{"id":34538,"date":"2023-09-07T14:07:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ryan-petersen-returns-as-ceo-at-flexport\/34538\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:07:24","slug":"ryan-petersen-returns-as-ceo-at-flexport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ryan-petersen-returns-as-ceo-at-flexport\/34538\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Petersen returns as CEO at Flexport\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>After a year in the role, Dave Clark has stepped down as CEO at Flexport with the company\u2019s founder Ryan Petersen returning to take the day-to-day helm at the digital freight forwarder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clark joined the San Francisco-based freight forwarding and customs brokerage Flexport last September having worked for Amazon for 23 years previously. Petersen moved to the role of executive chairman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Clark, tipped to have a run at politics in Texas, said Petersen was focused on growing the core freight business while Petersen, in a note to employees, said his aim was to get Flexport back into profits. At the start of this year, the company took the decision to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/flexport-to-let-go-of-20-of-its-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">let go of 20% of its staff<\/a><\/span> expecting shipping volumes to slump this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\" style=\"\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year in the role, Dave Clark has stepped down as CEO at Flexport with the company\u2019s founder Ryan Petersen returning to take the day-to-day helm at the digital freight forwarder.\u00a0 Clark joined the San Francisco-based freight forwarding and customs brokerage Flexport last September having worked for Amazon for 23 years previously. Petersen moved &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/34539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}