McCarthy stepped down from Netflix last December, following "a desire to pursue broader executive opportunities outside the company".
After graduation, she gave up college to pursue executive opportunities in the food industry.
As Tim Vigon, who manages the Streets and Delphic, among others, explains: "Every year there are a few key events for the music industry in the UK – things like the Brits and the Mercury prize – which give executives opportunities or reasons to promote a particular record.
For Mr. Barrett, a 68-year-old retired financial executive, the opportunity to introduce high school students to the rigors and rewards of entrepreneurship is a privilege he takes very much to heart.
As the economy recovers, it will gain more funds – which, given that there is still £200m of unspent cash in the bank, will give Burns, and his yet-to-be appointed chief executive, an opportunity to do what their predecessors so conspicuously failed to do successfully – invest commercially to secure C4's future in the digital age.
Some executives found opportunity in the slowdown, meanwhile.
Options, which give executives the opportunity to buy company stock at a predetermined "strike price" within a certain period, seem like an ideal tool for insuring that a C.E.O.
[Page A1.] One partnership called Southampton gave a small group of Enron executives the opportunity to obtain millions of dollars with the money coming from the company's coffers.
"Realistically, you have to give executives some opportunity to realize stock-price appreciation while they're employed," said Jannice L. Koors, a vice president at Pearl Meyer & Partners, a compensation consulting firm in New York.
These informal working groups give executives an opportunity to share, brainstorm and gain unexpected insights from their peers who have parallel roles at different companies.
