{"id":28306,"date":"2021-11-05T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=28306"},"modified":"2021-11-05T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T12:42:14","slug":"richard-horton-g4aoj-co-opted-as-board-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2021\/11\/05\/richard-horton-g4aoj-co-opted-as-board-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Horton, G4AOJ co-opted as Board Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RSGB Board<\/strong><\/a> is pleased to announce that Richard Horton, G4AOJ has been co-opted as a Board Director until the 2022 AGM.<\/p>\n<p>Many members will know Richard as he has served as the RSGB Honorary Treasurer since 2011. After obtaining a degree in Physics at Merton College, Oxford in 1973, Richard trained as a professional accountant with what was then Price Waterhouse, qualifying in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Since then he held a number of senior financial positions (CFO\/FD) in several commercial organisations mainly in the financial services sector.<\/p>\n<p>Richard was licensed in 1971 and has been active ever since. His radio amateur experience is wide \u2013 HF, VHF, microwaves, satellites and TV. He has also tutored candidates for the UK amateur radio exams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/rsgb-notices\/2021\/11\/05\/rsgb-honorary-treasurer-vacancy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Board is advertising for Richard\u2019s successor as RSGB Honorary Treasurer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RSGB Board is pleased to announce that Richard Horton, G4AOJ has been co-opted as a Board Director until the 2022 AGM. Many members will know Richard as he has served as the RSGB Honorary Treasurer since 2011. After obtaining a degree in Physics at Merton College, Oxford in 1973, Richard trained as a professional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}