Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, and Edwin C. Kepler of General Electric Company.

For example, illegal insider trading would occur if the chief executive officer of Company A learned ( prior to a public announcement ) that Company A will be taken over, and bought shares in Company A knowing that the share price would likely rise.

* 1920 – Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.

Following his father's March 1963 suicide, Turner became president and chief executive of Turner Advertising Company when he was 24 and turned the firm into a global enterprise.

Jennifer Page was sacked as chief executive of the New Millennium Experience Company just one month after the dome's opening.

The Getty Oil Company provided funding to begin the new venture via executive Stuart Evey.

When working at Ford Motor Company, McNamara resided in Ann Arbor, Michigan rather than the usual auto executive domains of Grosse Pointe, Birmingham, and Bloomfield Hills.

Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: David L. Chicoine, president of South Dakota State University ; Hugh Grant, the president and CEO of Monsanto ; Arthur H. Harper, managing partner of GenNx360 Capital Partners ; Gwendolyn King, president of Podium Prose, a speakers bureau ; Laura K. Ipsen, senior VP and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco Systems, Inc., C. Steven McMillan, former chairman and CEO of the Sara Lee Corporation ; William U. Parfet, chief executive officer of MPI Research Inc .; Janice L. Fields, president of McDonald's USA ; George H. Poste, chief executive of Health Technology Networks ; and Jon R. Moeller, chief financial officer of The Procter & Gamble Company.

* Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was chairman and chief executive officer of G. D. Searle & Company, which Monsanto purchased in 1985.

His advisor at the time, Paul Samuelson, brought him on board Arbitrage Management Company ( AMC ), to join founder Michael Goodkin and chief executive Harry Markowitz.

He was an executive of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company who came to the Phoenix area in 1916 in search of suitable land to farm a long-staple cotton that had previously been available only from the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia and from Egypt.

McRae was also the birthplace of Marion B. Folsom ( 1893 – 1976 ), a longtime executive of the Eastman Kodak Company who served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare during the administration of President Eisenhower.

Herbert Allen, Jr .' s annual summer executive retreat, Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference is a regular client of Friedman Memorial Airport.

* James I. Farley ( 1871 – 1948 ), member of US House of Representatives, 1933 – 1939, lived in Auburn while an executive of the Auburn Automobile Company and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

* Sean Compton, Tribune Company President and former Clear Channel radio talent and executive, graduated from Connersville High School in 1992.

The emerging potential for success in web video has caught the eye of some of the top entertainment executives in America, including former Disney executive and current head of the Tornante Company, Michael Eisner.

* Salim ( Sandy ) Bonnor Lewis, born January 27, 1939, moved with his family to Essex in 1980, an American investment banker, arbitrageur, merger-maker, founded in 1980 a general partnership, S B Lewis & Company, a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange, originated and closed, negotiating for both sides, the tax free merger of American Express and Shearson Loeb Rhodes, received a presidential pardon from President Clinton on his last day in office-the only pardon of an NYSE member firm chief executive in Wall Street history, see http :// sblewis. net, known for litigation that forced the Adirondack Park Agency to contribute $ 71, 690. 28 to the farm's litigation cost for government behavior deemed unworthy by Acting Supreme Court Judge Richard B. Meyer in a series of decisions now bedrock in New York State law that allows a farm within the park to build to house farm workers without Park Agency involvement.

* William F. May, former chairman and chief executive of the American Can Company, co-founder of the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

After traveling through Leonia after arriving in New Jersey by ferry at Edgewater in 1899, advertising executive Artemus Ward purchased a large piece of land and established the Leonia Heights Land Company to develop and market housing in the community, his advertising attracting many academics and artists who were attracted to Leonia's small size, culture, and location, earning the town's nickname of the " Athens of New Jersey ".

From 1989 to 1993, she worked as an executive vice president of the Northern States Power Company.

The company's operations merged with those of the Gambia Merchants ' Company into the new Royal African Company, with a royal charter to set up forts, factories, troops and to exercise martial law in West Africa, in pursuit of trade in gold, silver and slaves ; Rupert was the third named member of the company's executive committee.

The first directors of the Manchester Light and Power Company were John Marsden, M. L. Manley, William F. Orvis, George Smith, and John Blackmer.

Appointment of William S. Pfaff Jr., 41, as promotion manager of The Times-Picayune Publishing Company was announced Saturday by John F. Tims, president of the company.

In 1972, the company was sold to another company called Company Developments Ltd., backed by a Birmingham-based consortium, and chaired by chartered accountant and company director William Willson, MBE.

Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.

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In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

* Oral history interview with Alfred Doughty Cavanaugh Cavanaugh discusses the work of his grandfather, A. J. Doughty, with William Seward Burroughs and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

Diplomatic relations were also established with the Ottoman Empire with the chartering of the Levant Company and the dispatch of the first English ambassador to the Porte, William Harborne, in 1578.

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When the existing stock of pre-civil war plays was divided between the two newly created patent theatre companies, Hamlet was the only Shakespearean favourite that Sir William Davenant's Duke's Company secured.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

A 1923 advert for William Beardmore and Company, Clydeside, who employed 40, 000 workers at its height.

When workers from the William Beardmore and Company Steel Works in Glasgow were dying from the large amounts of beer drunk to quench their thirst from the heat of the steel works, an alternative was sought.

* 1842 – Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4, 500 men and 12, 000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Imperial Germany set up a protectorate over the Sultan of Zanzibar's coastal possessions in 1885, followed by the arrival of Sir William Mackinnon's British East Africa Company ( BEAC ) in 1888, after the company had received a royal charter and concessionary rights to the Kenya coast from the Sultan of Zanzibar for a 50-year period.

* Malcolm Muggeridge, The Infernal Grove: Chronicles of Wasted Time: Number 2, 1974, published by William Morrow & Company, New York.

* William B. Mayo, ( 1860 – 1944 ), chief power engineer of Ford Motor Company

It was then divided between three heirs, two of whom immediately gave their rights to William Luther Wilcox who, in turn, gave them to the Pacific Navigation Company.

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It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

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