{"id":30578,"date":"2012-05-08T19:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T02:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30578"},"modified":"2012-05-08T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:41:23","slug":"derek-oneill-gets-the-billabong-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=30578","title":{"rendered":"Derek O&#8217;Neill Gets The Billabong Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LaunaInmanTargetMD-Web.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/LaunaInmanTargetMD-Web.jpg','popup','width=297,height=448,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\/2012\/05\/LaunaInmanTargetMD-Web-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Launainmantargetmd Web\" \/><\/a>Twenty-year <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> veteran <strong>Derek O&#8217;Neill<\/strong> has been removed from his position as the CEO of the surf wear giant and the board has moved Target MD <strong>Launa Inman<\/strong> in as managing director and chief executive, according to a story in the<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/companies\/billabong-dumps-ceo-derek-oneill-for-consultant-launa-inman\/story-fn91v9q3-1226350655534\" target=\"_blank\"> Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billabong chairman <strong>Ted Kunkel<\/strong>, as as recently as February refuted rumours that the board planned to dump Mr O&#8217;Neill, thanked the outgoing CEO for his service but said that the board had decided the company needed &#8220;new leadership and skill sets for the next stage of its development&#8221;. . . Mr O&#8217;Neill, a lifelong surf fanatic who opened Billabong&#8217;s European business at the age of 26, will leave the company today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Inman, a former chief executive at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Target Australia<\/a><\/strong>, will start work on May 14, 2012 with a fixed salary of AUS$1.3 million a year with up to &#8220;$1.3m in short-term bonuses, plus long-term incentive payments of up to 47 per cent of her salary.&#8221; In related news, <strong>Paul Naude<\/strong>, the president of Billabong USA North America has been promoted to president of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>We guess the biggest question is, does Ms. Inman surf? <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/companies\/billabong-dumps-ceo-derek-oneill-for-consultant-launa-inman\/story-fn91v9q3-1226350655534\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-year Billabong veteran Derek O&#8217;Neill has been removed from his position as the CEO of the surf wear giant and the board has moved Target MD Launa Inman in as managing director and chief executive, according to a story in the Australian. Billabong chairman Ted Kunkel, as as recently as February refuted rumours that the [&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\/30578"}],"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=30578"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30587,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30578\/revisions\/30587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}