Enclara Pharmacia (Enclara), the market leader in comprehensive pharmacy management services to the hospice industry, and its affiliate Turn-Key Health, an end-of-life population health management company, announced the appointment of Tom Maxwell, an experienced professional with specialized expertise in homecare and hospice technology and a commitment to the healthcare community, to its Board of Directors.
Moon Express has become the first private company in the world to receive permission for space travel beyond Earth’s orbit. The FAA granted permission to the company to travel to the moon in 2017.
If successful, Moon Express will be the fourth entity ever to soft-land on the Moon.
Moon Express was created through Google Lunar X-PRIZE, an international contest in which a private company would be granted $30 million to attempt to land on the moon and travel across its surface. The company will launch to the moon in the second half of 2017 on a rocket provided by Rocket Lab.
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Outerwall, the Bellevue-based operator of Redbox movie rental kiosks and Coinstar coin counting machines, today announced that it has entered into a deal to be acquired by Apollo Global Management for $52 per share in cash.
The Wall Street Journal placed the cash value of the deal at $895 million, while companies pegged the enterprise value at $1.6 billion, including the assumption of debt.
Verne Global, a developer at the forefront of data center infrastructure design, announced that Henry Ancona has joined the company’s Board of Directors.
Ancona has over 30 years of operational leadership building global businesses for both large and small technology companies. As a member of Verne Global’s Board of Directors, Ancona will leverage his diverse industry experience and expertise to provide insights on market approach and growth strategies.
Prescient, a Colorado-based software design, engineering, manufacturing and installation company, announced that Jeffrey Johnson, CEO of Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund, has joined the company’s Board of Directors.
Citizant, a leading provider of IT and business transformation solutions to the U.S. government, has added the Honorable Lurita Doan to its board of directors, joining other government contracting industry veterans in advising the company on growth and service strategies.
Davis Polk has launched Before the Board, a new podcast featuring conversations on developments in corporate governance. The series provides insight on the current issues facing boards of directors, including shareholder engagement, board leadership, strategic planning, institutional investors, proxy advisory firms, executive compensation, board composition, activism, corporate and securities law, litigation and enforcement actions, cybersecurity, and much more.
Continuum, the only channel-exclusive IT management platform company, has appointed Paul Chisholm, retired CEO of mindSHIFT Technologies, to the Board of Directors.
Under Paul’s leadership, mindSHIFT, a Ricoh company and one of the largest IT outsourcing and cloud services providers serving small and medium sized businesses, was recognized as the No. 1 MSP in the United States for four consecutive years, listed in the MSPmentor 100 global report.
