Sentences with phrase «when company president»

I am the assistant to the CFO and CMO and when the company President is in the office, I also work with him.

Toward the end of their E3 press conference last June, Nintendo made their fan - base drool with excitement when company president Satoru Iwata announced the next entry in the Super Smash Bros. series.

Grizzly Pet Products was founded in 2002, when company president Harald Fisker — whose background was in engineering, design and marketing for industrial fish - and meat - processing plants — realized that the salmon oil he saw being produced as a human - food byproduct could have excellent nutritional value for pets.

Not exact matches

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

When Sean Parker became president of Facebook in 2004, he was careful to ensure that the young Zuckerberg retained a sizable equity stake in the company.

It was so great to see that the numbers backed up my instincts and made me much more confident when presenting it to the president of the company.»

Mark Organ, chief executive of Toronto - based marketing startup Influitive, remembers being shocked when Price, president of a fast - growing software company at the time, offered to help him tweak his business model.

Small businesses across the United States may have grumbled when the president raised the hourly minimum wage on August 20, but at least one company is ecstatic.

When Branson isn't risking his body in a hot air balloon or a wetsuit, he looks after it by playing daily tennis matches and swimming, kitesurfing, and paddleboarding in the waters off Necker Island, often in the company of friends like Google co-founder Larry Page and President Barack Obama.

In 1997, when the first Toyota Prius went on sale in Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric cars would affect his company.

A spokesman for IBM said the company had «nothing to add» when Fortune asked whether Trump's immigration ban would alter Rometty's role on the president's advisory board.

But when former President Obama issued a memo during his term that encouraged banks to do business with the marijuana industry, this loosened up access to both some banks and payment processors for cannabis - related companies.

But by 1986, Lotus 1 -2-3 was getting neglected when Kapor stepped down as president and CEO of the company and handed the mantle to Jim Manzi.

Back when I was a newly minted company president, I made it a custom to bring issues to my team and ask them for input.

When everyone's under one roof, it's easier to bring everyone together for ice - cream socials and parties honoring the company's local ties, as well as for cofounders Dan Behm (president) and Jim VanderMey (chief innovation officer) to attend the events.

For example, when President Donald Trump issued a travel ban on immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations early in 2017, many companies took to social media to protest.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

Its bad luck began in January when the #DeleteUber movement led to a flurry of account deletions by customers upset about the company's ties to President Trump.

Navient said the CFPB filed suit because the company rejected an ultimatum from the agency to settle a near three - year investigation into it by Friday, when President - elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated.

As president, Trump also has the power to favor certain companies when it comes to government contracts.

In 2005, when Kevin Hughes joined the company as vice president of sales, large companies were beginning to invest more in worker training and were increasingly willing to outsource that task.

When Mark Wallace joined Medgate as president and CEO, he decided he would host a company party in his backyard every summer.

In January, Coinbase also hired Tina Bhatnager as vice president of operations and technology, an executive who played a crucial role in the company's latest customer service crisis last month, when many Coinbase customers were double charged for Bitcoin transactions.

It was early 2003 when Ken Austin, executive vice president of Marquis Jet, a New York City company that leases time in corporate jets, got a call from the producers of The Apprentice asking if he would be interested in a barter deal.

But the heat was really turned up this summer when the company's former vice president Whitney Wolfe sued Tinder, and parent companies IAC and Match.com, on charges of sexual harassment and sex discrimination.

(RIM president and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis simply smiled when we asked about reports that the company is working on a touch - screen BlackBerry).

According to Jennifer Brown, president and founder of Jennifer Brown Consulting, a workplace consulting firm in New York City, «Knowledge is power when it comes to your company's finances.

«When you look at the current demands for trucks and the scarcity of them, the market is terrific for us,» Dean M. Piacente, vice president of intermodal sales and marketing at CSX, said during the railroad company's March 1 investor day.

When Adidas North America President Mark King payed Fortune a visit in early 2015, he had a simple sales pitch: Despite recent sales woes because of design misfires, the German sportswear company could be cool again.

And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend of January 27, when masses of people started using it to protest the company's response to a New York taxi strike and CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.

The thing to keep in mind is that when you take care of workers, they take care of you, said workplace management software company Kronos vice president of business development Charles DeWitt.

«When you deliver the value your customers expect and you've verified that they recognize it, they see you as a very credible, valued resource,» Jeff Thull, president and CEO of Prime Resource Group, a strategy and consulting group that advises companies large and small, tells Inc.om.

When I became president of West Elm, the company had a narrow design vision.

Similarly, when CBS merged with Viacom in 2000, the company's bylaws gave Mel Karmazin, who was president and chief operating officer of the combined company reporting to Redstone, full operating control.

The accumulation of expertise and financial wherewithal along the way has allowed Lululemon to shrug off things like the departure of CEO Robert Meers (the one - time Reebok International president was replaced by Day, a 20 - year veteran of Starbucks and doubtless a better representative of the company's core customer) and the seaweed scandal of 2007, when clothing touted for its supposedly skin - friendly properties was found to contain none of the marine ingredient.

«The last company I started sold to Barry Diller for $ 120 million, I went to Harvard Business School, I have led massive companies,» says Foley, who was the president of Barnes & Noble's online division when he decided to launch Peloton.

Meanwhile, the company, which also owns clothing retailer Mark's, announced that Canadian Tire president Michael Medline will take over as CEO when Wetmore leaves on Dec. 1.

But none were prepared for the shock on Tuesday when they heard the President - elect had reached an agreement with the air conditioning company that would keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana.

«We are on the precipice of the first time I've seen in my career when we have demand - pull and supply - push happening at the same time to support almost $ 200 billion in infrastructure investment that's needed in the U.S.,» said Meg Gentle, president and CEO of LNG company Tellurian.

When Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM (ibm), strolled across the atrium connecting her company's New York City office building and Trump Tower for a meeting with the President - elect's incoming administration and tech industry leaders last month, she had a report in hand.

Jamie Shepard, senior vice president for health care and strategy at Lumenate, a Dallas - based solution provider and Dell partner, told CRN via text message that difficult decisions like layoffs are inevitable when two significant companies join forces.

Two former federal officials who crafted the landmark consent decree governing how Facebook handles user privacy say the company may have violated that decree when it shared information from tens of millions of users with a data analysis firm that later worked for President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Readers may remember late last month when CME Group president Bryan Durkin announced that the financial market company will begin offering bitcoin futures in the fourth quarter of 2017.

He and his top lieutenant Emil Michael, who was forced to leave the company just weeks ago, belittled and ridiculed Lyft's president for an hour when the two companies met to discuss a potential deal, according to a recent New York Times profile (paywall) of Kalanick.

When President Donald Trump withdrew U.S. support for the Trans - Pacific Partnership on Monday, he made it harder for American companies to compete.

When it comes to President Donald Trump's constellation of foreign investments, properties, and companies, much of the attention so far has been on his business's apparent violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause, which bars officeholders from taking gifts from foreign leaders.

«As a mom, I understand the importance of having options when choosing what to serve your kids,» said Melanie Huet, Vice President, Capri Sun, The Kraft Heinz Company.

He did note that it was well in the works when the company poached PayPal president David Marcus to run its Messenger division.

Infiniti will underpin its entire range with a single, new architecture when it switches over to electrified powertrains exclusively in 2021, the company's president recently...

«It's never too soon for young people to start thinking about managing their finances — no matter how difficult that is to contemplate when they've just graduated,» says Krista Neeley, a regional vice president of Appreciation Financial a financial services company.