Sentence examples for directors seats from inspiring English sources

In the directors' seats the Milan vice-president, Adriano Galliani, turned on the referees' association president, Marcello Nicchi – telling him he ought to be ashamed – before exchanging similarly furious words with the Juventus president, Andrea Agnelli.

In the U.S., though women hold more than 50% of managerial positions, only 15.2% of directors seats on corporate boards are filled by femmes.

Some of the 15 directors seated at the round table stared into their coffee and croissants.

He adds: "I had been the United manager for the best part of 27 years, and now I was in a directors' seat with fans asking me for autographs".

Mr. Wyatt, 78, stood up and looked directly at Mr. Kuehn and at El Paso directors seated in front of him and delivered a brief impromptu speech to bursts of applause from the shareholders packed into the George R. Brown convention center.

This is a full time exec role, he says, not just a board of directors seat.

"We intend to permanently reserve two seats, for Graham and his wife, Rita, within the directors' seating area in a stand which already contains the Sir Elton John Suite".

Facebook declined the term sheet based on the requirement of a board of directors seat, says our source, and not the valuation.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a father figure to countless startups he's helped accelerate, but had never taken a board of directors seat until now.

Managing Partner Sean Parker, who was a cofounder of Napster and President of Facebook, led the round for Founders Fund, and we believe he may have take a board of directors seat.

Facebook itself apparently held its nose as it closed the round, but Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies was offering a far richer valuation than anyone else (and, importantly, they didn't require a board of directors seat).