{"id":12146,"date":"2025-03-21T01:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/simon-storey-kent-ceo-to-step-down-at-end-of-season\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T01:15:30","slug":"simon-storey-kent-ceo-to-step-down-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/simon-storey-kent-ceo-to-step-down-at-end-of-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Storey: Kent CEO to step down at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kent chief executive officer Simon Storey will step down at the end of the season after more than six years at the helm.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club have won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/58609102\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">T20 Blast,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/62930911\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">One Day Cup<\/a> and Women&#8217;s County Championship during his time in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storey moved to Kent in 2019 after seven years in charge at Derbyshire, where the club hosted the Women&#8217;s World Cup in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent will begin their search for his replacement next month, the club said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is the right time now for me, and my ever-supportive family, to step aside and allow a new CEO to bring fresh perspectives, harness the skills of our board members and lead our talented and committed executive team,&#8221; Storey told the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentcricket.co.uk\/news\/kent-cricket-announces-ceo-transition-plan\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">website.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The new cricket landscape promises real opportunity and I am looking forward to being able to contribute to the future strategic development of cricket in Kent, as well as helping the board, who could not have been more supportive of my decision, in their search for my successor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The club said Storey would continue to work as CEO until the end of the season, helping the board to secure his successor, &#8220;before moving into a part-time strategic advisory and external development role with the club&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent begin their County Championship Division Two campaign away to Northamptonshire on Friday, 4 April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cp8lrpl0e0go\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent chief executive officer Simon Storey will step down at the end of the season after more than six years at the helm. The club have won the T20 Blast, One Day Cup and Women&#8217;s County Championship during his time in charge. Storey moved to Kent in 2019 after seven years in charge at Derbyshire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12148,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12146\/revisions\/12148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}