{"id":75669,"date":"2020-09-21T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=75669"},"modified":"2020-09-21T02:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:40:17","slug":"nikola-founder-trevor-milton-to-voluntarily-step-down-as-executive-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2020\/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-to-voluntarily-step-down-as-executive-chairman.html","title":{"rendered":"Nikola founder Trevor Milton to voluntarily step down as executive chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC)  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=NKLA\">Nikola<\/a> announced early Monday that founder <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/nikola-board-of-directors-announces-leadership-transition-301134457.html\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor Milton is voluntarily stepping down<\/a> as executive chairman. The electric truck company said the board accepted Milton\u2019s resignation from the role and the board.&nbsp;Stephen Girsky, former vice chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=GM\">General Motors<\/a> and a member of Nikola\u2019s board, has been appointed chairman of the board, effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/21\/nikola-founder-trevor-milton-to-voluntarily-step-down-as-executive-chairman.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Nikola announced early Monday that founder Trevor Milton is voluntarily stepping down as executive chairman. The electric truck company said the board accepted Milton\u2019s resignation from the role and the board.&nbsp;Stephen Girsky, former vice chairman of General Motors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75682,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75669\/revisions\/75682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}