DETROIT – Ford CEO Jim Hackett received total compensation of $17.8 million in 2018, up from $16.7 million in 2017, according to finance documents released by the company . The Dearborn, Michigan-based carmaker reported Hackett's pay was 276 times more than the median compensation for all U.S.-based Ford employees.
(Reuters) - Marriott International Inc said on Monday it plans to open more than 1,700 hotels and return up to $11 billion to shareholders by 2021 as part of its three-year growth strategy, sending its shares up as much as 3 percent. The owner of Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis luxury hotel brands also forecast its annual profit in a range of $7.65 per share to $8.50 per share by 2021, largely above analysts' average estimate of $7.72 per share, according to Refinitiv data...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global advertising technology leader The Trade Desk (Nasdaq: TTD) is pleased to announce that Lise Buyer has joined its board of directors. Buyer is the founder and has been the Managing Partner since 2006 of the Class V Group, a consulting firm that advises companies on successful initial public offerings and other market strategies. Buyer advised The Trade Desk prior to its IPO in September 2016...
MOORESTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2019--Destination Maternity Corporation (NASDAQ: DEST), the world's leading maternity apparel retailer, today announced that it has appointed Lisa Gavales to the Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective March 18, 2019...
BOSTON, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM) announced today that Meghan V. Joyce has been appointed as a Director of the Company, effective March 14, 2019...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today announced the appointment of Jacqueline E. Yeaney as an independent member to its Board of Directors. Her appointment will be effective as of March 18, 2019 and with this addition, Avaya will have seven directors in total, including six independent directors...
MENLO PARK, Calif., March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Half International Inc. (NYSE: RHI) today announced that Julia Coronado has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective March 15, 2019...
The company can't answer the essential question of whether its business is viable ... That's good, but it also makes it difficult for potential investors to feel ... eventually corporate governance and potential valuation will come to matter...
Kevin Tsujihara is exiting his role as chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment, a job he’s held for six years...
CALGARY - Shares in power utility TransAlta Corp. rose by more than five per cent Monday after a U.S. investment partnership revealed it has acquired a 10-per-cent stake and will be demanding board representation. Dallas-based Cove Key Bluescape Holdings announced late Friday it had bought 50,000 TransAlta shares to take its total ownership to 8.1 million, about 2.86 per cent of the outstanding stock...
LOS ANGELES, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) announced today that Mika Yamamoto has joined the financial automation software leader's Board of Directors, effective April 1st, 2019...
In short order, Geisha Williams stepped down as both CEO and board member, followed by five other directors . When reconstituted, the board will ...
SAN DIEGO, March 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders, today announced that Karin Jooss, Ph.D. has been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CeQur® announced the appointment of Peter B. Luther to its board of directors, effective immediately. Luther is a 29-year veteran of the medical device and diagnostics, OTC drugs and consumer-packaged goods industries...
CAMBRIDGE, England & BOSTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2019--Bicycle Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide ( Bicycle® ) product platform, announced today the appointment of Pierre Legault, MBA, CPA, as a Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors...
Barclays has shaken up its board just weeks after major shareholders pushed incoming chairman Nigel Higgins to bring in new blood. Mike Turner, the former boss of BAE Systems and until recently the chairman of Babcock, will step down from the board along with former Goldman Sachs banker Reuben Jeffery and economist Dambisa Moyo...
The tax preparer's board changed its corporate - governance policies to make it a firing offense to violate the new harassment policies, which include a ...
/PRNewswire/ -- Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG), a business cloud communications leader, today announced that it appointed Michael J. McConnell as an independent director to the Company's Board of Directors, effective today. Vonage's board will now be comprised of nine directors, eight of whom are independent...
This means he adds valuable and relevant competence to the overall composition of the Board of Directors . He is also a board member in Proton ...
CBS has settled a shareholder lawsuit that claimed chairman emeritus Sumner Redstone received millions in compensation despite the fact his health had deteriorated and he was no longer able to attend to regular company business...
Even as its chief executive touts a turnaround, San Francisco human resources software Zenefits company has suffered from a series of board departures, calling into question the company’s support from key investors and advisors...
Marriott International said on Friday it was evaluating activist investor Jonathan Litt's nomination for a seat on the hotel chain's board. Litt is the founder of hedge fund Land & Buildings Investment Management, which owned a 0.03 percent stake in Marriott as of Dec. 31...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Juniper Networks(NYSE: JNPR), an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced that it has appointed Anne DelSanto to its Board of Directors, effective March 13, 2019...