Shareholders pushing back more against executive pay & severance
The idea of shareholder-driven direct democracy is being hotly debated in the governance arena. Shareholders are flexing more...
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Careers archive
Appointments: April 2014
J. Kevin McCarthy The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 1) J. Kevin McCarthy will become executive vice president and general counsel...
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Execs’ exit packages shrinking amid shareholder pressure
Golden parachutes are losing some of their luster as regulatory changes and pressure from activist shareholders increasingly...
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SCSGP names Stephen Brown as seventh president & CEO
Stephen Brown has been appointed president and chief executive of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance...
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Appointments: March 2014
1) Carl Sottosanti has been promoted to senior vice president and general counsel at Penn National Gaming, succeeding Jordan...
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How to manage conspicuous departures
There are good and bad ways of passing the baton of high-level compliance responsibility within a company, and the departures of...
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Sharing compensation best practices as proxy season nears
The easy part of responding to unsatisfactory levels of shareholder support for corporate say-on-pay proposals was identifying...
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Appointments: February 2014
1) Linda Genid has been appointed assistant corporate secretary of General American Investors, a self-management investment trust...
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Appointments: January 2014
1) Forest Laboratories, which develops and markets pharmaceutical products in the US, recently announced that Robert Bailey has...
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Video: Georgeson's Bill Crane gets lifetime achievement award
Bill Crane, former chairman of Georgeson, talks about best practices in the proxy process and governance hot spots going into 2014...
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