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...Entain earlier this month pledged to install four new non-executive directors to its board to fill gaps following departures this year....
...She’s also vice-chairman of her family’s multibillion-dollar Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group – one of the largest jewellery companies in the world, by market cap – whose parent, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises,...
...London Stock Exchange chief financial officer Anna Manz has joined the board of AstraZeneca as a non-executive director....
...Their mission was to act as a sounding board for chief executives, directors and the other decision makers at big or influential companies — not just intermittently on major transactions, but more consistently...
...’s board and management....
...Over the past 18 months, it has been snapping up stakes in gaming companies as part of a $38bn plot to conquer that industry....
...Job moves Elon Musk will not join Twitter’s board of directors, reversing course just days after he became the technology company’s biggest shareholder and was offered the seat. Here’s more from Lex....
...The publication is owned by Affinity Interactive, a Las Vegas-based company described on its website as “an omni-channel gaming industry leader with an expanded suite of casino and online gaming offerings...
...The billionaire deputy prime minister of the UAE controls the club via Newton Investment Development LLC, a company registered in Abu Dhabi....
...One gaming control board member added that the board did not want Black involved in the deal “to protect the reputation of the state”....
...It also made for some interesting board proceedings at his flagship Macau gaming company, SJM Holdings. SJM’s board is now headed by Daisy, the late patriarch’s daughter from his second marriage....
...Job moves Apollo Global Management named former US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Jay Clayton as lead independent director....
...Michael Larsen, a managing director at Cambridge Associates who invests in venture funds, likened the conviction of the crossover firms to “religion”....
...But when its private letter to Danone’s lead independent director Michel Landel was leaked to a French magazine in January, Bluebell’s managers immediately found themselves being called up by the company...
...Glencore has added former Anglo American chief executive Cynthia Carroll as a non-executive director to its board....
...He spent the past seven years as vice-chairman of global capital markets at Morgan Stanley, and before that, held senior roles at JPMorgan Chase and UBS....
...The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board appointed Deutsche Bank veteran Nick Jansa as senior managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Africa and promoted the current head of its Singapore office...
...The inquiry commissioned by the New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) recommended a big overhaul of the company’s board, noting that regulators would retain “serious doubts” about...
...The leadership change will take place “on or before” July 31, Apollo said, and was part of a transition to “best-in-class governance practices”. Mr Black will remain chairman....
...Wes McCoy, investment director at Standard Life Aberdeen, a top-five Entain shareholder, said he backed the board’s stance: “I definitely concur with Entain’s strong response to it . . ....
...Raymond Svider, chairman of BC Partners, probably spoke for many when he told the FT in mid-March: “It feels like the world is falling apart.”...
...The findings so troubled another Apollo co-founder, Josh Harris, that he urged Black to step aside as chairman and chief executive at a board meeting in late January, according to people with knowledge of...
...Job moves Simon Wolfson, the chief executive of fashion chain Next, joined the board of Deliveroo as a non-executive director as the food delivery app gears up for an expected IPO. More here....
...Dean Paatsch, co-founder of Ownership Matters, said the Austrac inquiry was potentially very serious, and that in the interest of board accountability shareholders should vote against all incumbent directors...
...Google settles sexual harassment suits Alphabet has settled a series of shareholder lawsuits over its handling of sexual harassment claims, agreeing to greater oversight by its board of directors in future...
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