who elects the board of directors for a publicly traded company
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full membership, which usually vote for the members of the board. In a stock corporation, non-executive directors are voted for by the shareholders and the board is the highest authority in the management of the corporation. The board of directors appoints the chief executive officer of the corporation and sets out the overall strategic direction. In corporations with dispersed ownership, the identification and nomination of directors (that shareholders vote for or against) are often done by the board itself, leading to a high degree of self-perpetuation. In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, the board is the supreme
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of over 35 employees during the last three years, the employees are entitled to elect among themselves a number of members of the board of directors equal to half the members of the board of directors elected by the shareholders or appointed by third parties. Aktieselskab Aktieselskab (abbr.: ⅍, A/S or a/s, Unicode U+214d ⅍; literally meaning: "stock company") is the Danish name for a stock-based corporation. An "aktieselskab" may be either publicly traded or private. The shareholders of an "aktieselskab" are not liable for the debts of the company. This can be used to protect the assets of the
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share in the ownership of the company, a fraction of the decision-making power, and potentially a fraction of the profits, which the company may issue as dividends. The owner may also inherit debt and even litigation. In the common case of a publicly traded corporation, where there may be thousands of shareholders, it is impractical to have all of them making the daily decisions required to run a company. Thus, the shareholders will use their shares as votes in the election of members of the board of directors of the company. In a typical case, each share constitutes one vote.
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somewhat surprising at the time, as the relevant provisions in Table A (as it was then) seemed to contradict this approach rather than to endorse it. In most legal systems, the appointment and removal of directors is voted upon by the shareholders in general meeting or through a proxy statement. For publicly traded companies in the U.S., the directors which are available to vote on are largely selected by either the board as a whole or a nominating committee. Although in 2002 the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ required that nominating committees consist of independent directors as a
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ICDC Investment Company Limited, whose shares were listed on the NSE. In 1998, with the Government of Kenya having sold some of its majority shareholding, ICDC Investment Company adopted a new management structure, handing over day-to-day management to an independent professional managerial team, supervised by an independent board of directors elected by the shareholders. In 2007, the shareholders changed the name of the company to Centum Investment Company Limited. The shares of Centum Investment Company Limited have been publicly traded on the NSE since 1967 and on the USE since 10 February 2011. Plans are underway to crosslist the company
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to the strata title or condominium in other countries. No title deeds are provided, except for agricultural land. Share blocks are linked to portions of the company's real estate property, and the shareholder acquires the right to use property linked to their share block. A general meeting of shareholders is held every year. The shareholders, numbering about 400 as of 2017, vote for the company's board of directors. The eight people on the board of directors form the village council (Dorpsraad). The board of directors elects a chairperson, who serves as the town's mayor, and an executive officer who is
Orania, Northern Cape
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Partner of Filangieri Capital Partners, a New York firm making private equity and venture capital investments and offering corporate finance and strategic advisory services. Also in 2007 Greco was elected to the Board of Directors of Mediware Information Systems (NASDAQ: MEDW), a publicly traded medical software company. In 2008 Greco was elected to the Board of Directors of Finmeccanica SpA (MILAN: FNC), a publicly traded global aerospace, defense, and energy company with $25 billion in revenues. In addition, Greco serves on the boards of directors of several privately held companies and a global private equity investment group with more than
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Audit committee In a U.S. publicly traded company, an audit committee is an operating committee of the board of directors charged with oversight of financial reporting and disclosure. Committee members are drawn from members of the company's board of directors, with a Chairperson selected from among the committee members. A qualifying (cf. paragraph "Composition" below) audit committee is required for a U.S. publicly traded company to be listed on a stock exchange. Audit committees are typically empowered to acquire the consulting resources and expertise deemed necessary to perform their responsibilities. The role of audit committees continues to evolve as a
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committees having a mix of external expert members and internal members. Audit committee In a U.S. publicly traded company, an audit committee is an operating committee of the board of directors charged with oversight of financial reporting and disclosure. Committee members are drawn from members of the company's board of directors, with a Chairperson selected from among the committee members. A qualifying (cf. paragraph "Composition" below) audit committee is required for a U.S. publicly traded company to be listed on a stock exchange. Audit committees are typically empowered to acquire the consulting resources and expertise deemed necessary to perform their
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of Directors from 2000 through 2008. Chalk, an industry leader in mobile learning management systems was sold to Research in Motion (RIM)/Blackberry in January 2009. He also served for twelve years (1998-2010) as member of the Board of Directors of Braintech, Inc., a publicly traded vision guided robotics company. Prior to his affiliation with Chalk, Speros was President and Chief Executive Officer of Sideware Systems, Inc., a customer relationship management software company which traded publicly in the United States and Canada. Under Speros’ leadership, the company had twelve offices across North America and reached a market capitalization of $1.8 billion.
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hired internal auditors to ensure that the company adheres to required standards of internal control. The internal auditors are required by law to report directly to an audit board, consisting of directors more than half of whom are outside directors, one of whom is a "financial expert." The law requires companies listed on the major stock exchanges (NYSE, NASDAQ) to have a majority of independent directors—directors who are not otherwise employed by the firm or in a business relationship with it. According to the Corporate Library's study, the average size of publicly traded company's board is 9.2 members, and most
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the company is publicly traded on the Moscow Exchange, leading the company to have many minority shareholders (more than 76,000 individuals in 2007). In early March, 2008 the Board of Directors of KAMAZ was elected, which included 15 people, including: The mayor of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny (April 2010 - Prime Minister of Tatarstan) - Ildar Khalikov, head of the management Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) - Ivan V. Aksenov, and the Director-General of the "Russian Technologies State Corporation" Sergey Chemezov. KAMAZ Publicly Traded Company has more than 110 subsidiaries and affiliates, it owns shares in the
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by 2008. Failure to comply resulted in fines or company closures. Full compliance was achieved by 2009. The percentage of female board members has since remained between 36% and 40%. Iceland and Spain have introduced legislation requiring 40% of female board representation on publicly traded companies. Finland requires 40% of state owned enterprises to have female directors for 40% of their board seats. The Netherlands requires public companies with more than 250 employees to have female directors for 30% of the board seats. In France, a bill was passed in 2011 requiring 40% female directorship by 2016. This quota is
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and Improvement Company, which was then renamed Alico (an acronym for Atlantic Land and Improvement Company). In 1961, Ben Hill Griffin, Jr. was named to the board of directors of Alico, Inc, which then became a publicly traded corporation engaged in citrus fruit, sugarcane and sod production, cattle ranching and forestry. Griffin acquired a majority of the outstanding stock of Alico in 1972, and became chairman of its board of directors in 1973. Griffin, Jr. passed away in 1990 and was succeeded by his son Ben Hill Griffin III. Griffin III would go on to donate 760 acres of the
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mostly company outsiders, as is customary for publicly traded companies. Members of the board of directors as of June 2014 are: Robert W. Alspaugh("Director"), Karen Austin("Director"), Paul Galant("Director; Chief Executive Officer"), Alex W. (Pete) Hart("Chairman of the Board of Directors"), Robert B. Henske("Director"), Wenda Harris Millard("Director"), Eitan Raff("Director"), Jonathan I. Schwart("Director"), Jane J. Thompson("Director"). Under the Corporate Governance Guidelines of the company, the Board is free to select its Chairman and company's CEO in the manner it considers to be in its best interests at any given point in time. Since 2008 the positions of Chairman of the Board and
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a publicly traded company that manufactures infrared optical sensors and emitters used in office machinery and automobiles. In 1993, he was recruited by another publicly traded company, Aerovox, to become general manager of their EMI filter business unit. At Aerovox, he was eventually promoted to chief financial officer, working with financial institutions, investment bankers, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the board of directors and shareholders of the company. In 2003, Hunt established his own CPA practice in Sandwich. It is a firm focused on small businesses, individuals, and non-profit corporations. Hunt was invited to join the Town of Sandwich's
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condition of listing, nomination committees have historically received input from management in their selections even when the CEO does not have a position on the board. Shareholder nominations can only occur at the general meeting itself or through the prohibitively expensive process of mailing out ballots separately; in May 2009 the SEC proposed a new rule allowing shareholders meeting certain criteria to add nominees to the proxy statement. In practice for publicly traded companies, the managers (inside directors) who are purportedly accountable to the board of directors have historically played a major role in selecting and nominating the directors who
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board of directors made up of mostly company outsiders, as is customary for publicly traded companies. Members of the board of directors as of January 2018 are Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, Lee Johnson, Teri L. List-Stoll, Charles Noski, Helmut Panke, Sandi Peterson, Penny Pritzker, Charles W. Scharf, Arne Sorenson, John W. Stanton, John W. Thompson and Padmasree Warrior. Board members are elected every year at the annual shareholders' meeting using a majority vote system. There are five committees within the board which oversee more specific matters. These committees include the Audit Committee, which handles accounting issues with the
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$25 million. In 1957, Field's son, John Warner Field, persuaded the company's board of directors to oust his 73-year-old father, and the younger Field took over as chief executive officer. Field remained active with the company as the chairman of its board of directors from 1957 to 1973. The company became publicly traded in 1961 and changed its name to Warnaco Inc. During the 1960s, the company acquired several other apparel companies, including the Hathaway, Lady Hathaway, Puritan and Thane brands. In 1968, the company achieved sales of $185 and profits of $77 million. The company evolved from a manufacturer
John Field (American football)
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equipment, and medical electronics. IDWK is managed day-to-day by an executive group composed of members from both China and the United States. As customary for a publicly traded company, IDWK is also overseen by a board of directors that votes on important company decisions. The executive chairman and chief executive officer both hold positions on the board of directors. International Display Works International Display Works, Inc. () manufactures and designs liquid crystal display LCD products internationally though its factories in the People's Republic of China. Its products are found in the telecommunications, automotive, medical, computing, home appliance, and consumer electronics
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Foundation Board 1992 until 1994. She also served on the Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation Board from 1994 until 2000 and on the Board of Governors of Saint Christopher School from 1999 until 2005. Kyle was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of PRA, Inc., a publicly traded company, and has been since 2005. Kyle became Radford University’s sixth, and first female, president when she took office on June 1, 2005. On March 30, 2015, Kyle announced that she would retire as
Penelope W. Kyle
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has reenergized and dramatically expanded the size of the Palmas del Mar community, as president of the real estate and resort development company, Palmas del Mar Properties, Inc,(PDMPI) for almost a decade. PDMPI is the Master Plan developer for this coastal resort community. He is President of the Board of Directors of Palmas del Mar Utility, Inc which operates this community's water system and also is the President of the Palmas del Mar Architectural Review Board. He was elected in 2007 to the Board of Directors of Triple S Management Corp. (TSM), one of the largest Puerto Rican publicly traded
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Company. He guided the company through WWII and post-war building projects. Gilmore was responsible for bringing renowned Chicago-based architecture firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, to Kalamazoo for the construction of Upjohn Company Corporate Headquarters (Building 88). Gilmore’s greatest legacy is negotiating The Upjohn Company’s 1958 transition to a publicly traded company. On October 24, 1958, The Upjohn Company’s board of directors voted to recommend public ownership of the company. On December 11, 1958, the Board voted for a twenty-five to one stock split, and Gilmore negotiated a $45.00 price per share. On January 5, 1959, The Upjohn Company was “formally
Donald S. Gilmore
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Company, a publicly traded manufacturer and distributor of haircare and skincare products. In January 2008, Barone was elected to the Board of Directors of the Brentwood Foundation. The Brentwood Foundation, now part of the Cleveland Clinic Health Organization, was established in 1994 as a charitable trust dedicated to the promotion and advancement of medical education, clinical research, and community initiatives that impact health and wellness in the field of osteopathic medicine. In fall 2008, Barone was elected to the Board of Directors for the Hospice of the Western Reserve. He began serving his tenure in January, 2009. Prior to being
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outlet developer to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. "Real Estate by Inc. Magazine" named Tanger as "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1994. Tanger remained chairman of Tanger's board of directors until his retirement from a daily role with the company on August 7, 2009. He resigned as chairman of the board in September 2009, but remained a member of Tanger's board of directors until his death in 2010. Tanger and his wife, Doris Tanger, a breast cancer survivor, Stanley Tanger, a resident of Greensboro, died of pneumonia on October 23, 2010, aged 87. He was survived
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elected to the Board of Directors, Barone provided financial and investment consulting services to the organization, which provides hospice services throughout Northeast Ohio. On March 31, 2009, Barone was elected to the Board of Directors of Mace Security International. Mace Security International is a publicly traded company which offers personal defense sprays, home and business surveillance and security, automotive security and child safety and security. Dennis Raefield, CEO and President of Mace at the time, said "we are excited to have Mr. Barone as a member of the Mace Board as he was elected by a unanimous vote. Mace is
Richard A. Barone
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Real Silk Investment Company, a publicly traded regulated investment company, until its sale to Lord Abbett Affiliated Funds. Stein is a board member of New Classrooms as well serving as treasurer of Chalkbeat, a leading non-profit education news outlet for New York City, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis and Detroit. He serves on the board of directors of Stand for Children, a national education advocacy organization, and the Moriah Fund, a private foundation. Gideon Stein Gideon Stein (born December 19, 1971, in Washington, DC) is an entrepreneur and education activist. He is the founder and CEO of the digital literacy company LightSail
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of these when it became part of the publicly-traded ANGI Homeservices Inc. in 2017 which is 90% owned by IAC IAC's board of directors consists of the following members: IAC (company) IAC (InterActiveCorp) is an American holding company, that owns over 150 brands across 100 countries, mostly in media and Internet headquartered in New York City. Joey Levin, who previously led the company's Search & Applications segment, has been the company's Chief Executive Officer since June 2015. IAC was established in 1986 as Silver King Broadcasting Company, as part of a plan to increase viewership of the Home Shopping Network
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January 2001, Coughlin was elected to the board of directors for ChoicePoint, a publicly traded data aggregation firm. That same year, he was elected to the Walmart board of directors. In August 2002, he was also given the title of CEO for Sam's Club USA. The following April, he became executive vice president and vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. On December 6, 2004, Walmart announced that Coughlin would retire effective January 24, 2005. When Coughlin's retirement was announced, Walmart praised Coughlin for his longtime success at the corporation. Walmart CEO Lee Scott said in a company-issued press release, "Tom
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the flame shape in boilers, kilns, and furnaces, preventing pollution from forming. ClearSign was formed in Seattle, Washington in 2008. Its first chief executive officer was Richard Rutkowski, who also became chairman of the board of directors. Rutkowski was a co-founder of projection technology company Microvision and nanotechnology company Lumera. In 2012 ClearSign held an initial public offering which, according to the company, raised $13.8 million. ClearSign chose to delay adopting accounting standards required of publicly traded companies under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, taking advantage of exemptions in the JOBS Act designed to make it cheaper for development-stage companies to raise
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but by 2008 a majority of the members were not based in the U. S. Each member company is entitled to put one representative on the Board of Directors. The Board then elects an Executive Committee that directs the detailed business through the President and the Secretary of the company. The president is elected by the Board of Directors. A Technical Advisory Committee, which also has one representative from each member company, oversees the research program. This committee elects a chairman and a smaller Technical Committee. The Technical Committee works with the FRI Technical Director (a full-time employee of FRI)
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Corporate structure A normal corporate structure consists of various departments that contribute to the company's overall mission and goals. Common departments include Marketing, Finance, Operations, Human Resource, and IT. These five divisions represent the major departments within a publicly traded company, though there are often smaller departments within autonomous firms. There is typically a CEO, and Board of Directors composed of the directors of each department. There are also company presidents, vice presidents, and CFOs. There is a great diversity in corporate forms as enterprises may range from single company to multi-corporate conglomerate. The four main corporate structures are Functional,
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known as Milestone Partners. From 1997 until 2005, Mr. Kahane was on the Board of Directors of Catellus Development Corp, and served as Non-Executive Chairman from 1999 to 2001. In 2006, Kahane co-founded American Realty Capital Advisors, an investment manager that sponsored traded and non-traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). The company, which was later renamed AR Capital (ARC), raised up to $12.8 billion of equity for nine REITs that were launched as vehicles whose shares would not be traded on any public exchange, as well as the publicly listed American Realty Capital Properties, which was later re-branded as VEREIT.
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corporate boards, many university and government advisory committees, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and holds 22 U.S. patents. He is a member of the board of directors of publicly traded HEICO, an aerospace and defense electronics company, and was a former board member of Sun Electric Company and of Rohm and Haas a Fortune 500 chemical company. He received several honorary doctorate degrees including a 2001 honorary degree in science from Penn State, and in 2005 he was named a Distinguished Alumnus, the highest honor the University can bestow on its graduates. He also holds
Alan Schriesheim
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a wedding gift from his father, and built it into a citrus business empire. In 1961, Griffin was named to the board of directors of Atlantic Land & Improvement Company, Inc., the land-holding subsidiary of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and commonly known as "Alico." Alico, Inc. became a publicly traded corporation engaged in citrus fruit, sugarcane and sod production, cattle ranching, and forestry. Griffin acquired a majority of the outstanding stock of Alico in 1972, and became chairman of its board of directors in 1973. Griffin was also chief executive officer of Ben Hill Griffin, Inc., a family-owned business
Ben Hill Griffin Jr.
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subsidiary of a British television production company and a vast range of smaller ventures. Bannerman has served on several Boards of Directors over the years, both publicly traded and private companies. Principal among these was the Board of the BC Ferry Corporation from 1989 until 1992. After leaving CKNW, Bannerman and B.C. Premier Bill Vander Zalm seriously discussed a full-time Principal Secretary position in the Premier's Office. Instead, he began accepting consulting assignments in 1989 from associates who operated large corporate enterprises. The business was fundamentally engaged with communications strategy and long term planning. Associates provided expert services for graphic
Gary Bannerman
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Iceland. From 1999-2005, she became her country's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Nashandi has been the Acting Non-Executive Chairman of the Board at Trustco Group Holdings Limited since 2006. Trustco Group Holdings is a publicly traded company which provides micro-insurance and financial services. In November 2007, Nashandi was named to the board of directors of Africon, a Namibian engineering firm. At the time of her appointment, she was the only female on the board. At the September 2009 SWAPO party conference, Nashandi was placed 30th on the SWAPO party list for the coming elections for the National
Monica Nashandi
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publicly traded companies. From 1994 to 1998, Orman founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Kappa Energy Company Inc., an international energy exploration company active in Yemen, Columbia and Egypt. In 1999, Kappa merged with Vanguard Oil Corporation, where Orman sat on the Board of Directors until 2000. In April 2003, he co-founded Exceed Energy Inc. and served as Vice-Chairman until September 2005. He was founder, Director and Chief Executive of NOR Energy AS from 2005–2011, a private company with assets in the North Sea, Tanzania, Australia and Czech Republic. He was also Board Director of Novatel Inc. (NASDAQ)
Rick Orman
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managed by General Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor of the United States. Richard Greco Jr. is the Vice Chairman of the Board and head of Investor Relations of Euro Mec Water Group, a global water treatment and purification company with installed treatment plants in more than thirty countries, mostly in emerging economies and providing clean water to more than one million people. He also is the Chief Executive Officer of Euro Mec's global concession and North American businesses. In 2014 Greco was elected to the Board of Directors of AnalytixInsight, a publicly traded company offering comprehensive fundamental equity analysis
Richard Greco Jr.
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additional offices stretching along the I-95 corridor from Washington, DC to Boston; and in Chicago. In May 2010, Jay led an investment in the publicly traded bank holding company Atlantic Coast Financial Corporation, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, which wholly owns Atlantic Coast Bank. Sidhu was appointed to the Board of Directors (still serving), and also served as the Chairman of the Board until April 2012. During the second half of 2013, he led an effort by Atlantic Coast Financial Corporation to raise capital through a public offering, which resulted in the company successfully raising $48 million (with net proceeds of
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liquid storage facilities for petroleum products in Nigeria with a capacity of over 60,000 metric tones located at Apapa Wharf and Ibru Jetty Complex, Lagos. In May 2018, Ibeto Cement Company Limited announced a reverse merger with Century Petroleum Corporation, a United States (U.S.) publicly-traded petroleum exploration and production company in a move to enter global markets and bypass the complex process of listing. Ibeto acquired a 70% controlling stake of the company and Cletus Ibeto was subsequently made the Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2008 Ibeto received the national honour of Officer of the Order of the
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Bruce Levenson Bruce Levenson is an American businessman, former NBA team owner, and philanthropist. He was a co-owner of Atlanta Hawks, LLC (formerly Atlanta Spirit LLC), which owns and operates the Atlanta Hawks basketball team and Philips Arena. Levenson has also served as the Hawks' Governor on the NBA Board of Governors since 2004. Levenson co-founded United Communications Group (UCG) in 1977. He was a founding board member and is on the Board of Directors for the publicly traded TechTarget, an IT industry media company. Bruce Levenson was born to a Jewish family in Washington, D.C. and grew up in
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to include operational and academic solutions for higher education institutions. While the company is led by an independent management team and Board of Directors, the involvement of the Wiley family is ongoing, with sixth-generation members (and siblings) Peter Booth Wiley as the non-executive Chairman of the Board and Bradford Wiley II as a Director and past Chairman of the Board. Seventh-generation members Jesse and Nate Wiley work in the company's Professional/Trade and Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly businesses, respectively. Wiley has been publicly owned since 1962, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1995; its stock is traded
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of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. He is on the board of directors for Burton Snowboards and previously served on the boards of Hudson Guild and the World Policy Institute. David B. Golub David B. Golub is an American business executive. He is the CEO of publicly traded Golub Capital BDC and president of its parent company Golub Capital. Golub is also the first Chairman of the Board for The Michael J. Fox Foundation where he also serves as the organization's Director. Golub attended Harvard College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, "magna cum laude". He received an MPhil
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the data center management business. On July 1, 2010, Questar Market Resources (QMR) exploration and production business was spun off to form a new publicly traded company, QEP Resources, Inc. (). QEP established its company headquarters in Denver, Colo. Questar Corporation's board of directors elected Ron W. Jibson as president and CEO. On October 19, 2014 Tesoro Logistics LP agreed to buy QEP Resources Inc.’s natural-gas pipeline and processing business for $2.5 billion in cash to expand its business in the Rocky Mountains and North Dakota. It was announced on February 1, 2016 that Dominion Resources, an energy company based
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MAKO Surgical Corp. MAKO Surgical Corp. was a publicly traded medical device company based in Florida. On September 25, 2013, the Board of Directors of Mako Surgical accepted a deal to be acquired by Stryker for $1.65B. The deal closed in December 2013. Founded in 2004, the company manufactures and markets surgical robotic arm assistance platforms, most notably the RIO (Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System) as well as orthopedic implants used by orthopedic surgeons for use in partial knee and total hip arthroplasty. They are known for their intellectual property of devices and have over 300 U.S. and foreign patents
MAKO Surgical Corp.
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resigned in March 2009, he was Chairman Of AuthentiDate Holding Corp., a United States publicly traded company. He served on the board of directors of several companies including Bentley Pharmaceuticals. Johnson also served on the advisory board of Power Corporation of Canada. Johnson maintained homes in La Jolla, California; and Jupiter, Florida. He was made a trustee of Duke University and served on the advisory councils of several universities. The Distinguished Visitors Program at the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of the United States was endowed by Johnson in 2001. Johnson died on December 29, 2016 at his
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the Department of Accounting at Howard University. Her past employment also includes positions as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of an engineering firm, a tax manager at a major public utility company, and an accountant with a Big-Four CPA firm. Glover has been a corporate board member of three publicly traded corporations. She served as Chair of the Audit Committee or Financial Expert on each board. Dr. Glover serves as the International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, and is a member of its board of directors. She is the author of more than one hundred articles
Glenda Glover
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Cartoys Car Toys, Inc. is a medium-sized chain of stores, founded and headquartered in Seattle. There are currently 50 stores, distributed throughout Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Texas. Car Toys currently has over 1,000 employees, some of whom work in both the corporate headquarters and a distribution center. The retailer specializes in all assortment of mobile electronics products, but primarily sells automobile audio equipment and wireless phone devices. Car Toys was founded in 1987 by Dan Brettler, who continues as the President and CEO of Car Toys. The company has a Board of Directors though shares are not publicly traded. In
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in Chicago, Illinois. By the end of 2007, it had attracted about 1 million members, including large employers who provided it to their employees as a health benefit. Jason Gorevic was named CEO in 2009 and currently holds the role and sits on the company's board of directors. As of 2015, Teladoc was the only telemedicine company to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In December 2016, the American Hospital Association exclusively endorsed Teladoc's telehealth technology platform. Teladoc now operates its full suite of services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by web, phone, or
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service operations into a new publicly traded company, Conduent. Xerox focuses on its document technology and document outsourcing business, and continues to trade on the NYSE. On January 31, 2018, Xerox announced that it would sell a controlling stake to Fujifilm, which has maintained a joint venture in the Asia-Pacific region known as Fuji Xerox. Researchers at Xerox and its Palo Alto Research Center invented several important elements of personal computing, such as the desktop metaphor GUI, the computer mouse and desktop computing. These concepts were frowned upon by the then board of directors, who ordered the Xerox engineers to
Xerox
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62.4 percent to 81.2 percent. Another $35 million in advances converted to capital put Helios at 91.8 percent, allowing for a merger unilaterally initiated by the Helios board. In April 2018, Helios acquired the movie listings website Moviefone from Verizon's digital media subsidiary, Oath Inc. As part of the transaction, Verizon took an equity stake in MoviePass. In March 2018, the board of directors began the process to spin off Zone Technologies to shareholders as a separate, publicly traded company, in hopes that it would allow Helios to focus on its strengths. In April 2018, Helios sold $150 million in
MoviePass
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St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. MAKO Surgical Corp. MAKO Surgical Corp. was a publicly traded medical device company based in Florida. On September 25, 2013, the Board of Directors of Mako Surgical accepted a deal to be acquired by Stryker for $1.65B. The deal closed in December 2013. Founded in 2004, the company manufactures and markets surgical robotic arm assistance platforms, most notably the RIO (Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System) as well as orthopedic implants used by orthopedic surgeons for use in partial knee and total hip arthroplasty. They are
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and "The Sporting Life". The board of directors is responsible for governing and setting policy for PBS, consisting of 27 members: 14 professional directors (station managers), 12 general directors (outside directors), and the PBS president. All PBS Board members serve three-year terms, without pay. PBS member stations elect the 14 professional directors; the board elects the 12 general directors and appoints the PBS president and CEO; and the entire board elects its officers. , PBS maintains current memberships with 354 television stations encompassing 50 states, the District of Columbia and four U.S. possessions; as such, it is the only television
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in 2002 and sold most of his shares in the publicly traded company, but remained chairman of the board of directors until the sale of the company to Sycamore Partners in 2014. He owns art, real estate, a film production company Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, and a small stake in the professional NBA basketball team Miami Heat. Founded in 2004, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment (SKE) is a Los Angeles-based production, finance and distribution company headed by Kimmel. Films produced include SKE and Screen Gems' 2010 remake "Death at a Funeral", "The Kite Runner" (2007), "United 93", "Breach", "Lars and the Real Girl",
Sidney Kimmel
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Jason Omer Griffith. Jason Griffith, founder of De Joya Griffith, was also the founder of the Southern Nevada Auditing Association. Griffith was also known in his college days as a story was published about him in USA Today in 1999 on his donation of Columbine Memorial Web Domain. Arthur De Joya is Chief Financial Officer of 3Pea International, a publicly traded company. He also serves as member Board of Directors in Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce. De Joya Griffith and Company De Joya Griffith was an American CPA firm with headquarters in Henderson, Nevada focusing in audit services for
De Joya Griffith and Company
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Discovery Holding Company Discovery Holding Company was an American company headquartered in Meridian, Colorado. The postal designation of nearby Englewood was commonly listed as the company's location in corporate filings and news accounts. The company used to hold a 66-2/3% ownership stake in Discovery Communications, LLC, and operated Ascent Media and AccentHealth, LLC. On September 17, 2008, Discovery Holdings divested its interest in Ascent Media, and reorganized its remaining businesses around a new publicly traded holding company, Discovery Communications, Inc. Members of the board of directors of Discovery Holding included: John C. Malone and Robert R. Bennett. Former CEO John
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announced that it had been acquiring the stock of Kulicke & Soffa Industries (NASDAQ:KLIC) and issued an open letter to the company's Chief Executive Officer calling on the company to initiate a tender offer for its shares, which Lemelson said were substantially undervalued. The stock rose ten percent on the announcement of Lemelson Capital's involvement. Four months later, on August 27, 2014, Kulicke & Soffa announced that its Board of Directors had authorized a share purchase of up to $100 million. On June 16, 2014, Lemelson released a 25-page research report on Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded company, that concluded
Lemelson Capital Management
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Christopher & Banks Christopher & Banks is an American retail company based in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth, Minnesota that specializes in women's clothing for the age 40-60 demographic. In 2017, Joel Waller was named Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, as well as a member of the Board of Directors. The chain was founded in 1956 as Braun's Fashions in Minneapolis. It became a publicly traded company in 1992, and was re-branded as Christopher & Banks in 2000. Also in 2000, the chain founded a second brand, CJ Banks, which is a plus-size clothing store. In November 2004 Christopher
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obtain a B.A. degree in English from the University of Virginia, where he became a member of the Delta Phi Fraternity (St. Elmo Hall). He spent most summers and holidays at the Bush family estate. He worked as director of HCC Insurance Holdings. HCC, formerly Houston Casualty Company, is a publicly traded insurance company on the New York Stock Exchange. He appears in the 2008 award-winning documentary on Lee Atwater, "". He served on the board of directors for SECURACOM from 1993 to June 2000. He is married to Margaret Conway (née Molster) (b. March 2, 1959). They have two
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for Fairfield County and Litchfield County customers, because they already had the flagship CBS station, WCBS-TV from New York. The dispute ended on January 19. At the time of the sale to Altice, the board of directors of Cablevision were: Charles Dolan, James Dolan, Patrick Dolan, Rand Araskog, Frank Biondi, Charles Ferris, Richard Hochman, Victor Oristano, Thomas Reifenheiser, John R. Ryan, Brian Sweeney, Vincent Tese, Leonard Tow. In 2006, the Dolan family announced a plan to purchase the company and privatize it, after a failed attempt in 2005, which would have spun off Rainbow Media as a publicly traded company.
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due to the relatively slow growth of this business relative to some other Xerox units. In January 2016, Xerox—reportedly under pressure from activist shareholder Carl Icahn—announced that by the end of the year it would spin off its business services unit, largely made up of Affiliated Computer Services, into its own publicly traded company. The name and management of the new company had not been determined at the time of the announcement. Icahn will appoint three members of the new company's board of directors, and he will choose a person to advise its search for a CEO. In June, the
Xerox
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2010, all federal loans were originated directly by the U.S. Department of Education. The company announced in 2013 its plans to separate into two publicly traded companies – an education loan management business to be launched with a new name – Navient – and a consumer banking business, which retained the name Sallie Mae. The spin-off was completed on April 30, 2014. In 2015, Navient attracted recognition from 2020 Women on Boards, the Women's Forum of New York, and the New York Stock Exchange Governance Services for gender diversity on its board of directors The company acquired asset recovery and
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This move prompted international expansion for the business, particularly across Asia. In 1997 BOC Edwards was formed with the integration of Edwards vacuum business with BOC electronic gases unit before the BOC Group was itself acquired by Linde AG in 2006. Edwards subsequently became independent when it was acquired by CCMP Capital & Unitas Capital in 2007. On 14 May 2012, Edwards became listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange as a publicly traded company. In late February 2013 it was announced that Matthew Taylor would be standing down as CEO and was being replaced by independent Board of Directors member
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Martin Nesbitt Martin Hughes Nesbitt (born November 29, 1962) is an American businessman who is a co-CEO of Chicago-based private equity firm, The Vistria Group. Marty serves on the Boards of Directors of publicly-traded companies CenterPoint Energy, Norfolk Southern Corporation and American Airlines Group. Marty formerly served as the founder and chief executive officer of The Parking Spot, a Chicago-based airport parking company. He also served on the board of the Chicago Housing Authority. Nesbitt is a close personal friend of former U. S. President Barack Obama and was the campaign treasurer during Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He also serves
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would move the proposed memorial to a different location. Fortier was also active in business affairs, and was involved with several major corporations. From 1997 to 2006, he was the Governor (i.e. Chairman) of the Hudson's Bay Company. Fortier was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the aluminum company Alcan Inc. from 2002 to 2007, prior to its acquisition by Rio Tinto, becoming Rio Tinto Alcan. He also served as a director on several other publicly traded corporations, including Royal Bank of Canada, Trans Canada Pipelines Limited, Dupont Canada Inc., Westinghouse Canada Inc., Manufacturers Life Insurance Company and
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Wearhouse in Calgary, Alberta, on August 14, 1977. The store was located in the southeast corner of Calgary, at Centre Street and Glenmore Trail. Following rapid expansion, the company became publicly traded in 1981, with an Initial Public Offering worth $14,000,000. In 1995, the Board of Directors appointed Garth Mitchell as President and Chief Operating Officer of the company. Under Mitchell, the chain entered a new phase characterized by growth and acquisition. The 140 stores in 1996 generated a revenue of $250 million, and the company acquired Work World, which increased revenues by $500 million in six years. In 2001,
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been codified in several states' statutes pertaining to the practice of internal auditing in government (New York State, Texas, and Florida being three examples). There are also a number of other international standard setting bodies. Internal auditors work for government agencies (federal, state and local); for publicly traded companies; and for non-profit companies across all industries. Internal auditing departments are led by a Chief Audit Executive ("CAE") who generally reports to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, with administrative reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (In the United States this reporting relationship is required by law for publicly
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gold acquisitions from South African suppliers, Engelhard became a major investor in the country, acquiring gold, copper and coal mining ventures as well as investing in industrial concerns. He set up a publicly traded holding company in the U.S. that raised capital for investments in South African business. The company made investments alone and in conjunction with South African business tycoon, Harry Oppenheimer whose Anglo American plc dominated the South African mining industry. Engelhard maintained a residence in South Africa and was elected to Anglo American's Board of Directors. At home, some criticized him for indirectly supporting the country's apartheid
Charles W. Engelhard Jr.
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MobileIron MobileIron Inc. is an American software company specializing in solutions for mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility management (EMM). The company was founded in 2007 by Ajay Mishra and Suresh Batchu and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. It became publicly traded in 2014. After its share price fell from $9 at the time of the IPO to below $4 in early 2016, the company's founding CEO Bob Tinker was replaced by Barry Mainz as CEO, but remained on the company's board of directors. Simon Biddiscombe was appointed CEO in October 2017. MobileIron's software allows the management of
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following its acquisition by JAB Holding Company. Following the 2018 merger with Dr Pepper Snapple, Gamgort became CEO of Keurig Dr Pepper, and Larry Young, who had been President and CEO of Dr Pepper Snapple, retired from those positions and joined the new company's board of directors. Keurig Dr Pepper Keurig Dr Pepper, formerly Keurig Green Mountain (2014–2018) and originally Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (1981–2014), is a publicly traded American beverage and beverage-maker conglomerate with dual headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts and Plano, Texas. Its east-coast division sells coffee and other beverages, and Keurig brewers. As of July 2018, the newly
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by Gracia Martore, Gannett's chief operating officer, a 26-year company veteran. Gannett has a ten-member board of directors and 11 senior executives. Post-split, Tegna retained Martore as the CEO, and Gannett promoted the Newspaper Chief Robert Dickey to be the new CEO. Gannett Company Gannett Co., Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper "USA Today" and the erstwhile weekly pullout magazine "USA Weekend" which is found in local
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takeover. In October 1997 the company emerged as the Magnesium Alloy Corporation through amalgamation with Clavos Enterprises, a largely inactive publicly traded company. The executive team at this stage included Chairman and President George Creber, Executive Vice-President William Burton and Vice-President Kim Barkan. The board of directors included the three executives and Stephen Dattels and Patrick Mitchell. The company became engaged in business lines outside of magnesium mining and changed its name in February 2005 to MagIndustries from Magnesium Alloy Corporation to reflect its interests in "multiple businesses and products". The main asset of the company was the potash/magnesium mine
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LUSE. Investrust bank is a public company whose stock is publicly traded on the Lusaka Stock Exchange. The detailed shareholding in the bank was as depicted in the table below, as of 31 December 2016. , the bank maintained a network of branches at the following locations: Dr Jacob Mwanza, a non-executive board member is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Simangolwa Shakalima serves as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Investrust Bank Investrust Bank Plc., commonly known as Investrust Bank, is a commercial bank in Zambia. It is licensed by the Bank of Zambia, the central bank
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DowDuPont DowDuPont Inc. is an American company formed after the merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont on August 31, 2017. It is the world's largest chemical company in terms of sales. Within 18 months the company will be split into three publicly-traded companies which will focus on the following: agriculture, materials science, and specialty products. The agriculture division is named Corteva Agriscience, the materials science division is named Dow, and the specialty products division is named DuPont. Jeff Fettig is the chairman of the board of directors, and Edward Breen is the CEO. The merger has been reported to be
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this structure gave Rembrandt Trust 42.57% control of Remgro while Public Investment Corporation with 9.63% control. Remgro is governed by an twelve-person Board of Directors with Johann Rupert serving as the Chairman of the group and Jannie Durand as the CEO. Remgro Remgro Limited is an investment holding company based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Remgro is an investment holding company with interests in banking, financial services, packaging, glass products, medical services, mining, petroleum, beverage, food and personal care products. In 2015, Forbes listed Remgro as the 9th biggest publicly-traded company in South Africa and 1436th in the world. Remgro traces
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which generates revenue by processing over 14 million calls from roaming wireless customers per year and seamlessly transferring them to their service provider. On March 30, 2011, CornerWorld announced that it had completed the terms of the Settlement Agreement with former Woodland Holding Ltd owner and CornerWorld Board member Ned Timmer. Board of Directors CornerWorld CornerWorld Corporation (CWRL:CWRL) is a microcap publicly traded company holding assets in direct marketing, telecommunications and technology. CornerWorld has headquarters in Dallas, Texas, as well as offices in Holland, Michigan, and New York, New York. CornerWorld was founded in 2003 as a social network service
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it to Citigroup for $6 billion. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Hilltop Holdings, a bank and insurance holding company. He is also the non-executive Chairman of the Boards of Directors of Freeport-McMoRan (FCX), the world’s largest publicly traded extractor of copper and gold. He has also invested in First Acceptance Corporation, Pacific Capital Bancorp (Annual Sales $13 billion), Golden State Bancorp, FSB (federal savings bank that merged with Citigroup in 2002) Rio Hondo Land & Cattle Company (annual sales $1.6 million), Diamond Ford, Dallas (sales: $200 million), Scientific Games Corp., SWS Group (annual sales: $422 million); American
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its Chief Executive Officer until 1994. The company became one of the nation's five largest distributors of industrial electronic components and production supplies. In 1999, it was acquired by Avnet (). He served on the Board of Directors of the Amistar Corporation (OTCMKTS:AMTA) from 1974. He served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California. He donated US$35 million to USC in 1997. The USC Marshall School of Business is named in his memory. Gordon S. Marshall Gordon S. Marshall was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of Marshall Industries (), a publicly traded
Gordon S. Marshall
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It applies to all German capital companies, including public companies ("Aktiengesellschaft"), cooperatives ("eingetragene Genossenschaft"), private limited companies ("Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung") and partnerships ("Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien") if they have over 2000 employees. Employees and national unions have equal representation on the supervisory board with the stockholders, but the board’s chairman must be a stockholder who has a tie-breaking vote. The principle is to have almost equal representation between employee representatives and shareholder representatives on the supervisory board ("Aufsichtsrat"). Germany company law has two levels of boards of directors. The supervisory board then elects a management board which leads the company.
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company from Demand Media, became the parent company of Name.com in August 2014. Rightside also owned domain aftermarket service NameJet and domain registrar eNom, as well as operating a domain registry with 40 nTLDs. Rightside stock was publicly traded under the stock ticker NAME, inspired by their ownership of Name.com. On June 13, 2017, Rightside was acquired by Donuts Inc. in a transaction valued at $213 million. In a Merger Agreement approved unanimously by Rightside’s Board of Directors, all of Rightside’s assets, including Name.com, became part of Donuts Inc. Name.com regularly hosts a hackathon called Hack the Dot, where developers,
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tackled entertainment litigations. From 1983 to 1985, Goldsmith served as the Chief Operating Officer of Lorimar Television, a film production company. From 1986 to 1994, he served as Chairman and CEO of Republic Pictures, a formerly publicly traded company. Moreover, from 1990 to 1994, he served as Vice Chairman of the San Diego Padres, a baseball sports team. Goldsmith has served on the Board of Directors of City National Bank since 1978. He has served as the Chairman and CEO of City National Bank since October 1995. From 2008 to 2011, he served on the Federal Advisory Council of the
Russell Goldsmith
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Charles E. Haldeman Charles Edgar Haldeman, Jr. (born October 29, 1948) was the chief executive officer of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as Freddie Mac, a publicly traded company that is the second largest source of mortgage financing in the United States. On October 26, 2011, it was announced that Haldeman would retire, but he agreed to stay until a successor was found. Haldeman left Freddie Mac in May 2012. He is the former President, CEO, and chairman of the board of directors, of Putnam Investments, a mutual fund company based in Boston, Massachusetts. He served on the
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became the largest shareholder. In 2010, he was also named the Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. In August 2012, Pedersen stepped down as CEO and Chairman following a margin call, and Randall Hales, previously President and COO, became interim CEO. In December 2012, Hales was named CEO by the Board of Directors. As of June 2013, the company has over 250 employees. The company changed names to become ShieldZone Corporation in March 2006 and then again to ZAGG Inc in July 2007. The most recent name change coincided with a reverse merger that made ZAGG a publicly traded
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a division of McAfee Corp. This experience led him to the belief that all software would be delivered over the internet, and he left McAfee to join NetSuite. He led the company from about $1 million USD in revenue to a billion-dollar run-rate prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corp. On January 4, 2007, NetSuite named "Moneyball" General Manager Billy Beane of Major League Baseball's Oakland A's to its board of directors. Evan Goldberg cited Beane's ability to combine facts with instinct as an important factor in the decision to involve him in the company. NetSuite became a publicly traded
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publicly traded company listed on the NYSE and in 2011 became the first American issuer to list on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Victor Luis was named chief executive officer of Coach, Inc. in January 2014. Prior to his appointment and beginning in February 2013, he held the role of president and chief commercial officer of Coach, Inc., also serving on Coach’s board of directors. Luis has been a member of Coach’s senior leadership team since joining the company in 2006, holding a number of international management roles and leading Coach’s expansion in Asia. Most recently, he served as
Coach New York
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September 2006 when he was selected by Tom Stemberg, founder of Staples, to become Chairman and Chief Executive officer of Rec Room Furniture and Games, Inc. On October 25, 2007, the company became publicly traded on the NASDAQ. In 2008, the company opened a second distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona. On April 26, 2010, Ulta announced that Carl "Chuck" Rubin would be appointed as Chief Operating Officer, President, and as a member of the Board of Directors, effective May 10, 2010. According to public filings, Rubin earned over $11.1MM in 2010, making him one of the 20 highest paid CEOs
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one of the 100 most powerful women in the world by "Forbes". In 2014, she was ranked at 15th, just behind Oprah Winfrey. In 2010, Rosenfeld earned total compensation of $19.3 million, placing her 48th on Forbes Executive Pay. Rosenfeld is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. She serves on the board of directors for the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Cornell University board of trustees. She sits on the board of directors of the Consumer Goods Forum. In August 2011, Kraft said it planned to split into two publicly traded companies, one focusing on its international snack
Irene Rosenfeld
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ragweed pollen allergy in 2014 and house dust mite allergy in 2016. The company is part-owned by the Lundbeck Foundation, however is also a publicly traded entity. ALK’s stock is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen Stock Exchange. As of February 7, 2017, the current members of ALK’s board of directors are:<br> Steen Riisgaard (chairman of the board, chairman of the remuneration committee and chairman of the nomination committee)<br> Jacob Kastrup (employee elected)<br> Lars Holmqvist (member of the remuneration committee)<br> Andreas Slyngborg Holst (employee elected)<br> Anders Gersel Pedersen (chairman of the scientific committee, member of the remuneration committee)<br> Jakob Riis
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BCE acquired a controlling 42% stake in TransCanada PipeLines Limited (TCPL). In 1990 it announced its departure from the energy sector and sold its stake in TCPL for $1.1 billion. As of 2016 the current members of the board of directors of BCE are: Thomas O'Neill (chair), Barry Allen, André Bérard, Ronald Brenneman, Sophie Brochu, Robert Brown, George Cope, Anthony Fell, Edward Lumley, Robert Simmonds, Carole Taylor, and Paul Weiss. Since inception, BCE has had four CEOs: BCE Inc. BCE Inc., formerly Bell Canada Enterprises, is a publicly-traded telecommunications holding company for the Bell Canada corporate group and associated mass
BCE Inc.
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gave him the opportunity to study emerging market countries of Latin America, Pacific Asia, and Eastern Europe and to implement his theory into practice. Between 1997 and 2000 Kvint was a member of the Board of Directors of PLD Telecom (later merged with Metromedia International Telecom Inc.) a publicly traded company on NASDAQ and the Toronto Stock Exchange. His consulting and professorship activity was always used as a continuation of his studies and research activity. Kvint was the Chairman of the World Economic Development Congress' Summit for Institutional Investors (Washington D.C, 1995); the World Economic Development Congress' Global Risk Management
Vladimir Kvint
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auto industry in the late 70's, selling a car her first day, and receiving a plaque which read: "Salesman of the month", noted for making top salesperson year after year. She created a female car-buying clinic, teaching the basics of what to look for when buying a car, empowering women to make informed purchasing decisions for themselves. Scales-Medeiros was on the board of directors for ZAP (Zero Air Pollution), a publicly traded company, giving up gas transportation completely in 2007 in favor of all-electric vehicles, eventually landing her in the documentary "What is the Electric Car?". Ginny is an entrepreneur
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from Denver, CO to Burbank, CA as part of a restructuring deal. MusclePharm is a publicly traded company (ticker symbol MSLP). As of July 2014, MusclePharm has nearly 12 million shares outstanding. Some of the largest shareholders include: Phillip Frost, Wynfield Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and CEO and founder Bradley J Pyatt. In June 2015, it was announced that developer of Body For Life fitness and nutrition program, Bill Phillips, would join MusclePharm’s team as the Strategic Adviser and Chief Editor. It was also announced that health and wellness expert, Ryan Drexler, would join MusclePharms board of directors. MusclePharm has entered
MusclePharm
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a number of professional organizations, including the Web Innovator's Group, the Information Architecture Institute, and Arizona Internet Professionals Association. Jim Carr (education) Jim Carr (born December 20, 1969) is vice president of digital media for Media General, Inc., a publicly traded broadcast and digital media company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. An advocate for digital literacy, Carr serves on the Board of Directors for the Digital Literacy Institute, a non-profit organization that works to bridge the digital divide and promote access to Internet technologies for under-served populations. During the Tech boom of the 1990s Carr was co-founder and Chief Technologist of
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an asset management company where he was president from March 2001 to January 2004. Jolina Capital is a shareholder—and frequently a majority shareholder—in companies spanning sectors as diverse as food, transportation, softwood lumber, and real estate. Saputo is currently on the board of directors of TransForce, a publicly traded Canadian transport and logistics company, where he has been an independent director since 1996. Saputo is involved in the Montreal community and serves on the boards of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre Foundation, PROCURE, an organization that seeks to prevent and cure prostate cancer, the Italian-Canadian Community Foundation (his father immigrated
Joey Saputo
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Jim Carr (education) Jim Carr (born December 20, 1969) is vice president of digital media for Media General, Inc., a publicly traded broadcast and digital media company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. An advocate for digital literacy, Carr serves on the Board of Directors for the Digital Literacy Institute, a non-profit organization that works to bridge the digital divide and promote access to Internet technologies for under-served populations. During the Tech boom of the 1990s Carr was co-founder and Chief Technologist of TechTrain, Inc.; an Atlanta-based Microsoft partner with technology training centers throughout the Southeastern United States. Carr has been an
Jim Carr (education)
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Joshua Oigara Joshua Nyamweya Oigara is the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Kenya Commercial Bank Group. At age 37, his appointment in November 2012 to replace the outgoing CEO Martin Oduor-Otieno made him the youngest CEO of a publicly traded bank at the NSE. Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of the Company between January 12, 2012 and January 2013. He also served as Group Chief Financial Officer at KCB Bank Group for East Africa. He joined the Bank in November 2011 from Bamburi Cement where he served
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in Massachusetts (R. No. 27976) and a member of the board of directors of Atlantica Yield, a publicly traded English-Spanish investment company focusing on renewable energy, power generation, electric transmission and water purification. Kausel is best known for his work on Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction, and for his role in the development of the Thin-Layer Method, a numerical tool used for the analysis of wave propagation in laminated media which now lies at the heart of widely used computer programs such as SASSI. He also holds a patent from the US Patent Office, has published three books, and has written well
Eduardo Kausel
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Starwood Hotels and Resorts and The Hartford Financial Services Group, an insurance company. On January 12, 2011, the ITT Corporation Board of Directors approved a plan to split the firm. On October 31, 2011, ITT Corporation spun off its defense and water technology businesses to form three separate, publicly traded companies: From the spin off to Nov. 1, 2013, Exelis was known as ITT Exelis to help ease the transition of the company's brand. Exelis employed approximately 19,000 people and generated $5.5 billion in sales in 2012. In February 2015, Exelis announced that plans had been approved for the sale
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has four major businesses: The application is a Social Trading platform for FX, futures, CFD`s and Gold. The trading platform ecosystem is based on artificial intelligence and non-predictive timing. The app allows users to easily Clone trades from a master account to users own account with connected brokers, banks and hedge funds. Trade Insurance is provided by Independent Insurance companies for algorithmic trading platforms Algo TV: TV channel delivers news regarding algorithms and algorithmic trading. In accordance with the rules for publicly traded companies, Clone Algo Inc is run by a board of directors, which comprises company outsiders. As of
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2005, Edgewater Technology, Inc. appointed Nancy Leaming, the President and Chief Executive Officer for Tufts Health Plan, to serve on board of directors. In November 2010, Edgewater Ranzal opened an office in London UK. In June 2012, Edgewater was invited to participate in the NASDAQ closing ceremony to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Edgewater Technology Edgewater (NASDAQ: EDGW) is a Massachusetts-based, publicly traded business and IT consulting firm with an international reach. The company has approximately 400 employees. Edgewater was ranked 89th in the Top Performing Public Companies in Massachusetts in 2013 by The Boston Globe’s Annual Globe 100. Edgewater have
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