Event class: chairman, board, president, ceo, became, company, directors, appointed, position, resigned

Events with high posterior probability

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo	In November 1991, FIAT Chairman Gianni Agnelli appointed Montezemolo president of Ferrari, which had been struggling since Enzo Ferrari's death.
Jacob Stolt-Nielsen	On December 15, 2009, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the company, Jacob Stolt-Nielsen stepped down as Chairman of the Board.
Frank McKenna	Frank McKenna was appointed as Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group effective May 1, 2006.
Donald Gregg	In September 2009, Gregg retired to the role of chairman emeritus of The Korea Society and was replaced as chairman by Thomas C. Hubbard.
Rodolphe Marchais	In 1996, when TAT Group sold all its shareholding in the airline and express parcel businesses, Rodolphe MARCHAIS became President & CEO of TAT Group, replacing Michel MARCHAIS, his father and founder of the Group.
Paul Allaire	In 1997, Allaire hired G. Richard'' Rick'' Thoman from IBM as Xerox President and COO which positioned Thoman as the eventual successor, and this news caused the company shares to rise $ 2 (2.
Alan Haselhurst	Haselhurst replaced the Malaysian Shafie Apdal as Chairman, and is the first Briton to serve as Chairman since Sir Colin Shepherd in 1996.
Michael Macht	In July 2009 he was appointed chairman of the management board of Porsche AG, as successor to Wendelin Wiedeking.
Clessie Cummins	In 1955, Cummins had to leave the company he created, retiring from the position of Chairman.
Jean-Paul Votron	On 11 October 2004, he joined Fortis as its CEO, succeeding Anton van Rossum and was responsible for the day-to-day management of the group and proposing strategic proposals to the Board.
James Palumbo, Baron Palumbo of Southwark	Palumbo stepped down as Chief Executive of the Group in 2008 and was succeeded by Lohan Presencer.
Noel White	Upon leaving Altrincham F. C. in 1986 White was appointed club President a position he still holds.
Kasugafuji Akihiro	In February 2012 he was elected to the Sumo Association's board of directors, and as a result stood down from the day to day running of the stable, passing control over to the former Hamanishiki and taking the Ikazuchi name.
Chris DeWolfe	On April 22, 2009, News Corp. announced DeWolfe would step down as CEO and will be a strategic adviser to Myspace and serve on the board of MySpace China.
Peter Storrie	In July 2009, Sulaiman Al Fahim, the billionaire UAE businessman assumed the role of Chairman and Peter Storrie reverted to Chief Executive Officer.
Ivan Seidenberg	Seidenberg stepped down as CEO in July 2011 and continued to serve as chairman and as a member of the Verizon Board of Directors through December 2011 when he retired from the company.
David Crystal	After the company's acquisition by Ad Pepper Media N. V., he remained on the board as its R&D director until 2009, and continues to act as a consultant for Ad Pepper.
Roy E. Disney	On March 3, 2004, at Disney's annual shareholders' meeting, a surprising and unprecedented 43 % of Disney's shareholders, predominantly rallied by former board members Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, voted to oppose the re-election of Eisner to the corporate board of directors.
Lino Saputo	In March 2004, his son Lino Saputo, Jr., was appointed to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer.
William Black, Baron Black	He retired from this post in 1966 after which Donald Stokes became Chairman and Chief Executive of LMC.
David M. Moffett	On March 2, 2009, Moffett announced his resignation as CEO of Freddie Mac.
Kevin Roberts	In 1997, Roberts was appointed the role of Chief Executive Officer Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi.
Larry Ellison	On August 9, 2010, Ellison denounced Hewlett-Packard's board for firing CEO Mark Hurd, writing that'' the HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago.''
Martin Manley	Manley then stepped down as CEO of Alibris in 2010 and was succeeded by Brian Elliot, the company's president and COO.
Helmut Maucher	He currently serves as Honorary chairman of Nestlé SA, Vevey, Switzerland, having been elected to that position by the Board after relinquishing its chairmanship in May 2000.
Henry Earl Singleton	At the annual meeting in April 1986, Singleton, who was then 69 years old, announced that he was turning the position of CEO over to Roberts, but was remaining as Board Chairman.
Assar Gabrielsson	Assar Gabrielsson held his position as managing director for AB Volvo until 1956 when he became the chairman of the board (CEO) of the Volvo group.
Wess Stafford	In September 2013, Stafford retired from his position of President and CEO of Compassion International, giving that title to Santiago Mellado.
Paul Godfrey	However, Godfrey remained on the board of directors of the Stadium Corporation, a separate entity, until 1998 when he resigned shortly before the SkyDome filed for bankruptcy.
Bulelani Ngcuka	He resigned as Chairman of the board of directors of Basil Read Holdings Ltd in May 2009 and was replaced by Sindele Peteni.
Winfried Bischoff	Bischoff stepped down as chairman on 23 February 2009 and was replaced by Richard Parsons.
Michael Grade	On 28 November 2006, Grade and the BBC confirmed that he was to resign from his position within the corporation to replace Sir Peter Burt as Chairman, and Charles Allen as Chief Executive, of one of the companies forming part of its commercial rival, ITV.
L?o Apotheker	On September 22, 2011, the HP Board of Directors replaced Apotheker as chief executive, effective immediately, with fellow board member and former eBay chief Meg Whitman.
L.A. Reid	Reid stepped down as CEO and Chairman of Def Jam in March 2011.
Card Walker	Finally, in 1980 Walker became Chairman of the Disney Board upon Tatum's retirement.
Heather Rabbatts	On 3 May 2006 Rabbatts was appointed as the new Executive Deputy Chair of Millwall F. C., and on 27 October 2006 she was appointed as Executive Chairwoman of Millwall Holdings plc, taking over from Peter de Savary.
William A. Niskanen	In 1975, Niskanen was appointed chief economist at the Ford Motor Company under chairman Henry Ford II and president Lee Iacocca.
David Foster	On December 15, 2011, it was confirmed that Foster would become the Chairman of Verve Music Group.
Donald M. Kendall	In 1973, when Crawford officially turned 65 (she was actually between two and four years older), she was forcibly retired from her position on the company's Board of Directors.
Doug Morris	In 1994, Morris shifted to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of Warner Music U. S., and was soon named chairman.
George C. Thomson	Thomson served as the chairman of the board of the new company until his retirement at the end of 1960.
Mark Pincus	On July 1, 2013, it was confirmed that Don Mattrick, the former president of Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, was to succeed Pincus as CEO.
Ken Bates	He stayed on as club chairman until March 2004, when he announced his resignation.
Ken Morrison	In June 2006, Ken Morrison announced that he would relinquish executive control of the company, which came into effect from 4 September, making way for the appointment of Dutchman Marc Bolland as chief executive.
Carol Bartz	However, on September 9, 2011, Bartz resigned from the company's Board of Directors.
Joseph Nacchio	Nacchio resigned from Qwest in June 2002 and was replaced by former Ameritech CEO Richard Notebaert.
Robert Nardelli	Robert Nardelli became CEO of the Freedom Group in September 2010 as the North Carolina-based gun maker searched for a permanent CEO.
Gordon Bethune	Bethune ascended to the role of CEO and was elected chairman of the board of directors in 1996.
Jason Calacanis	On November 16, 2006, TechCrunch reported that Calacanis had resigned from his position as CEO of Weblogs, Inc. and General Manager of Netscape.
John Lee Pratt	Pratt rose to became a member of the corporation's executive committee and, from the 1920s until 1968, served on GM's Board of Directors.
Vishal Sikka	In the wake of Léo Apotheker's resignation from the executive board in 2010, Sikka was named to a newly reconstituted board, along with new co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe.
Diane Disney Miller	Ron W. Miller was CEO of The Walt Disney Company until 1984, when Diane's cousin, Roy E. Disney, supported his ouster in favor of Michael Eisner, Frank Wells and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
John Koskinen	On April 23, 2009, he became the Principal Financial Officer after the death of Freddie Mac's acting CFO.
Norman Rowlinson	Rowlinson had retired as chairman in 1998 when he handed over the reins to John Bowler, although he remained at the club as President.
Ross Oakley	Oakley was appointed Chairman and CEO of the then troubled Victorian Football League in 1986, taking over the role from Jack Hamilton.
Mark Hurd	At Hewlett-Packard, Hurd succeeded CFO Robert Wayman, who served as interim CEO from February 10, 2005 to March 28, 2005, after former CEO Carly Fiorina was forced by the board to resign.
J. Lynn Helms	In 1974 he was elected President and CEO of Piper Aircraft Corporation, later being named Chairman of the Board.
Thomas W. LaSorda	While Fiat asked LaSorda to stay on, he instead opted to step down as President and Vice-Chairman and retired effective May 1, 2009, as Chrysler LLC filed for bankruptcy.
Arun Sarin	He rejoined Vodafone as Chief Executive Designate on 1 April 2003 and was appointed on a permanent basis after the Company's annual general meeting on 30 July 2003.
Sergio Marchionne	In June 2009, when Chrysler emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Fiat Group received a 20 % stake in Chrysler Group LLC and Marchionne was appointed CEO, replacing existing CEO Robert Nardelli.
Kathryn V. Marinello	Marinello was named President and CEO of Ceridian in 9 October 2006 succeeding Ronald L. Turner on 20 October 2006.
Rosella Sensi	She has held the post of managing director and, since August 28, 2008, also the Presidency of Roma, replacing her father, Franco Sensi, who was the president until he died on August 17, 2008.
John Frederick Nelson	In January 2002, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of Kingfisher plc.
Lofty England	After the company's withdrawal from racing England moved into the mainstream management of Jaguar Cars, later succeeding Sir William Lyons as its Chairman and Chief Executive, before retiring in 1974.
Chris Dodd	In February 2011, despite'' repeatedly and categorically insisting that he would not work as a lobbyist,'' Dodd replaced Dan Glickman as chairman and chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer	On June 21, 1963 Schweitzer was appointed Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the IMF, and he assumed his duties on September 1, 1963.
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal	Smith remained on the board of directors for several years, although he was by-passed for the company's presidency in 1888, in favour of William Cornelius Van Horne.
Paul Tellier	In January 2003, Tellier stepped down from CN, (Harrison assumed the presidency of the company) to take a three-year posting as the President and CEO of Bombardier.
Wakanohana Kanji II	Along with five other oyakata (Ōtake, Ōnomatsu, Otowayama, Tokiwayama and Futagoyama), he was forced to leave the Nishonoseki ichimon or group of stables in January 2010 after declaring his support for Takanohana's unsanctioned bid to be elected to the board of directors of the Sumo Association.
Robert Georgine	Although Georgine remained as president, chairman and CEO at ULLICO, he became caught up in a scandal with forced him to retire on May 8, 2003.
Ray Kassar	Upon Ray Kassar's resignation, James J. Morgan, formerly of Philip Morris, replaced him as CEO of Atari Inc. in September 1983.
Franz Beckenbauer	Following the club's decision to change from an association to a limited company, he has been chairman of the advisory board since the beginning of 2002.
John Jones (American football executive)	He was to assume the titles of President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2007, replacing a retiring Bob Harlan.
Ajit Shetty	He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a pharmaceutical company and subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, with its headquarters in Beerse, Belgium, until February 2012, when he retired.
Dee Anthony	Anthony's daughter, Michele Anthony, is the former president and chief operating officer of Sony Music, having left the post in 2006.
James Harding (journalist)	On 16 April 2013, his appointment as the new head of BBC News was announced, a post formerly held by Helen Boaden, although he did not formally take up the post until the following August.
Gerard Kleisterlee	As CEO he : He was succeeded by Frans van Houten as CEO of Philips in April 2011.
Michael Lynton	On June 27, 2012, Lynton became the CEO of Sony Corporation of America and Sony Entertainment, Inc.
Thomas S. Monson	This was one of multiple positions that Monson resigned in 1996 when it was decided that General Authorities should leave all business boards of directors, with the lone exception of the board of Deseret Management Corporation.
Diane Greene	On January 12, 2012, Greene was named to Google's board of directors.
David C. Cole	In 1993 Cole became chairman, president and chief executive officer of NaviSoft, an Internet-based software provider.
Hugh Greene	Hugh Greene then became one of the BBC governors, a position he held until 1971.
Joe B. Foster	From February through August 2000, Foster served as interim chairman, president and chief executive officer of Baker Hughes Incorporated, while the company searched for a new chief executive.
Craig Barrett (chief executive)	In January 2009, he announced that he would be stepping down as chairman and member of the board at the annual stockholders' meeting in May 2009.
Yvo de Boer	De Boer announced on February 18, 2010 that he would resign from the position effective July 1, 2010 to join accountancy firm KPMG as its Special Global Advisor, Climate Change and Sustainability and global ambassador.
Heber Jentzsch	He has continued in this role since his promotion to the post of President of the Church of Scientology International ; in January 1986 it fell to him to inform the press of the death of L. Ron Hubbard.
Alan Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury	He retired as Chairman in 1967 to be replaced by his brother Robert, and became Life President.
Wallace Trevor Holliday	Holliday remained in the presidency until April 25, 1949, when he became chairman of the board and was succeeded as president by Clyde T. Foster.
Maria Wasiak	Since 30 December 2010 when Andrzej Wach resigned from the post of President of PKP SA, Wasiak has been serving as the company's chairperson and CEO.
Nigel Payne	Payne stepped down as Chief Executive in October 2006 and was succeeded by Andrew McIver.
Joseph R. Perella	In 2005, Perella and other top executives resigned from Morgan Stanley in the wake of policy disagreements with Chairman Philip J. Purcell.
Randy Bernard	On October 28, 2012, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway board of directors announced that Bernard had been removed as CEO of IndyCar.
Brooks McCormick	McCormick stepped down as the chairman of International Harvester's executive committee on October 31, 1980, ending almost 150 years of his family's active management in the company.
Andreas Renschler	In 1992 he was Executive Assistant to the designated Board of Management Chairman Helmut Werner.
Siddharth Varadarajan	In May 2011, the shareholders of Kasturi and Sons Ltd. held an extraordinary general meeting and voted to appoint Varadarajan as The Hindus editor on the recommendation of the company's board, thus making Varadarajan the first professional editor of the newspaper in its 150 year history.
Phil Knight	When Knight resigned as the company's CEO November 18, 2004, and retained the position of chairman of the board, he was replaced by William Perez, former CEO of S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
Michael D. Griffin	On August 14, 2012, the Schafer Corporation announced that Michael Griffin would assume the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at the company.
Anu Aga	Anu has since remained on company's board of directors, Today, Arnavaz' Anu' Aga lives in Pune, Maharashtra Her daughter, Meher Pudumjee is the current Chairperson of Thermax, taking over from her mother in 2004.
Alex Ferguson	Ferguson had been appointed to the club's board of directors early in 1986, but that April he told Dick Donald, their chairman, that he intended to leave that summer.
Chuck Greenberg (businessman)	On March 11, 2011, Greenberg announced that he is stepping down as managing partner and chief executive officer.