Sentence examples for unassuming executive from inspiring English sources

Mr. Apotheker, 58, a soft-spoken, unassuming executive, oversaw a year of tumult at H.P., which reported $126 billion in revenue in the fiscal year that ended in October 2010.

Job: chairman and chief executive, Universal Music UK & Ireland Age: 43 Industry: music, digital media 2011 ranking: 53 As head of the British arm of Universal Music – which includes the labels Polydor, Island, Mercury and Decca – this unassuming executive can claim to be the most powerful figure in the UK industry.

SOL ADLER'S assistant is working, uncomplainingly, out of a fourth-floor hall closet at the 92nd Street Y, and the unassuming executive director himself is stashed nearby, also uncomplainingly, in a nondescript room after an amicable eviction from his downstairs office.

Ernest M. Fleischer, an unassuming, analytical executive who built Franklin into the nation's 25th-largest savings institution, was removed from the chairman's post at Franklin as part of the Government action today.

But if we had to bet now, on Dec. 21, we'd put our money on FORBES GLOBAL's choice as Businessman of 1999: Vodafone Airtouch's unassuming chief executive, Chris Gent.

Unwholesome messages do not shift food and drink, of course, but the character of the site also seems to echo the character of its founder, one of the most polite and unassuming chief executives I've ever interviewed.

Mr. Logan is an unassuming old-media executive -- the only thing high-powered about him is the bass boat he flees to every weekend -- and an odd candidate to be a savior for a digital behemoth.

At a time when Columbia, pressured by regulators and besmeared in the media, has stopped making acquisitions, Tenet's unassuming 53-year old chief executive, Jeffrey Barbakow, has purchased or joint-ventured with 12 hospital companies in as many months.

At the top they rely on quietly determined bosses with a belief in high standards and discipline.One example is Darwin Smith, a chief executive of Kimberly-Clark, whose unassuming nature did not prevent him from taking dramatic decisions.

But, then, one unassuming weeknight, Bob Regher, a California-based A&R executive at Warner Brothers Records, happened to be in town and stopped by CBGB just as we went on.

Ellen Baxter, the founder and executive director of Broadway Housing Communities, an unassuming woman whose braided ponytail swept the middle of her back, chimed in that "art and nature show the other side of poverty".