Northern Rock 2008, Ron Sandler was appointed Executive Chairman by the government. Gary Hoffman became Chief Executive of Northern Rock in October 2008. With the appointment of Gary Hoffman, Ron Sandler changed to a Non-Executive Chairman position. Since the split of the bank into Northern Rock plc and Northern Rock (Asset Management) plc on 1 January 2010, each company had its boards of directors. On 4 November 2010 Northern Rock announced that Gary Hoffman had left the bank and was to move to NBNK Investments as CEO. One of the stipulations of Hoffman's appointment at NBNK was that they could not table
Chairman of the Presidium of Pridnestrovia created the Pridnestrovian Moldovan SSR also expressed the will of the delegates that Igor Smirnov, heretofore chairman of the Tiraspol city soviet, lead the Supreme Soviet as its chairman. With the passing of the Soviet Union, whose government never recognized the PMSSR as a constituent republic, the now Pridnestrovian Moldovan Republic (PMR) was reorganized into a presidential republic. The Supreme Soviet survived as the legislative organ of government. However, in this new arrangement the Presidium was absent, its powers going to the republic’s new executive branch, the office of the president. On 3 December 1991, Igor Smirnov won an election