{"id":75427,"date":"2014-12-16T21:51:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T13:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kymeta-ceo-vern-fotheringham-to-step-down\/"},"modified":"2014-12-16T21:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T13:51:38","slug":"kymeta-ceo-vern-fotheringham-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kymeta-ceo-vern-fotheringham-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Kymeta CEO Vern Fotheringham to Step Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-16-2014] Vern Fotheringham, CEO of <b>Kymeta<\/b>, is stepping down at the end of the year. In his place, Nathan Kundtz, president, CTO and co-founder will serve as CEO on an interim basis while the board of directors initializes a search for a new CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely grateful to Vern for his contributions to Kymeta and for building a foundation for growth and success,\u201d said Bill Gates, investor and board member. \u201cThe board and I&nbsp;are incredibly optimistic and confident with Kymeta\u2019s team, breakthrough technology and its market opportunities ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kymeta simultaneously announced that Bill Gates, <b>Lux Capital<\/b> and other existing investors have participated in a $20 million financing the company closed today. Kymeta plans to use the funding to continue on its growth trajectory with its metamaterials-based antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-16-2014] Vern Fotheringham, CEO of Kymeta, is stepping down at the end of the year. In his place, Nathan Kundtz, president, CTO and co-founder will serve as CEO on an interim basis while the board of directors initializes a search for a new CEO. \u201cWe are extremely grateful to Vern for his contributions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}