{"id":44435,"date":"2011-02-11T19:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T02:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44435"},"modified":"2011-02-11T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T02:55:13","slug":"electric-management-shake-up-at-zero-motorcycles-%e2%80%93-neal-saiki-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=44435","title":{"rendered":"Electric &#8211; Management Shake-Up at Zero Motorcycles \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Neal Saiki Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The news coming out of the Santa Cruz area today is that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a management shake-up at Zero Motorcycles, as multiple people at the top of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership have been given pink slips, including company Founder &amp; CTO Neal Saiki. Recently talking to PlugBike.com\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs John Adamo, Zero Motorcycles CEO Gene Banman denied that Saiki had been let go from the company, saying that Saiki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absence at the company was due to his child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent birth and Saiki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s desire to spend time with his newborn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However multiple sources close to the company have confirmed to Asphalt &amp; Rubber that Neal Saiki was a part of a larger management shake-up that was precipitated by\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/news\/zero-motorcycles-fires-neal-saiki\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news coming out of the Santa Cruz area today is that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been a management shake-up at Zero Motorcycles, as multiple people at the top of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leadership have been given pink slips, including company Founder &amp; CTO Neal Saiki. Recently talking to PlugBike.com\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcs John Adamo, Zero Motorcycles CEO Gene Banman denied that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,43,8,45,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-off-road-dirt-track","category-roadracing","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44437,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44435\/revisions\/44437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}