Boosted gets a new CEO as the company tries to grow beyond electric skateboards
Boosted, the company known for making the best all-electric longboards on the market, is changing up its executive ranks. Founder Sanjay Dastoor is stepping down from the CEO role and into a position on the company’s board of directors. In his place, Jeff Russakow — an executive who’s spent time at Yahoo, Symantec, and Adobe, to name a few — is the new CEO of Boosted.
Russakow spoke exclusively with The Verge ahead of the announcement (he’ll also be doing a Reddit AMA today at 1PM ET). But before he discussed the future of the company, he made sure to address the battery-pack-sized elephant in the room.
“First things first,” he says, the extended range battery — which was promised way back in August 2016 and can effectively double the…
