{"id":940528,"date":"2025-06-23T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940528"},"modified":"2025-06-23T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:28:45","slug":"fedex-founder-and-executive-chairman-frederick-smith-has-died-ceo-tells-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/23\/fedex-founder-and-executive-chairman-frederick-smith-has-died-ceo-tells-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx founder and executive chairman Frederick Smith has died, CEO tells staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx Corp&#8217;s founder and former CEO Frederick Smith, who started the global delivery conglomerate with more than a dozen planes in the 1970s, has died, the company&#8217;s CEO Raj Subramaniam said in memo to staff posted on its website on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Born in 1944, Smith was most recently serving as the firm&#8217;s executive chairman and focused on board governance, as well as issues of global importance, including sustainability, innovation and public policy, according to his profile on FedEx&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx Corp&#8217;s founder and former CEO Frederick Smith, who started the global delivery conglomerate with more than a dozen planes in the 1970s, has died, the company&#8217;s CEO Raj Subramaniam said in memo to staff posted on its website on Saturday. Born in 1944, Smith was most recently serving as the firm&#8217;s executive chairman and focused on board governance, as well as issues of global importance, including sustainability, innovation and public policy, according to his profile on FedEx&#8217;s website.<\/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-940528","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\/940528","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=940528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}