{"id":1019437,"date":"2026-07-08T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019437"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:15:00","slug":"australias-wisetech-cofounder-richard-white-steps-down-as-executive-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/australias-wisetech-cofounder-richard-white-steps-down-as-executive-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s WiseTech cofounder Richard White steps down as executive chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s WiseTech Global said on Tuesday that co-founder Richard White would step down as executive chair, effective immediately, while Raelene Murphy had been appointed independent chair. <\/p>\n<p>Murphy, \u200cwho joined \u2060the logistics \u2060software provider&#8217;s board at the start of the year, was named lead independent director in May \u200bbefore taking on her new role. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of WiseTech were up as much as 10.6% at A$39.12, as of 0028 GMT, hitting their highest level since June 15. The stock is the top performer in the benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s WiseTech Global said on Tuesday that co-founder Richard White would step down as executive chair, effective immediately, while Raelene Murphy had been appointed independent chair. Murphy, \u200cwho joined \u2060the logistics \u2060software provider&#8217;s board at the start of the year, was named lead independent director in May \u200bbefore taking on her new role. Shares of WiseTech were up as much as 10.6% at A$39.12, as of 0028 GMT, hitting their highest level since June 15. The stock is the top performer in the benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 index.<\/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-1019437","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\/1019437","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=1019437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019461,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019437\/revisions\/1019461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}