CSC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announce Executive Appointments for New Company       

CSC announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a plan to merge the company with the Enterprise Services segment of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Meg Whitman, HPE’s president and CEO, will join the new company’s Board of Directors, which will be split equally between nominees of CSC and HPE.

Electronic Arts Appoints CEO of Blackhawk Network to Its BoardTalbott Roche

Electronic Arts appointed Talbott Roche, 49, to EA’s Board of Directors. Roche is the CEO and President of Blackhawk Network. Prior to her role as CEO, Roche served as the President of Blackhawk, as well as leading Marketing, Product and Business Development for the company.

Twitter Sees Multiple Board Shuffles           

Twitter announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Debra L.  Lee, 60, Chairman and CEO of BET Networks, he parent company for Black Entertainment Television, to serve as a Board member. She served as the COO and President of Black Entertainment Television LLC since 1996.

Additionally, the Board has appointed Marjorie Scardino, 69, as lead independent director, effective following Twitter's 2016 Annual Meeting. She succeeds Peter Currie in the role, whose term will end following the Annual Meeting. Scardino is the former CEO of Pearson PLC.

CSRA to Get New Chairman          

Nancy Killefer, who currently serves as CSRA's Lead Independent Director, has been elected to succeed Mike Lawrie as Chairman, pending her re-election to the board of directors at the annual meeting. Killefer is Director Emeritus at McKinsey & Company. She previously served as Assistant Secretary for Management and CFO to the U.S. Department of Treasury. She currently serves as Vice Chair on the Defense Business Board and is a member of the MyVA Advisory Committee. Killefer is a Director of the Advisory Board Company, Avon Products and Cardinal Health.

Fitbit Adds Two Women from Retail Industry to Board Laura Alber

Fitbit, the physical activity monitoring gadget company, announced that Laura Alber, president and CEO of Williams-Sonoma, and Glenda Flanagan, EVP and CFO of Whole Foods Market, have joined the Fitbit board of directors.

Alber has served as the president and CEO of Williams-Sonoma since 2010, leading growth strategies and strengthening brand reputation for the company’s portfolio of multi-channel brands.

Since joining Whole Foods Market as CFO in 1988, Flanagan has played a major role in the development of the company from six stores in the late 1980s and going public in 1992, to 450 stores and more than $15 billion in sales today.

Date Range: May 18th - June 27th

New Technology CEO Stats 

New Tech CEO Openings: 18 – Sabre (TX), T-Mobile Netherlands (Netherlands), 3i Infotech (India), Ensogo (Hong Kong), Nexgram (Malaysia), Photon Control (Canada), Image Sensing Systems (MN), RiT Technologies (Israel), Spindle (AZ), VidWrx (Canada), Vogogo (Canada), Ubiquity (CA), Gateway Media (MO), Lavu (NM), HGS Colibrium (GA), Quikflo Health (Canada), chatAND (NY), and WordLogic (Canada).

CEOs Appointed

Sources of Appointments: 42 were External appointments, and 37 were internal promotions – Chair/Director (9), COO/President/EVP-Operations (5), CFOs (4), Divisional execs (4), Others (15).

Others:  founders, former execs, CFOs, CMOs, Sales Leaders, CTOs, Chief Strategy Officers, and Leaders from acquired companies, etc.

Diversity: 3.79% of the appointments are women CEOs. Verisma Systems (CO), ParaData (CA), and WegoWise (MA).

Geographic Distribution: 50 in North America, 13 in Europe, 12 in Asia/Russia, 1 in Latin America and 3 in Middle East/Africa.

The average and median times open CEO roles have been open are about 6 months, and there is little variance by continent.  The longest open searches are:

#1 -  TeleCity Group, London, UK - $529.6M, September 2014  
#2    Shanda Games Limited, China - $714M, November 2014  
#3 - Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA -  $1.4B , May 2015
#4 -  Wi-LAN, Ottawa, Ontario - $98.3M, June 2015.     

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This is the detailed version of CEOs Appointed in the month June 2016. 

Xerox, Connecticut - $17.9B, June 2016Jeffrey Jacobson

Symantec, California - $3.6B, June 2016Greg Clark

F-Secure, Finland - $170.3M, June 2016Samu Konttinen

QuickLogic, California - $15.7M, June 2016Brian Faith

Nokia has promoted India head Sandeep Girotra as the head of Asia-Pacific and Japan market, and named Sanjay Malik as the new head of the country. Malik is currently serving Nokia as the VP and head of global network implementation services, which is a part of the company's Global Services business. Girotra is currently overseeing the combined company's customer operations across India, driving the execution of strategy and ensuring customer service.

Ericsson Goes Through Several Leadership Changes

Hans VestbergHans Vestberg resigned as President and CEO and member of the Board, with immediate effect. Jan Frykhammar, EVP and CFO, will assume the CEO position until a new CEO is in office. Carl Mellander, currently VP & Group Treasurer, is appointed acting CFO with immediate effect.

Ericsson announced that Tarek Saadi has been appointed Head of Global Customer Unit (GCU) Zain as well as Head of Customer Unit for the GCC and Pakistan within Ericsson Region Middle East and East Africa.

Ericsson promoted Ali Eid as the head of Customer unit for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine within the Ericsson region Middle East and East Africa. Since 2010, Eid has been the head of Ericsson KSA.

Sprint Names VP of Enterprise Sales for the South Area       

David Aspinall has recently joined Sprint as VP of enterprise sales. Aspinall has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, including senior David Aspinallwireless and wireline leadership roles at AT&T, and enterprise sales roles at Verizon. Originally from the U.K., he moved to the U.S. in 1999 to support a clients IT transition from London to Chicago as part of a large outsource arrangement. Since that time Aspinall has held transformational positions in Product Marketing, Pricing, Field Marketing and 10 years of VP Sales leadership experience.

Coolpad Group Limited Announces Chairman and CEO Changes

Guo Deying has resigned as an executive Director, the chairman of the Board and CEO of Chinese telecommunications equipment company Coolpad Group due to his health condition. Following Guo Deying's resignation, Jia Yueting, an executive Director, has been appointed as the Chairman. Jia has entered into a service contract with the Company for a fixed term of 3 years.

ShoreTel Appoints New Board Member with Significant Financial Expertise

The Board of directors of ShoreTel, the provider of unified communications (UC) solutions and phone systems, has appointed Marjorie Bowen, 51, to the board.  She served as Managing Director, National Director Fairness Opinion Practice at Houlihan Lokey from 1989 to 2008. 

Date Range: June 21st - August 9th

Facebook Taps Key Tesla Tech Exec; Appoints New Leader for Infrastructure Connectivity and Investments

Facebook hired Rich Heley, a top executive from Tesla, to work at its research lab. Heley was recently VP of product technology for Tesla. Heley is likely to work on hardware projects for Facebook.

Facebook has hired Kevin Lo, the former GM for Google Fibre, as its new director of infrastructure connectivity and investments. The appointment shows Facebook is expanding its Internet connectivity plans as Lo will work with Facebook's external partnerships, such as the fibre-optic cable deal Facebook made with Microsoft, which aims to provide stronger Internet connectivity to densely populated urban areas.

GE Appoints New Chief Digital Officer for GE Power; GE Digital COO Joins United Technologies as CIO

Ganesh Bell has been promoted to VP & Chief Digital Officer, GE Power. Ganesh joined GE in 2014. Prior to GE, he was EVP & Chief Products Officer at Service Source.

Vince Campisi, COO for GE Digital, responsible for cybersecurity, business and cloud operations, has left. He joined United Technologies as SVP, Digital, and CIO. Campisi started with GE in 1999 and progressed through leadership roles including GM, Cloud Services & CIO for GE Software.

PayPal Appoints Former SumTotal Systems Exec as Managing Director and Country Manager for India   

PayPal has appointed Anupam Pahuja as managing director and country manager for India. Prior to his elevation, Pahuja was the technology head in the Asia-Pacific region at PayPal. He was worked with the company for over six years and was instrumental in establishing their technology centers in India. He worked as managing director for India for SumTotal Systems, before joining the company.

Netflix Announces Key Executives Appointments From IndiaSwati Shetty

Netflix has hired two senior talents from India. Former YouTube Indian and Southeast Asia product partnerships head Gaurav Pradhan has joined Netflix as director business development Asia. Meanwhile, Netflix LA has also appointed former Balaji Telefilms's motion pictures president and Samosa Stories Entertainment founder director Swati Shetty.

HERE Appoints SVP, Automotive Business Group  

HERE, the location cloud company, has appointed Ralf Herrtwich as SVP, Automotive Business Group. Herrtwich joins HERE from Daimler AG where, since 1998, he has held various roles and most recently served as Director Vehicle Automation and Chassis Systems. Prior to Daimler, Herrtwich held various senior management and leadership positions at RWE and IBM.

eBay Appoints co-founder and CEO of Lyft as New Board Member

eBay appointed Logan Green as a new member of the company's Board of Directors. Green is the co-founder and CEO of Lyft, a peer-to-peer ride sharing company, which he founded with John Zimmer in 2012. Green also founded Zimride, a rideshare program that was initially implemented at Cornell University.  Before that, he created the first car-share program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Expedia Witnesses Board Changes    

Jos A. Tazn resigned from Expedia’s board of Directors.  The company elected Scott Rudin to the board. Rudin began his career in the entertainment industry in the 1970s, and since then has served in a variety of roles, including as founder and principal of Scott Rudin Productions and as a senior executive at Twentieth Century Fox.

Twitter Appoints founder and current CEO of Quip to Board; Goes Through Geographic Leadership ChangesBret Taylor

Twitter appointed Bret Taylor, founder and current CEO of Quip, to serve as a Board member. Previously, he was the CTO of Facebook, after it acquired FriendFeed, the social network he co-founded in 2007.

Shailesh Rao has stepped down as the VP for Asia Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets at Twitter. Rao served as VP of International Revenue at Twitter, since joining in April 2012. Prior to joining Twitter, Rao was associated with Google as the Director of local search.

Mark Little has been appointed as the new managing director of Twitter in Ireland. The former RT broadcaster, who left Storyful in June 2015, has taken up the role with current chief Stephen McIntyre leaving the company.

TripAdvisor Appoints Chief Growth Officer and President, Asia Pacific       

TripAdvisor announced that Gary Fritz has joined TripAdvisor’s management team as the chief growth officer of TripAdvisor and president, Asia Pacific. Before joining TripAdvisor, Fritz founded the advisory and investment group Amanogawa, where he advised the leadership of several multi-national companies on global strategy and expansion plans, with clients that included Rakuten and TripAdvisor. Prior to Expedia, Fritz worked with McKinsey & Company.

Lenovo Appoints Leader for Online and E-Commerce Division for Indian Operations        

Lenovo Group appointed Rajesh Thadani as the new head and executive director of the consumer, online and e-commerce division for its Indian operations. Thadani, who previously led Lenovo Indonesia, will be responsible for the growth strategy of the company's consumer segment, e-retailing and online store.

Match Group Hires Senior Political and Media Strategist as VP, Public Affairs; Sees Other Changes

Match Group hired senior political and media strategist Matt David as VP, Public Affairs. David comes to Match Group from Outside Eyes where he was managing partner focused on public affairs and corporate positioning. He has also been a part of the last four presidential elections serving in various campaign roles for President Bush, Senator McCain, Governor Huntsman, and Governor Kasich.

Jared Sine joined as General Counsel and Secretary. Sine joins Match Group from Expedia, where he served as VP, Associate General Counsel.

After more than eight years of service to Match Group, Jeffrey Dawson informed the company that he is resigning from his position as CFO, Dating, in order to accept a position with another company.

Fitbit Appoints VP of Digital Health from Walgreens Boots Alliance

Activity trackers and wireless-enabled wearable technology devices company Fitbit hired Adam Pellegrini as VP of Digital Health. He joins Fitbit from Walgreens Boots Alliance, where he was the VP of Digital Health.

Tech Data Corporation Appoints VP, StreamOne     

Tech Data appointed Bob Kruger to VP, StreamOne, Tech Data's cloud services management and billing marketplace. Most recently, he served as the CEO of Apakau. Previously, he served as SVP, Engineering at DNN, SVP of Engineering at start-ups SmApper Technologies, Mimosa Systems, and Mendocino Software.

Former CEO Resigns from WebMD’s Board

Kevin M. Cameron, 49, former CEO of WebMD Health, intends to resign from the company’s board for personal reasons. Cameron served Senior Executive positions at WebMD and its predecessors since April 2000.

Moneysupermarket.com CEO Intends to Step Down           

Moneysupermarket.com, the price comparison website-based business specializing in financial services, announced that its CEO since 2009, Peter Plumb, 53, has indicated to the Board about his intention to step down as CEO of the Group.

Shutterstock Investor Relations Exec and CTO Resign        

Shutterstock announced the resignation of Craig Felenstein from his position as SVP, Investor Relations and Strategic Finance, in order to accept a CFO position with another public company.

Anshu Aggarwal, CTO of the company, notified the company of his decision to resign from his position, to spend more time with his family. The company has commenced an external search for a CTO to succeed Aggarwal.

Travelport Board Goes Through Changes      

Travelport Worldwide named Scott Forbes to its Board of Directors. He replaces Gregory Blank from Blackstone who has tendered his resignation to the Board. Scott currently serves as Chairman of Ascential, and Rightmove Group.

Shutterfly Announces Chairman Changes      

Shutterfly announced that Philip Marineau will resign as chairman and from Shutterfly’s Board of Directors following the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Brian Swette, governance committee chair, will serve as interim chairman.

Box Announces Three Management Appointments  Carrie Palin

Box appointed Carrie Palin as the company’s first CMO and named Lesley Young as SVP and General Manager of Global Commercial and Online Sales Operations and Tom Addis as SVP and General Manager of Global Field Operations.

Palin joins Box with 20 years of enterprise marketing and sales experience. Most recently, she was the VP of Marketing for IBM’s Cloud Data Services and Analytics Software.

Young has more than 15 years of experience in high growth pre and post IPO venture-backed startups. Prior to Box, she held senior executive roles at MySQL, Informatica and Remedy Corporation.

Most recently, Addis served as SVP of Enterprise Sales at Box. Prior, he held sales leadership roles at salesforce.com, as well as Siebel Systems and IBM.

Wix.com Appoints its Former Board Member and Co-CEO to Board           

Cloud-based web development platform Wix.com appointed Allon Bloch to its board of directors. Bloch returns to Wix having served as a director from January 2008 through August 2013 and as President and Co-CEO from 2008 through September 2010. Most recently, he served as CEO of Vroom from July 2014 through June 2016. Previously, he was CEO of mySupermarket.

Quotient Technology Appoints CFO from Good Technology           

Digital promotions and advertising solutions provider Quotient Technology appointed Ron Fior as its CFO. He brings more than 30 years of public and private company experience and will be responsible for all finance and information technology functions at Quotient. Fior most recently was CFO of Good Technology.

TrueCar Announces Chief Risk Officer Changes; Appoints New VP of Market Research    

John E. Stephenson, Chief Risk Officer of TrueCar, resigns. Stephenson will join Alston & Bird, outside counsel to the company, and continue to represent the company in litigation, regulatory and other matters. Jeffrey Swart, the company's General Counsel, will assume responsibility for risk oversight at the company.

TrueCar appointed Art Oleszczuk as VP of Market Research, a new mission-critical function for the company. Most recently, Oleszczuk served as the Senior Director of Marketing at Equifax.

Date Range: June 21st - August 9th

Other executives already reporting to Nadella will take on parts of Turner's job, with Chris Capossela leading worldwide marketing, Kurt DelBene leading IT and CFO Amy Hood taking over the sales and marketing team's finance group, which had been separate.

Turner is leaving Microsoft after more than a decade at the company to become CEO of the securities unit at financial-services firm Citadel. He will join Citadel after a short transition period.

Cindy Rose has joined Microsoft UK and will take over as CEO from Michel Van der Bel who will move into a new role to be announced at a future date. Rose joins from Vodafone UK, where she was Managing Director of the Consumer Division.

SAP Appoints Chief Innovation Officer         

SAP SE announced that Juergen Mueller, 34, has been named chief innovation officer (CINO). Mueller will continue to lead the SAP Innovation Center Network and expand the company's presence in the German capital as managing director of SAP Labs Berlin. Before joining SAP in 2013, Mueller was co-representative of Professor Hasso Plattners research chair at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for Software Systems Engineering in Potsdam, Germany.

ADP Appoints Former Deputy Head of Mission at the Office of the Quartet as a New Director     

Automatic Data Processing appointed Sandra S. Wijnberg as a new director of the company. From July 2014 to December 2015, Wijnberg was Deputy Head of Mission, Office of the Quartet Representative, which is charged with implementing the Palestinian economic development agenda of the Quartet (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.) Prior to that, she was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer of Aquiline Holdings, SVP and CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and held various positions at YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley and AmEx.

VMware Appoints Asia Pacific and MENA Regional Leaders          

VMware appointed Duncan Hewett to the post of SVP and GM to lead the VMware Asia Pacific & Japan business. Hewett has nearly 30 years of emerging market experience, mostly focused on Asia Pacific. He joins VMware from IBM, where he most recently served as VP for IBM Software for Asia Pacific.

VMware appointed Ahmed Auda as the new managing director of its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) operations. Prior to joining the company, Auda held the position of GM for Gulf Business Machines in Oman.

Intuit Appoints Chief Marketing and Sales Officer from Google

Intuit appointed Lucas Watson as its chief marketing and sales officer. Watson joins the company from Google where he most recently served as VP of global brand solutions and innovations. He succeeds Caroline Donahue who announced her retirement in February 2016.

Fiserv Appoints New York Life’s President to its Board

Fiserv appointed John Kim, 56, to its board of directors. Kim is president of New York Life Insurance Company. Kim also serves as the chief investment officer for New York Life. Prior to joining New York Life in 2008, Kim was president of Prudential Retirement and its predecessor organization, CIGNA Retirement and Investment Services. Previously, he was president and CEO of Aeltus Investment Management.

Christopher M. Flink, 45, resigned from the board of directors of Fiserv 2016 in connection with new employment.

Cerner Appoints SVP, Cerner Revenue Cycle Management and President of Cerner RevWorks       

Cerner announced that Jeff Hurst will join the company as SVP, Cerner Revenue Cycle Management and president of Cerner RevWorks. Hurst is currently the SVP of finance at Florida Hospital. Jeff has worked at Florida Hospital for more than 19 years and has previously served as SVP of fiscal services, and VP of revenue management. Prior to joining Florida Hospital, Jeff spent 10 years serving in the United States Air Force.

CA Technologies Announces CFO Changes; Names GM of its India Technology Center

CA Technologies appointed Kieran J. McGrath, currently the company's SVP and Corporate Controller, as SVP and interim CFO. Since 2014, McGrath has been the SVP and Corporate Controller for the company. McGrath succeeds retiring CFO Richard J. Beckert, who had served as the company's CFO since 2011.

CA Technologies announced that Surya Panditi has been named GM of its India Technology Center. Before joining CA, Panditi held leadership positions at several startups, including CEO of AirGrub, Advisor to StageOne Ventures and Advisor at Rasa Networks, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to that, he was SVP and GM of Cisco's Service Provider Networking Group.

LogMeIn and Citrix Systems Announce Executive Changes at Combined Company           

LogMeIn and Citrix Systems announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for LogMeIn to combine with Citrix’s GoTo business. LogMeIn’s Bill Wagner will continue in his role as President and CEO, and LogMeIn’s Ed Herdiech will serve as CFO. Certain members of the GoTo management team are expected to join the combined company as well. The combined company will be headquartered in Boston.

Upon closing, the combined company’s Board of Directors will consist of nine directors: five current LogMeIn directors and four Citrix director appointees. Citrix’s four director appointees have proven expertise in driving operational efficiency and will include current Citrix directors Bob Calderoni, Jesse Cohn, and Peter Sacripanti, as well as Citrix’s COO and CFO, David Henshall. Michael Simon, former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of LogMeIn, will remain in place as Chairman of the combined company’s Board. Bill Wagner will also retain his Board seat. LogMeIn’s other three directors will be named at a later date.

Eastman Kodak CEO Steps Down from Red Hat Board      Jeffrey J. Clarke

Red Hat announced that Jeffrey J. Clarke, 54, CEO at Eastman Kodak, notified the company that he has decided not to stand for re-election at the Board of Directors.

Symantec Announces Top Leaders upon Closing of Blue Coat Acquisition  

Symantec and Blue Coat have entered into a definitive agreement under which Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.651 billion in cash. Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat, will be appointed CEO of Symantec and join the Symantec Board. Clark has served as the CEO of Blue Coat and as a member of the company’s board since September 2011. Prior to joining, Clark was president and CEO of Mincom, from 2008 to August 2011.

In connection with this investment, David Humphrey, a Managing Director of Bain Capital Private Equity, will be appointed to Symantec’s Board of Directors.

Michael Fey will join Symantec as President and COO upon closing of the previously announced acquisition of Blue Coat. He was President and COO of Blue Coat.

Sage Appoints Company President and EVP of Northern Europe

Sage has appointed Blair Crump as President. Crump joins from PROS Holdings, where he held the position of COO since November 2014. Previously, he led Salesforce's Global Enterprise business. Prior to that, he was Group President at Verizon Business, responsible for Worldwide Sales & Consulting.

The company appointed Jacqueline de Rojas as EVP of Northern Europe. With over 25 years of operational experience in the software business, de Rojas joins from Citrix, where she led the Northern European business as GM & Area VP.

Splunk CMO to Retire           

Splunk announced that Steven Sommer informed the company that he intends to transition from the position of SVP and CMO of the company and retire from the company. The company intends to immediately begin a search for a new CMO.

NetApp Announces EMEA Executive Changes        

Alexander Wallner has been named NetApp SVP and GM EMEA to replace Manfred Reitner. Wallner joined NetApp in 1999 and most recently served as Area VP for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA) and GM Germany.

Jack Henry & Associates Witnesses CEO Change     

Jack Henry & Associates reported a transition plan for the appointment of David B. Foss as President and CEO of the Company, and the resignation of John F.  Prim from his role as CEO and assumption of the role of Executive Chairman of the Company. Foss has been the President of Jack Henry & Associates since 2014.

CSC Board Member Resigns  

Mark Foster, 57, resigned from the Board of CSC. Foster served as group chief executive for Management Consulting at Accenture plc from September 2006 until his retirement in March 2011.

Fortinet Promotes Corporate Communications and IR VP as Chief Communications Officer         

Cybersecurity software firm Fortinet appointed Michelle Spolver as its chief communications officer. Spolver most recently served as the VP of corporate communications and investor relations for Fortinet.

Athenahealth Announces Board and Executive ChangesTom Szkutak

athenahealth appointed Tom Szkutak, former Amazon.com CFO, to its Board of Directors. Szkutak served as SVP and CFO at Amazon.com from 2002 to 2015. Prior to Amazon, Szkutak spent 20 years with General Electric.

Athenahealth announced that EVP and COO Ed Park will leave his post at the end of 2016, when he is expected to be elected to the company's board. Upon Park's transition, Kyle Armbrester, SVP and chief product officer, will take over as head of direction and delivery of core services. The role of COO is being eliminated, and the company will shift other internal leadership responsibilities to account for the transition.

Oracle Financial Services Software Announces Demise of Director  

Oracle Financial Services Software announced that the sudden and sad demise of Derek H Williams, Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of the Company. Williams is former EVP of Japan at Oracle.

Teradata Goes through Executive Changes   

Teradata announced that Rick Morton has retired as EVP, Americas and appointed Pete Wetzel as interim EVP of the Americas, until a permanent successor is named. In addition, Teradata's new top local officer is Laura Nyquist, general counsel and secretary, as well as interim CHRO for the company. Laura is replacing Saundra Davis, who resigned from the company after serving as CHRO since 2007.

Teradata is eliminating the COO position amid restructuring. With this, the company is removing Robert Fair from that role, which he was named to in February to replace Bruce Langos. He was no longer an officer of the company.

Ubisoft Announces Director Changes

French multinational video game developer and publisher Ubisoft has appointed Frederique Dame, an angel investor in Silicon Valley, and Florence Naviner, CFO and SVP of Wrigley, as independent directors. In the meantime, Estelle Metayer’s mandate, expiring in September, will not be renewed. Estelle Metayer will however continue to provide her expertise to Ubisoft as an adviser, specifically on governance-related topics.

Ellie Mae Appoints HR and Corporate Development Leaders          

Ellie Mae, the provider of innovative on-demand loan origination software solutions, named Melanie Simpson as EVP of HR. Prior to joining Ellie Mae, she spent eight years working for the Microsoft. Most recently she served as the GM of HR for Microsoft’s World Wide Services businesses.

Lester Liu has joined the company as SVP of corporate development. Prior to joining Ellie Mae, Lester served as VP of global corporate development, mergers & acquisitions and strategy for Visa.

SAIC Looks for New CFO     

Science Applications International Corp. appointed Corporate Controller Maria M. Bishop as interim CFO. Bishop will serve as interim CFO while the company continues its ongoing search for a new CFO. Bishop will assume the role of CFO from John R. Hartley, whose departure from the company was announced in March. Bishop has worked for SAIC since 1998.

Zynga Hires Former EA Execs to Key Roles

Zynga appointed Matt Bromberg as COO. He was most recently SVP of Strategy and Operations for mobile gaming at Electronic Arts.

Zynga also appointed Bernard Kim, EA's former SVP of mobile publishing, as President of Publishing.

Pegasystems Names CFO from Dynatrace

Pegasystems has appointed Ken Stillwell, 45, as CFO and chief administrative officer. He joins Pega from Dynatrace where he served as SVP and CFO. Prior to Dynatrace, he was EVP and CFO at SOVOS.

CommVault Systems Appoints VP of Indirect Business for APJ Region       

CommVault Systems appointed Mark Velthuis as VP of Indirect Business for Asia Pacific and Japan. Velthuis has held a number of senior-level leadership positions for both blue chip and start-up companies, including Axiom, BT, Whittman-Hart /marchFIRST, and Boer & Croon Strategy and Management Group. He was most recently Senior Director, Strategic Alliances for EMC.

RealPage Names Former Employee as New Chief Revenue Officer

Property management software & services company RealPage rehired Ashley Glover as EVP and Chief Revenue Officer. She served as RealPage’s EVP, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer from 2012 to 2013. For eight years prior to 2012, she led some of the largest divisions in the company, broadening her sales, service, operations and product management experience.

Progress Appoints Former Oracle and EMC Exec to the Role of Chief Revenue Officer     

Progress appointed Mitch Breen to the role of Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, he held the role of SVP, Global Customer Operations at Simplivity. Prior to that, Breen was SVP, North American Sales for Oracle, and spent more than 26 years at EMC.

BroadSoft Creates Chief Transformation Officer Role

BroadSoft appointed Jeff Kahn as Chief Transformation Officer. In this newly created position, Kahn will oversee HR, and identify strategic initiatives that enhance organizational effectiveness. Prior to joining BroadSoft, Jeff served as AudioCodes' Chief Strategy Officer.

Benefitfocus CFO Leaves; Company Looking for Replacement       

Benefitfocus announced that Dennis B. Story, its CFO, has resigned for family reasons. Raymond August, President and COO, will serve as the company's principal financial and accounting officer until a new CFO is appointed. August joined Benefitfocus in 2014.

AVG Technologies Sees Supervisory and Management Board Changes in Lieu of its Acquisition by Avast Software

Avast Software is acquiring AVG Technologies. D.L. Fuller, G. Eichler, J.W. Meeks, F.E. Esser and R.J. Dunne will voluntarily step down as members of the Supervisory Board. New members nominated are Alan Rassaby, Stefan Boermans and Dick Haarsma for appointment as members of the Management Board. Rassaby (60) is the general counsel and head of HR of the Avast Software Group. Boermans (42) is a managing director of Parent and Buyer. Haarsma (68) is a managing director of Avast Holding B.V. and Buyer.

CSG Appoints New CHRO

CSG Systems International announced that Christine Mellon will join the organization as its new CHRO. She most recently served as VP of human capital management transformation at Oracle and previously led global HR for Aepona and Echostar.

Callidus Software Appoints Director from Consumer MarketsJames D. White

global enterprise software and SaaS company Callidus Software appointed James D. White, a renowned business leader, to its board of directors. White is a veteran executive with a proven track record with the world's leading companies. As the former chairman, president and CEO of Jamba, he led a transformation that positions Jamba Juice as a top healthy living brand. White previously held senior executive roles at Safeway Stores, the Gillette Company and Nestle Purina. He started his career at the Coca-Cola Company.

MINDBODY Co-Founder Resigns from Board        

Robert Murphy resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of MINDBODY, the online business management software firm. Murphy co-founded MINDBODY, and formerly served as its COO.

Rapid7 Announces Strategic Changes to Its Board    

Internet security company Rapid7 announced that Christopher Young, 44, informed the Board of Directors of the company of his intention to resign from the Board. Young is general manager of the Intel Security Group at Intel McAfee.

The board appointed Thomas E. Schodorf, 58, and Marc E. Brown to serve as members of the Board. Schodorf served as an SVP of Worldwide Field Operations at Splunk from 2009 to 2015. Marc is currently the managing director of corporate development at Microsoft Corporation. Marc has nearly 22 years of business and legal experience, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and equity investments.

Hortonworks COO Resigns

Hortonworks, a business software company and leading contributor to Apache Hadoop projects, announced that Herb Cunitz resigned as president and COO. Cunitz will remain at the company in a non-executive position for a period of time to assist with transitional matters.

Date Range: June 21st - August 9th

Geographic Distribution: 69 in the US, 8 in Europe and 9 in Asia/Russia.

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Dell, Texas - $59B, November 2015
Paul J. Walsh, Dell’s CIO, is leaving the company. Scott Pittman, who had been leading Dell’s IT infrastructure services, was named interim CIO while the company looks for a permanent replacement.

Lenovo, China - $46.3B, April 2016
Lenovo's chief of technology Peter Hortensius will entirely take up his new role, heading technology and strategy for the firms new Data Center Group, while previous CTO and present head of Lenovo Capital and Investment Group (LCIG) George He will become acting CTO while the firm looks for a permanent leader in that designation.

Schneider Electric (Americas), Massachusetts - $27.2B, July 2015   
Schneider Electric is seeking a CISO, Americas, who will be responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide information risk security/privacy program while ensuring tight linkage with the overall corporate strategy.

Goldman Sachs, New York - $26.45B, May 2016
Goldman Sachs Group announced that Lance Braunstein has left Group as MD and global head of investment banking technology.

Travelers Companies, New York - $26.29B, May 2016
Greg Toczydlowski leaves the role of EVP and President, Small Commercial, Business Insurance Technology and Operations, to become President of Business Insurance

Facebook, California- $17.93B, May 2016
Facebook is searching for a new CIO. Tim Campos, the company’s current CIO, is leaving at the end of the year to start a new company.

Kellogg Company, Illinois - $13.5B, August 2016
Kellogg Company is seeking a VP, Chief Information Security Officer at the Kellogg Company in Oak Brook, IL.

TE Connectivity, Switzerland - $14.26B, October 2015  
EVP and CTO, Robert Shaddock, is retiring from the Company effective late in 2016.

Biogen, Massachusetts - $9.7B, June 2016
After just over a year in the position, Biogen CIO Matt Griffiths is no longer with the company. Biogen plans to fill the CIO position. In the meantime, Mr. Griffiths’ organization reports to Adriana Andi Karaboutis, Biogen’s EVP of technology, business solutions and corporate affairs.

Hudson's Bay Company, New York - $9.59B, July 2015
Hudson's Bay Company is currently seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who will be responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide information security strategy, architecture and program designed to ensure that HBC information assets are appropriately protected.

Ameriprise Financial, Minnesota - $9.1B, May 2015     
Ameriprise Financial is currently seeking a CISO.

Medibank, Australia - $4.48B, May 2016
Medibank Private Limited announced the resignation of Sarah Harland, EGM Technology & Operations. Sarah has accepted a senior appointment within the Suncorp Group.

Tesla Motors, California - $3.5B, March 2016
Jay Vijayan has left his job as the CIO at Tesla Motors to begin working on a stealth startup. Tesla Motors confirmed Mr. Vijayan’s departure, but it would not say whether it has yet found a permanent replacement.

Unisys, Pennsylvania - $3.01B, July 2016
Unisys is seeking a CISO. The CISO is responsible for setting and maintaining the internal IT security direction for Unisys.

Teradata Labs, California - $2.53B, July 2016
Teradata Labs is looking for a CTO to join the Unified Data Architecture (UDA) Platform Technologies team.

Jack Henry & Associates, Missouri - $1.3B, September 2015  
Jack Henry & Associates is currently seeking a CISO who will be responsible for overseeing the strategy, design and implementation of enterprise-level information security initiatives and programs.

Lumber Liquidators, Virginia - $978.80M, March 2016
On March 2, 2016, Charles A. Schwartz, the CIO and SVP, business development, of Lumber Liquidators Holdings notified the company that he is resigning, effective March 16, 2016, in order to pursue another opportunity.

Morningstar, Illinois - $783.6M, November 2015 
Greg Goff, Morningstar's CTO, has decided to leave the firm effective December 4, 2015 to join Uptake Technologies.

MicroStrategy, Virginia - $579.8M, June 2015    
MicroStrategy seeks a CISO, who will establish and develop global information security management programs for our internal systems and customer offerings.

Shutterstock, New York - $464.3M, July 2016
Shutterstock announced that Anshu Aggarwal, CTO of the company, notified the company of his decision to resign from his position, to spend more time with his family. The company has commenced an external search for a CTO to succeed Aggarwal.     

Town Sports International Holdings, New York - $442M, September 2015  
On September 11, 2015, the employment of Paul Barron, CIO of Town Sports International Holdings, was terminated without cause. Mr. Barron will receive severance payments and benefits as set forth in the Amended and Restated Executive Severance Agreement, dated February 25, 2015.

TeleCommunication Systems, Maryland - $364.1M, November 2015 
TeleCommunication Systems announced the termination of Mr. Drew A. Morin, SVP and CTO of the company on October 28, 2015.

ShoreTel,  California - $360.9M, May 2016
Pankaj Malhotra, the CTO of ShoreTel announced that he would be leaving the Company, effective June 30, 2016, on mutually agreeable terms. The company hasn’t announced any replacement yet.

Ruckus Wireless, California - $326.9M, June 2015        
William Bill Kish is leaving his position as CTO of Ruckus Wireless, to pursue new interests, and has stepped down as a member of the Board of Directors. The company has launched a search for a new CTO who will fuel the next wave of innovation.

StarTek, Colorado - $252.7M, October 2015       
Kamalesh Dwivedi, the company's CIO, separated from the company effective October 14, 2015.

inContact, Utah - $222.0M, April 2016
On April 15, 2016, inContact reached an agreement with Julian Critchfield, EVP and CTO, for his separation from service with the Company.

Philex Mining, Philippines - $187.7M, December 2015    
Philex Mining Corp. announced the resignation of RAYMUND BRETT C. MEDEL as VP and CIO, with effective from January 31, 2016.

LogMeIn, Massachusetts - $166.3M, November 2014     
LogMeIn is seeking a CISO to serve as a subject matter expert and leader reporting into the CTO.  The CISO will lead a global team of four and be responsible for the security of LogMeIn’s suite of award winning software products (including secure development), product delivery (NOC), security features of our products (security design), internal infrastructure (development environment), and 3rd party services (CRM’s, etc).

Xunlei Limited, China - $164M, November 2015 
Xunlei Limited's board of directors has appointed Mr. Lei Chen, the Company's CTO, as Co-CEO. Simultaneously, Mr. Chen resigned as Xunlei's CTO, a post he has held since joining the company in November 2014.

Mastech Holdings, Pennsylvania - $123.50M, March 2016
On March 11, 2016, Denis D. Deet ceased to be VP of Technology and CIO of Mastech Holdings.

Spar Group, New York - $119.3M, April 2016
SPAR Group announced that its CIO, Panos Mastrogiannis will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities, effective May 6, 2016.

Cartesian, Kansas - $80.6M, June 2016
Cartesian announced the termination of employment to Jim Baker, the Company's CTO and CIO and a named executive officer.

Kresta Holdings, Australia - $69.9M, April 2016
Albert Xu has resigned as CIO, a role he has filled since June 2014.

Spark Networks, California - $55M, October 2015        
Spark Networks announced that resignation of Gregory J. Franchina as a CIO, delivered a notice of resignation to the Company indicating that he intended to resign from the Company effective as of November 14, 2015. The Company intends to replace Mr. Franchina and has initiated the process of recruiting qualified candidates.

CSB Bancorp , Ohio - $24.5M, February 2016     
CSB Bancorp  announced that Steven R. Bailey, EVP, COO and CIO of the company and its wholly owned affiliate The Commercial & Savings Bank, notified the company that he will be retiring and resigning his positions with the Companies, effective March 4, 2016.

Diadexus, California - $18.10M, March 2016
Diadexus announced that Dr.  Emilia Zychlinksy, EVP and Chief Technical Officer, notified the company on March 14, 2016, that she is resigning effective as of April 1, 2016. She will continue in that role until the effective date of her resignation.

NMI Holdings, California - $7.1M, January 2015  
Stan Pachura, EVP and CIO, leaves. Pachura's current duties and responsibilities will be assumed by existing members of the Company's management team, until a replacement is chosen.

Uni-Pixel, California - $2.87M, January 2016
On December 28, 2015, Robert Petcavich, the SVP and CTO of Uni-Pixel, Inc, tendered to the company his resignation for personal reasons, effective as of December 31, 2015. Mr. Petcavich will continue to provide services to the company as a consultant.

B-Scada, Florida - $1.8M, April 2016
B-Scada announced that Joshua Weeks, CTO, resigned his position effective April 1, 2016.

SPYR, Colorado - $1.6M, April 2016
SPYR announced that effective March 31, 2016, Mark McGarrity, the Company's CIO, resigned his position with the company.

CannaSys, Colorado - $0.08M, March 2016
Brandon C.  Jennewine resigned from his position as CTO. Mr. Jennewine remains on the board of directors.

Activistic Holdings, Australia, November 2015   
The Company announced that Activistic Holdings Pty Ltd’s CTO, Mr. Shahab Zeinoghli has resigned effective 18 November.

American Traffic Solutions, Arizona, September 2015 
The company is looking for a CIO responsible for leading and overseeing all aspects of the Company’s technology capabilities, resources and assets.

Wikimedia Foundation, California, June 2015    
Wikimedia is looking for a CTO to lead and connect with communities of volunteers, researchers, and users. The CTO must have the ability to understand and synthesize a vast amount of data, opinions and emerging technologies

Centrify, California, July 2015       
The CISO is the leader of the corporate/physical security function for Centrify, which includes responsibility for overall corporate security strategy, security architecture development, and global function oversight

Smaato, California, September 2015       
Smaato is seeking a CTO to determine the direction of software development, solutions and product offerings.

VITAS Healthcare, Florida, June 2015     
The company is looking for a CISO, to work closely with the IT and Technical Services teams to identify, document and mitigate IT security concerns as related to overall access to resources.

NIBCO, Indiana, September 2015  
NIBCO is seeking a CIO for setting long and mid-range strategies, objectives and initiatives for the Information Services function.

Brookstone, New Hampshire, June 2015 
The CIO is responsible to oversee the development of corporate standards, technology architecture, technology evaluation and transfer; sponsor the business technology planning process; manage client relations; align IT with the business; and develop IT financial management systems.

Colgate University, New York, July 2015 
Colgate University is seeking a CISO to join the IT Services department to serve as the university expert on information security across all domains.

Broadcast Music (BMI), Tennessee, September 2015   
BMI, one of the largest music rights management company in the US, is seeking a CIO who will be responsible for the company’s technological vision and leadership.

Ancestry.com, Utah, May 2015    
Ancestry is currently looking for a leader to fill the new role of CISO, responsible for establishing, executing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy and program to ensure that Ancestry’s physical and digital information assets and technologies are adequately protected.

Valley Behavioral Health, Utah, June 2015       
The agency is currently looking for a CIO as a core part of our strategy management team, advising the CEO, CFO, COO, and other core members on matters of strategic and tactical importance concerning IT systems, hardware, software, services, and maintenance.

Blucora, Washington, August 2015
Blucora is looking for a CISO who will be member of the company’s Operations Team.

US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington D.C., July 2015      
The agency is looking for a CIO for providing forward-thinking direction and visionary executive leadership for the agency-wide information resources management and IT programs, as well as systems implementation, to assist the agency in achieving its safety mission.

Supreme Group, Washington, D.C., September 2015    
The CIO’s role is to provide vision and leadership for developing and implementing IT initiatives. The CIO directs the planning and implementation of enterprise IT systems in support of business operations in order to improve cost effectiveness, service quality and business development. She/he is also responsible & accountable for all aspects of the organization's IT and systems.

CommonBond, New York, September 2015       
CommonBond is looking for a CTO, to lead the company’s development team and be responsible for delivering technology that enables the company to reach its goals.

First Help Financial, Massachusetts, October 2015       
In order to continue rapid growth, FHF is looking for a highly motivated CTO with leadership and hands-on experience in programming, database, and team management. 

Farm Journal Media, Illinois, October 2015        
The SVP/CTO is a new position intended to drive systems development and technology advancements across the company.

The Buckle, Nebraska, November 2015
The Buckle is seeking a CIO to direct, plan, and manage the company's Information Systems employees and resources to ensure the effective development, implementation, and oversight of all data processing, computer operations, and related functions (Communications, Office and Retail Store Systems, Production Activities, Data Warehousing, Merchandise Management, etc.).

Robertshaw, Illinois, November 2015
Robertshaw currently seeks for a CIO to join the organization for directing the information and data integrity of the global business for all IT functions of the company.

Royal Canin USA, Missouri, November 2015
The company seeks a CTO who will be the strategic and IT leader for building and managing enterprise, data and application platforms (eCommerce, CRM, Navision, BI, infrastructure) with key accountabilities including: project management, technical documentation, interface development and management controls with all relevant systems, alignment with global team and partnership with all internal teams.   

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, December 2015     
Brigham and Women's Hospital announced that Mark Andersen, MHA, MS, has been appointed interim CIO for Brigham and Women's Health Care (BWHC) effective Jan. 4, 2016. Anderson, who recently served as the interim chief technology and health information officer at University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, will ensure continued progress of the recent Partners eCare implementation while the search for a permanent CIO continues.

Ingram Content Group, Tennessee, February 2016
The Ingram Industries subsidiary is looking for a CIO who is expected to develop and implement an IT strategy that meets current needs, establishes a foundation and roadmap for future direction, and is supported and endorsed by the business.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Maryland, February 2016
The commission is looking for a CIO who will report to the Executive Director for Operations (EDO). The CIO will establish policy to carryout NRC’s responsibilities established by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, the E-Government Act of 2002, the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996, the Federal IT Acquisitions Reform Act (FITARA), the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Privacy Act.

Allina Health, Minnesota, February 2016
The company seeks a CISO, who will be responsible for overseeing the information security program, including information security policy and the coordination of security efforts across Allina Health.

Utica National Insurance Group, New York, February 2016
The company is looking for a CIO for establishing the strategic direction of the Company’s IT architecture.

Gordon Flesch Company, Wisconsin, February 2016
The company is on a search for a CIO, who will have specific responsibility for planning and implementing an information system strategy that meets the company’s business needs and delivers a good return on investment. Provides leadership to supervisory staff leading IS teams and overall IS department.

Leonard Technology Group, Florida, February 2016
The computer and network security company is seeking a CIO.

[24]7, California, February 2016
[24]7 is a rapidly growing Sequoia Capital-backed company with an enterprise SaaS offering. The company is looking for a CISO.

Prestige Care, Washington, February 2016
The company seeks a CIO to provide technology vision, leadership and direction in the development and implementation of organization-wide IT programs in support of business operations.

Skype, Washington, February 2016
Skype is looking for a CTO, Skype for Business Customer Engineering. The Skype Business Services is the engineering, operations and business group comprised of the Skype for Business Online with Office 365, and Skype for Business Server product lines.

Core, New York, February 2016
Core is looking for a CTO to be the technical lead to architect and build out version one of the product.

Entrust Datacard, Minnesota, February 2016
The CTO will be responsible for establishing the Company’s technical vision. The CTO’s function is to compel the technology vision to complement the business vision, setting the tone and direction for the company’s technologies.

Markit, Colorado, February 2016
Markit, a leading global diversified provider of financial information services, is looking for a CTO.

State of California, California, March 2016
California CIO Carlos Ramos retires. Amy Tong is now Acting Director, California Department of Technology. Tong served as the Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) and the Agency Information Officer of the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) since August 2014.

State of New Jersey, New Jersey, March 2016
New Jersey State CIO Steven Emanuel is stepping down next month and returning to the private sector.

University of Kentucky, Kentucky, May 2016
The university is looking for a CIO.

Mspark, Alabama, June 2016
Mspark, direct marketing solutions company for rural and suburban markets, seeks an experienced technology leader to join as CIO.

Peeple App, California, July 2016
Reputation management iOS app developer Peeple App is looking for a CTO helping to transition their company and position it for maximum growth.

MobileGuard, North Carolina, July 2016
MobileGuard, formerly TextGuard, is seeking a CTO to oversee all technical aspects and technological resources of the e-discovery and supervision solution provider.

New York Power Authority, New York, July 2016
New York Power Authority is looking for a Chief Security Officer (CSO) to build and sustain a Cyber Risk Framework that integrates Governance and Risk Compliance controls, requirements, oversight and validation into IT and Operational Technology (OT).

SafeAuto, Ohio, July 2016
Property and casualty auto insurance carrier SafeAuto is seeking a CIO who would build a IT model to meet current organizational needs and build for continued leveraging of technology services for the future.

Mazuma Credit Union, Kansas, July 2016
The credit union is looking for a CIO for initiating transformative change, implementing innovative solutions, directing and controlling the company’s information systems and technology activities.

Jellyvision Lab, Illinois, July 2016
Jellyvision is looking for a CTO, who will be business savvy and process-minded tech leader to integrate technology and business plans, make key architectural and infrastructure decisions.

4over, California, August 2016
Trade printer company 4over is looking for a CTO, who will be responsible for overseeing the organization's software development and technology infrastructure.

Datto, Connecticut, August 2016
Datto is seeking a CIO, a technology leader to build, purchase, and integrate software solutions for internally facing applications which are a combination of homegrown and 3rd party products.

Sonesta Hotels & Resorts, Massachusetts, August 2016
Sonesta is seeking a CIO, who will be responsible for the successful delivery of IT strategies, services, and operations. 

Other Changes to Note:

• Deutsche Bank, Germany - $31.4B, July 2016
  The Supervisory Board appointed Kim Hammonds to the Management Board of Deutsche Bank. Hammonds has been employed by Deutsche Bank since November 2013. Under her leadership Deutsche Bank is executing a fundamental overhaul of its IT systems. Since the beginning of 2016, Hammonds has been responsible for the bank's entire technology and operations, including digital transformation, information security, data management and corporate services. She will retain her role as Group COO.
• RigNet, Texas - $235.8M, July 2016
  RigNet announced as part of a restructuring plan, the company is eliminating its CTO role. Morten Hansen, who had been serving as SVP and CTO, will stay in a consulting role with RigNet to help with the transition for three months or until it's complete.
• Heritage Bank, Australia - $129.5M, August 2016
  Heritage Bank has appointed Wayne Marchant to the newly created role of CIO in an interim capacity. Marchant takes over responsibility for the bank's IT operations from the former GM, Technology, Dunstin Lynch, who left Heritage in July. The company said it was not yet actively seeking a permanent CIO.
• Digital Guardian, Massachusetts - $60.3M, July 2016
  Digital Guardian announced that CTO, Salo Fajer, died suddenly and unexpectedly on July 24, 2016.The company hasn’t announced if they are looking for a replacement.

Tech execs appointed in 31 days ended August 15, 2016.

The Boeing Company, Illinois - $96.8B, July 2016Greg Hyslop
Boeing Company announced that it has appointed Greg Hyslop as CTO, replacing John Tracy. Hyslop was recently Boeing's SVP for Engineering, Test & Technology.        

Zayo Group Holdings, Colorado - $1.6B, August 2016Jack Waters
Zayo Group Holdings has named Jack Waters as CTO and president of Network Solutions. During Waters' 18-year tenure with Level 3, he held key leadership and engineering roles and is well known for his role as their long-time CTO.

Okta, California - $48.5M, August 2016Mark Settle
Okta appointed Mark Settle as the company’s first CIO. Settle most recently served as CIO at information services company IHS.

Freshdesk, California, August 2016STS Prasad
Freshdesk has appointed STS Prasad as its SVP of engineering. A former VP of product at WalmartLabs, Prasad has held various leadership roles at Amazon.com, Kosmix, Junglee, HCL and Sybase.

Microsoft Announces Multiple Key Executive Changes       

Microsoft announced a broad reorganization of the company's senior executive ranks as long-time COO Kevin Turner prepares to leave for another job. Instead of naming a new COO, the company appointed two executives to divvy up the sales responsibilities and report to him. Jean-Philippe Courtois will be in charge of global sales, marketing and operations spanning Microsoft's 13 business areas. Judson Althoff will lead the worldwide commercial business, including government and small and medium-sized businesses.

Other executives already reporting to Nadella will take on parts of Turner's job, with Chris Capossela leading worldwide marketing, Kurt DelBene leading IT and CFO Amy Hood taking over the sales and marketing team's finance group, which had been separate.

Turner is leaving Microsoft after more than a decade at the company to become CEO of the securities unit at financial-services firm Citadel. He will join Citadel after a short transition period.Cindy Rose

Cindy Rose has joined Microsoft UK and will take over as CEO from Michel Van der Bel who will move into a new role to be announced at a future date. Rose joins from Vodafone UK, where she was Managing Director of the Consumer Division.

Sriram Rajamani is the new managing director of its India lab. Based in Bangalore, Sriram will spearhead Microsoft India's continued focus on research, innovation and collaboration with the scientific community. He replaces Chandu Thekkath, who previously was managing director of the lab for 2 years. Prior to joining the India lab, he headed the Software Productivity Tools group within Microsoft's Redmond research lab.

Facebook Taps Key Tesla Tech Exec; Appoints New Leader for Infrastructure Connectivity and Investments

Facebook hired Rich Heley, a top executive from Tesla, to work at its research lab. Heley was recently VP of product technology for Tesla. Heley is likely to work on hardware projects for Facebook.

Facebook has hired Kevin Lo, the former GM for Google Fibre, as its new director of infrastructure connectivity and investments. The appointment shows Facebook is expanding its Internet connectivity plans as Lo will work with Facebook's external partnerships, such as the fibre-optic cable deal Facebook made with Microsoft, which aims to provide stronger Internet connectivity to densely populated urban areas.

Alibaba Group Announces Board Changes      

Alibaba Group d announced that the Alibaba Partnership has appointed Eric Jing to serve as a non-executive director on the company's board of directors. Jing will replace Jonathan Lu, vice chairman, who will retire from the company and step down from the board. Jing is the president of Zhejiang Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group Co. Ltd. (Ant Financial Services), the parent company of Alipay.com.

Verizon Hires VP, Smart Communities from CiscoMrinalini Ingram

Mrinalini Ingram joined in the newly created position of Vice President, Smart Communities at Verizon.  Ingram came to Verizon from Cisco, where she spent 16 years, nearly a decade of which as a pioneer developing the Smart Communities industry on a global scale.

Intel Appoints UC Berkeley Professor to Serve on its Board  

Intel elected Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu to serve on its board of directors. She is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

SAP Appoints Chief Innovation Officer      

SAP SE announced that Juergen Mueller, 34, has been named chief innovation officer (CINO). Mueller will continue to lead the SAP Innovation Center Network and expand the company's presence in the German capital as managing director of SAP Labs Berlin. Before joining SAP in 2013, Mueller was co-representative of Professor Hasso Plattners research chair at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for Software Systems Engineering in Potsdam, Germany.

Accenture Appoints Wolters Kluwer Chair/CEO to Board      

Accenture appointed Nancy McKinstry, 57, to the company’s Board of Directors. McKinstry is CEO and chairman of Wolters Kluwer. Before assuming her present position in 2003, McKinstry gained more than a decade of experience at Wolters Kluwer and its operating companies in North America.

Paypal Announces Geographic Leadership Changes   

Paypal has appointed Frank Keller as the new General Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, succeeding Arnulf Keese who leaves the company after ten years.  Until recently, Keller managed the corporate customer business.  Keese moves on to become general partner of a venture capital fund. He joined Paypal as Head of Strategy & Business Operations.

ADP Appoints Former Deputy Head of Mission at the Office of the Quartet as a New Director     

Automatic Data Processing appointed Sandra S. Wijnberg as a new director of the company. From July 2014 to December 2015, Wijnberg was Deputy Head of Mission, Office of the Quartet Representative, which is charged with implementing the Palestinian economic development agenda of the Quartet (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.) Prior to that, she was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer of Aquiline Holdings, SVP and CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and held various positions at YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley and AmEx.

McKesson and Change Healthcare Creates New Healthcare IT Company; Announces Leaders

McKesson and Change Healthcare Holdings announced the creation of a new healthcare IT company. The entity will combine substantially all of Change Healthcare’s business and the majority of McKesson Technology Solutions (MTS) into a new company. Chairman, president, and CEO of McKesson John H. Hammergren will serve as chairman. CEO and President at Change Healthcare Neil de Crescenzo will serve as CEO, joined by an experienced management team comprised of leaders from both McKesson and Change Healthcare.

Netflix Announces Key Executives Appointments from India

Netflix has hired two senior talents from India. Former YouTube Indian and Southeast Asia product partnerships head Gaurav Pradhan has joined Netflix as director business development Asia. Meanwhile, Netflix LA has also appointed former Balaji Telefilms's motion pictures president and Samosa Stories Entertainment founder director Swati Shetty.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Sees Multiple Executive Changes    

Cognizant Technology Solutions announced several changes to the portfolio of its senior management team, including the announcement of a new chief operating officer. A new COO, Srinivasan V has been announced, who will take over from Sridhar T, who has been moved to a newly created strategic initiatives portfolio. Srinivasan was EVP, products and resources at CTS.

All delivery roles will now come under Debashis Chatterjee, who is EVP and president, technology solutions.

Prasad C will now take care of industry verticals in North America while Santosh Thomas gets Latin American markets in addition to the EU and APAC.

The BPO business remains with Sumithra Gomatam and Gajen Kandiah will take care of digital works.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Appoints New Leader of its Enterprise Group in EMEA  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced Andy Isherwood as the new leader of its Enterprise Group and Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise EMEA. Isherwoord joined HP's graduate training program in 1988 and quickly rose through the ranks. In his more than 28 years with the company, he's held prominent roles in the UK, Europe and throughout the world - across infrastructure, software, sales, services and support. For the past three years, he has been the managing director and Enterprise Group leader for the UK and Ireland.

eBay Appoints co-founder and CEO of Lyft as New Board Member

eBay appointed Logan Green as a new member of the company's Board of Directors. Green is the co-founder and CEO of Lyft, a peer-to-peer ride sharing company, which he founded with John Zimmer in 2012. Green also founded Zimride, a rideshare program that was initially implemented at Cornell University.  Before that, he created the first car-share program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Nokia Announces Resignation of Board Member; Appoints New Geographic Leaders

Nokia announced that Vivek Badrinath has informed that he will step down from the Nokia Board of Directors, due to his appointment as CEO for Vodafone's Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific region.

Nokia has promoted India head Sandeep Girotra as the head of Asia-Pacific and Japan market, and named Sanjay Malik as the new head of the country. Malik is currently serving Nokia as the VP and head of global network implementation services, which is a part of the company's Global Services business. Girotra is currently overseeing the combined company's customer operations across India, driving the execution of strategy and ensuring customer service.

Nokia has appointed Mikhail Rayskin the CEO of its Russian branch. Simultaneously, Rayskin will continue working as head of the customer business team to deal with key accounts. Rayskin has previously held management positions at numerous telecommunications companies. 

HERE Appoints SVP, Automotive Business Group 

HERE, the location cloud company, has appointed Ralf Herrtwich as SVP, Automotive Business Group. Herrtwich joins HERE from Daimler AG where, since 1998, he has held various roles and most recently served as Director Vehicle Automation and Chassis Systems. Prior to Daimler, Herrtwich held various senior management and leadership positions at RWE and IBM.

VMware Appoints Asia Pacific and MENA Regional Leaders          

VMware appointed Duncan Hewett to the post of SVP and GM to lead the VMware Asia Pacific & Japan business. Hewett has nearly 30 years of emerging market experience, mostly focused on Asia Pacific. He joins VMware from IBM, where he most recently served as VP for IBM Software for Asia Pacific.

VMware appointed Ahmed Auda as the new managing director of its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) operations. Prior to joining the company, Auda held the position of GM for Gulf Business Machines in Oman.

Intuit Appoints Chief Marketing and Sales Officer from GoogleLucas Watson

Intuit appointed Lucas Watson as its chief marketing and sales officer. Watson joins the company from Google where he most recently served as VP of global brand solutions and innovations. He succeeds Caroline Donahue who announced her retirement in February 2016.

Fiserv Appoints New York Life’s President to its Board

Fiserv appointed John Kim, 56, to its board of directors. Kim is president of New York Life Insurance Company. Kim also serves as the chief investment officer for New York Life. Prior to joining New York Life in 2008, Kim was president of Prudential Retirement and its predecessor organization, CIGNA Retirement and Investment Services. Previously, he was president and CEO of Aeltus Investment Management.

Christopher M. Flink, 45, resigned from the board of directors of Fiserv 2016 in connection with new employment.

Ericsson Goes Through Several Leadership Changes

Hans Vestberg resigned as President and CEO and member of the Board, with immediate effect. Jan Frykhammar, EVP and CFO, will assume the CEO position until a new CEO is in office. Carl Mellander, currently VP & Group Treasurer, is appointed acting CFO with immediate effect.

Ericsson announced that Tarek Saadi has been appointed Head of Global Customer Unit (GCU) Zain as well as Head of Customer Unit for the GCC and Pakistan within Ericsson Region Middle East and East Africa.

Ericsson promoted Ali Eid as the head of Customer unit for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine within the Ericsson region Middle East and East Africa. Since 2010, Eid has been the head of Ericsson KSA.

Cerner Appoints SVP, Cerner Revenue Cycle Management and President of Cerner RevWorks       

Cerner announced that Jeff Hurst will join the company as SVP, Cerner Revenue Cycle Management and president of Cerner RevWorks. Hurst is currently the SVP of finance at Florida Hospital. Jeff has worked at Florida Hospital for more than 19 years and has previously served as SVP of fiscal services, and VP of revenue management. Prior to joining Florida Hospital, Jeff spent 10 years serving in the United States Air Force.

Expedia Witnesses Board Changes   

Jos A. Tazn resigned from Expedia’s board of Directors.  The company elected Scott Rudin to the board. Rudin began his career in the entertainment industry in the 1970s, and since then has served in a variety of roles, including as founder and principal of Scott Rudin Productions and as a senior executive at Twentieth Century Fox.

CA Technologies Announces CFO Changes; Names GM of its India Technology Center

CA Technologies appointed Kieran J. McGrath, currently the company's SVP and Corporate Controller, as SVP and interim CFO. Since 2014, McGrath has been the SVP and Corporate Controller for the company. McGrath succeeds retiring CFO Richard J. Beckert, who had served as the company's CFO since 2011.

CA Technologies announced that Surya Panditi has been named GM of its India Technology Center. Before joining CA, Panditi held leadership positions at several startups, including CEO of AirGrub, Advisor to StageOne Ventures and Advisor at Rasa Networks, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to that, he was SVP and GM of Cisco's Service Provider Networking Group.

LogMeIn and Citrix Systems Announce Executive Changes at Combined Company           

LogMeIn and Citrix Systems announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for LogMeIn to combine with Citrix’s GoTo business. LogMeIn’s Bill Wagner will continue in his role as President and CEO, and LogMeIn’s Ed Herdiech will serve as CFO. Certain members of the GoTo management team are expected to join the combined company as well. The combined company will be headquartered in Boston.

Upon closing, the combined company’s Board of Directors will consist of nine directors: five current LogMeIn directors and four Citrix director appointees. Citrix’s four director appointees have proven expertise in driving operational efficiency and will include current Citrix directors Bob Calderoni, Jesse Cohn, and Peter Sacripanti, as well as Citrix’s COO and CFO, David Henshall. Michael Simon, former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of LogMeIn, will remain in place as Chairman of the combined company’s Board. Bill Wagner will also retain his Board seat. LogMeIn’s other three directors will be named at a later date.

Citrix Appoints APJ Leader from Software AGStanimira Koleva

Citrix has announced that Stanimira Koleva has been appointed group VP of sales and services for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Most recently, Koleva was the SVP and COO, for APJ at Software AG.

Symantec Announces Top Leaders upon Closing of Blue Coat Acquisition  

Symantec and Blue Coat have entered into a definitive agreement under which Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.651 billion in cash. Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat, will be appointed CEO of Symantec and join the Symantec Board. Clark has served as the CEO of Blue Coat and as a member of the company’s board since September 2011. Prior to joining, Clark was president and CEO of Mincom, from 2008 to August 2011.

In connection with this investment, David Humphrey, a Managing Director of Bain Capital Private Equity, will be appointed to Symantec’s Board of Directors.

Michael Fey will join Symantec as President and COO upon closing of the previously announced acquisition of Blue Coat. He was President and COO of Blue Coat.

Palo Alto Networks Announces Sales Exec Changes   

Dave Peranich joins the company as its new EVP, Worldwide Sales. Dave is a proven sales leader and his focus on sales and the channel will provide even more capacity for its growth. Mark Anderson has been promoted to president with responsibility for the company's sales, go-to-market strategy, customer support, and business development. Over the last four years, Mark Anderson's leadership of its sales organization has been instrumental to its growth.

Twitter Appoints founder and current CEO of Quip to Board; Goes Through Geographic Leadership Changes

Twitter appointed Bret Taylor, founder and current CEO of Quip, to serve as a Board member. Previously, he was the CTO of Facebook, after it acquired FriendFeed, the social network he co-founded in 2007.

Shailesh Rao has stepped down as the VP for Asia Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets at Twitter. Rao served as VP of International Revenue at Twitter, since joining in April 2012. Prior to joining Twitter, Rao was associated with Google as the Director of local search.

Mark Little has been appointed as the new managing director of Twitter in Ireland. The former RT broadcaster, who left Storyful in June 2015, has taken up the role with current chief Stephen McIntyre leaving the company.

First Data Appoints APAC Regional Leader

First Data announced that Ivo Distelbrink will join the company to lead its business in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Distelbrink joins First Data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he most recently held the role of Managing Director and Regional Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) for APAC.

Eastman Kodak CEO Steps Down from Red Hat Board     

Red Hat announced that Jeffrey J. Clarke, 54, CEO at Eastman Kodak, notified the company that he has decided not to stand for re-election at the Board of Directors.

Sage Appoints Company President and EVP of Northern EuropeBlair Crump

Sage has appointed Blair Crump as President. Crump joins from PROS Holdings, where he held the position of COO since November 2014. Previously, he led Salesforce's Global Enterprise business. Prior to that, he was Group President at Verizon Business, responsible for Worldwide Sales & Consulting.

The company appointed Jacqueline de Rojas as EVP of Northern Europe. With over 25 years of operational experience in the software business, de Rojas joins from Citrix, where she led the Northern European business as GM & Area VP.

Date Range: June 28th - August 23rd

Microsoft Announces Multiple Key Executive Changes       

Microsoft announced a broad reorganization of the company's senior executive ranks as long-time COO Kevin Turner prepares to leave for another job. Instead of naming a new COO, the company appointed two executives to divvy up the sales responsibilities and report to him. Jean-Philippe Courtois will be in charge of global sales, marketing and operations spanning Microsoft's 13 business areas. Judson Althoff will lead the worldwide commercial business, including government and small and medium-sized businesses.

Other executives already reporting to Nadella will take on parts of Turner's job, with Chris Capossela leading worldwide marketing, Kurt DelBene leading IT and CFO Amy Hood taking over the sales and marketing team's finance group, which had been separate.

Turner is leaving Microsoft after more than a decade at the company to become CEO of the securities unit at financial-services firm Citadel. He will join Citadel after a short transition period.Cindy Rose

Cindy Rose has joined Microsoft UK and will take over as CEO from Michel Van der Bel who will move into a new role to be announced at a future date. Rose joins from Vodafone UK, where she was Managing Director of the Consumer Division.

Sriram Rajamani is the new managing director of its India lab. Based in Bangalore, Sriram will spearhead Microsoft India's continued focus on research, innovation and collaboration with the scientific community. He replaces Chandu Thekkath, who previously was managing director of the lab for 2 years. Prior to joining the India lab, he headed the Software Productivity Tools group within Microsoft's Redmond research lab.

Facebook Taps Key Tesla Tech Exec; Appoints New Leader for Infrastructure Connectivity and Investments

Facebook hired Rich Heley, a top executive from Tesla, to work at its research lab. Heley was recently VP of product technology for Tesla. Heley is likely to work on hardware projects for Facebook.

Facebook has hired Kevin Lo, the former GM for Google Fibre, as its new director of infrastructure connectivity and investments. The appointment shows Facebook is expanding its Internet connectivity plans as Lo will work with Facebook's external partnerships, such as the fibre-optic cable deal Facebook made with Microsoft, which aims to provide stronger Internet connectivity to densely populated urban areas.

Alibaba Group Announces Board Changes      

Alibaba Group d announced that the Alibaba Partnership has appointed Eric Jing to serve as a non-executive director on the company's board of directors. Jing will replace Jonathan Lu, vice chairman, who will retire from the company and step down from the board. Jing is the president of Zhejiang Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group Co. Ltd. (Ant Financial Services), the parent company of Alipay.com.

Verizon Hires VP, Smart Communities from CiscoMrinalini Ingram

Mrinalini Ingram joined in the newly created position of Vice President, Smart Communities at Verizon.  Ingram came to Verizon from Cisco, where she spent 16 years, nearly a decade of which as a pioneer developing the Smart Communities industry on a global scale.

Intel Appoints UC Berkeley Professor to Serve on its Board  

Intel elected Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu to serve on its board of directors. She is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

SAP Appoints Chief Innovation Officer      

SAP SE announced that Juergen Mueller, 34, has been named chief innovation officer (CINO). Mueller will continue to lead the SAP Innovation Center Network and expand the company's presence in the German capital as managing director of SAP Labs Berlin. Before joining SAP in 2013, Mueller was co-representative of Professor Hasso Plattners research chair at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) for Software Systems Engineering in Potsdam, Germany.

Accenture Appoints Wolters Kluwer Chair/CEO to Board      

Accenture appointed Nancy McKinstry, 57, to the company’s Board of Directors. McKinstry is CEO and chairman of Wolters Kluwer. Before assuming her present position in 2003, McKinstry gained more than a decade of experience at Wolters Kluwer and its operating companies in North America.

Paypal Announces Geographic Leadership Changes   

Paypal has appointed Frank Keller as the new General Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, succeeding Arnulf Keese who leaves the company after ten years.  Until recently, Keller managed the corporate customer business.  Keese moves on to become general partner of a venture capital fund. He joined Paypal as Head of Strategy & Business Operations.

ADP Appoints Former Deputy Head of Mission at the Office of the Quartet as a New Director     

Automatic Data Processing appointed Sandra S. Wijnberg as a new director of the company. From July 2014 to December 2015, Wijnberg was Deputy Head of Mission, Office of the Quartet Representative, which is charged with implementing the Palestinian economic development agenda of the Quartet (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.) Prior to that, she was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer of Aquiline Holdings, SVP and CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and held various positions at YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley and AmEx.

McKesson and Change Healthcare Creates New Healthcare IT Company; Announces Leaders

McKesson and Change Healthcare Holdings announced the creation of a new healthcare IT company. The entity will combine substantially all of Change Healthcare’s business and the majority of McKesson Technology Solutions (MTS) into a new company. Chairman, president, and CEO of McKesson John H. Hammergren will serve as chairman. CEO and President at Change Healthcare Neil de Crescenzo will serve as CEO, joined by an experienced management team comprised of leaders from both McKesson and Change Healthcare.

Netflix Announces Key Executives Appointments from India

Netflix has hired two senior talents from India. Former YouTube Indian and Southeast Asia product partnerships head Gaurav Pradhan has joined Netflix as director business development Asia. Meanwhile, Netflix LA has also appointed former Balaji Telefilms's motion pictures president and Samosa Stories Entertainment founder director Swati Shetty.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Sees Multiple Executive Changes    

Cognizant Technology Solutions announced several changes to the portfolio of its senior management team, including the announcement of a new chief operating officer. A new COO, Srinivasan V has been announced, who will take over from Sridhar T, who has been moved to a newly created strategic initiatives portfolio. Srinivasan was EVP, products and resources at CTS.

All delivery roles will now come under Debashis Chatterjee, who is EVP and president, technology solutions.

Prasad C will now take care of industry verticals in North America while Santosh Thomas gets Latin American markets in addition to the EU and APAC.

The BPO business remains with Sumithra Gomatam and Gajen Kandiah will take care of digital works.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Appoints New Leader of its Enterprise Group in EMEA  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced Andy Isherwood as the new leader of its Enterprise Group and Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise EMEA. Isherwoord joined HP's graduate training program in 1988 and quickly rose through the ranks. In his more than 28 years with the company, he's held prominent roles in the UK, Europe and throughout the world - across infrastructure, software, sales, services and support. For the past three years, he has been the managing director and Enterprise Group leader for the UK and Ireland.

eBay Appoints co-founder and CEO of Lyft as New Board Member

eBay appointed Logan Green as a new member of the company's Board of Directors. Green is the co-founder and CEO of Lyft, a peer-to-peer ride sharing company, which he founded with John Zimmer in 2012. Green also founded Zimride, a rideshare program that was initially implemented at Cornell University.  Before that, he created the first car-share program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Nokia Announces Resignation of Board Member; Appoints New Geographic Leaders

Nokia announced that Vivek Badrinath has informed that he will step down from the Nokia Board of Directors, due to his appointment as CEO for Vodafone's Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific region.

Nokia has promoted India head Sandeep Girotra as the head of Asia-Pacific and Japan market, and named Sanjay Malik as the new head of the country. Malik is currently serving Nokia as the VP and head of global network implementation services, which is a part of the company's Global Services business. Girotra is currently overseeing the combined company's customer operations across India, driving the execution of strategy and ensuring customer service.

Nokia has appointed Mikhail Rayskin the CEO of its Russian branch. Simultaneously, Rayskin will continue working as head of the customer business team to deal with key accounts. Rayskin has previously held management positions at numerous telecommunications companies. 

HERE Appoints SVP, Automotive Business Group 

HERE, the location cloud company, has appointed Ralf Herrtwich as SVP, Automotive Business Group. Herrtwich joins HERE from Daimler AG where, since 1998, he has held various roles and most recently served as Director Vehicle Automation and Chassis Systems. Prior to Daimler, Herrtwich held various senior management and leadership positions at RWE and IBM.

VMware Appoints Asia Pacific and MENA Regional Leaders          

VMware appointed Duncan Hewett to the post of SVP and GM to lead the VMware Asia Pacific & Japan business. Hewett has nearly 30 years of emerging market experience, mostly focused on Asia Pacific. He joins VMware from IBM, where he most recently served as VP for IBM Software for Asia Pacific.

VMware appointed Ahmed Auda as the new managing director of its Middle East and North Africa (MENA) operations. Prior to joining the company, Auda held the position of GM for Gulf Business Machines in Oman.

Intuit Appoints Chief Marketing and Sales Officer from GoogleLucas Watson

Intuit appointed Lucas Watson as its chief marketing and sales officer. Watson joins the company from Google where he most recently served as VP of global brand solutions and innovations. He succeeds Caroline Donahue who announced her retirement in February 2016.

Fiserv Appoints New York Life’s President to its Board

Fiserv appointed John Kim, 56, to its board of directors. Kim is president of New York Life Insurance Company. Kim also serves as the chief investment officer for New York Life. Prior to joining New York Life in 2008, Kim was president of Prudential Retirement and its predecessor organization, CIGNA Retirement and Investment Services. Previously, he was president and CEO of Aeltus Investment Management.

Christopher M. Flink, 45, resigned from the board of directors of Fiserv 2016 in connection with new employment.

Ericsson Goes Through Several Leadership Changes

Hans Vestberg resigned as President and CEO and member of the Board, with immediate effect. Jan Frykhammar, EVP and CFO, will assume the CEO position until a new CEO is in office. Carl Mellander, currently VP & Group Treasurer, is appointed acting CFO with immediate effect.

Ericsson announced that Tarek Saadi has been appointed Head of Global Customer Unit (GCU) Zain as well as Head of Customer Unit for the GCC and Pakistan within Ericsson Region Middle East and East Africa.

Ericsson promoted Ali Eid as the head of Customer unit for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine within the Ericsson region Middle East and East Africa. Since 2010, Eid has been the head of Ericsson KSA.

Cerner Appoints SVP, Cerner Revenue Cycle Management and President of Cerner RevWorks       

Cerner announced that Jeff Hurst will join the company as SVP, Cerner Revenue Cycle Management and president of Cerner RevWorks. Hurst is currently the SVP of finance at Florida Hospital. Jeff has worked at Florida Hospital for more than 19 years and has previously served as SVP of fiscal services, and VP of revenue management. Prior to joining Florida Hospital, Jeff spent 10 years serving in the United States Air Force.

Expedia Witnesses Board Changes   

Jos A. Tazn resigned from Expedia’s board of Directors.  The company elected Scott Rudin to the board. Rudin began his career in the entertainment industry in the 1970s, and since then has served in a variety of roles, including as founder and principal of Scott Rudin Productions and as a senior executive at Twentieth Century Fox.

CA Technologies Announces CFO Changes; Names GM of its India Technology Center

CA Technologies appointed Kieran J. McGrath, currently the company's SVP and Corporate Controller, as SVP and interim CFO. Since 2014, McGrath has been the SVP and Corporate Controller for the company. McGrath succeeds retiring CFO Richard J. Beckert, who had served as the company's CFO since 2011.

CA Technologies announced that Surya Panditi has been named GM of its India Technology Center. Before joining CA, Panditi held leadership positions at several startups, including CEO of AirGrub, Advisor to StageOne Ventures and Advisor at Rasa Networks, acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to that, he was SVP and GM of Cisco's Service Provider Networking Group.

LogMeIn and Citrix Systems Announce Executive Changes at Combined Company           

LogMeIn and Citrix Systems announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for LogMeIn to combine with Citrix’s GoTo business. LogMeIn’s Bill Wagner will continue in his role as President and CEO, and LogMeIn’s Ed Herdiech will serve as CFO. Certain members of the GoTo management team are expected to join the combined company as well. The combined company will be headquartered in Boston.

Upon closing, the combined company’s Board of Directors will consist of nine directors: five current LogMeIn directors and four Citrix director appointees. Citrix’s four director appointees have proven expertise in driving operational efficiency and will include current Citrix directors Bob Calderoni, Jesse Cohn, and Peter Sacripanti, as well as Citrix’s COO and CFO, David Henshall. Michael Simon, former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of LogMeIn, will remain in place as Chairman of the combined company’s Board. Bill Wagner will also retain his Board seat. LogMeIn’s other three directors will be named at a later date.

Citrix Appoints APJ Leader from Software AGStanimira Koleva

Citrix has announced that Stanimira Koleva has been appointed group VP of sales and services for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Most recently, Koleva was the SVP and COO, for APJ at Software AG.

Symantec Announces Top Leaders upon Closing of Blue Coat Acquisition  

Symantec and Blue Coat have entered into a definitive agreement under which Symantec will acquire Blue Coat for approximately $4.651 billion in cash. Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat, will be appointed CEO of Symantec and join the Symantec Board. Clark has served as the CEO of Blue Coat and as a member of the company’s board since September 2011. Prior to joining, Clark was president and CEO of Mincom, from 2008 to August 2011.

In connection with this investment, David Humphrey, a Managing Director of Bain Capital Private Equity, will be appointed to Symantec’s Board of Directors.

Michael Fey will join Symantec as President and COO upon closing of the previously announced acquisition of Blue Coat. He was President and COO of Blue Coat.

Palo Alto Networks Announces Sales Exec Changes   

Dave Peranich joins the company as its new EVP, Worldwide Sales. Dave is a proven sales leader and his focus on sales and the channel will provide even more capacity for its growth. Mark Anderson has been promoted to president with responsibility for the company's sales, go-to-market strategy, customer support, and business development. Over the last four years, Mark Anderson's leadership of its sales organization has been instrumental to its growth.

Twitter Appoints founder and current CEO of Quip to Board; Goes Through Geographic Leadership Changes

Twitter appointed Bret Taylor, founder and current CEO of Quip, to serve as a Board member. Previously, he was the CTO of Facebook, after it acquired FriendFeed, the social network he co-founded in 2007.

Shailesh Rao has stepped down as the VP for Asia Pacific, Latin America and Emerging Markets at Twitter. Rao served as VP of International Revenue at Twitter, since joining in April 2012. Prior to joining Twitter, Rao was associated with Google as the Director of local search.

Mark Little has been appointed as the new managing director of Twitter in Ireland. The former RT broadcaster, who left Storyful in June 2015, has taken up the role with current chief Stephen McIntyre leaving the company.

First Data Appoints APAC Regional Leader

First Data announced that Ivo Distelbrink will join the company to lead its business in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Distelbrink joins First Data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he most recently held the role of Managing Director and Regional Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) for APAC.

Eastman Kodak CEO Steps Down from Red Hat Board     

Red Hat announced that Jeffrey J. Clarke, 54, CEO at Eastman Kodak, notified the company that he has decided not to stand for re-election at the Board of Directors.

Sage Appoints Company President and EVP of Northern EuropeBlair Crump

Sage has appointed Blair Crump as President. Crump joins from PROS Holdings, where he held the position of COO since November 2014. Previously, he led Salesforce's Global Enterprise business. Prior to that, he was Group President at Verizon Business, responsible for Worldwide Sales & Consulting.

The company appointed Jacqueline de Rojas as EVP of Northern Europe. With over 25 years of operational experience in the software business, de Rojas joins from Citrix, where she led the Northern European business as GM & Area VP.

Date Range: June 28th - August 23rd

Intel Appoints UC Berkeley Professor to Serve on its Board  Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu

Intel elected Dr. Tsu-Jae King Liu to serve on its board of directors. She is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Accenture Appoints Wolters Kluwer Chair/CEO to Board      

Accenture appointed Nancy McKinstry, 57, to the company’s Board of Directors. McKinstry is CEO and chairman of Wolters Kluwer. Before assuming her present position in 2003, McKinstry gained more than a decade of experience at Wolters Kluwer and its operating companies in North America.

ADP Appoints Former Deputy Head of Mission at the Office of the Quartet as a New Director     

Automatic Data Processing appointed Sandra S. Wijnberg as a new director of the company. From July 2014 to December 2015, Wijnberg was Deputy Head of Mission, Office of the Quartet Representative, which is charged with implementing the Palestinian economic development agenda of the Quartet (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.) Prior to that, she was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer of Aquiline Holdings, SVP and CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and held various positions at YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley and AmEx.

eBay Appoints co-founder and CEO of Lyft as New Board Member

eBay appointed Logan Green as a new member of the company's Board of Directors. Green is the co-founder and CEO of Lyft, a peer-to-peer ride sharing company, which he founded with John Zimmer in 2012. Green also founded Zimride, a rideshare program that was initially implemented at Cornell University.  Before that, he created the first car-share program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Expedia Witnesses Board Changes   

Jos A. Tazn resigned from Expedia’s board of Directors.  The company elected Scott Rudin to the board. Rudin began his career in the entertainment industry in the 1970s, and since then has served in a variety of roles, including as founder and principal of Scott Rudin Productions and as a senior executive at Twentieth Century Fox.

Eastman Kodak CEO Steps Down from Red Hat Board     

Red Hat announced that Jeffrey J. Clarke, 54, CEO at Eastman Kodak, notified the company that he has decided not to stand for re-election at the Board of Directors.

Akamai Technologies Appoints Former Sprint CEO as Board Member

Akamai Technologies announced the election of Daniel R. Hesse to the company board of directors. In addition to his almost seven years as President and CEO of Sprint Corporation, Hesse has also served as Chairman and CEO of Embarq Corporation. Previously, he was Chairman, President and CEO of Terabeam Corporation.

Seagate Technology Director Resigns; Former Logitech CFO

Kris Onken, 66, notified the Board of Directors of Seagate Technology plc that she will retire from the Board, and will not stand for re-election at the 2016 annual general meeting of shareholders.  Onken served as SVP of Finance and the CFO of Logitech from 1999 to 2006.

CSC Goes Through Board ChangesLizabeth H. Zlatkus     

CSC has named Lizabeth H. Zlatkus to the company's board of directors. Zlatkus previously worked for 28 years at The Hartford Financial Services Group, including as CFO and chief risk officer, as well as co-president of The Hartford Life Insurance Cos.

Mark Foster, 57, resigned from the Board of CSC. Foster served as group chief executive for Management Consulting at Accenture plc from September 2006 until his retirement in March 2011.

Oracle Financial Services Software Announces Demise of Director  

Oracle Financial Services Software announced that the sudden and sad demise of Derek H Williams, Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of the Company. Williams is former EVP of Japan at Oracle. 

CSRA Elects President and CEO of Energy Future Holdings as New Director 

CSRA, the provider of IT services to the federal government, elected John F. Young as a director of the company. Young has served on the board of directors of Energy Future Holdings, a Dallas-based energy company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated businesses, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor, since July 2008 and as President and CEO of Energy Future Holdings since January 2008. Prior to joining EFH, Young was EVP of finance and markets at Exelon.

Ubisoft Announces Director Changes

French multinational video game developer and publisher Ubisoft has appointed Frederique Dame, an angel investor in Silicon Valley, and Florence Naviner, CFO and SVP of Wrigley, as independent directors. In the meantime, Estelle Metayer’s mandate, expiring in September, will not be renewed. Estelle Metayer will however continue to provide her expertise to Ubisoft as an adviser, specifically on governance-related topics.

WEX Appoints Warburg Pincus Executive as Director

WEX appointed James Neary as director to fill a new Board seat.  Neary is a managing director of Warburg Pincus and joined the firm in 2000. Neary has served as co-head of the Industrial & Business Services team since June 2013 and is also a member of the firm’s executive management group. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was a managing director at Chase Securities and prior to that he was at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Former CEO of MedAssets Joins Aspen Technology Board     

The provider of process optimization software solutions Aspen Technology announced that R. Halsey Wise has been appointed to the company’s board. Wise brings nearly 30 years of leadership, technology and financial experience. He is currently Chairman and CEO of Lime Barrel Advisors. Over the years Wise led several successful business transformation and value creation efforts. Until 2016, he served as Chairman and CEO of MedAssets. Wise was also Chairman, President and CEO of Intergraph.

Playtech Appoints Director With Expertise in eGaming and Technology Law and Regulation

Gambling software company Playtech appointed Claire Milne as an independent Non-Executive Director. Claire joins the Board as a recognised industry expert with 20 years' experience advising gaming and financial services clients as an in-house and private practice lawyer. She is currently a Partner and Team Leader within the Intellectual Property and Science & Technology teams for Appleby in the Isle of Man.

Leidos Appoints Lockheed Martin Designees to Board           

Leidos increased the size of the board and appointed the Lockheed Martin designees, Gregory R. Dahlberg, Dr. Surya N. Mohapatra and Susan M. Stalnecker, to serve as directors.

Dahlberg previously held various senior executive positions at Lockheed Martin, most recently serving as the SVP for Washington Operations from 2009 to 2015. Prior to his years at Lockheed Martin, he served as Minority Staff Director of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee with jurisdiction over funding for all Department of Defense and intelligence agency programs.

Surya N. Mohapatra has held senior leadership positions in the health care industry for more than 30 years, most recently as the Chairman, President and CEO of Quest Diagnostics where he had been a senior executive since 1999.

Susan M. Stalnecker was employed by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1977 to 2016, serving in numerous senior roles during her tenure, including 10 years as VP and Treasurer and most recently as VP, Corporate Productivity and Hospitality.

Proofpoint Elects Autodesk CFO as Newest Board Member    R. Scott Herren

Proofpoint, a leading next-generation cybersecurity company, elected R. Scott Herren as a new independent director. Herren currently serves as SVP and CFO of Autodesk. Prior to this role, he was SVP of Finance for Citrix Systems.

Autohome Sees Board Changes          

Autohome, the leading online destination for automobile consumers in China, appointed Paul Tyler as a director and Cynthia Whelan has resigned from the Board. Paul Tyler is Group Managing Director International of Telstra. Prior to joining Telstra in 2016, Tyler has held a number of roles over more than 15 years at Nokia Networks, including most recently the Head of Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Wix.com Appoints its Former Board Member and Co-CEO to Board           

Cloud-based web development platform Wix.com appointed Allon Bloch to its board of directors. Bloch returns to Wix having served as a director from January 2008 through August 2013 and as President and Co-CEO from 2008 through September 2010. Most recently, he served as CEO of Vroom from July 2014 through June 2016. Previously, he was CEO of mySupermarket.

Gogo Makes Couple of Board Appointments   

Gogo, the provider of in-flight broadband Internet service, announced that Michele Coleman Mayes and Hugh Jones have been appointed to the company's board of directors. Michele Coleman Mayes is VP, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library. She joined NYPL in August 2012 after serving as EVP and General Counsel for Allstate Insurance Company since 2007.

Hugh Jones is the current President of Sabre Airline Solutions. Prior to his role in Sabre Airline Solutions, Hugh served as the president and CEO of Travelocity. Hugh has held a number of executive positions at Sabre including COO of Sabre Travel Network and Airline Solutions. He began his career in the travel industry at American Airlines in 1988, serving in a variety of finance positions.

Callidus Software Appoints Director from Consumer Markets

Global enterprise software and SaaS company Callidus Software appointed James D. White, a renowned business leader, to its board of directors. White is a veteran executive with a proven track record with the world's leading companies. As the former chairman, president and CEO of Jamba, he led a transformation that positions Jamba Juice as a top healthy living brand. White previously held senior executive roles at Safeway Stores, the Gillette Company and Nestle Purina. He started his career at the Coca-Cola Company.

MINDBODY Co-Founder Resigns from Board        

Robert Murphy resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of MINDBODY, the online business management software firm. Murphy co-founded MINDBODY, and formerly served as its COO.

Rapid7 Announces Strategic Changes to Its Board    

Internet security company Rapid7 announced that Christopher Young, 44, informed the Board of Directors of the company of his intention to resign from the Board. Young is general manager of the Intel Security Group at Intel McAfee.

The board appointed Thomas E. Schodorf, 58, and Marc E. Brown to serve as members of the Board. Schodorf served as an SVP of Worldwide Field Operations at Splunk from 2009 to 2015. Marc is currently the managing director of corporate development at Microsoft Corporation. Marc has nearly 22 years of business and legal experience, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and equity investments.

ShoreTel Appoints New Board Member with Significant Financial Expertise

The Board of directors of ShoreTel, the provider of unified communications (UC) solutions and phone systems, has appointed Marjorie Bowen, 51, to the board.  She served as Managing Director, National Director Fairness Opinion Practice at Houlihan Lokey from 1989 to 2008. 

Paycom’s Board Appoints Attorney as New Director

Paycom Software, the cloud-based human capital management software firm, appointed Larry Parman, president and CEO of Parman & Easterday, to Paycom’s board of directors, replacing Conner Mulvee, who tendered his resignation.

Parman founded Parman & Easterday, a law firm, in 1985. Today, he serves on the board of the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. From November 2013 to January 2015, he served as Secretary of Commerce for the State of Oklahoma and executive director of the Oklahoma Commerce Department after fulfilling his duties as the Oklahoma Secretary of State.

Former NBCUniversal Cable Exec Joins GoPro BoardLauren Zalaznick

GoPro, the wearable-camera maker looking to transform itself into a media company, has named former NBCUniversal cable executive Lauren Zalaznick to its board, the first woman to join GoPro’s board. Zalaznick, who exited NBCU in 2013 after 12 years, had been the president of Bravo, building the cabler into a reality-TV powerhouse. Currently, Zalaznick also serves on the boards of Nielsen, Shazam and Penguin Random House. 

Date Range: June 28th - August 23rd

Accenture Appoints Wolters Kluwer Chair/CEO to Board             

Accenture appointed Nancy McKinstry, 57, to the company’s Board of Directors. McKinstry is CEO and chairman of Wolters Kluwer. Before assuming her present position in 2003, McKinstry gained more than a decade of experience at Wolters Kluwer and its operating companies in North America.

ADP Appoints Former Deputy Head of Mission at the Office of the Quartet as a New Director     

Automatic Data Processing appointed Sandra S. Wijnberg as a new director of the company. From July 2014 to December 2015, Wijnberg was Deputy Head of Mission, Office of the Quartet Representative, which is charged with implementing the Palestinian economic development agenda of the Quartet (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.) Prior to that, she was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer of Aquiline Holdings, SVP and CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and held various positions at YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley and AmEx.

Seagate Technology Director Resigns; Former Logitech CFO

Kris Onken, 66, notified the Board of Directors of Seagate Technology plc that she will retire from the Board, and will not stand for re-election at the 2016 annual general meeting of shareholders.  Onken served as SVP of Finance and the CFO of Logitech from 1999 to 2006.

CSC Goes Through Board Changes   Lizabeth H. Zlatkus        

CSC has named Lizabeth H. Zlatkus to the company's board of directors. Zlatkus previously worked for 28 years at The Hartford Financial Services Group, including as CFO and chief risk officer, as well as co-president of The Hartford Life Insurance Cos.

Playtech Appoints Director With Expertise in eGaming and Technology Law and Regulation     

Gambling software company Playtech appointed Claire Milne as an independent Non-Executive Director. Claire joins the Board as a recognised industry expert with 20 years' experience advising gaming and financial services clients as an in-house and private practice lawyer. She is currently a Partner and Team Leader within the Intellectual Property and Science & Technology teams for Appleby in the Isle of Man.

Leidos Appoints Lockheed Martin Designee to Board    

Leidos increased the size of the board and appointed the Lockheed Martin designee, Susan M. Stalnecker, to serve as director. Susan M. Stalnecker was employed by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1977 to 2016, serving in numerous senior roles during her tenure, including 10 years as VP and Treasurer and most recently as VP, Corporate Productivity and Hospitality.

Gogo Makes Board Appointment            

Gogo, the provider of in-flight broadband Internet service, announced that Michele Coleman Mayes has been appointed to the company's board of directors. Michele Coleman Mayes is VP, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library. She joined NYPL in August 2012 after serving as EVP and General Counsel for Allstate Insurance Company since 2007.

ShoreTel Appoints New Board Member with Significant Financial Expertise

The Board of directors of ShoreTel, the provider of unified communications (UC) solutions and phone systems, has appointed Marjorie Bowen, 51, to the board.  She served as Managing Director, National Director Fairness Opinion Practice at Houlihan Lokey from 1989 to 2008. 

Former NBCUniversal Cable Exec Joins GoPro BoardLauren Zalaznick

GoPro, the wearable-camera maker looking to transform itself into a media company, has named former NBCUniversal cable executive Lauren Zalaznick to its board, the first woman to join GoPro’s board. Zalaznick, who exited NBCU in 2013 after 12 years, had been the president of Bravo, building the cabler into a reality-TV powerhouse. Currently, Zalaznick also serves on the boards of Nielsen, Shazam and Penguin Random House. 

Date Range: June 28th - August 23rd

Carrie Palin, VP of Marketing for IBM’s Cloud Data Services and Analytics Software, has joined Box as its first CMO. 

Infosys Promotes Exec to Head Its Cloud, Infrastructure and Security (CIS) Arm

Infosys has appointed new head for its cloud, infrastructure and security (CIS) arm. Narsimha Rao Mannepalli, SVP and Head of Hyderabad Center, has been tasked with heading the CIS division. One of the challenges ahead for Mannepalli will be to scale Infosys's IMS practice.

Equinix Appoints Chief Sales Officer from Within Ranks        

Equinix announced that it has appointed Mike Campbell as Chief Sales Officer. Campbell joined company in 2015 as SVP of Sales, with more than 30 years of experience managing global teams and working within respected technology companies, including NCR, UUNET, CompuServe, MCI and WorldCom.

Citrix Appoints Asia Pacific and Japan Region Sales Exec from Software AG            

Citrix appointed Stanimira Koleva as Group VP of Sales and Services for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Most recently, Koleva was the SVP and COO, for APJ at Software AG, a leading large enterprise software company where she was responsible for the business in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

ServiceNow’s Chief Product Officer to Retire

Frederic Luddy notified ServiceNow of his intention to retire as Chief Product Officer prior to the end of 2016. Luddy will continue to serve on the company’s board of directors, and he intends to continue to serve in an advisory capacity to the company.

Akamai Technologies Appoints Former Sprint CEO as Board Member

Daniel R. HesseAkamai Technologies elected Daniel R. Hesse, 62, to the company board of directors. In addition to his almost seven years as President and CEO of Sprint, Hesse has also served as Chairman and CEO of Embarq. Previously, he was Chairman, President and CEO of Terabeam.

Monique Bonner was appointed as CMO and SVP. Prior to Akamai, Bonner held several global leadership roles at Dell, most recently serving as VP of Global Digital, Technology and Innovation with a focus on optimizing marketing operations effectiveness. Bonner served on the Ad Council's Board of Directors and Conference Board'sCouncil for Brand Management.

Splunk Looks for a CMO

Steven Sommer informed Splunk that he intends to transition from the position of SVP and CMO of the company and retire from the company. The company intends to immediately begin a search for a new CMO.

Square’s General Counsel Changes

Dana R. Wagner, the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Square, notified the company of his intention to resign from his position as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary prior to the end of the third quarter of 2016. The company's current Associate General Counsels, Sydney Schaub and Sivan Whiteley, have been appointed to serve as acting Co-General Counsels.

Yelp COO Replaced

Geoff Donaker resigns as COO but continues on Board of Yelp, the global leader in crowd-sourced reviews for local businesses. Jed Nachman who joined Yelp in 2007 to lead the company’s sales team became COO, after serving as Yelp’s Chief Revenue Officer and SVP of Revenue.

Ellie Mae Appoints Chief Architect for Cloud Solution Offering

Ellie Mae announced that Michael Keselman has joined the company as Chief Architect. He will be responsible for directing the architecture of Ellie Mae’s complete cloud solution offering and will drive the evolution and design of Ellie Mae’s open industry cloud platform. Prior to joining the company, Keselman worked at Visa as the Chief Architect for merchant and acquirer processing. Prior to his work at Visa, Keselman was the CTO at Stanford Hospital and Clinics where he was responsible for managing architecture, software development, integration and infrastructure for the hospital.

Paycom Appoints Director from Legal Space

Paycom Software, the leading provider of comprehensive, cloud-based human capital management software, appointed Larry Parman, president and CEO of Parman & Easterday, to board, replacing Conner Mulvee, who tendered his resignation.

Parman founded Parman & Easterday, a law firm, in 1985. Today, he serves on the board of the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. From November 2013 to January 2015, he served as Secretary of Commerce for the State of Oklahoma and executive director of the Oklahoma Commerce Department after fulfilling his duties as the Oklahoma Secretary of State.

GoDaddy Announces Senior Management Changes    

Ray WinborneRay Winborne has joined GoDaddy as its new CFO. Winborne, a 20-year corporate finance veteran, assumes the role from Scott Wagner, who is stepping into the new role of GoDaddy President and COO. Winborne most recently served as CFO for First Data.

Wagner has held GoDaddy's dual COO/CFO role since 2013, when Blake Irving joined GoDaddy as CEO. Wagner was previously an executive with Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts when KKR invested in GoDaddy.

Tech Data Appoints Leader for StreamOne Suite of Cloud Marketplace and Integration Technologies          

Tech Data appointed Bob Kruger to VP, StreamOne. In this role, Kruger will lead the scope, platform development, and support functions for Tech Data’s StreamOne suite of cloud marketplace and integration technologies, which power the company’s Cloud Solutions Store. Most recently, he served as the CEO of Apakau. Previously, he served as SVP, Engineering at DNN. Kruger’s career also includes senior executive roles at NDCHealth, Citrix Systems, and BMC Software following a successful career of more than 10 years at Microsoft.

Sophos Appoints CIO from GoPro

Sophos announced the appointment of Tony Young as its CIO. Young joins the company from GoPro, where he served as CIO. Prior to GoPro, Young was SVP for Cloud and Subscription Sales at Informatica, where he was responsible for growing Informatica's global cloud business. During his career at Informatica, Young also served as CIO and as the executive director of North Asia, based in China.

Kinaxis Appoints Director with Experience in the Financial Services Sector  

Cloud-based supply chain solutions firm Kinaxis appointed Jill Denham to its Board of Directors. Among her past roles, Denham was Vice Chair at CIBC Retail Markets, and a Director of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. Prior, she had responsibility for the European business of CIBC and before that she was President, Merchant Banking. She was also a member of the Task Force on the Future of Securities Regulation in Canada. Denham is currently a director of several companies, including National Bank of Canada as well as the Chair of the Board of Morneau Shepell.

CommerceHub Sees Board and Leadership Changes  

Liberty Interactive Corporation completed its previously announced spin-off of its former wholly-owned subsidiary CommerceHub, the provider of hosted integration, drop ship fulfillment, and product content management for multi-channel e-commerce merchants. In connection with the closing of the Spin-Off, Gregory B. Maffei resigned from the Company's board of directors. Mark Cattini, David Goldhill, Chad Hollingsworth, Michael Huseby, Brian Wendling, Betsy Morgan, Francis Poore and Luis Ubi were appointed to the board of directors of the company.

Eric Best, Chief Strategy Officer of CommerceHub, also resigned from the company.

Date Range: July 11th - August 30th

Payments Technology Executive Joins Molson Coors Brewing Company's Board  Betty DeVita    

Molson Coors Brewing Company announced that payments technology executive Betty DeVita has joined its board of directors. DeVita is the chief commercial officer, Commerce Platform, at Mastercard, focused on expanding adoption of the company's digital solutions. Prior to her current role, DeVita served as president of Mastercard Canada.

QBE Insurance Appoints Non-Executive Director with FinTech Experience

QBE Insurance Group Limited appointed Kathryn (Kathy) Lisson as a Non-Executive Director. Lisson recently retired as a partner of Ernst & Young. In this role, Lisson was responsible for EY's FinTech implementation in the insurance sector in Canada, combining new customer analytic insight analytics, contactless payments, monitoring technology and fraud detection with policy, claims and underwriting systems offered as cloud or SAAS solutions. Until 2011, Lisson was Chief Operating Officer for QBE European Operations in London with responsibility for claims, technology and operation support functions.

Frito-Lay CIO Joins Board of Sprouts Farmers Market

Sprouts Farmers Market elected Kristen Blum, 50, as director. Blum currently serves as SVP and CIO of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. She served as the CTO and EVP of J. C. Penney Company, since January 2012. She served as the CIO and SVP of Enterprise Transformation programs for North America at PepsiCo. She joined PepsiCo in 2010. She served as the CIO and SVP at Abercrombie & Fitch from 2006 to 2010.

First Midwest Bancorp Names Former Accenture CIO to Board          Frank B. Modruson

First Midwest Bancorp, the parent company of First Midwest Bank, appointed Frank B. Modruson to its board of directors. Modruson is president of Modruson & Associates. Modruson spent the majority of his career at Accenture, where he served as a client partner and as CIO. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Zebra Technologies Corporation and Forsythe Technology, as well as on the boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company.

Bank of Cyprus Public Company Appoints Hyperion CIO as Director 

The Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus Public Company appointed Lyn Grobler as a Non-Executive member of the Board of Directors. Grobler was appointed Group CIO of Hyperion Insurance Group in 2016 and she is currently a member of Hyperion's Group Executive Committee. Prior to this Grobler was at BP for 16 years, holding a variety of different roles across IT and global trading, exiting as VP & CIO, Corporate Functions.

Date Range: July 11th - August 30th

Accenture Appoints Wolters Kluwer Chair/CEO to Board      

Accenture appointed Nancy McKinstry, 57, to the company’s Board of Directors. McKinstry is CEO and chairman of Wolters Kluwer. Before assuming her present position in 2003, McKinstry gained more than a decade of experience at Wolters Kluwer and its operating companies in North America.

ADP Appoints Former Deputy Head of Mission at the Office of the Quartet as a New Director     

Automatic Data Processing appointed Sandra S. Wijnberg as a new director of the company. From July 2014 to December 2015, Wijnberg was Deputy Head of Mission, Office of the Quartet Representative, which is charged with implementing the Palestinian economic development agenda of the Quartet (the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia.) Prior to that, she was a Partner and Chief Administrative Officer of Aquiline Holdings, SVP and CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies, and held various positions at YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, Morgan Stanley and AmEx.

Payments Technology Executive Joins Molson Coors Brewing Company's Board      Betty DeVita

Molson Coors Brewing Company announced that payments technology executive Betty DeVita has joined its board of directors. DeVita is the chief commercial officer, Commerce Platform, at Mastercard, focused on expanding adoption of the company's digital solutions. Prior to her current role, DeVita served as president of Mastercard Canada.

Maxim Integrated Products Announces Board Appointments

Maxim Integrated Products elected MaryAnn Wright and Tracy Accardi to its Board of Directors. Wright serves as Group VP, Technology and Industry Relations at Johnson Controls. Before joining Johnson Controls, Wright was EVP of Engineering, Product Development, Commercial and Program Management at Collins & Aikman Corporation from 2006-2007. Prior to that, she served in several executive management positions at Ford Motor Company during her tenure from 1988-2005.

Accardi has served as VP of Global Research and Development, Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic since 2014, where she leads development of screening, diagnostic and biopsy systems for the detection and treatment of breast cancer. Previously, she was CTO at Omniguide Surgical from 2012 to 2014, and Executive Consultant at Mednest Consulting from 2011 to 2012, after having held senior R&D positions at Covidien, Johnson & Johnson, and Philips Medical Systems.

QBE Insurance Appoints Non-Executive Director with FinTech Experience

QBE Insurance Group Limited appointed Kathryn (Kathy) Lisson as a Non-Executive Director. Lisson recently retired as a partner of Ernst & Young. In this role, Lisson was responsible for EY's FinTech implementation in the insurance sector in Canada, combining new customer analytic insight analytics, contactless payments, monitoring technology and fraud detection with policy, claims and underwriting systems offered as cloud or SAAS solutions. Until 2011, Lisson was Chief Operating Officer for QBE European Operations in London with responsibility for claims, technology and operation support functions.

Seagate Technology Director Resigns; Former Logitech CFO

Kris Onken, 66, notified the Board of Directors of Seagate Technology plc that she will retire from the Board, and will not stand for re-election at the 2016 annual general meeting of shareholders.  Onken served as SVP of Finance and the CFO of Logitech from 1999 to 2006.

CSC Goes Through Board Changes     

CSC has named Lizabeth H. Zlatkus to the company's board of directors. Zlatkus previously worked for 28 years at The Hartford Financial Services Group, including as CFO and chief risk officer, as well as co-president of The Hartford Life Insurance Cos.

Frito-Lay CIO Joins Board of Sprouts Farmers MarketKristen Blum

Sprouts Farmers Market elected Kristen Blum, 50, as director. Blum currently serves as SVP and CIO of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. She served as the CTO and EVP of J. C. Penney Company, since January 2012. She served as the CIO and SVP of Enterprise Transformation programs for North America at PepsiCo. She joined PepsiCo in 2010. She served as the CIO and SVP at Abercrombie & Fitch from 2006 to 2010.

Playtech Appoints Director With Expertise in eGaming and Technology Law and Regulation

Gambling software company Playtech appointed Claire Milne as an independent Non-Executive Director. Claire joins the Board as a recognised industry expert with 20 years' experience advising gaming and financial services clients as an in-house and private practice lawyer. She is currently a Partner and Team Leader within the Intellectual Property and Science & Technology teams for Appleby in the Isle of Man.

Leidos Appoints Lockheed Martin Designee to Board 

Leidos increased the size of the board and appointed the Lockheed Martin designee, Susan M. Stalnecker, to serve as director. Susan M. Stalnecker was employed by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. from 1977 to 2016, serving in numerous senior roles during her tenure, including 10 years as VP and Treasurer and most recently as VP, Corporate Productivity and Hospitality.

Gogo Makes Board Appointment         

Gogo, the provider of in-flight broadband Internet service, announced that Michele Coleman Mayes has been appointed to the company's board of directors. Michele Coleman Mayes is VP, General Counsel and Secretary for the New York Public Library. She joined NYPL in August 2012 after serving as EVP and General Counsel for Allstate Insurance Company since 2007.

ShoreTel Appoints New Board Member with Significant Financial Expertise

The Board of directors of ShoreTel, the provider of unified communications (UC) solutions and phone systems, has appointed Marjorie Bowen, 51, to the board.  She served as Managing Director, National Director Fairness Opinion Practice at Houlihan Lokey from 1989 to 2008. 

Former NBCUniversal Cable Exec Joins GoPro Board

GoPro, the wearable-camera maker looking to transform itself into a media company, has named former NBCUniversal cable executive Lauren Zalaznick to its board, the first woman to join GoPro’s board. Zalaznick, who exited NBCU in 2013 after 12 years, had been the president of Bravo, building the cabler into a reality-TV powerhouse. Currently, Zalaznick also serves on the boards of Nielsen, Shazam and Penguin Random House.

Bank of Cyprus Public Company Appoints Hyperion CIO as Director 

The Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus Public Company appointed Lyn Grobler as a Non-Executive member of the Board of Directors. Grobler was appointed Group CIO of Hyperion Insurance Group in 2016 and she is currently a member of Hyperion's Group Executive Committee. Prior to this Grobler was at BP for 16 years, holding a variety of different roles across IT and global trading, exiting as VP & CIO, Corporate Functions.

Date Range: July 11th - August 30th

New Technology CEO Stats 

New Tech CEO Openings: 10 – Ooredoo Algérie (Algeria), Chorus Limited  (New Zealand), Moneysupermarket.com (UK), Solutionary (NE), Vicon Industries (NY), Giga-tronics (CA), Electronics Industry Public Company Limited (Thailand), Shanxi Changcheng Microlight Equipment (China), Magor (ON), Spire (MA)

CEOs Appointed

Sources of Appointments: 49 were External appointments, and 40 were internal promotions.

Others:  founders, former execs, CFOs, CMOs, Sales Leaders, CTOs, Chief Strategy Officers, and Leaders from acquired companies, etc.

Diversity: 7% of the appointments are women CEOs. Canon Singapore (Singapore), Telenor Hungary (Hungary), Enviance (CA), Arria NLG (UK), Dtex Systems (Australia), Kidbox (Uruguay)

Geographic Distribution: 49 in North America, 24 in Europe, 15 in Asia/Russia/Australia, and 1 in Latin America.

The average and median times open CEO roles have been open are about 8 months, and there is little variance by continent.  The longest open searches are:

#1 -  TeleCity Group, London, UK - $529.6M, September 2014  
#2    Shanda Games Limited, China - $714M, November 2014  
#3 - Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA -  $1.4B , May 2015
#4 -  Wi-LAN, Ottawa, Ontario - $98.3M, June 2015.     

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This is the detailed version of CEOs Appointed in the month August 2016. 

ARRIS International , Georgia - $5.7B, August 2016Bruce McClelland
ARRIS International plc announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Bruce McClelland as CEO and Director. McClelland joined ARRIS in 1999 as VP of Engineering. Stanzione was the founding President and CEO of ARRIS Interactive. 

Tableau Software, Washington - $743.8M, August 2016Adam Selipsky
Tableau Software announced that it has appointed Adam Selipsky as president and CEO effective September 16. Selipsky currently serves as VP of Marketing, Sales and Support for AWS. Prior to joining Amazon, he was an executive at RealNetworks.

CSS, California, August 2016Manish Tandon
CSS Corp. has appointed Manish Tandon as its new CEO of the company. He will be inducted as a whole time director of the board and as CEO later this quarter. He is currently the head of Healthcare & Life Sciences, Insurance and High-Tech Manufacturing businesses at Infosys.

Prior to his most recent role at TWC, he was EVP and Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, joining the company in 2004 as EVP, Product Management.

Before that, Stern worked in strategy at the cable operator’s former parent Time Warner Inc. Prior to that, he was a consultant with McKinsey.

Date: September 15, 2016

The geographic breakdown of open roles and new appointments was as follows: 

New Tech Function Openings: 8 – Thomson Reuters (PA), Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri (Turkey), Parsons Corporation (CA), Marvell Technology (Bermuda), Informatica (CA), Splunk (CA), UnionBank of the Philippines (Philippines), and ChartSpan Medical Technologies (SC).

Tech Execs Appointed - Sources

Sources of Appointments: 75 were External appointments, and 17 were internal promotions –CTO/CIO (promoted to other tech role) (2), Divisional execs (3), Interim CIO/CTO (2), Others (10).

Others:  SVP or VP, Technology, VP-Business Transformation, VP-Research & Innovation, Founder, Director or Senior Director of IT, CFO, CIO to CTO, CTO to President, technology etc. 

Diversity:  3.26% of the appointments are women Tech Execs. The Middlefield Banking Company (OH), Sherpa (NC), and Glance Technologies (Canada). 

Geographic Distribution: 74 in the US, 7 in Europe and 9 in Asia/Russia/ Australasia, 2 in Middle East & Africa.

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Dell, Texas - $59B, November 2015        
Paul J. Walsh, Dell’s CIO, is leaving the company. Scott Pittman, who had been leading Dell’s IT infrastructure services, was named interim CIO while the company looks for a permanent replacement.

Lenovo, China - $46.3B, April 2016
Lenovo's chief of technology Peter Hortensius will entirely take up his new role, heading technology and strategy for the firms new Data Center Group, while previous CTO and present head of Lenovo Capital and Investment Group (LCIG) George He will become acting CTO while the firm looks for a permanent leader in that designation.

Goldman Sachs, New York - $26.45B, May 2016
Goldman Sachs Group announced that Lance Braunstein has left Group as MD and global head of investment banking technology.

Travelers Companies, New York - $26.29B, May 2016
Greg Toczydlowski leaves the role of EVP and President, Small Commercial, Business Insurance Technology and Operations, to become President of Business Insurance.

Facebook, California- $17.93B, May 2016
Facebook is searching for a new CIO. Tim Campos, the company’s current CIO, is leaving at the end of the year to start a new company.

TE Connectivity, Switzerland - $14.26B, October 2015  
EVP and CTO, Robert Shaddock, is retiring from the Company effective late in 2016.

Kellogg Company, Illinois - $13.5B, August 2016
Kellogg Company is seeking a VP, Chief Information Security Officer at the Kellogg Company in Oak Brook, IL.

Thomson Reuters, Pennsylvania, $12.2B, September 2016
Thomson Reuters is looking for a CISO to protect the information assets of IP & Science through managing risk, deploying effective cloud security risk framework and ensuring appropriate compliance.

Biogen, Massachusetts - $9.7B, June 2016
After just over a year in the position, Biogen CIO Matt Griffiths is no longer with the company. Biogen plans to fill the CIO position. In the meantime, Mr. Griffiths’ organization reports to Adriana Andi Karaboutis, Biogen’s EVP of technology, business solutions and corporate affairs.

Hudson's Bay Company, New York - $9.59B, July 2015
Hudson's Bay Company is currently seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who will be responsible for establishing and maintaining an enterprise-wide information security strategy, architecture and program designed to ensure that HBC information assets are appropriately protected.

Ameriprise Financial, Minnesota - $9.1B, May 2015     
Ameriprise Financial is currently seeking a CISO.

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri, Turkey, $4.61B, August 2016
Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS announced that lker Kuruoz, who joined Company in 2006, and who has served as the EVP of Technology Group, has decided to resign from his position. *no replacement announced.

Medibank, Australia - $4.48B, May 2016
Medibank Private Limited announced the resignation of Sarah Harland, EGM Technology & Operations. Sarah has accepted a senior appointment within the Suncorp Group.

Tesla Motors, California - $3.5B, March 2016
Jay Vijayan has left his job as the CIO at Tesla Motors to begin working on a stealth startup. Tesla Motors confirmed Mr. Vijayan’s departure, but it would not say whether it has yet found a permanent replacement.

Parsons Corporation, California, $3.2B, September 2016
Parsons is looking for a CIO to lead the IT department.

Unisys, Pennsylvania - $3.01B, July 2016
Unisys is seeking a CISO. The CISO is responsible for setting and maintaining the internal IT security direction for Unisys.

Teradata Labs, California - $2.53B, July 2016
Teradata Labs is looking for a CTO to join the Unified Data Architecture (UDA) Platform Technologies team.

Marvell Technology, Bermuda, $2.458B, September 2016
Dr. Zining Wu, CTO, notified Marvell Technology of his decision to leave Marvell. *The company did not announce whether it has yet found a permanent replacement.

Jack Henry & Associates, Missouri - $1.3B, September 2015  
Jack Henry & Associates is currently seeking a CISO who will be responsible for overseeing the strategy, design and implementation of enterprise-level information security initiatives and programs.

Informatica, California, $1.05B, September 2016
Informatica is looking for a CISO to lead the corporate security and data privacy.

Lumber Liquidators, Virginia - $978.80M, March 2016
On March 2, 2016, Charles A. Schwartz, the CIO and SVP, business development, of Lumber Liquidators Holdings notified the company that he is resigning, effective March 16, 2016, in order to pursue another opportunity.

Morningstar, Illinois - $783.6M, November 2015 
Greg Goff, Morningstar's CTO, has decided to leave the firm effective December 4, 2015 to join Uptake Technologies.

MicroStrategy, Virginia - $579.8M, June 2015    
MicroStrategy seeks a CISO, who will establish and develop global information security management programs for our internal systems and customer offerings.

Shutterstock, New York - $464.3M, July 2016
Shutterstock announced that Anshu Aggarwal, CTO of the company, notified the company of his decision to resign from his position, to spend more time with his family. The company has commenced an external search for a CTO to succeed Aggarwal.     

Splunk, California, $450.9M, September 2016
Splunk is looking for a CISO to lead the IT security.

Town Sports International Holdings, New York - $442M, September 2015  
On September 11, 2015, the employment of Paul Barron, CIO of Town Sports International Holdings, was terminated without cause. Mr. Barron will receive severance payments and benefits as set forth in the Amended and Restated Executive Severance Agreement, dated February 25, 2015.

UnionBank of the Philippines, Philippines, $433.2M, September 2016
Union Bank of the Philippines announced that at the Mr. Ceferino P. Tolentino, Jr., CIO with the rank of SVP, has retired from the bank. *No Replacement announced.

TeleCommunication Systems, Maryland - $364.1M, November 2015 
TeleCommunication Systems announced the termination of Mr. Drew A. Morin, SVP and CTO of the company on October 28, 2015.

ShoreTel,  California - $360.9M, May 2016
Pankaj Malhotra, the CTO of ShoreTel announced that he would be leaving the Company, effective June 30, 2016, on mutually agreeable terms. The company hasn’t announced any replacement yet.

Ruckus Wireless, California - $326.9M, June 2015        
William Bill Kish is leaving his position as CTO of Ruckus Wireless, to pursue new interests, and has stepped down as a member of the Board of Directors. The company has launched a search for a new CTO who will fuel the next wave of innovation.

StarTek, Colorado - $252.7M, October 2015       
Kamalesh Dwivedi, the company's CIO, separated from the company effective October 14, 2015.

inContact, Utah - $222.0M, April 2016
On April 15, 2016, inContact reached an agreement with Julian Critchfield, EVP and CTO, for his separation from service with the Company.

Philex Mining, Philippines - $187.7M, December 2015    
Philex Mining Corp. announced the resignation of RAYMUND BRETT C. MEDEL as VP and CIO, with effective from January 31, 2016.

LogMeIn, Massachusetts - $166.3M, November 2014     
LogMeIn is seeking a CISO to serve as a subject matter expert and leader reporting into the CTO.  The CISO will lead a global team of four and be responsible for the security of LogMeIn’s suite of award winning software products (including secure development), product delivery (NOC), security features of our products (security design), internal infrastructure (development environment), and 3rd party services (CRM’s, etc).

Xunlei Limited, China - $164M, November 2015 
Xunlei Limited's board of directors has appointed Mr. Lei Chen, the Company's CTO, as Co-CEO. Simultaneously, Mr. Chen resigned as Xunlei's CTO, a post he has held since joining the company in November 2014.

Mastech Holdings, Pennsylvania - $123.50M, March 2016
On March 11, 2016, Denis D. Deet ceased to be VP of Technology and CIO of Mastech Holdings.

Spar Group, New York - $119.3M, April 2016
SPAR Group announced that its CIO, Panos Mastrogiannis will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities, effective May 6, 2016.

Cartesian, Kansas - $80.6M, June 2016
Cartesian announced the termination of employment to Jim Baker, the Company's CTO and CIO and a named executive officer.

Kresta Holdings, Australia - $69.9M, April 2016
Albert Xu has resigned as CIO, a role he has filled since June 2014.

Spark Networks, California - $55M, October 2015        
Spark Networks announced that resignation of Gregory J. Franchina as a CIO, delivered a notice of resignation to the Company indicating that he intended to resign from the Company effective as of November 14, 2015. The Company intends to replace Mr. Franchina and has initiated the process of recruiting qualified candidates.

CSB Bancorp , Ohio - $24.5M, February 2016     
CSB Bancorp  announced that Steven R. Bailey, EVP, COO and CIO of the company and its wholly owned affiliate The Commercial & Savings Bank, notified the company that he will be retiring and resigning his positions with the Companies, effective March 4, 2016.

Diadexus, California - $18.10M, March 2016
Diadexus announced that Dr.  Emilia Zychlinksy, EVP and Chief Technical Officer, notified the company on March 14, 2016, that she is resigning effective as of April 1, 2016. She will continue in that role until the effective date of her resignation.

NMI Holdings, California - $7.1M, January 2015  
Stan Pachura, EVP and CIO, leaves. Pachura's current duties and responsibilities will be assumed by existing members of the Company's management team, until a replacement is chosen.

Uni-Pixel, California - $2.87M, January 2016
On December 28, 2015, Robert Petcavich, the SVP and CTO of Uni-Pixel, Inc, tendered to the company his resignation for personal reasons, effective as of December 31, 2015. Mr. Petcavich will continue to provide services to the company as a consultant.

B-Scada, Florida - $1.8M, April 2016
B-Scada announced that Joshua Weeks, CTO, resigned his position effective April 1, 2016.

SPYR, Colorado - $1.6M, April 2016
SPYR announced that effective March 31, 2016, Mark McGarrity, the Company's CIO, resigned his position with the company.

CannaSys, Colorado - $0.08M, March 2016
Brandon C.  Jennewine resigned from his position as CTO. Mr. Jennewine remains on the board of directors.

Activistic Holdings, Australia, November 2015   
The Company announced that Activistic Holdings Pty Ltd’s CTO, Mr. Shahab Zeinoghli has resigned effective 18 November.

American Traffic Solutions, Arizona, September 2015 
The company is looking for a CIO responsible for leading and overseeing all aspects of the Company’s technology capabilities, resources and assets.

Wikimedia Foundation, California, June 2015    
Wikimedia is looking for a CTO to lead and connect with communities of volunteers, researchers, and users. The CTO must have the ability to understand and synthesize a vast amount of data, opinions and emerging technologies

Centrify, California, July 2015       
The CISO is the leader of the corporate/physical security function for Centrify, which includes responsibility for overall corporate security strategy, security architecture development, and global function oversight

Smaato, California, September 2015       
Smaato is seeking a CTO to determine the direction of software development, solutions and product offerings.

VITAS Healthcare, Florida, June 2015     
The company is looking for a CISO, to work closely with the IT and Technical Services teams to identify, document and mitigate IT security concerns as related to overall access to resources.

NIBCO, Indiana, September 2015  
NIBCO is seeking a CIO for setting long and mid-range strategies, objectives and initiatives for the Information Services function.

Brookstone, New Hampshire, June 2015 
The CIO is responsible to oversee the development of corporate standards, technology architecture, technology evaluation and transfer; sponsor the business technology planning process; manage client relations; align IT with the business; and develop IT financial management systems.

Colgate University, New York, July 2015 
Colgate University is seeking a CISO to join the IT Services department to serve as the university expert on information security across all domains.

Broadcast Music (BMI), Tennessee, September 2015   
BMI, one of the largest music rights management company in the US, is seeking a CIO who will be responsible for the company’s technological vision and leadership.

Ancestry.com, Utah, May 2015    
Ancestry is currently looking for a leader to fill the new role of CISO, responsible for establishing, executing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy and program to ensure that Ancestry’s physical and digital information assets and technologies are adequately protected.

Valley Behavioral Health, Utah, June 2015       
The agency is currently looking for a CIO as a core part of our strategy management team, advising the CEO, CFO, COO, and other core members on matters of strategic and tactical importance concerning IT systems, hardware, software, services, and maintenance.

Blucora, Washington, August 2015
Blucora is looking for a CISO who will be member of the company’s Operations Team.

US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington D.C., July 2015      
The agency is looking for a CIO for providing forward-thinking direction and visionary executive leadership for the agency-wide information resources management and IT programs, as well as systems implementation, to assist the agency in achieving its safety mission.

Supreme Group, Washington, D.C., September 2015    
The CIO’s role is to provide vision and leadership for developing and implementing IT initiatives. The CIO directs the planning and implementation of enterprise IT systems in support of business operations in order to improve cost effectiveness, service quality and business development. She/he is also responsible & accountable for all aspects of the organization's IT and systems.

CommonBond, New York, September 2015       
CommonBond is looking for a CTO, to lead the company’s development team and be responsible for delivering technology that enables the company to reach its goals.

First Help Financial, Massachusetts, October 2015       
In order to continue rapid growth, FHF is looking for a highly motivated CTO with leadership and hands-on experience in programming, database, and team management. 

Farm Journal Media, Illinois, October 2015        
The SVP/CTO is a new position intended to drive systems development and technology advancements across the company.

The Buckle, Nebraska, November 2015
The Buckle is seeking a CIO to direct, plan, and manage the company's Information Systems employees and resources to ensure the effective development, implementation, and oversight of all data processing, computer operations, and related functions (Communications, Office and Retail Store Systems, Production Activities, Data Warehousing, Merchandise Management, etc.).

Robertshaw, Illinois, November 2015
Robertshaw currently seeks for a CIO to join the organization for directing the information and data integrity of the global business for all IT functions of the company.

Royal Canin USA, Missouri, November 2015
The company seeks a CTO who will be the strategic and IT leader for building and managing enterprise, data and application platforms (eCommerce, CRM, Navision, BI, infrastructure) with key accountabilities including: project management, technical documentation, interface development and management controls with all relevant systems, alignment with global team and partnership with all internal teams.   

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, December 2015     
Brigham and Women's Hospital announced that Mark Andersen, MHA, MS, has been appointed interim CIO for Brigham and Women's Health Care (BWHC) effective Jan. 4, 2016. Anderson, who recently served as the interim chief technology and health information officer at University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, will ensure continued progress of the recent Partners eCare implementation while the search for a permanent CIO continues.

Ingram Content Group, Tennessee, February 2016
The Ingram Industries subsidiary is looking for a CIO who is expected to develop and implement an IT strategy that meets current needs, establishes a foundation and roadmap for future direction, and is supported and endorsed by the business.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Maryland, February 2016
The commission is looking for a CIO who will report to the Executive Director for Operations (EDO). The CIO will establish policy to carryout NRC’s responsibilities established by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, the E-Government Act of 2002, the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996, the Federal IT Acquisitions Reform Act (FITARA), the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Privacy Act.

Allina Health, Minnesota, February 2016
The company seeks a CISO, who will be responsible for overseeing the information security program, including information security policy and the coordination of security efforts across Allina Health.

Utica National Insurance Group, New York, February 2016
The company is looking for a CIO for establishing the strategic direction of the Company’s IT architecture.

Gordon Flesch Company, Wisconsin, February 2016
The company is on a search for a CIO, who will have specific responsibility for planning and implementing an information system strategy that meets the company’s business needs and delivers a good return on investment. Provides leadership to supervisory staff leading IS teams and overall IS department.

Leonard Technology Group, Florida, February 2016
The computer and network security company is seeking a CIO.

[24]7, California, February 2016
[24]7 is a rapidly growing Sequoia Capital-backed company with an enterprise SaaS offering. The company is looking for a CISO.

Prestige Care, Washington, February 2016
The company seeks a CIO to provide technology vision, leadership and direction in the development and implementation of organization-wide IT programs in support of business operations.

Skype, Washington, February 2016
Skype is looking for a CTO, Skype for Business Customer Engineering. The Skype Business Services is the engineering, operations and business group comprised of the Skype for Business Online with Office 365, and Skype for Business Server product lines.

Core, New York, February 2016
Core is looking for a CTO to be the technical lead to architect and build out version one of the product.

Entrust Datacard, Minnesota, February 2016
The CTO will be responsible for establishing the Company’s technical vision. The CTO’s function is to compel the technology vision to complement the business vision, setting the tone and direction for the company’s technologies.

Markit, Colorado, February 2016
Markit, a leading global diversified provider of financial information services, is looking for a CTO.

State of California, California, March 2016
California CIO Carlos Ramos retires. Amy Tong is now Acting Director, California Department of Technology. Tong served as the Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Systems Integration (OSI) and the Agency Information Officer of the California Health and Human Services Agency (CHHS) since August 2014.

State of New Jersey, New Jersey, March 2016
New Jersey State CIO Steven Emanuel is stepping down next month and returning to the private sector.

University of Kentucky, Kentucky, May 2016
The university is looking for a CIO.

Mspark, Alabama, June 2016
Mspark, direct marketing solutions company for rural and suburban markets, seeks an experienced technology leader to join as CIO.

Peeple App, California, July 2016
Reputation management iOS app developer Peeple App is looking for a CTO helping to transition their company and position it for maximum growth.

MobileGuard, North Carolina, July 2016
MobileGuard, formerly TextGuard, is seeking a CTO to oversee all technical aspects and technological resources of the e-discovery and supervision solution provider.

New York Power Authority, New York, July 2016
New York Power Authority is looking for a Chief Security Officer (CSO) to build and sustain a Cyber Risk Framework that integrates Governance and Risk Compliance controls, requirements, oversight and validation into IT and Operational Technology (OT).

SafeAuto, Ohio, July 2016
Property and casualty auto insurance carrier SafeAuto is seeking a CIO who would build a IT model to meet current organizational needs and build for continued leveraging of technology services for the future.

Mazuma Credit Union, Kansas, July 2016
The credit union is looking for a CIO for initiating transformative change, implementing innovative solutions, directing and controlling the company’s information systems and technology activities.

Jellyvision Lab, Illinois, July 2016
Jellyvision is looking for a CTO, who will be business savvy and process-minded tech leader to integrate technology and business plans, make key architectural and infrastructure decisions.

4over, California, August 2016
Trade printer company 4over is looking for a CTO, who will be responsible for overseeing the organization's software development and technology infrastructure.

Datto, Connecticut, August 2016
Datto is seeking a CIO, a technology leader to build, purchase, and integrate software solutions for internally facing applications which are a combination of homegrown and 3rd party products.

Sonesta Hotels & Resorts, Massachusetts, August 2016
Sonesta is seeking a CIO, who will be responsible for the successful delivery of IT strategies, services, and operations.

ChartSpan Medical Technologies, South Carolina, September 2016
Healthcare data company ChartSpan is looking for a CIO to lead the IT department.

Tech execs appointed in 31 days ended September 15, 2016.

Airbus Group, Netherlands, $71.42B, August 2016Luc Hennekens

Citrix Systems, Florida, $3.386B, September 2016Jeff Russo

Tilly's, California, $550.99M, September 2016Jon Kubo

Sherpa, North Carolina, $6.22M, August 2016Tracy Libertino-Fegarsky

Inovalon Appoints Former Accenture CEO and Chair as Board Member     William D. Green

Inovalon, cloud-based analytics & data-driven platforms for healthcare industry, announced that William D. Green has joined the company's Board of Directors. He is an experienced leader with outstanding management and operating experience. He is former CEO and Chairman of Accenture. Green also serves on the Board of Directors for S&P Global and serves as Lead Director of EMC Corporation’s Board of Directors.

Former President of the Genetic Science Division of Thermo Fisher Scientific Joins Orion Health’s Board

Orion Health, the global healthcare platform advancing integration, population health management and precision medicine solutions, appointed Ronald Andrews as an independent director. Andrews has close to 30 years in governance and executive roles in the US Clinical and Molecular Diagnostics industry. He has extensive experience working with the US government in Washington and speaks regularly to industry groups. He served as the President of the Genetic Science Division for Thermo Fisher Scientific until December 2014.

Castlight Health Makes Board and Leadership Changes

Castlight Health, the health benefits platform that simplifies strategic healthcare management for employers and their employees, reported that technology industry leader Kenny Van Zant has joined its Board of Directors. Most recently, Kenny Van Zant was the Head of Business at Asana, the creator of cloud-based SaaS project management tools, where he led all business functions, including sales, marketing, customer support and finance.

Bryan Roberts, PhD, co-founder of Castlight and general partner at Venrock, remains Castlight's Chairman of the Board.

Castlight Health hired veteran technologist Neeraj Gupta as SVP of engineering. Neeraj brings more than 20 years of software engineering experience. Before joining Castlight, he was SVP for product and engineering at Apcera. Prior to that, he was SVP for product and engineering at Appcelerator.

Cogstate Announces Company Secretary Changes    

Leading cognitive science company Cogstate named Cindy Tilley as acting Company Secretary. Cindy recently joined Cogstate to replace Abby Moore as acting Finance Manager and Company Secretary. Cindy has over 16 years' experience in finance and accounting, serving at Lend Lease where she held senior finance roles spanning 15 years and most recently as Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary for Probuild.

Instem Hires Global Sales Leader from LabVantage Solutions         

Life science software firm Instem announced that Jerry Hacker has joined its leadership team as SVP, Global Sales. Prior to joining Instem, Hacker was SVP Worldwide Sales at LabVantage Solutions, where he helped drive record revenue growth for their Laboratory Information Management Systems while greatly increasing productivity of his sales teams.

Adherium Announces Multiple Leadership Changes 

New Zealand based digital health technology company Adherium named Thomas Lynch new Chairman, and Dr. Doug Wilson as Adherium's executive Medical Director. Lynch serves as a non-executive director of GW Pharma.

Dr. Wilson is stepping down from the board, moving to a part-time executive role as Adherium's Medical Director, where he will work closely with the management team to assist in steering the Company's clinical development and strategic path for the next phase of growth.

Adherium announced that San Francisco Bay Area office will serve as the company's North American commercial hub led by James Hattersley, SVP Business Development, North America.

Adherium appointed its new COO, Ross Bradding, and a new Head of Corporate Development, Julia Chambers. Ross joins Adherium from First NZ Capital.

Connecture Names SVP of Payer Solutions   

Online health insurance distributor Connecture announced that Jean Landsverk has joined the company as SVP of Payer Solutions. Landsverk previously served as SVP of the National and Blue Cross Blue Shield Markets for Trizetto/Cognizant, and has led divisions for a wide variety of top corporations, including Coca Cola, Western Union, First Data Corp, ARAMARK and Xerox ACS over her 29-year career.

Streamline Health Chief Legal Counsel Steps Down

Streamline Health Solutions, the provider of knowledge management solutions for healthcare providers, announced that Jack W. Kennedy Jr. departed from his position as SVP, Administration, Chief Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary of the company. Prior to joining Streamline Health, Kennedy was Vice President and Corporate Counsel for PRGX Global.

Certive Solutions Appoints COO and VP of SalesBrian Diver

Certive Solutions, that provides revenue cycle management solutions to the U.S. health care market, hired Brian Diver as its COO. Most recently, Diver served as the Managing Director of Instant Technology, and was responsible for expanding their staffing and service business.

Michael Groeger joined the company as VP of sales. Groeger comes to Certive from United Healthcare having spent the last eight years as the National Director of Private Equity Distribution of Commercial Products.

Rennova Health CFO Leaves

Supportive software solutions provider to healthcare industry Rennova Health and Jason Adams, CFO, agreed that he would be leaving the Company to pursue other interests. The Company will name an interim principal financial and accounting officer to replace Adams.

DATATRAK Appoints Autodesk Exec as New Independent Director          

eClinical solutions firm DATATRAK International appointed Eric J. Wilhelm to the Board of Directors. Dr. Wilhelm has founded several companies including the project-sharing community Instructables (acquired by Autodesk), high-altitude wind power company Makani Power (acquired by Google), the innovation and design partnership Squid Labs, and companies working on portable energy generation and health care. His is now the Vice President of Hardware and Communities at Autodesk.

WebMD Health Services Taps CTO from Premise HealthJacob Sims

Trusted digital health and medical information provider WebMD Health Services announced Jacob Sims has joined the company as CTO. Sims most recently served as VP of Development and Technology at Premise Health, where he was responsible for driving all aspects of engineering, including development, quality assurance, data acquisition & integration, user experience & design, product strategy, and product delivery.

Verisk Health Names CEO from Accretive Health   

Verisk Health, provider of data analytics for healthcare industry, announced that Dr. Emad Rizk has been named CEO. Dr.  Emad Rizk is a seasoned and renowned healthcare industry senior executive with over 25 years of experience working closely with Payers and Government entities. Dr. Rizk joins Verisk Health from Accretive Health where he served as CEO and as a member of its Board of Directors.

Date Range: August 2nd - September 12th

GE Appoints New Chief Digital Officer for GE Power; GE Digital COO Joins United Technologies as CIO

Ganesh Bell has been promoted to VP & Chief Digital Officer, GE Power. Ganesh joined GE in 2014. Prior to GE, he was EVP & Chief Products Officer at Service Source.

Vince Campisi, COO for GE Digital, responsible for cybersecurity, business and cloud operations, has left. He joined United Technologies as SVP, Digital, and CIO. Campisi started with GE in 1999 and progressed through leadership roles including GM, Cloud Services & CIO for GE Software.

Citi Names Head of Technology for Global Consumer Banking from JPMorgan Chase      

Gavin Michael will be joining Citi as head of Technology for Global Consumer Banking. Michael joins Citi from JPMorgan Chase where he served as head of Digital for Consumer and Community Banking. Gavin had responsibility for the technology and engineering teams as well as Customer Experience and Design, Product and Payments, Platform and Delivery, Data Intelligence and Data Analytics. Prior to Chase, he was Chief Technology Innovation officer at Accenture.

Siemens Promotes Systems Engineering Exec as CTO for Middle East Operations and Head of the Qatar Innovation Center 

Siemens appointed Peter Tollkuehn as its CTO for Middle East operations, and also the head of the Qatar Innovation Center. Previously head of technology field systems engineering at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, he brings 25 years of experience in building successful research and development teams across the world, including in Russia, China and the US.

Dow Chemical Company Names Long Time IT Exec as CIOMelanie Kalmar

The Dow Chemical Company announced that Melanie Kalmar, global director Information Systems, has been named CIO. Kalmar also chairs the Executive Steering Team which is accountable to provide the overarching vision and corporate priorities, allocate resources and manage overall risk for IT investments. Kalmar has also been at the epicenter of Dow's merger & acquisition IT projects. She led the most complex SAP implementation in the world, and was accountable for launching the information systems required to operate Sadara, the joint venture developed by Dow and Saudi Aramco. Kalmar joined Dow in January 1987 in Research Information Systems in Midland, Michigan.

Telefonica Appoints CISO     

Telefonica has appointed Alejandro Ramos as its chief information security officer. In his role, Ramos will be responsible for planning, development, control and management of policies related to the company's information security and operations, reporting directly to Alonso. He was previously head of cybersecurity for Spain and Portugal at ING bank.

Erez Yarkoni to Leave Telstra as CIO           

Telstra announced that its CIO Erez Yarkoni has decided to leave the company. Yarkoni will stay at Telstra until October 2016, to ensure a smooth transition of his leadership. Yarkoni joined Telstra in early 2013 to run its cloud business unit and was promoted to CIO in February 2015.

Airbus Group Announces CIO Changes         

Airbus Group has announced the departure of Guus Dekkers as CIO. Dekkers will be succeeded by Luc Hennekens, currently CIO of Qantas Airways. Before Hennekens joined Qantas, he has worked with Procter & Gamble and Hewlett-Packard among others.

Equinix Witnesses Tech Executive Changes 

Equinix promoted Brian Lillie to Chief Customer Officer (CCO) and EVP of Technology Services. Lillie has served as the Global CIO of Equinix for the past eight years.

The company also announced that it has appointed Milind Wagle as the new Global CIO reporting into the Customer Success Organization. Formerly the VP of Global IT in the CIO organization, Wagle will lead the global IT team. Wagle has been with Equinix for six years and previously held leadership positions at VeriSign, KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint.

MTN Appoints Chief Digital Officer 

MTN SA announced that Maxwell Takalani Nonge has been appointed Chief Digital Officer. Nonge is currently group CTO at eMedia Investments and was MD of Platco Digital from 2013 to 2016. In total, he has 17 years' experience in the telecommunications and broadcasting space across Southern Africa.

Lear Appoints VP, Cyber Security for E-Systems      

Lear Corporation announced that Dr. André Weimerskirch has been appointed as VP, Cyber Security for E-Systems. Most recently, André was leading vehicle cyber security research at the University of Michigan. André will be responsible for driving Lear's global cyber security technology strategy and implementation.

Turkcell Tech Group EVP Resigns    

The leading mobile phone operator of Turkey Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri announced that lker Kuruoz, who joined Company in 2006, and who has served as the EVP of Technology Group, has decided to resign from his position. The Network Technologies SVP and the Information and Communication Technologies SVP, currently positioned under the Technology Group, will continue in their roles by reporting directly to the CEO in the organizational structure.

W. R. Berkley Taps CIO from Risk Solutions International

Fortune 500 company W. R. Berkley Corporation appointed Richard M. Lowery as SVP and CIO. In this role, Lowery will be responsible for the development and implementation of strategic IT solutions. Lowery has nearly 30 years of experience in IT and most recently served in senior roles at Risk Solutions International and Marsh & McLennan Companies, management consulting firms focused on creating strategies to enable business with technology.

Level 3 Veteran Joins Zayo Group as CTO and President of Network SolutionsJack Waters

Communications infrastructure service provider Zayo Group Holdings has named Jack Waters as CTO and president of Network Solutions. During Waters' 18-year tenure with Level 3, he held key leadership and engineering roles and is well known for his role as their long-time CTO. Before joining Level 3, Waters was an executive staff member for MCI Communications, responsible for network architecture and implementation.

CTO Zining Wu Leaves Marvell Technology Group  

Dr. Zining Wu, CTO, notified Marvell Technology Group of his decision to leave Marvell. Dr. Wu has worked at Marvell Semiconductor since July 1999. Since August 2008, he has served as the Marvell Semiconductor's Vice President of Data Storage Technology.

LIXIL Appoints Chief Digital Officer to Bring in New Technologies           

Japanese manufacturer of building materials and housing equipment LIXIL Group appointed Yugo Kanazawa to the newly created role of Senior Managing Director and Chief Digital Officer. Prior to joining LIXIL, Kanazawa served as VP, Online Business, W.W. Grainger. Kanazawa brings over 15 years of management experience and expertise in Business Development, Corporate Strategy, Digital Technology, Content Development and Marketing.

PTC Appoints Andrew Timm as CTO           

PTC reported that Andrew Timm has been appointed as the company's CTO. ost recently, Timm served as vice president of PTC’s Technology Platform Group, where he energized the technical dimension of its IoT partner program. Timm began his career with PTC before following his entrepreneurial spirit, starting a consulting company focused on helping customers derive business value from PTC software. He later brought his team to Kalypso, a PTC systems integrator partner, where he initiated the company’s IoT practice and worked with ThingWorx® technology.

Ellie Mae Hires Visa Exec as Chief Architect

Ellie Mae announced that Michael Keselman has joined the company as Chief Architect. Keselman will be responsible for directing the architecture of Ellie Mae's complete cloud solution offering and will drive the evolution and design of Ellie Mae's open industry cloud platform. Prior to joining the company, Keselman worked at Visa as the Chief Architect for merchant and acquirer processing. Prior to his work at Visa, Keselman was the CTO at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.

Amec Foster Wheeler Appoints CIO from Centrica Energy

Amec Foster Wheeler appointed Rod Carr to the newly created position of CIO. Based in London, UK, and reporting to the CEO, he will be a member of the Group Leadership Team. Carr joins from Centrica Energy, where he was Group CIO and led a profound change in operating style for information services from customer programmes, to the integration of disparate international businesses.

Rostelecom Appoints New VP for IT

Russia's leading long-distance telephony provider Rostelecom has appointed Aleksey Telyatnikov as new VP for IT. Telyatnikov will be responsible for forming a targeted IT insfrastructure, reshaping the IT landscape and modifying IT functions at the national operator. Telyatnikov earlier worked as executive director of the company Tinkoff Insurance.

Lancope CISO Joins QTS Realty Trust         

QTS Realty Trust announced that Andrew Wild has joined the company as Chief Information Security Officer. Wild, who has more than 25 years of information security and risk management experience, has been successful in building corporate information security programs. Wild was most recently the CISO at Lancope, and prior to that he was the CSO at Qualys.

F.N.B. Taps FirstMerit CISO

Financial services corporation F.N.B. hired Scot Pflug as Chief Information Security Officer. Pflug brings more than 20 years of diverse IT experience to FNB, including positions in the consulting, retail and financial services industries. Most recently, he served as Chief Information Security Officer for FirstMerit Bank.

Singapore Based Public Transport Operator SMRT Promotes Tech Exec as CTO   

SMRT Corporation announced that Ng Bor Kiat, who is currently SVP, Systems & Technology and Technology Management Office, will be appointed to take on the appointment as CTO. Ng joined SMRT in June 2013. Prior to joining SMRT, he was Director, Corporate Development at the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and has around 13 years of experience with The Defence Science and Technology Agency.

Union Bank of the Philippines CIO Retires   

Union Bank of the Philippines announced that at the Ceferino P. Tolentino, Jr., CIO with the rank of SVP, has retired from the bank.

Corbion Appoints CTO to Drive Innovation and Technology Agenda

Corbion announced that Marcel Wubbolts will join as CTO. He will be driving the innovation and technology agenda enabling business development opportunities to support the company's growth journey. Following several positions in academia, he joined DSM, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials  based in the  Netherlands. Currently, Marcel is CTO and member of the DSM global leadership team. 

GoPro CIO Joins Sophos in Similar Role       Tony Young

Sophos appointed Tony Young as its CIO. Young joins the company from GoPro, where he served as CIO. Prior to GoPro, Young was SVP for Cloud and Subscription Sales at Informatica, where he was responsible for growing Informatica's global cloud business. Prior to joining Informatica in 2002, Young worked at Converge as the director of Exchange Applications and Mindcrossing as VP of product development. Young began his career at Hewlett Packard (HP) as a software developer and held a number of IT and marketing roles during his 11 years there.

PRA Group Names Assistant VP, Application Development and Support    

Debt buyer PRA Group announced that Chandra Ragyari has been named as Assistant VP, Application Development and Support. Ragyari has more than 16 years of experience in IT including software and mobile application development, cloud services architecture, data reporting and analysis, and infrastructure security. His previous roles include senior IT lead for Capital One and software development manager for Bostwick Laboratories.

Q2 Holdings Appoints Former Fiserv Exec as New Chief Security Officer  

Q2 Holdings reported that longtime financial services industry veteran Bob Michaud has joined the company as chief security officer. He held numerous positions at Fiserv as a loan product manager, general manager of branch automation and chief of the Quality and Standards Audit Office before becoming the head of all audit risk and compliance activities for Fiserv's Bank Solutions business unit. Michaud most recently held the position of EVP of client operations at Continuity, a technology solutions provider that automates compliance management for financial institutions.

Kudelski Security Names CTO as Part of Major Leadership Shuffle 

Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division of the Kudelski Group announced a number of senior leadership appointments as Kudelski Security expands its global presence. These include the appointment of Andrew Howard, formerly director of Cyber Technology and Information Security Lab at Georgia Tech, as CTO.

The Andersons Gets New CIO from Armstrong World Industries

Agribusiness firm The Andersons appointed Anthony Lombardi as its new CIO. Tony joins The Andersons after most recently serving as the VP of Global Business Services & CIO for Armstrong World Industries.

Cogeco Appoints Former Alcatel-Lucent Exec as Chief Technology and Strategy Officer

Cogeco appointed Luc Noiseux as SVP and Chief Technology and Strategy Officer. Most recently, he was VP Research & Development at Accedian Networks, where he was responsible for all product development and for the Chief of Technology office. Previously, Noiseux also held several senior research and development roles at Alcatel-Lucent.

WebMD Health Services Taps CTO from Premise Health

Trusted digital health and medical information provider WebMD Health Services announced Jacob Sims has joined the company as CTO. Sims most recently served as VP of Development and Technology at Premise Health, where he was responsible for driving all aspects of engineering, including development, quality assurance, data acquisition & integration, user experience & design, product strategy, and product delivery.

Date Range: August 2nd - September 12th

Cisco Middle East Appoints Managing Director of East Region    Shukri Eid  

Cisco Middle East has appointed Shukri Eid as the managing director of its East region. In his new role, Shukri will lead the Cisco’s business in the UAE, Oman, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen. A Cisco Leadership Pipeline Program alumnus, Eid most recently held the position of senior director of country digitisation acceleration (CDA) in Cisco’s EMEAR region, working with government and industry leaders to accelerate national digitisation strategies. Prior to that, he was the director managing Cisco consulting services in the same region. Prior to joining Cisco, Eid held a number of senior consultancy roles at leading blue chips, including IBM global business services and PwC, with engagements involving local and federal government, education, financial services, and defence.

Nokia Announces Change in the Nokia Technologies’ Leadership; Appoints CEO of its Russian Branch   

Nokia announced that Ramzi Haidamus, President of Nokia Technologies and a member of the company's Group Leadership Team, will step down from the Nokia Group Leadership Team.

Brad Rodrigues, currently head of strategy and business development in Nokia Technologies, will assume the role of acting president of Nokia Technologies, and the company has started the search for a permanent successor with the requisite technology, product and commercial skills.

Nokia has appointed Mikhail Rayskin the CEO of its Russian branch. Simultaneously, Rayskin will continue working as head of the customer business team to deal with key accounts. Rayskin has previously held management positions at numerous telecommunications companies. 

Harris Corporation Appoints New Board Members   James Albaugh

Harris Corporation has announced the appointment of James Albaugh to its board of directors. Harris also announced that Roger B. Fradin has been nominated for election to its Board. Albaugh, is a senior adviser to Perella Weinberg Partners. He served as senior advisor to The Blackstone Group from December 2012 to July 2016. Prior to that, he had a 37-year career at Boeing, where he held various leadership positions, including president and CEO of the Commercial Airplane business, president and CEO of the Integrated Defense Systems business and president and CEO of the Space and Communications business.

Fradin is vice chairman of Honeywell International Inc. During his 16-year career with Honeywell, he has held leadership positions, including president and CEO of the company's Automation and Controls business. He joined Honeywell in 2000 when the company acquired Pittway Corporation.

ARRIS International Announces Board and CEO Changes   

ARRIS International appointed Bruce McClelland as CEO. McClelland also was appointed to serve on the Board of Directors. McClelland joined ARRIS in 1999 as VP of Engineering.

Bob Stanzione will become ARRIS Executive Chairman in addition to continuing to serve as Chairman of the Board. Stanzione will remain with ARRIS on a full-time basis as Executive Chairman. Stanzione was the founding President and CEO of ARRIS Interactive. The appointment of McClelland as CEO is the culmination of a formal CEO succession process started in early 2016 by the Board of Directors. In connection with the process, the Board retained the firm of Spencer Stuart to assist with the extensive search process.

ARRIS also appointed Andrew M. Barron, 51, as a director.  Since 2014, Barron has served as Chairman of Com Hem Holding AB. Barron also served as Chairman of Primacom.

Cheetah Mobile Announces New CEO and Director

China based mobile tools provider Cheetah Mobile named Tao Zou as CEO and a director of the Company and announced the resignation of Dr. Hongjiang Zhang as a director of the Company, due to his intended retirement. Tao Zou, who has worked at Kingsoft for approximately twenty years, is currently an executive director and SVP of Kingsoft as well as the CEO of Seasun Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Kingsoft. 

Date Range: August 10th - September 20th

Paypal Announces Geographic Leadership Changes  

Paypal has appointed Frank Keller as the new General Manager for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, succeeding Arnulf Keese who leaves the company after ten years.  Until recently, Keller managed the corporate customer business.  Keese moves on to become general partner of a venture capital fund. He joined Paypal as Head of Strategy & Business Operations.

JD.Com Announces Executive Changes        

Shen Haoyu, CEO of China based JD Mall, JD.com's B2C business group, is to transfer to the US for family reasons and will act as president of JD.com's international operation. Shen Haoyu joined JD as COO in 2011.

Capgemini Names Chief Digital Officer of its North American Application Services and Consulting Services       Kim Smith 

Capgemini has named Kim Smith Chief Digital Officer of its North American Application Services and Consulting Services. In her prior role, Smith was Adobe's first global head of digital services innovation where she led the development of its digital services portfolio strategy, and launched Adobe's Smart Bag for retailers and Immersive Retail Experience offering in collaboration with Capgemini. She was previously a vice president at Capgemini, and led product and service lines for cloud and digital innovation. Prior to that, Smith spent 12 years as an executive at Microsoft leading online, digital, cloud products and services innovation.