{"id":88069,"date":"2009-11-19T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pepsi-ceo-appointed-to-lead-directv\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:43:16","slug":"pepsi-ceo-appointed-to-lead-directv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pepsi-ceo-appointed-to-lead-directv\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepsi CEO Appointed to Lead DirecTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-19-09] <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> named <strong>Pepsi Co.<\/strong> CEO Michael White as its new president and CEO, replacing DirecTV interim CEO Larry Hunter effective Jan. 1, DirecTV announced Nov. 18. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; White will retire from Pepsi at the end of the year and also joins DirecTV\u2019s board of directors. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; Before joining Pepsi as vice president of planning in 1990, White previously held executive positions at <strong>F<\/strong><strong>rito-Lay North America, Frito-Lay International, Avon Products, Bain &amp; Co. <\/strong>and <strong>Arthur Andersen &amp; Co<\/strong>. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAfter a very thorough search, we have found an exceptional leader with&nbsp; a sustained track record of success, profitably growing businesses and a&nbsp; reputation for making the impossible possible. Mike also brings the highest degree of leadership, innovation and passion to the&nbsp; table \u2014 all qualities that will help drive DirecTV\u2019s performance in the&nbsp; coming years,\u201d DirecTV Chairman John Malone said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">DirecTV Increases Free Cash Flow 94 Percent in Strong Third Quarter Performance<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tNovember 6, 2009<br \/>\n[11-06-09] The DirecTV Group reported a 94 percent increase in its free cash flow to $643 Million in its 2009 third quarter results, released Nov. 5. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">DirecTV CTO Explains IPTV On-Demand Philosophy<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tAugust 11, 2009<br \/>\nDirecTV already has seen better than expected take-up of its video-on-demand (VOD) services launched in spring 2008, said DirecTV CTO Romulo Pontual. We are seeing high levels of consumer satisfaction. We also have a number of improvements coming, \u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Chase Carey Leaves DirecTV<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 4, 2009<br \/>\n[06-04-09] DirecTV President and CEO Chase Carey is resigning from the company, effective July 1, to accept a new position at News Corp. DirecTV announced June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-19-09] DirecTV named Pepsi Co. CEO Michael White as its new president and CEO, replacing DirecTV interim CEO Larry Hunter effective Jan. 1, DirecTV announced Nov. 18. &nbsp;&nbsp; White will retire from Pepsi at the end of the year and also joins DirecTV\u2019s board of directors. &nbsp;&nbsp; Before joining Pepsi as vice president of planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-88069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88069"}],"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=88069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}