{"id":27313,"date":"2011-12-20T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27313"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:14:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:14:15","slug":"tim-pogue-mizus-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=27313","title":{"rendered":"Tim Pogue: Mizu&#8217;s New CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pogue_mizu.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pogue_mizu.jpg','popup','width=210,height=266,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\/12\/pogue_mizu-tm.jpg\" height=\"253\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pogue Mizu\" \/><\/a>Stainless steel water bottle maker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mizulife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mizu<\/a><\/strong> has announced today (December 20, 2011) that <strong>Ride Snowboards<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Tim Pogue<\/strong> is their new CEO, according to Mizu&#8217;s <strong>Jussi Oksanen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve built the Mizu brand on a strong foundation in action sports with several industry partnerships and new pro bottles,\u201d said Mizu founder, Jussi Oksanen. \u201cTim\u2019s extensive experience with brands like Mizu will help us take the company to the next level in 2012.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like exactly what the company needed. Follow the jump for the official word.<!--more-->Encinitas, Calif. \u2013 Dec. 20, 2011 \u2013 Mizu announced today that long time action sports entrepreneur, Tim Pogue, has joined the Mizu team in San Diego as CEO and president. Over the last 20 years, Pogue managed consumer brands from recent marketing and licensing work with the Bob Marley brand, to pro athlete management at Burton, to product development and business operations as president and co-founder of Ride Snowboards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMizu is the real deal \u2013 an athlete-driven brand led by industry pros with a global mission to eliminate the use of plastic bottles,\u201d said Pogue. \u201cIt\u2019s the first water bottle brand geared to the action sports community, and with that I see an amazing business opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve built the Mizu brand on a strong foundation in action sports with several industry partnerships and new pro bottles,\u201d said Mizu founder, Jussi Oksanen. \u201cTim\u2019s extensive experience with brands like Mizu will help us take the company to the next level in 2012.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mizu bottles are backed by several well-known professional athletes and artists. The latest \u201cPro Bottles\u201d are from Alex Gray and Stash. To find a retailer near you or buy online, visit www.mizulife.com. <\/p>\n<p>About Mizu<br \/>\nMizu is the original action sports water bottle brand. The company was founded by Jussi Oksanen, pro snowboarder, a four-time Winter X Games medalist, three-time US Open medalist and Olympic athlete, in order to drastically reduce the plastic bottle trail that followed him on his travels. Mizu bottles are made from food-grade BPA free stainless steel \u2013 the strongest and safest material for drinking bottles \u2013 and are designed to fit the unique action sports lifestyle. Mizu partners include Boarding for Breast Cancer, Burton, Volcom, Nike 6.0 and Hurley. For more information, or to become a Mizu partner, find us at www.mizulife.com, www.facebook.com\/mizulife, LinkedIn and on Twitter @mizu_life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stainless steel water bottle maker Mizu has announced today (December 20, 2011) that Ride Snowboards co-founder Tim Pogue is their new CEO, according to Mizu&#8217;s Jussi Oksanen. \u201cWe\u2019ve built the Mizu brand on a strong foundation in action sports with several industry partnerships and new pro bottles,\u201d said Mizu founder, Jussi Oksanen. \u201cTim\u2019s extensive experience [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313"}],"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=27313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27315,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions\/27315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}