{"id":39297,"date":"2013-01-11T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39297"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T01:03:58","slug":"billabongs-new-cfo-comes-from-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=39297","title":{"rendered":"Billabong&#8217;s New CFO Comes From Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/billabong_corp.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/billabong_corp.jpg','popup','width=97,height=121,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/billabong_corp-tm1.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billabong Corp\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>has chosen to go with a CFO who has worked neither in fashion nor in retail, but in the media space for the past two decades. <strong>Peter Myers<\/strong> was CFO of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apn.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">APN News &#38; Media<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ten.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Network 10<\/a><\/strong>, but now he&#8217;s going to up to his waist in trunks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeter has over 30 years of experience and insight at both a corporate and an operational level,\u201d said Billabong CEO <strong>Launa Inman<\/strong>. \u201cHe understands the company\u2019s current position, has a deep understanding of working with a wider team in implementing transformational strategies and will make a valuable contribution.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also has &#8220;extensive experience&#8221; with takeovers and acquisitions, so that&#8217;s good. Follow the jump for the official word.<!--more-->CFO APPOINTMENT<\/p>\n<p>GOLD COAST, 11 January 2013: Billabong International Limited has today appointed Peter Myers as Group Chief Financial Officer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Myers has held several senior executive roles with high profile listed entities including nine years as CFO of APN News &#38; Media Limited and nine years with Network Ten, including six years as CFO.<br \/>\nHe has extensive experience working on a number of successful and complex transactions including IPO\u2019s, takeovers, refinancing and acquisitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter has over 30 years of experience and insight at both a corporate and an operational level,\u201d said Billabong CEO Launa Inman. \u201cHe understands the company\u2019s current position, has a deep understanding of working with a wider team in implementing transformational strategies and will make a valuable contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong has chosen to go with a CFO who has worked neither in fashion nor in retail, but in the media space for the past two decades. Peter Myers was CFO of APN News &#38; Media and Network 10, but now he&#8217;s going to up to his waist in trunks. \u201cPeter has over 30 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39301,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions\/39301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}