the board of the newly combined POT and AGU, my fifteen years of experience with POT's savvy chief financial officer (CFO) Wayne Brownlee gives me confidence that the company's culture is to apply capital to the best benefit of shareholders.

Not only does he seem qualified in the tactics and motivational department, but he is a winner and somebody that would stand - up to the board of directors in a positive way.

A-Participation in the National School Lunch Program is up to the board of an individual school district.

WELLINGTON (Reuters)- The chief executive of New Zealand's Fonterra said his future was up to the board of the world's biggest dairy exporter after human error resulted in some of its products being contaminated and shipped around the world.

In 2006, he moved up to the Board of Trustees and was then appointed deputy Mayor in 2007.

«If you're an insurance company or big bank, there is a framework there — you must have a chief risk officer and you have to have a risk structure in place; but for all the operational companies like VIA, it's up to the board of directors or upper management to decide to go ahead with risk management structure.»

Not exact matches

By upping his bid to $ 13.75, plus a special dividend of 13 cents a share, Michael Dell convinced the board to reverse a rule that said that any non-vote would count against him.

Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

The musician — real name Jayceon Terell Taylor — is sitting on the advisory board of Paragon, a tech firm that hopes to use the blockchain to shake up the marijuana market.

New research by the Conference Board of Canada identifies several manufacturing industries that can expect growing U.S. demand and that are competitive in U.S. markets, but that do not yet have sufficient people and physical capacity to ramp up production.

«What we're seeing across the board is that the consumer is finally beginning to open up a little bit, whereas post Great Recession, for years, it was sort of «is this for real or not for real»?»

There is another oddity at Barça too: The president and board members are required to put up 15 % of the club's yearly revenues as collateral when they're voted in, as a guarantee against possible losses.

Growing up in the 1990s, he watched as Chip rode the wave of beach and ski bum culture, flogging jackets, sweatshirts and board shorts from here to Japan.

«He may believe (possibly correctly) that the next day, trade ministers will be lining up in Washington to negotiate bilateral FTAs, ready to accept U.S. terms, thus handing him another victory,» Oonagh Fitzgerald, director of the international law program at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and Hector Torres, a member of the International Monetary Fund's executive board, wrote in an op - ed on January 30.

The numbers have nudged up from 15.9 % in 2013, when Catalyst Canada surveyed the number of women on Financial Post 500 boards, and new comply - or - explain regulations initiated by the Ontario Securities Commission will likely push the statistics higher now that companies are required to disclose female representation on boards and in senior management.

This activewear company's «Sweat of the Week» program allows employees to plan a weekly team workout — from stand - up paddle - boarding to flag football.

The latest National Energy Board forecasts for increases in oil sands production through 2025 roughly add up to what Keystone and Trans Mountain could handle, says University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.

The design they came up with featured a steel rod on either side of the boot to hold it and the rider tight to the board.

Pitch your company to several firms and try to simultaneously line up more than one offer, says Noam Wasserman, an entrepreneurship professor at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business (and a member of Inc.'s advisory board).

Some of the largest companies in the US are speaking out against a proposal by Bats, the stock exchange recently acquired by the Chicago Board Options Exchange, to shake up end - of - day trading.

One co-founder of a startup with a multibillion - dollar valuation told me he's so inspired by the Facebook CEO and his annual personal challenges, he listens to the soundtrack of The Social Network to psych himself up for board meetings and presentations.

In the summer of 1945, the six women were sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground to learn how to use IBM punch cards and wire up plug boards.

In March, ABC News captured footage of Donald Trump running up the stairs to board Air Force One — leaving behind his wife in high heels and a skirt.

If the board agrees to a deal with Blackstone, it would represent the biggest shake - up of Thomson Reuters since it was formed a decade ago by Thomson Corp's acquisition of Reuters Group Plc..

«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»

Whether you work for a start - up and are presenting to Angel investors or a big company presenting to the C - suite or Board of Directors, we spend a huge amount of our time making presentations.

According to Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila, the board of directors spent months looking, inside the company and out, for someone who could inject «oxygen» into management and «gear up» Nokia to be a top player in «all industry segments.»

In this Jan. 26, 2012 photo, members of the Megado frequent fliers group line up to board an American Airlines aircraft at Dallas - Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas.

«I raised $ 12.5 million and had to give up only 15 % of my company and one board seat to do it,» he says.

Wakatabe would join a board divided between those who favor maintaining or even ramping up the BOJ's huge monetary support, and those who want to eventually turn off the money spigot given the rising cost of prolonged easing.

Masciovecchio, who was born in the nearby village of Paganica, says he has lost all hope of ever returning to his former home and speaks bitterly as he walks around the boarded up houses and debris in the narrow streets where he used to live.

The board, too, has been restructured, with nearly half the members having been appointed by KKR, Pessina, or activist investor JANA Partners, which ended up with two seats and the right to veto a third after buying just 1 % of the company.

Also, consumer confidence didn't plunge: it held roughly steady according to the University of Michigan Index and jumped up according to the Conference Board, which uses a different gauge.

In a report last year, the Conference Board of Canada summed up Ontario's dilemma succinctly: «Either we become a leader in the development and commercialization of these technologies, or we rely on others to sell them to us.»

In an ensuing professional management program that Mathile signed up for in 1982, he was asked to write all of Iams's production and manufacturing struggles on white boards.

In an editorial titled «The President Is Not Above The Law,» the newspaper's editorial board said that it is up to the Republican - controlled Congress to affirm the rule of law.

The Vidyo team is from all walks of life, and our employees learn more every day about each other's diverse cultures, backgrounds and traditions, and face - to - face inclusion across the board constantly opens our managers up to new ways of approaching each challenge.

Dissident shareholders are seeking to shake up the board of Empire Oil & Gas at the energy company's annual general meeting next month.

Nomad Building Solutions» recently appointed non-executive director Heather Gardner has been promoted to chief executive officer, following a board shake - up that included the resignation of managing director Andrew Sturcke earlier in the month.

He points to activist investors as a particular thorn in the side of management, forcing it to focus on quarter - to - quarter earnings and giving up board seats instead of investing in research and development.

Future's innovations tend not to be the sort that draw a lot of headlines; for instance, in 2016 it implemented a new software platform to speed up the process of providing sales quotes for printed circuit boards.

«When I say I am accountable, I am talking about the actions the board took with my recommendation to take back much of my stock - based compensation, which make up much of my compensation,» Stumpf said.

The list of potential directors, chosen by a committee expected to be made up of sitting directors and search - firm consultants, will eventually be available online to assist boards looking for female directors.

It is an external, objective indication to patients, their families, hospitals, health systems, insurers, and other physicians that Board Certified physicians are up to date in their area of specialty medicine.

Marcato released a deck in April in which they outlined some of Buffalo Wild Wings» failures and urged fellow shareholders to vote for a board shake - up.

In his 2005 decision in the Disney shareholder case, Chancellor Chandler served up a stern warning to boards of directors according to a report by Reuters: «If neither the courts nor the markets are able to restrain executive compensation... the result will be imposition of regulatory controls.

In July, American Apparel appointed the first two women to its board of directors after its now ousted CEO got caught up in a sexual harassment scandal.

According to notices from the New York State Board of Law Examiners and the Colorado Supreme Court, users who show up with a Touch Bar - equipped model in those states will have to write their answers by hand, but they will be allowed to re-download the ExamSoft software to another machine for free if they do it in advance.