{"id":1006698,"date":"2026-05-04T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006698"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:56:35","slug":"canva-cto-brendan-humphreys-steps-down-after-12-years-take-a-look-at-recent-tech-industry-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/canva-cto-brendan-humphreys-steps-down-after-12-years-take-a-look-at-recent-tech-industry-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys steps down after 12 years: Take a look at recent tech industry exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Humphreys has stepped down as chief technology officer of Canva after 12 years with the company. In a LinkedIn post, he said he will leave the role on June 19 and continue working with Canva in an advisory capacity thereafter. <\/p>\n<p>Humphreys said he plans to take time off to work on other \u201ccrazy big projects\u201d and become more involved in progressive politics and social justice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I joined Canva in 2014, there were just 12 of us. I don\u2019t think any of us could have imagined the scale or pace of what we\u2019d build together, and I\u2019m so proud to have been part of it. It\u2019s been an enormous privilege and an obvious career highlight,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan Humphreys has stepped down as chief technology officer of Canva after 12 years with the company. In a LinkedIn post, he said he will leave the role on June 19 and continue working with Canva in an advisory capacity thereafter. Humphreys said he plans to take time off to work on other \u201ccrazy big projects\u201d and become more involved in progressive politics and social justice. \u201cWhen I joined Canva in 2014, there were just 12 of us. I don\u2019t think any of us could have imagined the scale or pace of what we\u2019d build together, and I\u2019m so proud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006750,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006698\/revisions\/1006750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}