{"id":278160,"date":"2018-06-15T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=278160"},"modified":"2018-06-15T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T20:06:16","slug":"morse-is-gm-vp-for-ak-saipan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/morse-is-gm-vp-for-ak-saipan\/","title":{"rendered":"Morse is GM, VP for AK Saipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_278162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278162\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Benjamin-Morse-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Benjamin-Morse-mug-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278162\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-278162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Morse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014Alex Hammett, president of Atkins Kroll, Inc. and Atkins Kroll, (Saipan), Inc. has appointed Benjamin Morse as AK Saipan\u2019s general manager and vice president effective June 16, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Morse had previously served as Atkins Kroll Saipan operations manager and replaces Doug Brennan, who recently retired and served as the company\u2019s vice president\/general manager on Saipan. <\/p>\n<p>A Manhattan Beach, California native, and later a Redondo Beach 20-year resident, Morse earned a bachelor of science degree in Sociology from UC Santa Barbara and graduated from UCLA Anderson School of Executive Business General Management. Morse brings with him 18 years\u2019 experience in the automotive industry, and has held a range of general management, sales, marketing, and operations roles. <\/p>\n<p>Before coming to work at Atkins Kroll, Morse was vice president of sales for Mobile Clear Shield. Prior to that, he worked as a portfolio manager for the Wilson Automotive Group in Southern California, a general manager for Tesla Motors, and a CEO of Morse GPS. <\/p>\n<p>Morse first worked for a Toyota dealership 23 years ago in 1995 at Manhattan Beach Toyota, in California. <\/p>\n<p>Atkins Kroll, an Inchcape company, is Guam\u2019s oldest corporation established in 1914 and represents Toyota, Lexus, Chevrolet, BMW, Toyota Rent a Car, ACE Rent a Car, and AC Delco brands. (AK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014Alex Hammett, president of Atkins Kroll, Inc. and Atkins Kroll, (Saipan), Inc. has appointed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":278162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9939,318,21588,4475],"class_list":["post-278160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-atkins-kroll-saipan","tag-gm","tag-guam-alex-hammett","tag-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}