11-10-2017
The Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA) has elected four new board members and unveiled plans to achieve greater board diversity.
Chris Rash, chief executive officer (CEO) of Talbot, and Lorraine Harfitt, managing director at Asta, have both joined the board as standing members. Mark Graham, CEO of Antares, and Henry Withinshaw, chief operating officer of Newline, also joined the board as representatives of smaller managing agents.
The hires come as the LMA committed to 30 percent of its board members being female and/or from an ethnic minority by the end of 2023. Two of the LMA’s three current executive directors are female: Sheila Cameron as CEO and Jane Hayes as underwriting director.
Daily Times
May 25, 2021
Ladies and Gentlemen, you are in Lahore and it is April 1955. The city is blown away by an extraordinary event and for a few vibrant weeks, residents of this historical city will converge on the railway station to catch a glimpse of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous pair – Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger. Hollywood has dropped in for a brief but memorable visit and a part of the Lahore Railway Station will itself take up an unusual appearance with lights, reflective mirrors, filming equipment and the dazzling atmosphere that one usually associates with movie sets, for this after all, is the location shooting of one of MGM’s most ambitious productions of that era,
st annual North American Automotive OEM - Supplier Working Relations Index
® (WRI
®) Study released today by Plante Moran show that in spite of the serious challenges facing automakers and their suppliers this past year, four of the six major U.S. and Japanese automakers improved their scores. Two automakers worsened.
The 2021 NA Automotive OEM Buyer – Supplier Working Relations Index shows Toyota and Honda remaining in first and second place overall, with General Motors and Nissan improving significantly, and Ford and FCA/Stellantis dropping significantly.
New this year is a scoring of the six automakers’ purchasing organizations “effectiveness,” that is, how quickly various issues are resolved between the automaker and supplier or their “throughput.” In this ranking, Honda was the top scorer, with Toyota a close second. The others followed the 2021 rankings.