Of Shire's Luxembourg structure, the MPs' report says: "Shire has arranged its affairs so that interest payments on intra-company loans reduce significantly its overall tax liabilities … The 'substance' of Shire's business in Luxembourg, used to justify these arrangements, consists of two people … One of Shire's Luxembourg based staff holds 41 directorships of other companies".
The panel said the directorship should be a cabinet-level post based in the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House, in quarters the office vacated in 2001.
While he was on the design diploma course, the Old Vic closed for refurbishment and the National Theatre, based there under Laurence Olivier's directorship, was left temporarily without a stage – so he elected to work with the college.
We show that while structural analyses of multiple and interlocking directorships offer a useful initial means of understanding power geometries, more detailed, 'thick description' approaches, based on archival material, reveal that not all apparent links were active and, in the case of the early-20th century multinational elite, networks appear to have embraced a much broader array of contacts.
Burger's deal with the Blue Bulls, the mighty South African provincial side based in Pretoria, was drawing to a close and he was deep in discussions with the former Wallaby coach Eddie Jones, who, strange to relate, had quit the rugby directorship at Saracens not long before.
The cross-directorships of board members of Austria's Hayek Institute/AEC have included Prince Michael von Liechtenstein, Franz Wohlfahrt, CEO of Novomatic, Meinhard Platzer, CEO of Austria's branch of LGT Bank, and US based groups -Freedom Work's Matt Kibbe, Competitive Enterprise Institute's Terry Kibbe, Liberty Fund's Chris Talley, Center for Freedom and Prosperity's Daniel Mitchell, etc.
Instead of basing itself in one building, the theatre, under the directorship of the gifted Vicky Featherstone, will be a nomadic commissioning body which will take theatre all over Scotland, setting itself up on established stages and in less conventional site-specific arenas (forests and car parks as well as sports halls, according to Featherstone).
Some enjoy lavish hospitality and lucrative directorships.
There are only 19 women in directorships.
Directorships could have supplemented his income.
