{"id":56883,"date":"2017-03-03T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56883"},"modified":"2017-03-03T07:01:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T12:01:03","slug":"arconic-names-former-utc-exec-to-board-amid-proxy-fight-with-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/arconic-names-former-utc-exec-to-board-amid-proxy-fight-with-elliott.html","title":{"rendered":"Arconic Names Former UTC Exec to Board Amid Proxy Fight With Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) U.S. specialty metals maker Arconic Inc said on Thursday it appointed former United Technologies Corp executive David Hess as an independent director on its board amid a proxy battle with hedge fund Elliott Management Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Arconic said Hess will replace Martin Sorrell, chief executive of advertising company WPP, who will not stand for board re-election.<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/arconic-board-idUSL3N1GF4MH\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) U.S. specialty metals maker Arconic Inc said on Thursday it appointed former United Technologies Corp executive David Hess as an independent director on its board amid a proxy battle with hedge fund Elliott Management Corp. Arconic said Hess will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56886,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56883\/revisions\/56886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}