{"id":8949,"date":"2009-06-26T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2009-06-26T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:56:21","slug":"jeff-clark-ousted-by-mavericks-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8949","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Clark &#8220;Ousted&#8221; By Mavericks CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mavericks-tm1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mavericks-tm1.jpg','popup','width=200,height=59,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\/06\/mavericks-tm1-tm1.jpg\" height=\"59\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mavericks-Tm1\" \/><\/a>While the Mavericks CEO <strong>Keir J. Beadling<\/strong> may have made everything at <strong>Mavericks Surf Ventures<\/strong> sound all cool, a post on June 26, 2009 by former Mavericks contest director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarksurf.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/mavericks-surf-contest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Clark<\/a><\/strong> paints a little different picture.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The press release issued by Mavericks Surf Ventures this week stating that I \u2018stepped down\u2019 and I am \u2018passing the torch to the next generation\u2019 is wrong. The reality is that I was ousted as Contest Director by the current CEO. . . .I must also note that, while the company\u2019s news release states that this year\u2019s contest will be held to celebrate \u2018the 35th anniversary of Jeff Clark\u2019s first session at the now world-famous break,\u2019 the 35th anniversary is actually next season, in 2010-11. I will not allow the company to use my accomplishment as a marketing tactic. . . .Effective today, I have resigned from the Board of Directors of Mavericks Surf Ventures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So that, apparently, is the other side of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarksurf.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/mavericks-surf-contest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Clark My Word<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Mavericks CEO Keir J. Beadling may have made everything at Mavericks Surf Ventures sound all cool, a post on June 26, 2009 by former Mavericks contest director Jeff Clark paints a little different picture. The press release issued by Mavericks Surf Ventures this week stating that I \u2018stepped down\u2019 and I am \u2018passing [&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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949"}],"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=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}