{"id":50820,"date":"2016-12-06T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=50820"},"modified":"2016-12-06T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T17:40:50","slug":"surfstitch-clears-board-for-fresh-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=50820","title":{"rendered":"Surfstitch Clears Board For Fresh Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50821\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/surfstich_ceo-450x253.jpg\" alt=\"surfstich_ceo\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/surfstich_ceo-450x253.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/surfstich_ceo-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/surfstich_ceo.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The guys in the suits (<strong>SurfStitch&#8217;s<\/strong> new CEO <strong>Mike Sonand<\/strong> and chairman <strong>Sam Weis<\/strong>s) are running&nbsp;Australian retailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=surfstitch\"><strong>Surfstitch<\/strong><\/a> and they&#8217;re cleaning up the board of directors including kicking off executive directors (and company founders)&nbsp;<strong>Lex Pedersen<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;Justin Stone<\/strong>, according to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/cbd\/surfstitch-chairman-sam-weiss-spares-no-one-in-boardroom-wipeout-20161206-gt4s24.html\"><em><strong>Sydney Morning Herald<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>None of the board members who signed off on last year&#8217;s acquisition binge, which has since been written off, survived the blood-letting announced on Tuesday by new chairman <b>Sam Weiss<\/b>. . .&nbsp;To help make up the numbers, Weiss has had to collar <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong> veteran <b>Harry Hodge<\/b>, who joins the board this week. . .&nbsp;Surfstitch&#8217;s new boss <b>Michael Sonand<\/b> scored the remaining board seat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will be interesting to see if these changes make any kind of difference when it comes to the company&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/cbd\/surfstitch-chairman-sam-weiss-spares-no-one-in-boardroom-wipeout-20161206-gt4s24.html\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guys in the suits (SurfStitch&#8217;s new CEO Mike Sonand and chairman Sam Weiss) are running&nbsp;Australian retailer Surfstitch and they&#8217;re cleaning up the board of directors including kicking off executive directors (and company founders)&nbsp;Lex Pedersen&nbsp;and&nbsp;Justin Stone, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. None of the board members who signed off on last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50820"}],"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=50820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50824,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50820\/revisions\/50824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}