Sentences with phrase «was an independent director»

Jason is an Independent Director on the board of Australia's Sleep Health Foundation where he assists the national charity in its aim to increase community awareness of the importance of sleep for both physical and mental health.

Daniel R. DiMicco is an independent director of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp..

James F. O'Neil III is an independent director of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp..

Richard Burns is an independent director of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp..

Mr. Charles E. Bunch is Independent Director of ConocoPhillips.

Ms. Caroline Maury Devine is Independent Director of the Company.

Peter Shea is an independent director of Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp..

Ms. Gay Huey Evans is Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. Eric G. Johnson is Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. Mathew M. Pendo is Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. Philip L. Francis is Independent Director of the Company.

Ms. Mary A. Winston, CPA is Independent Director of the Company.

The Board is currently led by a non-executive Chairman, Raymond J. Lane, who is an independent director.

Of the Board's 15 nominees, 14 directors, or 93 %, are independent directors, and the Board has an actively involved and independent Lead Director who works closely with the Chairman and CEO and, among other things, approves Board meeting agendas and schedules.

He was Independent Director of Infosys Limited.

The Board may elect to require that all directors, with the exception of the Company's Chief Executive Officer or former Chief Executive Officer, be independent directors.

For the foregoing reasons, the Board believes adoption of a policy to require the Chair of the Board to be an independent director would not enhance shareholder value.

All members are independent directors under the Nasdaq and SEC compensation committee structure and membership requirements.

All the members are independent directors under the Nasdaq and SEC audit committee structure and membership requirements.

In our view, the Chairman should be an independent director to promote robust oversight of senior executives, and to foster accountability of management to the Board, something that is difficult to accomplish when the most senior member of management also serves as the Board's leader.

And there was an independent director to handle the sale and the ultimate dissolution of the entity.

Mr. David Lilley is Independent Director of Tesoro Corporation.

Mr. Paul L. Foster is Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. Rodney F. Chase CBE, is an Independent Director of Tesoro Corporation.

Mr. Jeff A. Stevens is Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. William H. Schumann, III is an Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. Jimmy W. Nokes is an Independent Director of the Company.

Mr. Brent Callinicos is an Independent Director of Baidu, Inc., since October 2015.

Mr. Yuanqing Yang is an Independent Director of Baidu, Inc., since October 2015.

Ms. Barbara M. Baumann is Independent Director of the Company.

Mr Rayner is an independent Director and is an Australian resident.

Annie has a variety of other roles and responsibilities outside of SMU, including being a board member and an audit committee member for the Central Provident Fund Singapore, chairing the Asian Bond Fund 2 Supervisory Committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, chairing the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council for Southeast Asia, and being an independent director in a few funds and family businesses.

· ability to read and understand basic financial statements; · general understanding of the Company's industry; · relevant expertise upon which to be able to offer advice and guidance to management; · ability and sufficient time to devote to the affairs of the Company; · excellence in his field; · ability to exercise sound business judgment; · commitment to vigorously represent the long - term interests of the Company's stockholders; and · an absence of factors that would preclude the Board from making a determination that the candidates are independent directors as defined in Rule 4200 (a)(15) of the rules of the NASDAQ Stock Market.

Prichard has been an independent director of BMO since 2000 and upon shareholder approval at BMO's annual meeting in Halifax on March 20, 2012, the company intends to appoint him to the chairman's position to replace the retiring David A. Galloway.

Not exact matches

Dauman, backed by the company's independent directors, has already gone to court to assert Redstone lacks mental capacity to make business decisions and is being unduly influenced by Shari.

Keith Tully has worked in corporate recovery since 1992 and currently is a Partner with a leading independent UK business rescue firm www.realbusinessrescue.co.uk With 35 offices across the UK they have a wealth of knowledge and expertise to support and advise company directors who are facing financial distress.

He said repeatedly that the Board will be responsible for making decisions about governance, leadership and succession, and he hand - selected a group of trusted advisors and independent directors to fulfill this role.»

Richard Leblanc is a corporate governance lawyer, speaker and independent advisor to leading boards of directors.

«Email is one of the only platform - independent contact mediums out there,» says Mike Veilleux, director of email product at Dyn, a Manchester, N.H. - based internet infrastructure and email delivery service.

The problem with paying independent directors this way is that there is little incentive for personal performance or company performance.

However their point is excellent in that independent director compensation is flawed.

«British officials have worked with a number of people in the Secretariat, including Director - General Roberto Azevêdo, who have explained a wide range of WTO rules including things like independent schedules in goods, services and agriculture and how these schedules could come into being,» Keith Rockwell, spokesman for the WTO, told CNBC via email.

There were several arguments against this proposal (see here and here), but the proposal itself points to a disconnect between how independent directors are paid.

This is the reason for government inspectors and, most importantly, a competent and independent board of directors to approve the control regime to begin with.

MSN's Kevin Thomas, director of advocacy, says the fact the accord is independent of government should help allay such fears.

Cargill claims to be the largest private company in the U.S. in terms of revenue and, although private companies like Nilsson Brothers and Cargill are not required to have independent directors, forward - thinking ones do such as McCain Foods.

Former Alinta executive John Cahill has been made an independent non-executive director of Perth - based uranium developer Toro Energy.

Richard Leblanc is a governance lawyer, academic, speaker and independent advisor to leading Canadian and international boards of directors.

«We do believe the current governance structure, with Jamie Dimon serving as both chairman and CEO, and an independent minded board, has served the shareholders well and is right for the company at this time,» said Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase's presiding director and the former CEO of Exxon Mobil.

Arianna Huffington, who serves on Uber's board of directors, also tweeted that she'll be working with Ms. Hornsey to make sure the probe is «independent.»