{"id":5473,"date":"2016-09-06T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T05:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/06\/sea-change-the-american-ceos-leading-australian-startups\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T05:41:58","slug":"sea-change-the-american-ceos-leading-australian-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/09\/06\/sea-change-the-american-ceos-leading-australian-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea change: The American CEOs leading Australian startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Yankees are here. There’s small but growing contingent of American executives being brought in to lead Australian startups as they outgrow their Down Under boundaries.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Employers are stalking your Facebook and this startup helps them<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Alex Bard, CEO of the Sydney-based email marketing company Campaign Monitor, is one member of the club. He told Mashable<\/em> it was a conversation with his friend Jay Simons (the American who now helms hometown hero, software giant Atlassian) which partly persuaded him to take up the mantle.<\/p>\n

“This opportunity was put in front of me, and I chatted quite a bit to him about how it feels to be an American as part of a company that has deep Australian roots and heritage,” he said. Apparently whatever Simons said worked. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Yankees are here. There’s small but growing contingent of American executives being brought in to lead Australian startups as they outgrow their Down Under boundaries. SEE ALSO: Employers are stalking your Facebook and this startup helps them Alex Bard, … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4093,728,768,4094,731],"class_list":["post-5473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-atlassian","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-campaign-monitor","tag-startups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}