{"id":25290,"date":"2011-09-15T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25290"},"modified":"2011-09-15T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T20:15:49","slug":"veecos-darling-moves-to-nike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=25290","title":{"rendered":"VeeCo&#8217;s Darling Moves To Nike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/OF-AB364_hoby_d_FS_20110914114516.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/OF-AB364_hoby_d_FS_20110914114516.jpg','popup','width=175,height=117,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\/2011\/09\/OF-AB364_hoby_d_FS_20110914114516-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Of-Ab364 Hoby D Fs 20110914114516\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and General Counsel <strong>Hoby Darling<\/strong> continues the post <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24193\" target=\"_blank\">PPR acquisition VeeCo executive team departures<\/a><\/strong> by announcing that he is leaving the company and taking a job with Nike where he will be &#8220;head of strategy and planning for its affiliate brands,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sales-jobs.fins.com\/Articles\/SBB0001424053111904060604576570581022540832\/Ex-Volcom-Exec-Heads-to-Nike\" target=\"_blank\">FINS.com<\/a><\/strong>.<br \/>\nDarling&#8217;s thoughts on leaving make sense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, I had taken the company public, helped grow it from a $116 million company to almost $400 million, then sold it to a great company in PPR. It felt like, hey, been there, done that, I had done what my role was designed to do in strategic development and decided it was time for the next challenge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News like this always makes us wonder who will be next. Who could it be? For the rest of the Darling interview <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sales-jobs.fins.com\/Articles\/SBB0001424053111904060604576570581022540832\/Ex-Volcom-Exec-Heads-to-Nike\" target=\"_blank\">click the link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sales-jobs.fins.com\/Articles\/SBB0001424053111904060604576570581022540832\/Ex-Volcom-Exec-Heads-to-Nike\" target=\"_blank\">Fins<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volcom&#8217;s Senior Vice President of Strategic Development and General Counsel Hoby Darling continues the post PPR acquisition VeeCo executive team departures by announcing that he is leaving the company and taking a job with Nike where he will be &#8220;head of strategy and planning for its affiliate brands,&#8221; according to a story on FINS.com. Darling&#8217;s [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25291,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25290\/revisions\/25291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}