Philippe Kahn was at all times Chairman, President, and CEO of Borland Inc. from its inception in 1983 until he left in 1995.

Malenkov, while losing his secretaryship, was still Chairman of the Council of Ministers, and remained so until 1955.

Ben Rosen provided the venture capital financing for the fledging company and served as chairman of the board for 18 years from 1983 until September 28, 2000, when he retired and was succeeded by Michael Capellas who served as the last Chairman and CEO until its merger with HP.

A congressional bill to repeal DADT was enacted in December 2010, specifying that the policy would remain in place until the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that repeal would not harm military readiness, followed by a 60-day waiting period.

Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, EDS Chairman, President, and CEO, remained at the helm and reported to HP CEO Mark Hurd until his retirement. EDS logo until name change to HP Enterprise Services

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

In 1977, Rau became Chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia SPD, and in 1978 Minister President of the state, were he remained until 1998, with four successful elections for the SPD, which became strongest party in the Landtag each time and gained an absolute majority three times, in 1980, 1985, 1990 and finally 1995.

On arrival in Britain the passengers and mail were unloaded in Plymouth, but the Koh-i-noor stayed on board until the ship reached Portsmouth, from where Lawrence and Mansel took the diamond to the East India House in the City of London and passed it into the care of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the EIC.

Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 11 April 1984 until his death.

In 1925, after the death of Mikhail Frunze, Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, a post he held until 1934.

The architect and founding father of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) from its establishment in 1949, he governed the country as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until his death in 1976.

He also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004.

Prior to that, he was the 13th Chief of Army Staff from October 1998 till November 2007, and was also the tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee of Pakistan Armed Forces from 1998 until 2001.

Yasser Arafat was the Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee from 1969 until his death in 2004.

In October 1985 Nyerere handed over power to Ali Hassan Mwinyi, but retained control of the ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi ( CCM ), as Chairman until 1990, when he handed that responsibility to Mwinyi.

He continued holding this post until he was made Chairman of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in March 1962.

Bellanca remained President and Chairman of the Board from the corporation's inception on the last day of 1927 until he sold the company to L. Albert and Sons in 1954.

Brandt became the Chairman of the SPD in 1964, a post that he retained until 1987, longer than any other party Chairman since its foundation by August Bebel.

On 15 May Najibullah announced that a collective leadership had been established, which was led by himself consisted of himself as head of party, Karmal as head of state and Sultan Ali Keshtmand as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.

On 15 November 2007 the National Assembly completed its term and a caretaker government was appointed with the former Chairman of The Senate, Muhammad Mian Soomro as Prime Minister.

* January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.

Hu Yaobang ( 20 November 1915 – 15 April 1989 ) was a leader of the People's Republic of China who served as both Chairman and Party General Secretary.

Nominations must be submitted to the Chairman of the Board of Directors by April 15 of the nomination year.

After the departure of Lachlan Murdoch from News Corporation, Ailes was named Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group on August 15, 2005.

On 15 April 2009, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Swiss banking giant UBS, holding this post until 3rd May 2012.

Under leadership vote of confidence rules, 15 % of Conservative MPs ( at this point twenty-five MPs ) had to write to the Chairman of the 1922 Committee demanding the vote.

Nestlé Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, in answer to a question from Greenpeace, told the Company ’ s Annual General Meeting in Lausanne on 15 April 2010 that in 2009 Nestlé used 320, 000 tonnes of palm oil worldwide, comparing this with the 500, 000 tonnes of palm oil used for biodiesel in Germany and Italy alone.

Fairchild Semiconductor announced on March 15, 2006 that Kirk P. Pond, would retire as Chairman at the company's annual stockholders ' meeting on May 3, 2006.

On December 15, 2008, it was announced that Landrieu would become Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship for the 111th Congress when former Chairman John Kerry left to lead the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, previously headed by Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

On 15 March 1961 Ernest Marples announced in the House of Commons that Beeching would be the first Chairman of the British Railways Board as from 1 June.

Mahmoud Abbas (, ; born 26 March 1935 ), also known by the kunya Abu Mazen (, ), has been the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) since 11 November 2004 and became President of the Palestinian National Authority on 15 January 2005 on the Fatah ( فتح Fataḥ ) ticket.

Abbas was formally sworn in as the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority in a ceremony held on 15 January in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

At the 11th National People's Congress, he was re-elected as Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee on 15 March 2008.

Her parents were Peter Folger, Chairman and President of the Folger Coffee Company, and Ines " Pui " Mejia ( June 25, 1907 – July 15, 2007 ), the youngest child of Gertrude and Encarnacion Mejia, a consul general of El Salvador.

Robert Carl Stempel ( July 15, 1933 – May 7, 2011 ) was a Chairman and CEO of General Motors ( GM ).

On December 15, Chiang resigned as the Chairman of the Nationalist Government and was replaced as Premier of the Republic of China ( head of the Executive Yuan ) by Sun Fo, son of Sun Yat-sen. Jinzhou, another city in Liaoning, was lost to the Japanese in early January 1932.

It was confirmed on December 15, 2011 that David Foster will become Chairman of Verve Music Group.

On April 8, 1983, he was appointed as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Estonian SSR ; thus he was also one of the 15 deputy chairmen of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

The book was released on August 15, 2006 and chronicles the work of Kean ( Commission Chairman ) and Hamilton ( Commission Vice-Chairman ) of the 9 / 11 Commission.

On January 15, 1946, Vice Admiral Emory S. Land resigned as Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission.

On August 15, 2006, a book by Kean and 9 / 11 Commission Vice Chairman Lee H. Hamilton, titled Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9 / 11 Commission, was released regarding the September 11 attacks and the September 11 Commission.