{"id":1010129,"date":"2026-05-27T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010129"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:10:05","slug":"dropbox-ceo-andrew-houston-to-step-down-insider-ashraf-alkarmi-named-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/dropbox-ceo-andrew-houston-to-step-down-insider-ashraf-alkarmi-named-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox CEO Andrew Houston to step down, insider Ashraf Alkarmi named successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox said on Tuesday that CEO and co-founder Andrew Houston would step down after a transition period and promoted insider Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO ahead of his succession as the sole chief executive. <\/p>\n<p>The file hosting service provider&#8217;s shares fell nearly 2%. They have declined more than 3% this year. <\/p>\n<p>Alkarmi has \u200cserved as \u2060general manager \u2060of the company&#8217;s core products, including file sharing, e-signature tool Sign and document platform DocSend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox said on Tuesday that CEO and co-founder Andrew Houston would step down after a transition period and promoted insider Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO ahead of his succession as the sole chief executive. The file hosting service provider&#8217;s shares fell nearly 2%. They have declined more than 3% this year. Alkarmi has \u200cserved as \u2060general manager \u2060of the company&#8217;s core products, including file sharing, e-signature tool Sign and document platform DocSend.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010129","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=1010129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010149,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010129\/revisions\/1010149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}