Yahoo's chief executive presided over the decline and sale of the company.
And Mr. Vermeer's daughter, Mary Vermeer Andringa, the chief executive, presides over a manufacturing operation that relies increasingly on government support.
Mr. Sylver became prominent alongside Mr. Suozzi by orchestrating dozens of "town hall" forums at which the county executive presided.
Bannon returned Friday to Breitbart News — a fiery, hard-right site that has gone to war with the Republican establishment — and resumed his previous role as executive chairman, presiding over an evening editorial meeting.
Yet at Yum! Brands, the owner of chains such as KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, Dave Novak, the chief executive, is presiding over a training programme that he says is the "biggest culture-change initiative in the world today", affecting all of the firm's 1.4m workers spread across 112 countries.Yum! has prospered since PepsiCo spun it off in 1997.
A dramatic day for football's world governing body began with 12 plainclothes policemen raiding the five-star Bauer au Lac hotel in Zurich and concluded with a damning press conference in Brooklyn at which the director of the FBI and the US attorney general accused senior Fifa executives of presiding over a "World Cup of fraud".
Brown, who had run the footwear, apparel and retail group of Jones Apparel since 2001, had recently come under fire from analysts and industry executives for presiding over a decline of the $1.9 billion Nine West shoe brands at a time when the overall footwear industry is booming.
1 Richard Howson, the chief executive who presided over Carillion's demise before resigning last July, has stepped down as a non-executive director of Wood Group, the oil services company. 2 Hackers targeting an internet cloud provider could cause as much economic devastation as Hurricane Katrina, the World Economic Forum has warned in its annual Global Risks report.
Shire, meanwhile, insisted its chief executive had presided over stellar performance at the drug maker.
Steve Easterbrook, McDonald's newly appointed British-born chief executive, will preside over his first shareholder meeting Thursday in Chicago.
