{"id":469604,"date":"2018-03-04T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/we-are-lucky-to-have-mark-noonan-work-for-us-hearts-of-oak-board-chairman\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T06:00:22","slug":"we-are-lucky-to-have-mark-noonan-work-for-us-hearts-of-oak-board-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/03\/04\/we-are-lucky-to-have-mark-noonan-work-for-us-hearts-of-oak-board-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"We are lucky to have Mark Noonan work for us \u2013 Hearts of Oak board chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Sunday,  4 March 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-03-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/53327709.295.jpg\" alt=\"Togbe Noonan\" title=\"Togbe Noonan\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Togbe Afede XI and Mark Noonan, new Chief Executive Officer of Accra Hearts of Oa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1520143222_287_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Executive Chairman of Accra Hearts of Oak, His Royal Highness Togbe Afede XIV, believes the club is lucky to have Mark Noonan as its new Chief Executive Officer, adding that the appointment of the American is a testament to where the Board wants to position the club.<\/p>\n<p>Mark David Noonan has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Hearts on a three-year mandate.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking at the annual pre-season dinner party organized by the Executive Chairman of the club at his residence on Friday night, Togbe Afede XIV insists he\u2019s astounded by the club\u2019s appointment of the American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be very honest with you; I still find it difficult to believe that Mark is with us because of the levels he has attained in the most powerful nation on earth, United States of America. It is a great honour that he [Mark] has done to us [by agreeing to work with us],\u201d His Royal Highness told accraheartsofoaksc.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark, before he started running his own company was the Executive Vice President of Major League Soccer \u2013 the highest level of football in the United States. And three of them reported to the Commissioner General. So you can imagine the kind of money he would have been earning in that position and he has left to join us here. Great honour, Mark has done for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also was the Global Chief Marketing Officer of the World Surf League and he actually begun the commercialization of the sport and attracted a lot of big time sponsors to the World Surf League \u2013 world not America; not Europe: the global Chief Marketing Officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd of course had served similar roles in the U.S Soccer Federation but he went beyond football and served in other positions in Basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo his experience spans Soccer, Basketball, and Surfing at the highest level. Mark, a graduate of Duke University, even more interesting \u2013 if not most interestingly \u2013 was a soccer player himself until he got injured and focused on management, commercialization and etc., so we are really very lucky to have Mark here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded: \u201cAnd the fact that the Board of a company we all belong to took that bold step to bring a man of his caliber here is a testament to where we really want to take this club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Sunday, 4 March 2018 Source: ghanacrusader.com 2018-03-04 Togbe Afede XI and Mark Noonan, new Chief Executive Officer of Accra Hearts of Oa Executive Chairman of Accra Hearts of Oak, His Royal Highness Togbe Afede XIV, believes the club is lucky to have Mark Noonan as its new Chief Executive Officer, adding that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":469605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}