Mitt Romney rejoins Marriott’s board

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 3, 2012
Tags: board of directors, Hotels, marriott, marriott international, mitt romney

Marriott International Inc., of Bethesda, the largest publicly traded hotel chain in the U.S., announced that W. Mitt Romney, the unsuccessful Republican candidate for president of the United States in the 2012 election, has rejoined its board of directors.

Revolving door: Yahoo ushers out another CEO

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 14, 2012
Tags: advertisers, alibaba group, board of directors, carol bartz, daniel loeb, employees, facebook, google, internet, ross levinsohn, roy bostock, scott thompson, securities and exchange commission, silicon valley, yahoo!
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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received. The troubled Internet company’s next challenge will be convincing its restless shareholders and demoralized employees that the turnaround work started during Thompson’s tumultuous four-month stint as CEO won’t [...]

Metro votes to increase fares about 5 percent

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: April 26, 2012
Tags: board of directors, budget, bus, fares, metro, rail, subway, Transportation

WASHINGTON — Fares are going up for riders of Washington’s Metro transit system. Metro’s board of directors voted Thursday for the first increase in bus and rail fares in the system in two years. The hike raises the average rail fare by about 5 percent. Bus fares are increasing by a dime, rising to $1.60 [...]

Proxy adviser says Murdochs should be voted off News Corp.’s board

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: October 11, 2011
Tags: board of directors, Business, Institutional Shareholder Services, James Murdoch, murdochs, news corp, news of the world, rupert murdoch, shareholders

NEW YORK — A leading shareholder advisory firm says most of News Corp.’s board, including Chairman Rupert Murdoch, should be replaced because of a phone-hacking scandal that has embroiled one of the conglomerate’s British tabloids. Institutional Shareholder Services said shareholders should vote against the entire 15-member board, except for two new nominees. Two of Rupert [...]

15 Maryland nonprofits receive $10,000 grants

BY: Alissa Gulin
POSTED: July 26, 2011
Tags: board of directors, Director of Community Affairs Craig Demchak, Dress for Success Baltimore, Employee Giving Program, grants, Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, maryland, Maryland Family Network, Nonprofit, organization, SEED School of Maryland

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It pays to make a good impression on an employee of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation — literally. Fifteen Maryland nonprofits each received a $10,000 grant through the foundation’s fifth annual Employee Giving Program, which allows support staff to handpick an organization to receive the money. The employees presented the checks to representatives from [...]

First Mariner’s Chairman Ed Hale to step down

BY: Rachel Bernstein
POSTED: April 19, 2011
Tags: board of directors, chairman, ed hale, First Mariner, first mariner bank, priam capital, priam capital fund i lp

1st Mariner Bank founder Edwin F. Hale Sr., will step down as chairman and CEO as part of a New York investment company’s plan to take a stake in the struggling Baltimore banking company. Priam Capital Fund I LP will invest $36.4 million in First Mariner Bancorp, the bank’s parent company, according to an announcement [...]

What’s in a name — more money for Metro?

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: February 22, 2011
Tags: board of directors, corporate sponsors, kay dannen, Maryland Department of Transportation's Office of Public Affairs, metro, metro stops, mta, portland oregon, station naming rights, transportation trust fund

WASHINGTON — A budget proposal presented to the Metro board of directors last month estimated the agency could make between $1 million and $2 million per year selling station naming rights to corporate sponsors. Kay Dannen says that’s reasonable, and although Dannen is about 2,800 miles away from any Metro line, she has more insight [...]