{"id":7558,"date":"2021-12-18T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=7558"},"modified":"2021-12-20T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T04:17:54","slug":"24-hour-fitness-ceo-tony-ueber-leaves-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/chains\/24-hour-fitness-ceo-tony-ueber-leaves-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Hour Fitness CEO Tony Ueber Leaves the Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-Hour-Fitness-300x68.png\" alt=\"24 Hour Fitness\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-Hour-Fitness-300x68.png 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-Hour-Fitness-200x45.png 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-Hour-Fitness-800x181.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>24 Hour Fitness<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLUB INDUSTRY<\/strong> &#8211; As initially reported by <em>Club Industry<\/em>: 24 Hour Fitness CEO, Tony Ueber, has left the company, and 24 Hour COO, Karl Sanft, has taken over as interim CEO, according to a statement from 24 Hour Fitness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTony Ueber has decided to leave 24 Hour Fitness and Karl Sanft has been promoted to the role of interim CEO in a seamless transition that has no impact on our clubs or member experience,\u201d the statement from the company read.<\/p>\n<p>Ueber had been CEO since January 2019. He led the company through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubindustry.com\/commercial-clubs\/24-hour-fitness-files-for-chapter-11-restructuring-continues-club-reopenings\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chapter 11 filing in June 2020<\/a>, brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubindustry.com\/commercial-clubs\/24-hour-fitness-emerges-from-bankruptcy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">emergence in December 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ueber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubindustry.com\/commercial-clubs\/24-hour-fitness-eyes-a-new-future-after-reorganization\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sat down with Club Industry in February 2021<\/a> to share details of the path forward for 24 Hour Fitness.<\/p>\n<p>Sanft joined 24 Hour Fitness in April 2019 after having spent 20 years at Best Buy, according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>24 Hour did not offer further details on where Ueber went or on its search for a permanent CEO. As more details emerge, Club Industry will provide updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CLUB INDUSTRY<\/strong> &#8211; As initially reported by <em>Club Industry<\/em>: 24 Hour Fitness CEO, Tony Ueber, has left the company, and 24 Hour COO, Karl Sanft, has taken over as interim CEO, according to a statement from 24 Hour Fitness. Ueber had been CEO since January 2019. He led the company through its Chapter 11 filing in June 2020, brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and through its emergence in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7559,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7558\/revisions\/7559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}