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CTV News
2 days ago
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- CTV News
City of Regina officials discuss future budget seasons, incentive volunteer facility passes
WATCH: Regina's executive committee is exploring a different approach to its budget process. Sierra D'Souza Butts explains why.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
28 Strategy Execution and Evolves its Executive Committee
PARIS, June 18, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bureau Veritas, a global leader in Testing, Inspection, and Certification services (TIC) is accelerating the execution of its LEAP | 28 strategy to reach its vision of being the preferred partner for its customers' excellence and sustainability. Taking LEAP | 28 to the next level, Bureau Veritas is evolving the structure of its executive committee to drive greater organizational alignment, strengthening its geographical platform with scalable Product Line structures, and optimizing its operations to enhance agility and effectiveness. Since the strategy launch in March 2024, LEAP | 28 strategy execution has progressed steadily in all three pillars – Portfolio, Performance & People - and is now reaching an important stage requiring an evolution of the operating model. The new structure will empower the regions with scalable Product Lines, enabling global offers development, unlocking greater cross-selling opportunities, and driving growth and profitability. The current six operating geographical Regions will be reorganized into four greater Regions: Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East Caspian & Africa. The Product lines will be managed under three executive committee members who will lead: Industrials and Commodities, Urbanization and Assurance, and Consumer Products Services. These groupings at the executive committee level are aligned with customer workflows and market needs. Considering the company ambition to scale performance programs across all the Regions and Product lines, a Chief Performance Officer and Executive Committee member role will be dedicated to lead the LEAP I 28 performance pillar and the overall optimization of key performance functions of operational excellence & performance, and sales & marketing. This role will drive the design, governance, and overall implementation and monitoring of these programs in coordination with other stakeholders across the organization. All other Business and Support Functions will remain under their current leaders. Hinda Gharbi, Chief Executive Officer of Bureau Veritas comments: "By directly connecting Product Lines to a simplified regional structure, we are strengthening our regional expertise and building deeper relations with our customers. This organization will also allow us to create more agility as we accelerate the execution of our LEAP | 28 strategy. This new organization will leverage scale, benefit from a well-defined structure, thus speeding up decision making, performance impact, and innovation. I fully trust our Bureau Veritas Executive team to mobilize the entire organization to achieve our vision and deliver on our ambition." *** The transition period will extend from July 1st to the end of August September 1st 2025, the Group Executive Committee will be structured and composed as follows: Regions: Europe: Executive Vice-President > Vincent Bourdil Middle East Caspian & Africa: Executive Vice-President > Khurram Majeed Asia Pacific: Executive Vice-President > Surachet Tanwongsval Americas: Executive Vice-President to be appointed before year end Product Lines: Industrials and Commodities: Executive Vice-President > Matthieu Gondallier De Tugny Urbanization and Assurance: Executive Vice-President > Marc Roussel Consumer Products Services: Executive Vice-President > Catherine Chen Business Functions: Corporate development & sustainability: Executive Vice-President > Juliano Cardoso Chief Performance Officer: Executive Vice-President > Laurent Louail Chief Digital & Innovation Officer: Executive Vice-President DxT (Digital & Technology) > Philipp Karmires Support Functions: Chief Financial Officer: Executive Vice-President > François Chabas Chief People Officer: Executive Vice-President > Maria Lorente Fraguas Legal affairs & Internal Audit: Executive Vice-President > Beatrice Place-Faget *** About Bureau Veritas Bureau Veritas is a world leader in inspection, certification, and laboratory testing services with a powerful purpose: to shape a world of trust by ensuring responsible progress. With a vision to be the preferred partner for customers' excellence and sustainability, the company innovates to help them navigate in 1828, Bureau Veritas' 84,000 employees deliver services in 140 countries. The company's technical experts support customers to address challenges in quality, health and safety, environmental protection, and Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, SBF 120 indices and is part of the CAC SBT 1.5° index. Compartment A, ISIN code FR 0006174348, stock symbol: more information, visit and follow us on LinkedIn. *** Biographies: Vincent Bourdil, appointed Executive Vice-President, Europe, joined Bureau Veritas in 2016 and has held multiple leadership roles across the company. His most recent roles were Executive Vice-President, Global Business Lines & Performance before becoming Executive Vice-President, Commodities, Industry & Facilities, Southwest Europe. Khurram Majeed remains Executive Vice-President, Middle East, Caspian & Africa. He is a seasoned industry leader with over 23 years of senior management experience across energy, oil & gas, and other sectors. Khurram joined Bureau Veritas in 2024 as Executive Vice-President, Middle East, Caspian & Africa. Surachet Tanwongswal remains Executive Vice-President Asia Pacific. He joined Bureau Veritas in 2024 as Executive Vice-President for Commodities, Industry & Facilities in Asia Pacific. Prior to this, Surachet held leadership roles at Ecolab and other global B2B companies. Matthieu Gondallier de Tugny, appointed Executive Vice-President Industrials and Commodities, joined Bureau Veritas in 1994 and has held various technical, operational, and leadership roles in Marine & Offshore. His most recent role was Executive Vice-President, Marine & Offshore. Marc Roussel, appointed Executive Vice-President Urbanization and Assurance, joined Bureau Veritas in 2015 and has held multiple leadership roles across the company. His most recent role was Executive Vice-president, Commodities, Industry & Facilities, France. Catherine Chen remains Executive Vice-President Consumer Products Services. She joined Bureau Veritas in 2005 and has held various sales, marketing, and operational leadership roles in Consumer Product Services. Catherine will continue to connect Consumer Products & Technology Product Lines, as Executive Vice-President, Consumer Products Services. Laurent Louail, appointed Executive Vice-President Chief Performance Officer, joined Bureau Veritas in 1995 and has held multiple leadership roles across the company. His most recent roles were Executive Vice-President, Commodities, Industry & Facilities in Southwest Europe, before becoming Executive Vice-President, Global Business Lines & Performance. Juliano Cardoso remains Executive Vice-President Corporate Development & Sustainability. He joined Bureau Veritas in 1999 and has held leadership roles across the company. Juliano will continue to lead our corporate development and sustainability efforts in his current role as Executive Vice-President, Corporate Development & Sustainability. Philipp Karmires remains Executive Vice-President Chief Digital & Innovation Officer. He is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation, enterprise software and product innovation. Philipp joined Bureau Veritas in 2024 and will continue to lead the DxT (Digital & Technology) function as Executive Vice-President, Chief Digital & Innovation Officer. François Chabas remains Executive Vice-President Chief Financial Officer. He joined Bureau Veritas in 2003, holding finance roles with increasing responsibility before becoming Chief Financial Officer in 2014. François will continue to lead the finance function as Executive Vice-President, Finance. Maria Lorente Fraguas remains Executive Vice-President Chief People Officer. She joined Bureau Veritas in 2024 after holding senior operational and human resources roles in international companies across multiple countries. Maria will continue to lead the people function as Executive Vice-President, Chief People Officer. Béatrice Place-Faget remains Executive Vice-President Legal & Internal Audit. She joined Bureau Veritas in 2020 after serving as general counsel for other companies in France. Béatrice will continue to lead the legal and compliance function as Executive Vice-President, Legal affairs & Internal Audit. 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The Guardian
03-06-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action?
People with the power to change the direction of the Democratic party – the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) – met last Friday for the first time in five months. They took no action. The party's bylaws make the executive committee 'responsible for the conduct of the affairs of the Democratic party' between the meetings of the full committee, which isn't scheduled to gather until late August. But taking responsibility wasn't on the agenda. Instead, committee members and staff kept praising each other and committee leaders. Many talked about improving the party's infrastructure and vowed to defeat Republicans. Deliberation, proposals and debate were completely absent. So was a sense of urgency. After so many months without a meeting, you might think that the executive committee would have a lot to talk about. But it was scheduled to meet for only three hours, which turned out to be more than adequate for what anyone had to say. The committee adjourned after an hour and a half. If obscurity was a goal for the national meeting, held in Little Rock, Arkansas, it was a success. The DNC's website didn't mention the meeting. Media coverage was close to nonexistent. The committee leadership remains largely within a bubble insulated from the anger and disgust – toward the party – that is widespread among countless Democrats and other Americans. They want the Democratic party to really put up a fight, while its leaders mainly talk about putting up a fight. The Trump regime is setting basic structures of democracy on fire, while Democratic leaders don't seem to be doing much more than wielding squirt guns. A week ago the new chair, Ken Martin, received a petition calling for an emergency meeting of the full 448-member committee. The petition, cosponsored by Progressive Democrats of America and RootsAction (where I'm national director), includes more than 1,500 individual comments. They're often filled with anguish and rage. The California representative Ro Khanna has joined in the call for an emergency committee meeting. 'I've supported it, I've spoken directly to our chair Ken Martin about it,' Khanna said last week. 'Look, what's going on is chilling … They're banning all international students from coming to Harvard. I mean, think about that – all foreign students banned. They could do this in other universities. They have fired, or let go of, seven of the 18 directors at the NIH, totally dismantling future medical research in our country. They have dismantled the FDA, firing people who approve new drugs. They are systematically firing people at the FAA … They're openly talking about defying United States supreme court orders, [Vice-President JD] Vance has said just defy the orders. They're calling universities 'the enemy'. This is very chilling.' Khanna then zeroed in on a crucial point that party leaders have so far refused to acknowledge, much less heed: 'It's not enough for us to have individual responses. I'm out there doing my town halls in red districts, Bernie [Sanders] is inspiring the country with his oligarchy tour, but they're all individual efforts. We need concerted effort, we need a battle plan. And that's what an emergency DNC meeting would do – it would acknowledge the stakes, and it would say 'here is our plan' – to make sure that they're not degrading and chipping away at every institution of American democracy.' Refusal to call an emergency meeting is a marker of deeper problems, with Democratic party leadership remaining in a political rut – spouting mildly liberal rhetoric while serving the interests of big donors, high-paid consultants and entrenched power brokers. Along the way, such business as usual is a gift that keeps on giving power to the pseudo-populist messages of Maga Republican politicians, who don't have to go up against genuine progressive populism at election time. No wonder the Democratic party has lost most of the working-class vote. With no Democrat in the White House, the DNC chair is powerful. To his credit, Martin talks articulately about the need to 'democratize this party'. Four months into the job previously held by Jaime Harrison, who was Joe Biden's obedient appointee, Martin is clearly an improvement. How much of an improvement is unclear. After the DNC's executive committee adjourned, Martin provided a glimmer of hope for ending the chokehold that mega-funders, notably Aipac, have exerted on recent primary campaigns. He was interviewed by my colleague Sam Rosenthal, covering the event for Progressive Hub and apparently the only journalist based outside of Arkansas to make the trek to Little Rock. In response to a question about whether he would 'like to see less influence from dark money, removing the influence especially in Democratic party primaries', Martin said: 'Yes. In fact, I'll be bringing forward a resolution on that, and I will be pushing hard for our party to come up with solutions on this so that we actually have our candidates and campaigns realize that we have to live our values; we can't just say we want dark money out of politics and then have candidates and their campaigns accepting all types of support from these shadow groups. We actually need to reverse course.' That reply might indicate that Martin is now willing to move away from the position that he took while running for DNC chair in January, when he said: 'There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats who share our values and we will take their money, but we're not taking money from those bad billionaires.' With June under way, the Democratic party is no closer to operating with urgency to vigorously oppose the daily Trump attacks on basic rights, the rule of law, and the economic interests of most Americans. The party's terrible approval ratings in polls – with disdain for its congressional leaders – make the need for drastic changes in the party all too clear. But when the DNC and allied party organizations do outreach urging people to 'get involved', routinely the only involvement urged or offered is to give money. It's a formulaic approach that reveals just how little the national party is really seeking participatory democracy. Millions of usual (and all-too-often former) Democratic voters see party leaders as asleep at the switch, while the Trump regime is hard at work enriching the already rich and demolishing structures of democracy. As usual, if genuine change for the better is going to come, it won't be handed down from on high. People at the grassroots will have to fight for it. Norman Solomon is the director of RootsAction and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His latest book is War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Delphine Viguier-Hovasse Named L'Oréal Chief Innovation and Prospective Officer
Delphine Viguier-Hovasse has been appointed L'Oréal's chief innovation and prospective officer, a newly created position for the group. The executive, who currently serves as global brand president of L'Oréal Paris, will start in the new position on July 1. She will report to Barbara Lavernos, L'Oréal deputy chief executive officer, in charge of research, innovation and technology. Viguier-Hovasse will also join the group's executive committee at that time. More from WWD Céline Assimon Named Chief Commercial Officer at Bonhams EXCLUSIVE: More Executive Changes for Flos B&B Group as Arclinea Family CEO Steps Down Beauty Brands Accelerate Their Formula 1 Drive 'This new role builds on L'Oréal's long track record in innovation and has been established to further strengthen its leadership within the dynamic and fast-evolving beauty landscape,' the company said in a statement released Wednesday. 'This position will oversee both the existing innovation teams and the strategic prospective department, to ensure a holistic and future-focused approach to beauty innovation.' Viguier-Hovasse, an engineer by training, joined L'Oréal in 1997. She became the first female head of L'Oréal Paris in 2019. 'Under her guidance, L'Oréal Paris has experienced impressive growth, solidifying its position as the world's leading beauty brand,' L'Oréal said. 'This success was fueled by her ability to bring new game-changing innovations to market — like Elsève Glycolic Gloss and Panorama Mascara, a testament to her product development abilities.' Viguier-Hovasse has during her tenure at the brand built and amplified activations and programs that inspire women's worth. That includes L'Oréal Paris' fashion show, dubbed Le Defilé, which takes place once yearly during Paris Fashion Week. The brand also annually is an official sponsor of the Cannes Film Festival, where this year it is celebrating its fifth edition of the Lights on Women's Worth Award, which shines a light on women in film. 'Under her leadership, the brand has also strengthened its commitment to female empowerment, culminating in the brands Stand-Up program against street harassment, which has trained nearly 3 million people worldwide,' L'Oréal said. 'Delphine's leadership has not only driven business growth but also fostered a culture of excellence and inspired a new generation of talent within L'Oréal.' Nicolas Hieronimus, L'Oréal CEO, said of Viguier-Hovasse: 'Her exceptional track record of innovation and her strategic vision make her ideally suited to elevate our company's innovation to new heights. I am sure that her forward-thinking approach and deep understanding of the evolving beauty landscape will help us write the next chapter of the L'Oréal adventure.' Best of WWD The Best Makeup Looks in Golden Globes History A Look Back at Golden Globes Best Makeup on the Red Carpet, From Megan Fox to Sophia Loren [PHOTOS] The Best Hairstyles in Golden Globes History Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
