{"id":115117,"date":"2020-07-07T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366047"},"modified":"2020-07-07T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T20:22:00","slug":"former-microsoft-exec-peggy-johnson-signs-on-as-magic-leap-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/07\/former-microsoft-exec-peggy-johnson-signs-on-as-magic-leap-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Microsoft exec Peggy Johnson signs on as Magic Leap CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> Magic Leap has brought ex-Microsoft executive Peggy Johnson as the company\u2019s new CEO, filling a vacancy left by co-founder Rony Abovitz\u2019s departure from the chief exec seat in May.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who previously served as Microsoft\u2019s EVP of business development, is set to officially assume the CEO role on August 1 to, according to a press release, \u201caccelerate Magic Leap\u2019s growth and bring transformative enterprise solutions to market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She joins the company at a complicated time, having signed on just months after Magic Leap <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361606\/Magic_Leap_lays_off_staff_in_bid_to_adapt_to_new_market_realities.php\">laid off around 1,000 employees<\/a> in a bid to help it \u201cadapt to new market realities.\u201d Shortly after, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/363486\/Magic_Leap_withdraws_conditional_layoff_notices_after_raising_350_million.php\">secured $350 million<\/a> in funding to stave off further layoffs as it continues to push toward a more enterprise-focused AR strategy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs CEO, I look forward to strategically building enduring relationships that connect Magic Leap\u2019s game-changing technology and pipeline to the wide-ranging digital needs of enterprises of all sizes and industries,\u201d reads a statement from Johnson.<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Magic Leap has brought ex-Microsoft executive Peggy Johnson as the company\u2019s new CEO, filling a vacancy left by co-founder Rony Abovitz\u2019s departure from the chief exec seat in May. Johnson, who previously served as Microsoft\u2019s EVP of business development, is set to officially assume the CEO role on August 1 to, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}