Former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers became the CEO, becoming the latest in a string of management changes in the past five years.

Examples include Thomas H. Bailey, founder and former chairman of Janus Capital Group, Geoff Beattie, president of The Woodbridge Company and chairman of CTVglobemedia, George Cope, president and CEO of Bell Canada Enterprise, Edward Rogers III, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications, and former president of Rogers Cable, Arkadi Kuhlmann, chairman of ING Direct, Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation, Minera Andes and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp Inc., John Thompson, former chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank and chancellor of Western, Prem Watsa, chairman, CEO of Fairfax Financial, Lee Seng Wee, former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Galen Weston, chairman and president of George Weston Limited.

* Ted Rogers, late president and CEO of Rogers Communications

– Chairman & Acting CEO, Rogers Communications Inc. and President / CEO Rogers Telecommunications Limited

Losses were at £ 100 million, but new CEO Phil Rogers claimed this was only due to the reconstructing plans.

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

The founders limit their involvement in management, and currently Joe Rogers, Jr. is CEO, and Bert Thornton is President.

Steve Rogers, the CEO of the Cronulla Sharks and a former club legend, died on 3 January 2006 at the age of 51 of a " mixture of prescription drugs and alcohol ".

Tory is the former CEO of Rogers Cablesystems.

From 1995 to 1999, he returned to Rogers Communications Inc., but this time as president and CEO of Rogers Media which had become one of Canada's largest publishing and broadcasting companies.

Cessna's workforce remained 50 % laid-off and CEO Jack Pelton stated that he expected the recovery to be long and slow.

Court, CEO of Martial Arts Channel, stated the total revenue of the US martial arts industry at USD 40 billion and the number of US practitioners at 30 million in 2003.

The ValleyWag article stated that the failure was largely due to Snocap's CEO Rusty Rueff and that of former CTO Dave Rowley, who " made a mess of engineering before he was fired ".

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, has expressed opposition to COPPA and stated " That will be a fight we take on at some point.

Den Berry, Virgin Records CEO and Chairman stated: " Janet is the very embodiment of a global superstar.

In March 2010, Disney CEO Robert Iger stated that there were no plans to release the movie on DVD, calling the film " antiquated " and " fairly offensive ".

Piper's interim CEO Geoffrey Berger stated: " Piper remains challenged by overall market weakness ".

One of Roy Disney's stated reasons for engineering his second " Save Disney " initiative had been Eisner's well-publicized but financially unjustified dissatisfaction with long-time production partner Pixar Animation Studios and its CEO Steve Jobs, creators of shared hits Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, and other critically acclaimed computer animated motion pictures.

On December 27, 2002, Boisselier, a Raëlian bishop and CEO of Clonaid, stated to the press that Clonaid had successfully given birth to a cloned human being the previous day.

John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, stated that Apple's use of its updating software to promote its other products was " a bad practice and should stop.

In July 2011, the Chairman and CEO of General Motors, Daniel Akerson, stated that while the cost of hydrogen fuel cell cars is decreasing: " The car is still too expensive and probably won't be practical until the 2020-plus period, I don't know.

On 6 January 2006, Hannes Smárason, CEO of the FL Group, stated that a merger of EasyJet and Sterling was a possibility.

The label's CEO, Carl Severson signed the band without a contract simply to get the album out to the public because he thought the album " ruled ", and stated " I had a one-off deal and when I knew they wanted to go someplace bigger, I figured is was in my best interest, as their friend, to make the best thing happen for them.

Countering the public uproar over excessive executive pay ( including backdating stock options, golden parachutes for nonperformance, and extravagant retirement packages ), Welch stated that CEO compensation should continue to be dictated by the free market, without interference from government or other outside agencies.

In a May 2011 interview, CEO Mike Sweet stated that Credo Reference aimed to "… satisfy both what librarians want in terms of complexity and what users need in terms of simplicity.

The car is not included in Spyker's business plan for Saab but both Saab's Chairman and CEO have stated that it is a top priority and is expected to be released in 2014.

In response, CEO Dave Hackett stated that " the airline does not have safety violations " and " the vast majority of findings were not violations at all ".

The airline's CEO also stated the company was evaluating whether to set up a low cost carrier subsidiary for its Alexandria operations to address the growth of LCCs in the city.

In May 2010, Spyker's CEO stated the firm was planning a new small car, tear-drop shaped and inspired by the Saab 92 model

The proponent of this project, Donald Fry, the CEO of the Greater Baltimore Committee stated in an interview with the Baltimore Business Journal that the approval of initial design funds by the Maryland General Assembly gives the green light to both the Greater Baltimore Committee and Willard Hackerman to enter into serious negotiations with private investors regarding " naming rights or concession agreements for the arena " and he feels that this is a good sign that the Maryland General Assembly will, in fact, provide even more state funding towards this project in the future stating:

Former CEO Francesco Caio publicly stated the aim of making C & W the preferred alternative to BT in the UK.

In a recent interview with the CEO Mrs Ghaida Abdullatif, she stated that Syrian Airlines would have been prepared to enter the Asian, North American and South American, Australian markets.

During a 1998 Washington Post interview, CEO Ron Stewart stated that he would favor a federal permit system with training and testing for gun ownership.

Conversely, in a June 2008 former CEO of American Airlines, Robert Crandall stated,

While the Star Wars Players ' Committee was introduced by Decipher, the Continuing Committee was not, but the CEO of Decipher has reportedly endorsed its stated goal of support for both versions of the game, though not through official channels.

On July 14, 2005, Tom Biscardi, a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., appeared on the Coast to Coast AM paranormal radio show and announced that he was " 98 % sure that his group will be able to capture a Bigfoot which they have been tracking in the Happy Camp, California area.

In a recent interview with PC Magazine, Valve CEO and co-founder Gabe Newell said that they wanted to make a Half-Life feature film themselves, rather than hand it off to a big-name director like Sam Raimi, and that their recent Team Fortress 2 " Meet The Team " machinima shorts were experiments in doing just that.

John Burgee and Philip Johnson established Johnson / Burgee in Manhattan in 1968, with Burgee as the firm's CEO, and they collaborated on many designs.

Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google.

At that point after conviction of Breivik they sent a gratitude to Elcomsoft CEO Vladimir Katalov

Cyrix's failure is described by Glenn Henry CEO of Centaur Technology as " Cyrix had a good product, but they got bought by a ' big smokestack ' company and they got bloated.

Banking regulators and commentators debated whether “ firewalls ” could truly separate a bank from its affiliate in a crisis and often cited the early 1980s ’ statement by then Citicorp CEO Walter Wriston that “ it is inconceivable that any major bank would walk away from any subsidiary of its holding company .” Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker testified to Congress that firewalls so strong that they truly separated different businesses would eliminate the benefits of combining the two activities.

The corporate headquarters of the Union Pacific Corporation were located in New York City from its initial founding in the 1860s until Drew Lewis became CEO in the mid-1980s, when they were relocated to Bethlehem PA, and then later to Dallas TX ; the corporate headquarters of the Union Pacific Corporation are now also in Omaha.

The group formed in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1972, initially called simply " Uhuru " ( the Swahili word for freedom ), with a line-up of Derrick " Duckie " Gong Simpson, founder and CEO, Garth Dennis, and lastly Don Carlos Their first release was a cover version of Curtis Mayfield's " Romancing to the Folk Song ", which was followed by " Time is on Our Side "; Neither song was a success and they split up, with Carlos pursuing a solo career, as did Dennis, before joining The Wailing Souls.

Jones Soda has released different football-related flavors, and the CEO has said that they want to give the fans a " really cool experience.

MacKenzie's proposed changes to Sky News lead to clashes with CEO Sam Chisholm and the head of Sky News, Ian Frykberg, who protested what they saw as an attempt to take its news values down market.

Mandelson had also not declared the loan to his building society ( the Britannia ) although they decided not to take any action, with the CEO stating " I am satisfied that the information given to us at the time of the mortgage application was accurate.

FOREIGN MANAGEMENT: This scenario occurs when family members who control the business are not many, and yet, not having any of its members with a natural profile of leadership succession when they choose to appoint a non-family CEO.

The Newhouses intended to put up a 12-story building with street-level retail shops and bachelor apartments above, but two years later they sold the lot for about $ 2 million to Cumberland Realty Company, an investment partnership created by Harry S. Black, CEO of the Fuller Company.

* Three members of the Globetrotters appeared in a February 28, 2012 episode of the Blendtec online video series Will It Blend ?, where they helped Blendtec CEO Tom Dickson and his Uncle Floyd blend miniature basketballs, glitter dust, a whistle and a bottle of Gatorade.

David Hahn, CEO of BC Ferries states, " There is a real possibility that they went down with the ship.

The loud protests of Yahoo Group members prompted Yahoo ’ s CEO Carol Bartz to tell USA Today during an interview that Yahoo will be letting Group users pick whether they want to stay with the old-formatted Groups or join the new-formatted Groups.

On June 21, 2012, the CEO of Mammoth Mountain announced that they are closing June Mountain after more than 50 years of operations.

* Not being automatically granted the luxury of a “ diagnostic period .” Given that they know the company, COO ’ s turned CEO ’ s are often expected to hit the ground running when in actuality they too need to enter diagnostic mode to fully understand their new role and to see the Company from a new perspective.

COO ’ s are used to having the luxury of working “ behind the scenes .” As CEO, many are surprised to find they have become a “ public ” figure both inside and outside the organization and must learn how to manage this additional obligation.

According to researchers Miles and Bennett, just knowing these common pitfalls can help a COO “ heir ” better prepare for the transition, thereby avoiding them in totality and / or ensuring that at least they do not evolve into full derailers once they are in the CEO seat.