Zoom Video Communications, Inc., Board of Director Carl Eschenbach to resign
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Carl Eschenbach, a director of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., notified the board of directors of the Company of his decision to resign from his position as a member of the Board, effective immediately.
EXL Announces Appointment of Andreas Fibig to Board of Directors
Fibig will be a member of the Board’s Audit and Nominating and Governance Committees.
Fibig spent 10 years with International Flavors & Fragrances (NYSE: IFF), an industry leader in food ingredients, beverage, scent, health care and biosciences, including seven years as Chairman and CEO.
He currently serves on the board of Novo-Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO), where he is an independent director and member of the Research and Development Committee. He also serves as a director of Indigo Agriculture and EvodiaBio, which are private companies. He previously served on the board of Bunge Limited, a leading global agribusiness and food company.
Direct Digital Holdings Appoints Misty Locke, Former Global Chief Marketing Officer for Dentsu Media, to the Board of Directors
Locke joins the Direct Digital Holdings Board of Directors following a successful tenure as Chief Marketing Officer for industry leader Dentsu Media
Payoneer Global Inc. announced that Michael Levine is expected to depart as Chief Financial Officer of the Company in March 2023.
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Mr. Levine will remain employed in an advisory role to assist with the transition of the new Chief Financial Officer through January 1, 2024.
Appointment of Bea Ordonez as the Company’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer, effective January 16, 2023. Michael Levine, Payoneer’s current CFO, will step down from his position in March 2023 at which time it is our expectation that the Board of Directors of the Company will appoint Ordonez as CFO, and she would report to Co-CEO John Caplan
Shutterstock, Inc. announced that John Caine is joining the Company as Global Head of E-Commerce effective as of January 30, 2023.
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Mr. Caine, most recently served as Chief Product Officer of NerdWallet, Inc. since December 2021. Prior to joining NerdWallet, Mr. Caine served as the Chief Conversion and Chief Product Officer of Vroom Inc., a publicly traded used car retailer and e-commerce company, a role he held beginning in 2018. From 2016 to 2018, he served as the Chief Conversion Officer of Vroom Inc.
AMD Promotes Forrest Norrod to Executive Vice President of Data Center Solutions Business
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that Forrest Norrod has been promoted to executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions business group at AMD.
WAV Promoted Bob Nelson as President of WAV
Under Nelson's leadership, WAV will continue to focus on delivering the highest quality products and services to bridge the digital divide while also pursuing new opportunities for growth and expansion.
POWWR appointed Matt Tormollen to Lead (formerly UD Group) Forward with Planned Ground-Breaking SaaS Platforms
Previously Vice President & General Manager – Solutions - Dover Fueling Solutions
HERE announces Sanjay Brahmawar and Robert Siegel as Supervisory Board members
Sanjay Brahmawar is the Chief Executive Officer of Software AG, a global technology innovator that simplifies the connected world and is unique in the industry for its leading suite of software products across Integration & API management, IoT & Analytics and Business Transformation
Robert Siegel is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has led primary research and written cases on, among others, Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, Stripe, Roblox, Target, C3.ai, Softbank, Tableau, PayPal, Medium, Autodesk, Zuora, and Michelin. Siegel is also Venture Partner at Piva and General Partner at XSeed Capital; sits on the Board of Directors of Luum, Avochato, Findmine and Cluster and the Supervisory Board of TTTech Auto AG; and is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board of TTTech Computertechnik AG.
HERE’s Supervisory Board brings together representatives of the company’s shareholders and independent, recognized industry leaders. From January 1, it now consists of:
Pekka Ala-Pietilä (independent), Chairman of the Supervisory Board; Ala-Pietilä is also Chairman of the Board of Huhtamäki and Sanoma Corporation
Sanjay Brahmawar (independent), CEO, Software AG
Axel Dewitz, Senior Vice President and Head of Taxes, Customs, M&A, Audi Group
Rainer Feurer, Senior Vice President Corporate Investments, BMW Group
Adine Grate (independent), Audit Committee chair; Co-Founder of Skiff Capital Advisors,
Daisuke Nagatsuma, Vice President, Smart Solution in the Strategic Business Development Division of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)
Alexander Nediger, Vice President Corporate Development at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Rob Siegel (independent), lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and General Partner at XSeed Capital and Venture Partner at Piva
Koji Tashiro, General Manager, HERE Project Office, Mitsubishi Corporation
The Supervisory Board oversees the executive leadership team at HERE, led by CEO Edzard Overbeek. It supports the company’s long-term strategy to become the leading location data and technology platform serving multiple industries.
Telos Alliance Appoints Scott Stiefel as CEO
Scott Stiefel to lead Telos Alliance into the future as Tom Swidarski becomes Vice Chairman of the Board
Stiefel will assume the reins from Co-CEO Tom Swidarski who will serve on the Board of Directors as Vice Chairman
Telos Alliance Founder, Frank Foti remains Chairman of the Board and continues to lead the Omnia development at the highest level.
Katalon Appoints Tien Anh Nguyen as Chief Financial Officer
Nguyen served as Chief Business Officer at UserTesting Inc., a global cloud software provider helping companies gain human insights to transform their digital customer experience, where he was part of the IPO team while leading long-term growth initiatives.
Hotjar Welcomes Three New Executives to Support Next Phase of Global Expansion
The company appoints senior executives with experience from Uber, Zendesk and Stuart as it sets its sights on continued product growth and development.
Celine Maher, Mattia Santin and Marta Abalos are taking on roles leading revenue, marketing and the people and culture teams, respectively.
Celine Maher joins Hotjar as the first Chief Revenue Officer and will lead the growth, expansion, and success of Hotjar's customer base alongside the sales, customer success and support teams. Maher worked at Zendesk and New Relic where she led strategies focused on product-centric led growth across the EMEA market for commercial and business development.
Mattia Santin is the newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Hotjar. Previously, Santin served as the CMO for two scale-up businesses, Atida and Leavy, and as Uber's Head of Media for EMEA.
Marta Abalos is now Hotjar's VP of People & Culture overseeing the People and Culture team.
PlexTrac Adds Cybersecurity Powerhouse to Board of Directors
Stuart (Stu) Solomon brings a Wealth of Knowledge and Experience to Aid in PlexTrac's Rapid Growth
GPR Appoints Moran David as Chief Executive Officer (Former Mobileye Executive)
David to lead company through next phase of growth.
Most notably, David served as General Manager of the Americas and Growth Strategies for Mobileye.
Equitybee Appoints Yaeli Gila as Vice President of Finance
Seasoned executive brings 25 years of international experience managing finance and accounting and implementing corporate operations strategy for multiple Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to joining Equity bee, Gila was the VP of finance for the global agtech start-up, Fieldin, Inc.
Rootstock Software® Names Geoff Brannon as Chief Financial Officer
Investment partners in Gryphon Investors and Salesforce Ventures
Prior to joining Rootstock, Brannon served as CFO at Oversight, where he helped manage a successful exit strategy via a private equity acquisition.
Behavox Appoints Sherry Lowe as Strategic Advisor to the Board of Directors
Lowe is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Exabeam, and has formerly led and scaled marketing teams at Expanse (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Druva, Splunk, MarkLogic, and Actian (formerly Ingres)
Sherry joins an impressive lineup of advisors, including Jeff Diana (CHRO of Atlassian and Calendly), Tom Schodorf (formerCRO of Splunk), and Mike Piwowar (former SEC Commissioner).
Sarcos Co-Founder and Former CEO Ben Wolff to Step Down as Executive Chair
After eight years of service to Sarcos, its Co-Founder and former CEO, Ben Wolff, will be stepping down from his employment as Executive Chairman effective February 1, 2023.
He will continue to serve on the Sarcos Board of Directors as a Non-Employee Director and Chair the Strategic Transaction Committee.
Dennis Weibling, who has served as Lead Independent Director since 2021 and a Member of the Board since 2015, has been elected as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board effective February 1, 2023.
Cloudflare Appoints Phil Winslow as VP of Strategic Finance, Treasury, and Investor Relations
Phil Winslow as Vice President of Strategic Finance, Treasury, and Investor Relations. Winslow previously covered Cloudflare as a financial analyst at Credit Suisse, where he was the global head of the software team, and at Wells Fargo.
Most recently, Winslow served as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and was the global head of the software team in the Securities Research department.
Presto Engineering appoints Cédric Mayor as CEO of Presto Engineering Group and Michel Villemain appointed Executive Chairman
Cédric Mayor, VP Global Strategy & Corporate Development, is appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company.
Previous CEO, and company founder, Michel Villemain, is appointed Executive Chairman, primarily focusing on strategic and corporate development. The change is effective January 11, 2023 and is the result of a year-long transition process initiated by the company’s leadership.
Cédric Mayor has more than 23 years of experience in the semiconductor business, which includes 13 years at Presto Engineering across various executive management positions.
SHI International Names Dwight Moore Chief Information Officer
Moore, who joined SHI last year, has more than 20 years’ experience in technology management with large IT corporations
Dwight Moore its Chief Information Officer. Moore, who joined SHI last year as Chief Technology Officer, assumes overall responsibility for the continued strategic planning, development, and implementation of transformative technologies that will increase efficiencies, improve the digital experience of customers, partners, and employees, and support SHI’s continued growth goals.
Moore brings more than 20 years of senior IT management experience, holding VP or CTO positions at Dell, Dell Financial Services, Presidio, and multiple early-stage, venture-backed companies.
Quinyx Announces the Appointment of Tristan Rogers as Chief Strategy Officer
Quinyx, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Workforce Management (WFM) software, has announced the appointment of Tristan Rogers as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).
Rogers is the former CEO and founder of Concrete, a retail-centric employee task and engagement platform that Quinyx acquired in March 2022.
Altix Consulting Appoints Carey Chen as President of Altix Corporation
Succeeds Yannick Schilly as President
Prior to joining Altix Corporation, Chen served as Chief Executive Officer of Cadrex Manufacturing Solutions and Incodema Holdings LLC, both investment platforms of CORE Industrial Partners
Sage IT Announces the Appointment of Srini Gajula as Chief Solutions Officer
Srini Gajula will lead presales teams, build capabilities, frontend customer conversations and also manage Sage IT's strategic partnerships
Passport Technology appoints Diallo Gordon Chief Marketing and Product Officer
Most recently, Gordon served as the founder and CEO of Phi Gaming, LLC (Phi), where his team built several innovative loyalty products for the B2B systems industry, leading to the acquisition of Phi by Passport.
Muck Rack Names Bryan Hamblin Chief Revenue Officer
Bryan will lead Muck Rack’s go-to-market strategy across its Sales and Customer Success teams. He will report to Muck Rack CEO and co-founder Greg Galant.
Bryan joins Muck Rack from decision intelligence company Sisu Data, where he served as Chief Revenue Officer,
He also served in a variety of revenue and strategy roles at Alfresco, ServiceSource, IBM and HewlettPackard.
Infogain Appoints Tyson Hartman as Chief Technology Officer
Prior to joining Infogain, Hartman was a Senior Partner focusing on offerings, strategy and assets at West Monroe, driving growth through innovation, technology, and alliances.
Hartman is based in Seattle and will report to Ayan Mukerji, Infogain Chief Executive Officer.
Seattle-based leader will drive Infogain’s tech vision and strategy.
Osage Venture Partners Promotes Sean Dowling to Managing Partner and Emily Foote to Partner
Sean serves as a board member of BoodleAI, BookKeeping Express, Brazen, Dina, Connectbase, ExecOnline, MarginEdge, Ostendio, and Returnalyze.
Syntax Announces Executive Transition
Patrick Shaddow named Chief Executive Officer to Lead Effort to Build Syntax’s Transformational Financial Data Platform.
Shaddow previously served as President of Syntax Indices. He takes over as CEO from the company’s founder, Rory Riggs, who heads the Board of Directors as Executive Chairman.
As Executive Chairman, Riggs will lead the company’s Board of Directors and continue to work closely with Shaddow and the Syntax management team.
Epitec appoints Rebecca Bray to President
Josie Sheppard would take on the role of CEO following Jerry Sheppard’s 43 years of majority ownership. Epitec is women-owned and operated with Sheppard and Bray leading the organization into its future.
Prior to Built In, Ferrer served as VP of Sales Operations, Strategy, and Acceleration at HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) where he led growth in revenue from $200m to $1.5bn over a six (6) year period.
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting names Garrett Hale EVP, Global Operations
Mr. Hale comes to Wolters Kluwer from Assurant, where he was most recently Senior Vice President of Operations for their Global Housing division.
Semrush Appoints Channing Ferrer as Chief Sales Officer
Ferrer was most recently Chief Revenue Officer at Built In
Prior to Built In, Ferrer served as VP of Sales Operations, Strategy, and Acceleration at HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) where he led growth in revenue from $200m to $1.5bn over a six (6) year period.
Ferrer will succeed Delbert Humenik, who has served as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) since 2017. Humenik will remain as CRO until February 15, 2023 and then transition to an advisor role until July 1, 2023.
Upland Software appoints Oliver Yates as Chief Sales Officer
Previously Oliver was Vice President - Digital Sales at Infor
Swiftly appoints Andy Friedland as Chief Revenue Officer
Friedland joins Swiftly after leading retail media at Crealytics
Wolfspeed Promotes Elif Balkas as New Chief Technology Officer
Succeeding the late Dr. John Palmour, a co-founder of Wolfspeed
In her role as Vice President of Research and Development in Wolfspeed’s Materials organization
Phong Nguyen joined Motus as Chief Executive Officer Previously Chief Operating Officer at Accolade, Inc. (Former Executive Team Concur Technologies)
Proven Software Executive to Lead Organization’s Next Phase of Growth and Scale
RKD Group appoints Chris Pritcher as New CEO
Former Merkel - Senior Vice President, Head of Vertical Markets Strategy
SingleStore appoints Madhukar Kumar as Chief Marketing Officer and also names Sanjay Aurora as Senior Vice President of Sales
Sanjay Aurora has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Head Of Sales and will oversee the U.S., EMEA and APAC sales teams.
Madhukar Kumar joins SingleStore from DevRev where he served as head of growth and marketing and led the development and scaling of its product-led growth (PLG) engine.
Unravel Data appoints Microsoft Exec Zia Mansoor to Board of Directors
Mansoor currently serves as Microsoft’s Vice President of Data & AI, and has extensive expertise in go-to-market strategy and providing product and solution leadership across operational database, analytics, AI/Machine Learning, data governance, and business intelligence solutions.
Quorum Software Appoints Jan Manning as Chief Information Officer
Prior to joining Quorum, Manning served as Chief Information Officer at several other reputable software and technology companies, including Forescout Technologies, Inc., DATASCAN, and Gemalto
Render Appoints Omar Ramadan, Vice President - Customer Operations, Render Networks
Ramadan joins Render Networks with more than 20 years of experience leading Customer Success and Operations organizations at Calix and Advanced Fibre Communications
Synapse Financial Technologies Appoints Jack Doan as Chief People & Culture Officer and Derek Drennan as Chief Customer Officer
Jack Doan has joined as the company’s first Chief People & Culture Officer and Derek Drennan has joined as Chief Customer Officer
The BaaS platform readies for the next stage of growth with the Chief People & Culture Officer and Chief Customer Officer hires
Jack Doan most recently served as Senior Vice President of Global People Experience at Automation Anywhere.
Sionic Appoints Matthew Watson as Chief Technology Officer
Premier digital payments provider taps seasoned industry executive to lead development team, expand real-time payment and enterprise solutions.
Prior to joining Sionic, Watson was CTO for InComm and helped create enterprise transaction processing systems for Target, Walmart, CVS and other global retailers.
Amphenol Corporation appoints Prahlad Singh Appointed to the Board of Directors
Dr. Singh is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of PerkinElmer (NYSE: PKI) and brings more than twenty-five years of global leadership experience to Amphenol’s board.
SatixFy Appoints Ido Gur as Its New Chief Executive Officer
Replacing Mr. David Ripstein, effective January 15th.
Prior to SatixFy, he served as CEO of Saguna, an early-stage edge cloud computing company, and led the company to be successfully acquired.
DigitalOcean Names Aaqib Gadit Chief Revenue Officer
Aaqib Gadit was the co-founder and CEO of Cloudways, which was acquired by DigitalOcean in September 2022.