{"id":271914,"date":"2020-10-15T05:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=271914"},"modified":"2020-10-15T05:59:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:59:04","slug":"grab-ph-has-new-country-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/15\/grab-ph-has-new-country-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab PH has new country head"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v8.0\" nonce=\"ONT4pEta\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrabPH\/posts\/3590829344306715\" data-width=\"750\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrabPH\/posts\/3590829344306715\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>We happily welcome Grace Vera Cruz to the Grab family as she steps in as the newest Country Head of the Philippines&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrabPH\/\">Grab<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrabPH\/posts\/3590829344306715\">Thursday, October 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ridesharing and delivery firm Grab Philippines (Grab) on Thursday appointed a new country head, a couple of months after Brian Cu stepped down from the position.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Grab said the appointment of Grace Vera Cruz was effective immediately, with her focus currently on promoting synergy between the company\u2019s several services \u201cto better serve customers, driver-partners, merchant-partners, and corporate partners in the Philippines as One Grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will also drive \u2018Grab for Good\u2019 initiatives to contribute to the Philippines\u2019 longer-term socio-economic development,\u201d Grab said.<\/p>\n<p>Vera Cruz has had 15 years of business experience. She was previously the managing director of Seawood Resources, a Philippine-based international investment company, and has held key positions in McKinsey &amp; Co., CLSA Exchange Capital, and Shell.<\/p>\n<p>She said she was \u201cproud\u201d to join Grab and lauded the company\u2019s charitable activities during the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic through the \u201cGrabBayanihan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with the team to leverage Grab\u2019s technology and innovation to help Filipino communities safely and sustainably recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d Vera Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>Russel Cohen, group managing director for Grab, said he was confident in Vera Cruz\u2019s ability to lead and help its drivers and small businesses to use digital services to \u201cgrow and support the Philippines in its economic recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Grace\u2019s proven credentials in leadership, operations, and strategy, I\u2019m confident she brings deep expertise and understanding,\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n<p>On August 14, Cu stepped down as the country head of Grab to pursue other business interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We happily welcome Grace Vera Cruz to the Grab family as she steps in as the newest Country Head of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":271915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-raymond-carl-dela-cruz","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271916,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271914\/revisions\/271916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}