Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced awards totaling over $570,000 to two whistleblowers paid out by the investor protection fund. The first will receive a whistleblower award of approximately $478,000, and the other will receive the remainder...
Leaders in the retail and supply chain industries are undergoing a transformation in terms of leadership, with board of directors and top executives experiencing a variety of changes...
BP and climate-focused Follow This have agreed to jointly draft a shareholder resolution on BP’s climate goals for its 2021 AGM An activist group has withdrawn a shareholder resolution urging BP to adhere to the Paris climate agreement after the oil and gas company agreed to work together on a joint resolution...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. & ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (NASDAQ: RRGB) (“Red Robin” or the “Company”) and Vintage Capital Management, LLC (“Vintage”), an investment firm with beneficial ownership of approximately 11.6% of the Company’s outstanding shares, announced today that they have reached an agreement to appoint Anthony Ackil to the Company’s Board of Directors...
PASADENA, Calif., March 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE:ARE), an urban office REIT and the first, longest-tenured and pioneering owner, operator and developer uniquely focused on collaborative life science, technology and agtech campuses in AAA innovation cluster locations, announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Jennifer Friel Goldstein as an independent director...
ADDvantage Technologies Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEY) (“ADDvantage Technologies” or the “Company”) today announced the appointment of Tim Harden to its Board of Directors...
Early this morning, Sony announced that it would be spinning off its entire “Electronics Products & Solutions” (EP&S) segment—including its imaging and mobile businesses—into an intermediate holding company called “Sony Electronics Corporation.”...
Facebook Inc. FB, +4.56% on Thursday said Robert M. Kimmitt, former deputy secretary of the Treasury and U.S. Ambassador to Germany, has been appointed to the company's board of directors...
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., March 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- electroCore, Inc. (ECOR), a commercial-stage bioelectronic medicine company, today announced the appointments of three new independent members to its Board of Directors effective April 2, 2020...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., March 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paylocity (Nasdaq: PCTY), a leading provider of payroll and human capital management software solutions, today announced Robin Pederson and Ken Robinson have joined the Company’s Board of Directors...
Ohana Biosciences, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering reproductive health through the industry’s first sperm biology platform, today announced the appointment of David Sable, M.D., to its Board of Directors...
What is an activist investor, exactly? Well, it depends on who you ask. Defenders of activism -and activist investors themselves - will tell you that they take positions in mismanaged companies, redress the balance between greedy managers and deserving shareholders and create long-term value...
Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW), a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, today announced the election of Steven Berns to the company’s Board of Directors...
We continue to read about layoffs and the still-looming tsunami of downsizings. More than three million workers are expected to file for unemployment benefits before the summertime, due to the impact of the coronavirus...
Incyte (Nasdaq:INCY) announces the appointment of Katherine High, M.D., as a new member of the Board of Directors, effective March 25, 2020...
There’s a lot of discussion these days about preparedness. Preparedness for the pandemic, preparedness for the recession, preparedness for the unknown and the unthinkable. And there’s a lot of discussion about blame as well. They should have seen it coming, they should have seen the signs, they should have had a plan...
NEW YORK, March 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medical Resource Acquisition Group, LLC (MRAG), an investment company focused on facilitating the advancement of innovative healthcare companies, intends to ensure Rockwell Medical, Inc. (RMTI; NASDAQ) shareholders will not have their voting rights suppressed by the Rockwell Board of Directors...
GOLDEN, Colo., March 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmaJet®, the maker of innovative, needle-free injection technology, today announced that Dr. Marie Mazur, has been appointed to its Board of Directors...
It’s not like any of this is unexpected news. Just last June 2019 Daniel Loeb wrote in an open letter that, “Sony’s semiconductor business is dramatically underappreciated by the market despite its position as the global leader in image sensors with over 70% revenue market share of the smartphone image sensor market.
Moody’s chopped its rating on SoftBank Group debt by two notches Wednesday. The move came as a surprise to the Japanese telecom giant, which responded by asking Moody’s to withdraw all of its ratings on the company , arguing that the ratings agency has “biased and mistaken views.” The spat comes at a surprising moment. SoftBank shares (ticker: SFTBY) have had a big run over the last few days, up 55% since Friday...
The hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has claimed his firm made $2.6B (£2.2bn) betting that the coronavirus outbreak would cause a market crash, barely a week after warning that “hell is coming” for US companies...
RENTON, Wash., March 25, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Financial Northwest, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ GS: FFNW), the holding company for First Financial Northwest Bank (the “Bank”), today announced that the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee proposed, and the Board of Directors approved, the appointment of Diane C. Davis to the Board of Directors...
Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE: ATO) announced today that Franklin H. Yoho has been elected to its board of directors...