Leadership

Cognizant: Francisco D’Souza Leaving The Board And Vinita Bali Joins As New Independent Director

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2020

Cognizant announced that Vinita Bali has been appointed to its Board as a new independent director and Vice Chairman Francisco D'Souza is departing.

Kentik Appoints Christoph Pfister As First Chief Product Officer

By Noah Long ● Feb 6, 2020

Kentik, the provider of the only AIOps platform specifically designed for network professionals, announced it appointed Christoph Pfister as its first chief product officer.

Microsoft Reorganizes Experiences, Devices, Client, Product, And Education Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2020

Microsoft has made a number of management changes for its experiences, devices, client, product, and education teams. Here's the details.

Blackstone Names John Stecher As CTO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2020

Blackstone Group announced it has hired John Stecher to serve as its chief technology officer. These are the details about the hiring of John Stecher.

Andrew Checketts Joins Herff Jones As VP of Strategy And Transformation

By Annie Baker ● Feb 6, 2020

Herff Jones, a division of Varsity Brands, announced Andrew Checketts has joined the company as Vice President of Strategy and Transformation.

Stella Connect Hires Dave Taylor As CMO And Julie Li As VP Of People

By Dan Anderson ● Feb 6, 2020

Stella Connect, a rapidly growing disruptive provider of Customer Experience and Contact Center quality management solutions, announced it hired Dave R. Taylor as CMO and Julie Li as VP of People.

EY Appoints Steve Krouskos And Marie-Laure Delarue To EY Global Executive

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 3, 2020

EY announced it named Steve Krouskos and Marie-Laure Delarue on its EY Global Executive (GE), which is company’s most senior management body.

Insurify: $23 Million Funding And Gene Shkolnik Joins As CTO

By Dan Anderson ● Feb 3, 2020

Insurify, an AI-powered insurance comparison platform that makes it easier for people to save hundreds-to-thousands of dollars per year on car insurance, announced it raised $23 million in funding.

Dropbox Founder & CEO Drew Houston Joins Facebook Board

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 3, 2020

Facebook announced that Dropbox founder & CEO Drew Houston has been appointed to its board of directors, effective immediately.

Kirsten Benefiel Appointed As CEO Of HSS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 3, 2020

The HSS board of directors announced it appointed Kirsten Benefiel as chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately.

S3 Partners Hires Dean Fabrizio And John Clancy As Business Development Directors

By Dan Anderson ● Feb 3, 2020

S3 Partners, a marketing-leading financial technology and analytics firm, announced it hired Dean Fabrizio and John Clancy as Directors of Business Development.

Stephen Schwarzman On Succession And His View Of The Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 2, 2020

The Blackstone Group Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder Stephen A. Schwarzman recently expressed his viewpoints on success and on the markets.

Narayan Menon Joins Vimeo As Chief Financial Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 2, 2020

Vimeo recently announced it has appointed Narayan Menon as Chief Financial Officer.

Matt Segneri To Foster Entrepreneurship As New Executive Director Of Harvard I-Lab

By Noah Long ● Feb 2, 2020

Matt Segneri is going to become the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-lab).

Jody Padar Joins Botkeeper As Vice President Of Strategy

By Annie Baker ● Feb 2, 2020

Botkeeper announced that New Vision CPA Group chief executive officer Jody Padar (known as The Radical CPA) is joining the company as Vice President of Strategy.

WeWork Names Sandeep Mathrani As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 2, 2020

Office-sharing giant WeWork announced it has named Sandeep Mathrani as the newly appointed CEO of the company.

Facebook Hires Brian Irving From Eventbrite As Head Of AR/VR Product Marketing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 1, 2020

Facebook has hired Eventbrite’s chief marketing officer Brian Irving as the global head of its marketing for augmented and virtual reality products.

Hulu CEO Randy Freer Stepping Down

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2020

Hulu CEO Randy Freer is stepping down from the role as the head of the video streaming giant. These are the details.

Arvind Krishna Succeeding Ginni Rometty As IBM CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2020

IBM SVP of Cloud and Cognitive Software Arvind Krishna has been named as the CEO of the company as he succeeds Ginni Rometty.

Jay Dettling Hired As CEO Of Ansira

By Annie Baker ● Jan 31, 2020

Ansira Partners recently announced that Jay Dettling is joining the company as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 3. These are the details.

John Gentry Named As CEO Of OpenX

By Dan Anderson ● Jan 30, 2020

OpenX announced its current CEO Tim Cadogan and will be succeeded by John Gentry.

Facebook VP Of Engineering Jay Parikh Stepping Down

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 29, 2020

Facebook vice president of engineering Jay Parikh announced in a post that he will be stepping down from the company.

Sharmistha Dubey Named As CEO Of Match Group

By Annie Baker ● Jan 29, 2020

Match Group announced that after 14 years, Mandy Ginsberg is going to be departing from the company. And Shar Dubey will now assume that role.

Rent The Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman Explains How Transparency Helped Increase Brand Loyalty

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 19, 2020

At the National Retail Federation’s annual conference, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman explained how being transparent helped build brand loyalty.

True Establishes Strong Group Of Board Members To Help Drive Talent Lifecycle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 16, 2020

True, the rapidly growing global platform of innovative talent management products and services, recently announced the formation of its board of directors.

LLamasoft: New Senior Executive Hired As Head Of Global Employee Success Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 15, 2020

LLamasoft, a leading provider of AI-enabled enterprise decision-making solutions, announced it appointed Michael Bourgon as Chief Employee Success Officer.

Cloudera Names Robert Bearden As President And Chief Executive Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 14, 2020

Enterprise data cloud company Cloudera recently announced the appointment of Robert Bearden as President and Chief Executive Officer.

Medvantx Names Jeremy Gross As CTO

By Annie Baker ● Jan 14, 2020

Medvantx recently announced it named Jeremy Gross as chief technology officer of the company.

Anglepoint Names Ron Brill As President And Brian Papay As CEO

By Dan Anderson ● Jan 13, 2020

Anglepoint, the leader in software asset management (SAM), announced it named current CEO Ron Brill as the new President and Chairman and current COO Brian Papay as CEO.

Verily Hires Deepak Ahuja As Chief Financial Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2020

Verily (formerly known as Google Life Sciences) announced it has hired Deepak Ahuja as its chief financial officer.