ECF Elections 2015
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ECF Elections 2015
The ECF website has announced that all the current directors are standing for re-election.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/nominati ... -elections
The post of FIDE delegate (Malcolm Pein) is also up for re-election. It doesn't confirm yet that he is standing.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/nominati ... -elections
The post of FIDE delegate (Malcolm Pein) is also up for re-election. It doesn't confirm yet that he is standing.
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Re: ECF Elections 2015
It doesn't actually say that Dave Thomas is standing does it?
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I think it does......
• President (Dominic Lawson, standing for re-election)
• Chief Executive (Phil Ehr, standing for re-election)
• Finance Director (David Eustace, standing for re-election)
• Director of Home Chess (Alex Holowczak, standing for re-election)
• Director of International Chess (David Openshaw, standing for re-election)
• Director of Junior Chess & Education (Traci Whitfield, standing for re-election)
• Director of Membership (David Thomas)
• Commercial Director (Bob Kane, standing for re-election)
• Non-Executive Director (Julian Clissold, standing for re-election)
• Non-Executive Director (John Foley, standing for re-election)
Re: ECF Elections 2015
Roger de Coverly wrote:
Mick Norris wrote
Malcolm has e-mailed me from New York in the early hours (UK time) to confirm that he is standing, and I have amended the website post accordingly.The post of FIDE delegate (Malcolm Pein) is also up for re-election. It doesn't confirm yet that he is standing.
Mick Norris wrote
Dave is currently away on holiday.It doesn't actually say that Dave Thomas is standing does it?
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Oops - apologies to Mick. Failed to spot the significance of the missing words.
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Apology acceptedMike Truran wrote:Oops - apologies to Mick. Failed to spot the significance of the missing words.
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A correspondent has just accused me of being an official of the ECF. If I’m going to receive that sort of abuse anyway, perhaps I might as well go ahead stand.
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Jonathan Bryant wrote:A correspondent has just accused me of being an official of the ECF. If I’m going to receive that sort of abuse anyway, perhaps I might as well go ahead stand.
I was asked to stand, and said no thanks
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Re: ECF Elections 2015
David Thomas has now returned from holiday, and I have amended the website post to indicate that he is currently undecided as to whether to stand for re-election.
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If you look atCarl Hibbard wrote:What is The Chris Fegan status in all this?
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/about/ecf-officials/
he is listed as "Strategic Advisor".
This is not an elected post, rather his appointment would be confirmed or otherwise at the November Board meeting.
I hope it's a question that will be asked at the AGM of the non-Executive directors is to what extent, if at all, they consider themselves independent of the rest of the Board and to what extent, if at all ,they are able to act or comment independently. To put it more bluntly if ECF Directors are banned from commenting at this and other independent forums or blogs, are they included in the ban, and if so why?
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It doesn't matter a jot what they consider themselves to be. As members of the Board, they are members of the Board. End of. Their 'independence' is not a property of their freedom to act, but of their duty to bring dispassionate judgements to bear upon the Board's deliberations, independent of any functional responsibilities.Roger de Coverly wrote:...a question that will be asked at the AGM of the non-Executive directors is to what extent, if at all, they consider themselves independent of the rest of the Board
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Are you quite sure about that? Within the constraints of the various Companies Acts, are not Companies limited by guarantee able to structure themselves so that some directors are elected by a limited constituency with a role to protect the interests of that constituency?David Robertson wrote: As members of the Board, they are members of the Board. End of. Their 'independence' is not a property of their freedom to act, but of their duty to bring dispassionate judgements to bear upon the Board's deliberations, independent of any functional responsibilities.
I didn't think Company law had got that authoritarian that it was no longer possible for those electing directors to elect dissidents to a Board.
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I think that the relevant Board meeting is actually in October, a few days after the Council meeting.Roger de Coverly wrote:If you look atCarl Hibbard wrote:What is The Chris Fegan status in all this?
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/about/ecf-officials/
he is listed as "Strategic Advisor".
This is not an elected post, rather his appointment would be confirmed or otherwise at the November Board meeting.
Chris Fegan may of course decide to stand for an elected position.
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Yes, I'm pretty sure of my ground here - though open to correction faced with relevant evidence.Roger de Coverly wrote:Are you quite sure about that?David Robertson wrote: As members of the Board, they are members of the Board. End of. Their 'independence' is not a property of their freedom to act, but of their duty to bring dispassionate judgements to bear upon the Board's deliberations, independent of any functional responsibilities.
Possibly, if the company's Articles are set up in that fashion. But nothing overrides the fiduciary duty of any Director, the duty to place the interests of the Company before all other interests, no matter what constituency may be involvedRoger de Coverly wrote:Within the constraints of the various Companies Acts, are not Companies limited by guarantee able to structure themselves so that some directors are elected by a limited constituency with a role to protect the interests of that constituency?
Company law isn't the least bit authoritarian, except principally on matters of financial reporting, accountability and integrity. But various 'commissions' and their reports (Cadbury, 1992; and Higgs, 2003 for NEDs) do bear heavily on Boards. No Board behaving prudently would knowingly appoint/elect/admit to membership a person who would compromise Board unity. That is not to say a Board wouldn't welcome divergent opinion. Within a Board, dissent, differences of opinion, challenges to 'groupthink' and so forth are natural features of healthy debate. But a Board speaks with one voice only, not two, and not several. Dissent to a Board's decision remains within the Board. If it is pursued beyond the Board, it's a resigning matter.Roger de Coverly wrote:I didn't think Company law had got that authoritarian that it was no longer possible for those electing directors to elect dissidents to a Board.