No. The actual primary responsibilities and authority must support the classification.
Explain how the role functions
Show who performs operational tasks and what the applicant principally manages or directs. Compensation can describe the arrangement without determining its legal character.
The L-1 regulation limits an executive or manager to a total of seven years in the United States in L status, and it provides that time spent in H classification counts toward the same limit. Ownership may help explain the corporate relationship, but the qualifying foreign employment, the organizations' business activity, and the proposed managerial or executive role must still be independently established. A custom-harvest operations manager who recruits crews, sets routes, negotiates with growers and controls the equipment budget performs those functions. Direct supervision can support personnel management if the direct reports are actually supervisory, professional or managerial employees; a site foreman who genuinely directs a crew may be supervisory. The U.S. role must be genuinely managerial or executive: managing the organization or an essential function, directing others or operating at a senior level, with authority over personnel or over the function, and discretion over daily operations.