Erin Ganju is cofounder and CEO of Room to Read, an organization that seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in the developing world by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education.
Our CEO bolted from the room and said we would regroup in 30 minutes.
One CEO got up to address the room and he mentioned how nervous he was to speak in front of the group.
Quixey CEO Tomer Kagan says he wanted a room for employees to feel like they were working outside, so they would never feel too claustrophobic.
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Sherry Lansing, a former Paramount Pictures executive turned philanthropist, and Barry Rand, CEO of AARP, attracted a standing-room-only crowd.
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Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered.
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Michael Dell, who founded Dell out of his college dorm room in 1984, retook the CEO job in 2007 after sales faltered as rivals including Hewlett-Packard figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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Gulden, 46, is currently managing director of the Deichmann Group and president and CEO of its wholly owned retail chains Rack Room Shoes and Off Broadway Shoes in the U.S. Prior to those positions, Gulden was senior VP of apparel and accessories at Adidas and was part of the management group that took Adidas public in 1995.
"LG's 100-inch class Laser TV takes projection technology and makes it perfectly suitable for both the boardroom and the living room, " said Havis Kwon , President and CEO of the LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company.
Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and CEO of mobile payments startup Square, stood before the standing-room only crowd in San Francisco and said he never intended to become an entrepreneur.
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The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, along with CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, provided the opening comments to the packed room at 30 Rock in the GE building.
On the other hand, coming in as the fourth CEO after a string of less-than-stellar prior chiefs might give her the room to roam.
"With the digital age, we can catch up with our competitors, " says CEO Jong Yong Yun through a translator during an interview in the cavernous, formal receiving room near his office at Samsung Electronics' headquarters in Seoul.
Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill said the probe will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies, and what additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators.
On Tuesday, Carnival announced it was conducting "a comprehensive review" of all 23 of its ships after the fire last month that crippled Triumph in the Gulf of Mexico.. Carnival President and CEO Gerry Cahill said the investigation will focus on the prevention, detection and suppression of fires, engine room redundancies, and what additional hotel facilities might be provided and might run off the emergency generators.
Instead of packing executives into a conference room and brainstorming solutions, Keeney met for one hour each with 19 top people, including the CEO.
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