{"id":4062,"date":"2009-01-12T22:42:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2009-01-12T22:42:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:42:36","slug":"marty-samuels-makes-quik-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4062","title":{"rendered":"Marty Samuels Makes Quik Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quik-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quik-logo.jpg','popup','width=180,height=53,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\/2009\/01\/quik-logo-tm1.jpg\" height=\"58\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quik-Logo\" \/><\/a><strong>Quiksilver<\/strong> announced today that <strong>Marty Samuels, <\/strong>president of Quiksilver Americas has left the company and <strong>Craig Stevenson<\/strong> has been named interim President of Quiksilver Americas effective immediately. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Robert B. McKnight, Jr.<\/strong>, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Quiksilver, Inc., commented, &#8220;I would like to thank Marty for his many contributions to Quiksilver over the last twelve years. Marty was instrumental to our growth during his time here, a period in which we\u2019ve established ourselves as the leading action sports lifestyle company and we will miss him. We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The press release gives no reason for Marty&#8217;s departure. Maybe he&#8217;s leaving so he can &#8220;spend more time with his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsticker.welt.de\/?module=smarthouse&amp;id=831802\" target=\"_blank\">Welt.de<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiksilver announced today that Marty Samuels, president of Quiksilver Americas has left the company and Craig Stevenson has been named interim President of Quiksilver Americas effective immediately. Robert B. McKnight, Jr., Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Quiksilver, Inc., commented, &#8220;I would like to thank Marty for his many contributions to [&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":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"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=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4063,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}