{"id":167,"date":"2007-04-12T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2013-03-08T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T22:45:56","slug":"vonage-ceo-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/vonage-ceo-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Vonage CEO Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Synder Lasted Less Than a Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not that this should be a surprise given all that has gone <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">on<\/span> wrong at Vonage during his tenure, but one has to wonder if Michael was thrown under the bus to &#8220;show investors&#8221; that Vonage was serious about cutting costs and making themselves into a viable, long term, profitable business. Seems that Michael is the &#8220;fall guy&#8221; here, especially since Vonage included a snippet in the press release about their plans to focus on reducing the company&#8217;s operational costs, and slashing marketing expense&#8230;.signs of an investor driven move.<\/p>\n<p>Although no reason was given for his <a href=\"http:\/\/pr.vonage.com\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=237698\">resignation<\/a> (so my thoughts are pure speculation), Jeffery Citron noted that, &#8220;Mike has made valuable contributions to the growth of our business and we will miss him. We thank him and wish him well in his future endeavors.&#8221; According to the press release, Jeffery Citron will act as interim CEO, as the company attempts to finds a new replacement.<\/p>\n<p>This begs the question, &#8220;Who in the world would want this job?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Synder Lasted Less Than a Year Not that this should be a surprise given all that has gone on wrong at Vonage during his tenure, but one has to wonder if Michael was thrown under the bus to &#8220;show investors&#8221; that Vonage was serious about cutting costs and making themselves into a viable, long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65192,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/65192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}