Among this group of owners, 41% had 10 or more years of industry experience.
Norwood brings significant health care industry experience to solving the problem of living with diabetes.
This is what recruiters use to determine if you have the right industry experience.
Both Cruz and Crawford have securities industry experience, a skills-set critics have said was missing from the board.
Ask recruiters to look for a specific problem-solving ability instead of industry experience.
Furthermore, the only two independent directors with media industry experience have both worked for News Corp companies during their careers.
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They will have the necessary industry experience to know which contract terms to insist upon and which ones to avoid.
In 2006, the company appointed Alan Mulally, a former Boeing executive with zero auto industry experience, as chief executive.
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And yet there are thousands of companies, from Amazon to Zipcar, that were created by people with no industry experience.
Samsung could marshal its size, industry experience and technology developed for other consumer electronics products to become a bigger player, say analysts.
We view Terracciano as a credible independent board chairman with strong banking industry experience, who is well respected by the investment community, Ball said.
These were placed ahead of industry experience, creative thinking and integration.
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Industry experience isn't required to land a job at Travelers Cos.
Their input has been vital in crafting an order that incorporates the best ideas and lessons learned from industry experience, legislative efforts, and successful federal efforts.
The singer admits she was taken aback when many on the Internet protested that her previous music-industry experience put her at an unfair advantage in the competition.
Diversity is great but not a substitute for industry experience.
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In practice, this almost never works and the executive usually makes a string of bad decisions that must later be undone by the next CEO who invariably has lots of industry experience.
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And, as I learned from Hastings at the stellar Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, the former math teacher has used his teaching, technology, and entertainment industry experience to understand the future of education too.
Margolis is using his high-tech background, his communications and sales skills, his understanding of the passionate watch customer, and his newly acquired Swiss watch industry experience, to create ways to appeal to watch lovers in the modern world.
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This has created a framework that is restricting business school graduates who may be equipped with a deeper understanding of the issues than the internal employee base but lack the industry experience to apply for the few available senior-level jobs.
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For an academic scientist, Lee Rubin at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) has a great deal of biotech industry experience, and this has inspired some ingenious experiments with induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for disease modeling and drug discovery.
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Registered capital is the default metric for financial risk assessment here (a very poor tool, but it is what it is), and the government typically includes requirements related to industry experience in an attempt to raise the bar slightly for market entry, thereby keeping out the inexperienced tyros that would be likely to fail.
Novarro, who focuses on medical supplies and devices, believes the industry can experience a rebound sooner than that.
Victoria is a well known professional in the collections industry, having experience with both agencies and lenders.
"The commercial aerospace industry continues to experience the negative effects of a sustained global recession, " he said.
Industry specialization and experience is a far bigger criteria to consider in selecting a funding partner, Valdez says.
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The other thing that Adam found was missing for him was industry-specific experience.
Therefore, auditors should have a wide range of business knowledge, demonstrated through years of audit and industry-specific experience, educational background, professional certifications, training programs, committee participation, professional associations, and job rotational assignments.
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The GC will often have experience in the industry far greater than those in the small company and can use that experience to offer guidance.
In the airline industry, size and experience can be a disadvantage rather than an advantage.
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