At Home Group Inc. (NYSE: HOME), the home décor superstore, today announced the appointment of John Butcher to serve as an independent member of its board of directors...
ATLANTA, Feb. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EVO Payments, Inc. (EVOP) (“EVO”), a leading global provider of payment technology integrations and acquiring solutions, announced today that Mark A. Chancy has been appointed to EVO’s Board of Directors...
Sesen Bio (Nasdaq: SESN) a late-stage clinical company developing targeted fusion protein therapeutics for the treatment of patients with cancer, today announced the appointment of Carrie Bourdow, chief executive officer of Trevena, Inc., and Jason Keyes, chief financial officer of Equillium, to the Company’s Board of Directors...
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, the investment advisor to funds and accounts (together with Canyon Capital Advisors LLC, "Canyon") that beneficially own, in the aggregate, over 9 million shares, or almost 7.0% of the outstanding common stock of Berry Global, Inc...
DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chimerix (CMRX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on accelerating the development of medicines to treat cancer and other serious diseases, today announced the appointment of Pratik S. Multani, M.D., to its Board of Directors...
(Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday called on corporate America to make their boards of directors more accountable to shareholders and less beholden to chief executive officers, perhaps by reducing their pay and requiring that they buy more stock. In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders, Buffett said pay for outside directors has "soared" to ...
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Board of Directors of Overstock.com, Inc. (OSTK) appointed Dr. Robert Shapiro, PhD. to the board...
Today, Deluxe (NYSE: DLX), a Trusted Business Technology™ company, announced the appointment of William C. Cobb to its Board of Directors effective February 19, 2020...
Pay Governance, a major board-level executive compensation advisory firm, has released a new study on Institutional Shareholder Services’ (ISS) change to its methodology for determining say on pay voting recommendations...
Feb. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE: WST), a global leader in innovative solutions for injectable drug administration, today announced the Company's Board of Directors has elected Robert Friel as its newest member. With the addition of Mr. Friel, West's Board of Directors increases in size to 11 directors...
BOSTON, Feb. 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. (AKCA), a majority-owned affiliate of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced the appointment of Amber Salzman, Ph.D., to the Company’s Board of Directors...
(Bloomberg) -- Masayoshi Son is finally getting some good news. After a punishing year, the founder of SoftBank Group Corp. won approval for the sale of his Sprint Corp. to T-Mobile US Inc., a long-delayed acquisition that had been fiercely opposed by states including New York and California...
Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced the appointment of Kurt Zumwalt, former global treasurer of Amazon.com, Inc., to Omeros’ Board of Directors...
SAN DIEGO and PENNINGTON, N.J., Feb. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- OncoSec Medical Incorporated (NASDAQ:ONCS) (the "Company" or "OncoSec"), a company developing late-stage intratumoral cancer immunotherapies, today announced changes to its Board of Directors...
SEATTLE, Feb. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Concord Technologies, a leading provider of cloud-based fax and intelligent document automation software for healthcare providers and enterprises in regulated industries, announces the appointment of Bill Shields to its board of directors...
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. (NYSE: BHVN) today announced the appointment of Michael Heffernan to its Board of Directors ("Board")...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNE, "Sorrento"), announced that, after reviewing the latest acquisition proposal in consultation with its advisors, Sorrento’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) determined that the offer significantly undervalues Sorrento and is not in the best interest of the Company’s stockholders...
Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: EPRT), an internally managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, owns and manages primarily single-tenant properties that are net leased on a long-term basis to companies operating service-oriented or experience-based businesses, today announced that the Board of Directors has elected Lawrence J. Minich, Heather Leed Neary and Janaki Sivanesan to serve on the company’s Board of Directors...
MIAMI, Jan. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Guess & Co. Corporation is pleased to announce its current Board of Directors. The Board of Directors is responsible for overall governance of Guess & Co. Corporation...
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc. (TPTX), a precision oncology company developing next-generation therapies that target genetic drivers of cancer, today announced the appointment of Garry Nicholson to its board of directors...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jounce Therapeutics, Inc. (JNCE), a clinical-stage company focused on the discovery and development of novel cancer immunotherapies and predictive biomarkers, today announced the appointment of Robert Iannone, M.D., M.S.C.E., to its board of directors...
(Reuters) - Australia's Westpac Banking Corp on Thursday named a former Barclays boss as chairman, entrusting veteran banker John McFarlane to help steer it through the fallout of a massive money-laundering scandal...
Neustar®, Inc., a global information services company and leader in identity resolution, today announced that Alison Lewis has been appointed as an independent, non-executive director to the Company’s Board of Directors...
(Bloomberg) -- A Seoul hedge fund is making a massive bet that hinges on changes in the chronic issue of South Korea’s corporate governance...