Sentences with phrase «winning seats on the board»

CEOs need to be devising strategy, working with board members, energizing organizations, and dealing with shareholders, but most leaders are ill prepared to handle an activist shareholder who comes at the company with a proxy fight and wins seats on the board.

The sale of Garantia was a blow to Lemann, but it left him with cash to invest, so he started buying shares in Gillette, the razor manufacturer, and won a seat on the board.

Newcomer Scott Jacobson, who was backed by the Horatio Gardens Homeowners Association, won a seat on the board.

A year after easily winning a seat on the board, few are still laughing.

Jaffe ran another unsuccessful campaign for Harrison Town Council in 2015, when Republicans won every seat on the board.

Ticonderoga Town Councilman David Woods won re-election, with Joyce Cooper and Health Towne winning seats on the board, 662 and 334, respectively.

Not exact matches

Marcato, which owns 6.4 percent of Buffalo Wild Wings, won three seats on the company's board in June after a sustained campaign criticizing its performance under Chief Executive Sally Smith.

Arby's restaurant owner Roark Capital Group will buy Buffalo Wild Wings for $ 2.4 billion, months after an activist investor won seats on the chicken wing restaurant's board following a proxy fight demanding management change.

The deal comes months after an activist investor won seats on the restaurant's board following a bitter boardroom battle.

Procter & Gamble is fiercely battling to keep Trian Partners» Nelson Peltz from winning a board seat at its annual meeting on October 10th.

When he is denied a seat on the board, Biglari initiates a proxy fight in an attempt to win a board position and change the direction of Cracker Barrel's strategy.

Residents of public school districts throughout the state will head to the polls on May 15 to decide the fate of annual budgets and also to vote for board members seeking re-election or wishing to win a seat.

His first experience with local politics came in 2007 when he won a seat on the Mattituck Park District board of commissioners, running on a reform platform.

His win on Tuesday means his seat will become vacant as of January, when all four members of the new town board will be Democrats.

Democrats in East Hampton Town swept the races for town supervisor and town board, with Peter Van Scoyoc winning a decisive victory over his opponent, Manny Vilar, in the race for supervisor, and his running mates, incumbent Councilwoman Kathee Burke - Gonzalez and Jeff Bragman, an attorney, handily winning their bids for two seats on the town board.

Mr. Ghosio, who will replace Republican Chris Talbot on the Town Board, was far from the only candidate to win an open seat Tuesday.

Democrat Nick Krupski won the first seat on the Board of Trustees by nearly 800 votes and, in the tightest race of the night, incumbent Republican Dave Bergen leads for the second seat by just five votes over running mate Glenn Goldsmith in another race too close to call.

Kathee Burke - Gonzalez, who won a seat on the East Hampton Town Board in November 2013 running on a platform of curbing excessive noise, and who is the board's liaison to the airport, said she was looking forward to «having a plan put in place over the next few months and see restrictions effected for the 21015 season.&rBoard in November 2013 running on a platform of curbing excessive noise, and who is the board's liaison to the airport, said she was looking forward to «having a plan put in place over the next few months and see restrictions effected for the 21015 season.&rboard's liaison to the airport, said she was looking forward to «having a plan put in place over the next few months and see restrictions effected for the 21015 season.»

She left the Trustees after a winning a seat on the Town Board last November.

CHESTERTOWN — A mother of two who campaigned on boosting academic standards and improving the local school board's relationship with the community has won a seat on the North Warren Central School Board of Educaboard's relationship with the community has won a seat on the North Warren Central School Board of EducaBoard of Education.

In Shandaken, Democrat Kevin VanBlarcum, 27, won a seat on the town board.

In 2013, Kerin won a seat on the DeWitt Town Board in her first election for public office.

Molly McDermott (D) won a seat on the Truxton Town Board by a 55 % -45 % margin over Douglass Potter (R).

Among those nominated: Freeport trustee Debra Mule for the 5th District seat being vacated by Curran; Eileen Napolitano for the 13th District seat being vacated by retiring presiding officer Norma Gonsalves (R - East Meadow), and Joshua Lafazan, who in 2012 won a spot on the Syosset Board of Education at age 18, against incumbent Legis.

TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO Al Krupski won the special legislative election and he resigned from his seat on the Southold Town Board.

And that's only because if he hadn't won, and subsequently resigned his seat on the Southold Town Board, Jim Dinizio wouldn't have been appointed to replace him.

Jenkins, a leader in Democratic politics for over 20 years, won his 16th District legislative seat for a third full term November 9, 2011 and was elected once again by his peers to become Chairman of The Board of Legislators and was sworn in on January 9, 2012.

After Republican Bob Ghosio won in his bid for Town Board earlier this month, his seat on the town's Board of Trustees will become vacant.

He ran for and won a seat on the Town of Tonawanda Town Board.

In the September 13 primary, De La Rosa will take on incumbent Guillermo Linares and George Fernández, the former Chair of Community Board 12, in attempt to win the Assembly seat.

Supporters of the opt out movement won 52 seats in Tuesday's school board elections on Long Island.

NY POST - June 24 - Osmium, which owns 14.2 % of Spark Networks» stock, was on track to win four of the company's six board seats and oust management.

In local elections this month, four out of five candidates supported by the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association won seats on the nine - member board.

Ref Rodriguez, the co-founder of a charter school, won a seat on the school board in Los Angeles this week.

Rodriguez won the seat, and charter supporters won a new ally on the board.

As Howard Blume notes in the Los Angeles Times, the school board has traditionally leaned anti-charter, but supporters of charter schools have a good chance to win a majority of seats on the board.

The three open seats on the regional board went to: John Clearwater, an independent, who had 801 votes; Richard Godfrey, who had been appointed to the board earlier in order to fill a vacancy and won 428 votes; and David Robbins, a member — but not a formal candidate — of a newly formed parent group in the community that is calling for revisions in the school system's mathematics curriculum.

By now, you've heard that Anne Rowe and Allegra «Happy» Haynes won seats on the Denver Public Schools board, and that incumbent Arturo Jimenez narrowly claimed victory over reformer Jennifer Draper Carson.

Unionized charter teachers would have the right to help elect CTU officers and win seats on the larger union's influential executive board and its larger House of Delegates.

On the flip side, the proponents of recent educational reforms won 7 of 8 elected seats on the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESEOn the flip side, the proponents of recent educational reforms won 7 of 8 elected seats on the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESEon the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE).

They won seats in 2013 on the five - member board and moved quickly to institute controversial school reforms, including a merit pay system for teachers and an educator evaluation system that used student test scores.

Yesterday's elections were not just about winning seats on the LAUSD board; they were about a vision of ensuring there is a public school system in which all district and charter students have access to high - quality public schools.

Despite a successful push by charter school advocates to win a majority of seats on the Los Angeles Unified school board, it's is unlikely that there will be a major expansion of charter schools in the state's largest school district within the foreseeable future.

A lot has changed in the 20 years since Rocky Treppiedi won a seat on Spokane Public Schools» board of directors.

Breeden recently led a dissident shareholder group to win three seats on the board of tax preparation and accounting services company H&R Block Inc..

For European Christians, the great green saint was Francis of Assisi, who communed with birds, snakes and wolves in such a way that he could very likely win a seat on the Sierra Club board of directors today.

I did not win a seat on the Harvard Board of Overseers this year, despite the enthusiastic support of so many people, including the 315 of you — my original core supporters — who signed my nomination forms, and the 11,700 alumni who voted for me.

Lawyers Harvey A. Silverglate (pictured) and Robert L. Freedman were unable to garner enough votes to win seats on Harvard University's Board of Overseers, one of two bodies that govern the prestigious university.

A deal, however, does not come to fruition, but Equity does win two seats on Ramco's board in May.