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CEO Meg Whitman got $16.5M HP pay package (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:41:30 +0000)

Despite being one of the Silicon Valley tech chief executive officers getting $1 a year in salary, Meg Whitman got stock options when she took over at Hewlett-Packard Co. last year that brought her total compensation to an estimated $16.5 million.The Palo Alto computer and services giant (NYSE: HPQ) reported the pay package in a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.Whitman's option awards are valued at $16.1 million and she was also given $372,598 in other compensation...

Slideshow: Top 7 Employers (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:40:32 +0000)

The accompanying gallery is an excerpt from this week's List of the Largest Employers in the Bay Area.Click here or on the image to start a slideshow of top Bay Area Employers. The San Francisco Business Times publishes industry rankings in each issue of the paper and reprints them at the end of the year for our annual Book of Lists. These lists are unique and authoritative sources of Bay Area business news.One of this week’s lists is the Largest Employers in the Bay Area. To see the full list, check out this week’s issue...

President, CFO leave HealthSpring following Cigna deal (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:56:19 +0000)

Two executives have left HealthSpring following the company's merger with Cigna, which closed earlier this week.Karey Witty, executive vice president and chief financial officer of HealthSpring, and Michael Mirt, president of the company, are no longer with the company, as of Jan. 31, the day Cigna’s $3.8 billion acquisition of Franklin-based HealthSpring was finalized.Mirt's duties will split between two HealthSpring executive vice presidents, Shawn Morris and Scott Huebner. Morris will be president of operations, and Huebner president of development and innovations...

CEO Meg Whitman got $16.5M HP pay package (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:22:21 +0000)

Despite being one of the Silicon Valley tech CEOs to get $1 a year in salary, Meg Whitman got stock options when she took over at Hewlett-Packard Co. last year that brought her total compensation to an estimated $16.5 million.The Palo Alto computer and services giant (NYSE:HPQ) reported the pay package in a proxy filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.Whitman's option awards are valued at $16.1 million and she was also given $372,598 in other compensation.She took over as CEO in September after Leo Apotheker was fired following an 11-month tenure in the job...

IT staffing is specialty for area temp firms (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:14:37 +0000)

Companies that place IT personnel continued to make their presence felt on this year’s list of the St. Louis area’s largest temporary staffing firms. Half of the firms listed and three of the top five told us IT staffing was one of their specialities.This year saw four new companies added to the list, two of which have an IT staffing focus and are ranked at or near the top — Rose International ranked first this year with 81 staff members employed locally as of February 2011, and Technology Partners Inc...

Wichita State study: Many nonprofit groups not prepared to change leaders (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:10:15 +0000)

For Kevin Bomhoff, the findings of a recent Wichita State University study about the preparedness of nonprofit organizations to hand off leadership to the next generation is concerning.Frankly, he says, many organizations aren’t prepared with proper succession plans, even as a large number of nonprofit groups are preparing for their top executives to retire in the coming years.The study of 169 nonprofit organizations statewide shows that 72 percent of them have primary administrators who are nearing retirement, and yet many of those organizations don’t have a succession plan in place...

Senior Services adds four to board (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:46:39 +0000)

Senior Services of Albany, New York, has appointed four Albany-area businesspeople to its board of directors.The new directors are: Michelle Borisenok, Dan Dinsmore, Lori Hansen and Malissa Zatlokowicz.Borisenok started Capital Business Services, which handled communications focusing on the state Legislature and lobbying groups. She sold Capital Business Services to help her husband Walter Borisenok establish Fortitech Inc., a Schenectady maker of nutrient premixes.Dinsmore is the founder of Overit Media, an Albany marketing communications firm...

Thomajan joins United Way on Monday (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:40:45 +0000)

Keith Thomajan takes over as president of United Way of the Columbia-Willamette on Monday.The former head of Camp Fire Columbia will succeed interim CEO Jay Bloom.United Way has been without a permanent leader since former president Marc Levy abruptly resigned last March.Thomajan starts the $170,000-a-year post with a full plate. The agency and its stakeholders will begin meeting quickly to oversee distribution of the more than $21 million raised in the 2010-2011 annual giving campaign.Thomajan joined Camp Fire in 2001...

Olean call center alters layoff plans (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:37:25 +0000)

Ten jobs have been restored and some layoffs postponed by a month at an Olean call center.Data Listing Services LLC, doing business as The Connection, filed an update with the state Department of Labor regarding 32 jobs that were previously slated for termination.Based in Burnsville, Minn., the company provides inbound call center services, including customer service, technical support and sales services.The company rescinded 10 of the terminations, while some layoffs for the remaining 22 jobs were postponed by a month to occur on March 15...

GOP plan cuts federal pay, workforce (Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:58:32 +0000)

A group of Senate Republicans rolled out its own proposal to rescue the Department of Defense Thursday, Federal News Radio reported. The measure would place the short-term deficit reduction burden entirely on the federal workforce.