{"id":281215,"date":"2018-10-23T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=281215"},"modified":"2018-10-23T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T07:44:53","slug":"richard-branson-steps-down-as-hyperloop-one-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/281215-richard-branson-steps-down-as-hyperloop-one-chairman.html","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson steps down as Hyperloop One chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson has stepped down from his position as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-branson-virgin-hyperloop\/branson-steps-down-from-role-as-chairman-of-virgin-hyperloop-idUSKCN1MW2B6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Branson stepped down to make room for a chairman who is able to be more directly involved with the operations of the company, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage in the company\u2019s evolution, I feel it needs a more hands-on Chair, who can focus on the business and these opportunities,\u201d Branson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be difficult for me to fulfil that commitment as I already devote significant time to my philanthropic ventures and the many businesses within the Virgin Group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Hyperloop One told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/22\/18010310\/richard-branson-virgin-hyperloop-one-quit-chairman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> that another Virgin group executive would assume the role, and the company would continue to work with the Virgin Group to advance its projects.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/278197-first-full-scale-hyperloop-passenger-capsule-unveiled.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">First full-scale hyperloop passenger capsule unveiled<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson has stepped down from his position as chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":261919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[38719,17524,46649],"class_list":["post-281215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-chairman","tag-richard-branson","tag-virgin-hyperloop-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281271,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281215\/revisions\/281271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}