{"id":165175,"date":"2019-09-30T03:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=256582"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T19:10:33","slug":"telus-exec-josh-blair-heads-for-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/30\/telus-exec-josh-blair-heads-for-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Telus exec Josh Blair heads for the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tCanadian operator Telus announced CCO and Group President Josh Blair (pictured) will depart at the end of 2019 to pursue other leadership opportunities, squashing rumours the executive might succeed Darren Entwistle as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Blair\u2019s exit will close a 25-year career with the company, including 12 years spent as a member of the company\u2019s executive leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>However, the executive isn\u2019t severing all ties with the operator: he will continue to serve as chair of Telus International and take up a role as chair emeritus of Telus Health.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Entwistle hailed Blair\u2019s \u201cremarkable vision, passion and leadership acumen\u201d as well as his \u201cdeep commitment to putting our customers and communities first\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail noted the move puts to rest speculation Blair could one day take the helm from Entwistle after an earlier leadership transition failed.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO briefly retired from Telus in May 2014, but was reappointed in August 2015 when his successor Joseph Natale left to take up with rival operator Rogers Communications [1].<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/rogers-ceo-makes-sudden-departure\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian operator Telus announced CCO and Group President Josh Blair (pictured) will depart at the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/telus-exec-josh-blair-heads-for-the-door\/\">Telus exec Josh Blair heads for the door<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/30\/telus-exec-josh-blair-heads-for-the-door\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2299,2,5023,2185,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-GY7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165176,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165175\/revisions\/165176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}