{"id":40677,"date":"2013-03-19T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40677"},"modified":"2013-03-19T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T22:44:16","slug":"the-new-skullcandy-ceo-is-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40677","title":{"rendered":"The New Skullcandy CEO Is Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skullcandy-tm1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skullcandy-tm1.jpg','popup','width=200,height=76,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\/2013\/03\/skullcandy-tm1-tm.jpg\" height=\"38\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skullcandy-Tm1\" \/><\/a>After less than a year-and-a-half at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nike<\/a><\/strong> (most recently as GM of Nike+Digital Sport), former <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong> General Counsel <strong>Hoby Darling<\/strong> has apparently accepted the job of CEO at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skullcandy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skullcandy<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/portland\/news\/2013\/03\/18\/nike-hoby-darling-named-ceo-skullcandy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am extremely excited to join the Skullcandy team at this early stage of the company\u2019s global growth cycle,&#8221; Darling said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interim CEO and founder <strong>Rick Alden<\/strong> has to be the happiest of the two, however.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On behalf of our board, I can&#8217;t be more pleased to welcome Hoby to the Skullcandy team,&#8221; said Alden, in a news release. &#8220;The board is acutely aware of the needs of this organization and has moved swiftly to find the greatest resource to meet those needs. Hoby&#8217;s involvement with both emerging and global brands makes him the ideal person to lead this company.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would appear that Darling enjoys a challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/portland\/news\/2013\/03\/18\/nike-hoby-darling-named-ceo-skullcandy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After less than a year-and-a-half at Nike (most recently as GM of Nike+Digital Sport), former Volcom General Counsel Hoby Darling has apparently accepted the job of CEO at Skullcandy, according to a story in the Portland Business Journal. &#8220;I am extremely excited to join the Skullcandy team at this early stage of the company\u2019s global [&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":[10,17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677"}],"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=40677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40678,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40677\/revisions\/40678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}