He attended the AGM, but did not take public questions from shareholders or journalists.
It came a day before the fast food company's annual meeting when dissident shareholders intend to vote against CEO Donald Thompson's $9.5m pay package.
But the fear – among rivals and shareholders, if not shoppers – is that chief executive Phil Clarke will eventually bring out the heavy ordnance.
"We're pretty sure we did the right thing for the shareholders".
The kingdom is also an important player in BAE's immediate post-EADS future because shareholders are hoping to receive the proceeds – an estimated £600m – from the renegotiation of a Saudi contract for 72 Typhoons.
It will also give power to any future finance minister to recruit "special managers" who could take over any troubled bank in the future and have the ability to sack directors and overrule shareholders.
Jenkins said Gold had been selected because he understood "the rapidly changing regulatory landscape" and would help to improve returns for shareholders in the "evolving market environment".
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The chief executive of the world's largest oil company will on Wednesday face two of the firm's most persistent environmental activist shareholders – a nun from New Jersey and a friar from Milwaukee.
A fixed bonus-to-income ratio would at least give shareholders some confidence that the board isn't merely blown about by events and has a plan it is willing to defend and be judged against.
Currently only boardroom salary is published but some banks pay top traders more than their chief executives, leaving shareholders in the dark on the overall remuneration structure in financial institutions.
