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Now, onto the leadership update on technology function executive moves.

Following is an overview of this month’s trends. 

By the numbers, overall:

•      Total Tech Exec Roles Open: 65
•      New Tech Exec Appointments: 83 (11 women or 13%, 72 men)​

Geographic Distribution of new tech execs: 67 in the US, 6 in Europe, and 10 in Asia/Russia/ Australasia.   

New Tech Function Openings: 2 – Etsy (NY), NASA (Washington, D.C). 

Tech Execs Appointed - Sources 

Sources of Appointments: 59 were External appointments, and 24 were internal promotions.

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Tech Function Exec Open Roles (As of May 15, 2017)

Tech Function Execs Appointed

Tech execs appointed in 30 days ended May 15, 2017.

GE, Massachusetts - $120.2B
Monica Caldas, currently CIO for GE Transportation’s global services and digital solutions teams, will take over as CIO for the entire unit.

GE, Massachusetts - $120.2B
GE Transportation’s CIO Nancy Anderson moved o the CIO role at GE Power.

IBM, New York - $79.39B
VP, IT Fletcher Previn has been named CIO, replacing CIO Jeff Smith.

Procter & Gamble, Ohio - $65.2B
Procter and Gamble has appointed Javier Polit as CIO. Former CIO Coca-Cola bottling investments group.

United Parcel Service, Georgia - $60.9B
UPS promotes CIO Juan Perez as Chief Information and Engineering Officer.

J Sainsbury plc, United Kingdom - $33.8B
J Sainsbury plc appointed Phil Jordan as next Group CIO. Joins from Telefonica where he was Global CIO and previously European CIO.

Charter Communications, Connecticut - $29.0B
Charter Communications named Kevin J. Leddy as SVP of Technology Planning and Application. Longtime cable executive, most recently served as EVP of Corporate Strategy at Time Warner Cable.

Twenty-First Century Fox, New York - $27.3B
21st Century Fox appointed Melody Hildebrandt to the role of Global CISO. Joins from Palantir Technologies, where she served as EVP and directed the cybersecurity practice.

Flex, Singapore - $24.4B
Flex announced that Qualcomm Exec Dr. Kevin Kettler has joined the company as CTO and SVP of the Cloud Business Unit.

Staples, Massachusetts - $18.7B
Staples announced Brett Wahlin has been appointed to the role of CISO. Joins Staples from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he served as VP and CISO.

AECOM, California - $17.4B
AECOM appointed Richard McKinney as VP of enterprise IT strategy. Most recently, he served as CIO for the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Bombardier, Canada - $16.3B
Bombardier named Jeff Hutchinson as CIO. Hutchinson has more than 30 years of experience leading IT organizations at Honeywell, Maple Leaf Foods, SAP and Danone/Dannon.

V.F. Corporation, North Carolina - $12.0B
VF Corporation announced that Martin Schneider, VP & CIO will retire at the end of 2017. Sandra Harris, VP, Global Business Technology, will succeed Schneider as VP & CIO.

Mastercard, New York - $10.7B
Mastercard has appointed CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology.

News Corporation, New York - $8.2B
News Corp. announced that interim CTO Marc Frons has been appointed CTO. Latha Maripuri, who currently serves as News Corp’s CISO, and Christina Scott, CTO for News UK, have both been promoted to Deputy CTO positions, while retaining their existing responsibilities.

PAO Severstal, Russia - $5.9B
Severstal appointed Sergey Dunaev as CIO of AO Severstal Management and Chief Executive Officer of OAO Severstal Infocom. Sergey Dunaev has worked at SAP SE since October 2014.

Fortis, Canada - $5.1B
Fortis appointed Phonse Delaney as EVP, CIO. Phonse served most recently as President and CEO of FortisAlberta.

Levi Strauss, California - $4.5B
Chris Clark, global supply chain and business intelligence groups leader, was promoted to SVP and CIO, replacing Roland Paanakker.

The Bon-Ton Stores, Pennsylvania - $2.7B
Norm Veit was appointed to the position of EVP, CIO. He most recently served as CIO and EVP, Distribution, Real Estate & Facilities for Nine West Holdings.

Marvell Technology, Bermuda - $2.6B
Marvell Technology named Neil Kim as its CTO. Most recently Kim served as Broadcom's EVP of Operations and Central Engineering.

Ayala Land, Philippines - $2.5B
Ayala Land appointed Augusto D. Bengzon as the group CFO, CIO and chief compliance officer. He will retain the position of group treasurer.

Hiscox, Bermuda - $2.2B
Hiscox announced that the appointment of Ian Penny as CIO. Ian is currently CTO at Barclays.

Coretronic, Taiwan - $1.8B
Coretronic Corporation announced position adjustment of Fleming.Chuang, VP of company as CTO.

Hilltop, Texas - $1.6B
Hilltop Holdings appointed Toby Pennycuff, former head of IT at Essex Property Trust, as its new CIO.

Nokian Renkaat, Finland - $1.5B
Nokian Tyres plc announced that Frans Westerlund has been appointed VP, CIO and Processes. Former SVP, CIO, Head of Business Processes & IT of Fiskars Corporation.

Cardtronics, Texas - $1.3B
Cardtronics announced Dan Antilley has been named its new CISO. Most recently served as SVP, Global Information Security Operations Executive at Bank of America.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia - $867.6M
Helen Clifton was named Chief Digital and Information Officer. Since 2007 she served at TVNZ in Auckland as Chief Product and Information Officer.

Progress Software, Massachusetts - $405.3M
Progress appointed Dmitri Tcherevik to the role of CTO. Dmitri is a serial entrepreneur, having founded two successful technology start-ups - most recently MightyMeeting, a cloud-based mobile collaboration platform.

Global UniChip, Taiwan - $286.7M
Global Unichip has appointed Igor Elkanovich as its system chief technical officer. Most recently, CTO of Verisense.

MYOB Group, Australia - $267.9M
Hugh Fahy was named GM of Engineering. Former Group CTO at NET-A-PORTER, a billion-dollar global multi brand retailer and media group.

Qualys, California - $197.9M
Qualys appointed Mark Butler, a former Fiserv executive, as CISO.

MidSouth Bancorp, Louisiana - $81.8M
Kade Peterson was recently hired as CIO, after three years as EVP – COO of USAmeriBank.

Zix, Texas - $60.1M
Zix Corporation has appointed Nigel Johnson’s role with the company to become CTO. Previously, Johnson served as Zix’s VP of Product Management.

JetPay, Pennsylvania - $56.3M
John Crouch will join JetPay as the company's CIO. Most recently at EVO, Crouch held the position of U.S. CIO.

SITO Mobile, New Jersey - $29.4M
Michael Blanche, SVP of Technology and Innovation, has been promoted to the newly created role of CTO.

Tech Mpire, Australia - $23.9M
CEO Luke Taylor will be taking on the new role of CTO, devoting his energies solely to the Company's significant technology growth initiatives.

RS2 Software, Malta - $18.1M
RS2 Software appointed Patrick Clarke as Chief Technical Officer. Prior to joining RS2, Patrick Clarke was CEO and co-founder of a global acquirer processing company.

Flitways Technology, California - $0.4M
Peter Sjolin was appointed to a newly created role of CTO. Peter has 22 years of technological experience, including working for major brands like Disney.

Harvest One Cannabis, Canada - $0.2M
Nick Maltchev was named as CTO. He has been involved with the industry since 2004 and was an integral part of the Advanced Nutrients management team over a period of 12 years.

SMITH, Washington
SMITH appointed Ryan Heusinkveld as CTO. Joins SMITH from SapientRazorfish, where he was VP of Technology.

Zen Internet, United Kingdom
Zen Internet appointed Justin Fielder as CTO. Fielder had previously filled a similar role at Easynet, acquired by BSkyB in 2005, where he continued to work until the end of 2012.

Belcan, Ohio
Clint Green was named VP, Technology and Innovation. He was most recently the director of Advanced Analytic Strategies and Development at ViON.

Zyme Solutions, California
Former IBM executive Abhijit Bhide has joined as VP of engineering and infrastructure. Prior, Bhide led the development and deployment of Fiberlink's market-leading SaaS platform.

Hastings Mutual Insurance, Michigan
Hastings Mutual Insurance Company named Eshwar Pastapur as VP of IT and CIO. Pastapur comes to Hastings Mutual from Lake Zurich, Illinois.

Ieso Digital Health, United Kingdom
Ieso Digital Health appointed Craig Gravina as CTO. Prior, Craig served as the CTO of Cogstate.

Complete Innovations, Canada
Fleet Complete announced appointment of Alan Fong as CTO. Fong brings a wealth of experience in building and developing high-growth technology companies.

Postal Center International, Florida
Postal Center International (PCI) named William (Bill) Sweeney as CIO. Most recently CTO for BAE Systems Americas.

GNS Healthcare, Massachusetts
GNS Healthcare appointed Benjamin Bielak as CIO. He most recently served as the Director of Academic Technology at Harvard University.

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, Florida
Terrence Gee has been named SVP, CIO. Gee will continue to lead the company’s IT function and operations.

7signal Solutions, Ohio
7SIGNAL named 20-year software leader and architect Russell Wangler as the company's new CTO.

Liberty Specialty Markets, United Kingdom
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) has appointed Max Gibbs as its new CTO. Max spent the last 17 years at Chubb, formerly ACE, most recently as CIO.

Eyeview, New York
Eyeview appointed Utpal Kalita as CTO. He was most recently VP and Head of Engineering at Tremor Video.

ID Analytics, California
ID Analytics named Ajay Nigam as SVP of product and technology. Before, Nigam was SVP of products for BrightPoint Security, later acquired by ServiceNow.

Gritstone Oncology, California
Gritstone Oncology promoted Roman Yelensky, Ph.D., to CTO. Dr. Yelensky joined Gritstone at its inception in October 2015 as EVP of sequencing and bioinformatics.

SiteSpect, Massachusetts
Eric J. Hansen, founder and current CEO, will transition to the new role of EVP and CTO.

The Options Clearing Corporation, Illinois
Options Clearing Corp. appointed Mark Morrison as SVP and chief security officer, a new role. Morrison was recently with State Street Corp. as SVP and CISO.

The Options Clearing Corporation, Illinois
OCC announced that David Hoag will join OCC as SVP and CIO. Before joining OCC, Hoag served as the CTO for Halo Investing.

Sigma Systems Canada, Canada
Sigma Systems has appointed Catherine Michel as CTO. Michel previously served as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Sigma, and currently sits on the TM Forum Executive Committee.

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, District Of Columbia
OCC appointed Mark Morrison as SVP and Chief Security Officer, a new position. At State Street Corporation, Morrison served from 2013 to the present as SVP and CISO.

OpenX Technologies, California
OpenX reported the addition of Janice Rohn as VP, User Experience. Recently, Rohn was the VP, User Experience at PubMatic, where she was responsible for cross-platform research, design, and front-end development.

Oravel Stays, India
OYO appointed Suvesh Malhotra as VP-Engineering. Suvesh joins OYO from Amazon.com where he was leading technology for BuyVIP, a flash sales e-commerce platform.

Fuze, Massachusetts
Fuze named Chris Conry as CIO. Prior to Fuze, Chris was VP of IT & Office Services at Arbor Networks.

Trunk Club, Illinois
Candice Savino has joined as new VP of engineering. She joins with over 14 years of experience across a variety of companies including Groupon, WMS Gaming and IBM.

Accenture Federal Services, Virginia
Former U.S. Army senior intelligence officer Lieutenant General Mary A. Legere (Ret.) has joined Accenture Federal Services (AFS) as the MD for national and defense intelligence business.

Formativ Health, New York
Formativ Health announced that David D. Harvey has been named as CTO. From 2008 to 2015 David was VP of Product Strategy for athena.

Green House Data, Wyoming
Green House Data appointed Fred Tanzella to CTO. Mr. Tanzella is the former CEO and founder of Cirracore.

Economical Insurance Group, Canada
Kelley Irwin will join as SVP and CIO. Most recently served at TD Bank Group, as VP and CIO, Corporate Technology.

Experticity, Washington
Greg Cox has joined the company as chief product and technology officer. Before, Cox was a co-founder and CTO of YouLookFab.com.

TextNow, Canada
TextNow appointed Sean McCabe to serve as CTO. Sean joins TextNow from Aeryon Labs, where he has served as the VP of Engineering since 2013.

SolarWinds, Texas
Rani Johnson has been appointed as global VP and CIO. Most recently was the CIO for the Lower Colorado River Authority.

Command Alkon, Alabama
Charles Evans joined as CTO and VP of Engineering. Prior, Charles was CTO at Integraph Process, Power & Marine.

SBE Entertainment Group, California
sbe announced that IT executive Peter Chambers is joining as CIO. Prior, Chambers served as VP of Technology at Viceroy Hotel Group.

Pay Asia, Singapore
PayAsia appointed Chris Brunton as CTO. Chris has over 20 years’ experience in HR and Payroll Technology BPO and has consulted to the company since December 2015.

iovation, Oregon
Dwayne Melancon joined as VP of product. Former CTO, product management at Tripwire.

Syncsort, New Jersey
Tendü Yogurtçu, PhD was promoted to CTO. Yogurtçu has over 20 years senior business and engineering management experience across Syncsort’s product portfolio.

Syncsort, New Jersey
David Hodgson was promoted to Chief Product Officer (CPO). Hodgson has 24 years of experience in senior management roles at CA Technologies, Sterling Software and Syncsort.

OneDigital Health and Benefits, Georgia
Greg Blair joined as CIO. Recognized as an industry leader in the technology space, Blair has wealth of experience in technology strategy, enterprise architecture and management consulting at Arby’s, Microsoft, Ernst & Young and Accenture.

4tell Solutions, Maine
4tell™ Solutions appointed Neal Tisdale as new CTO. Prior to joining 4tell™, he served as EVP of energy development at ABB Enterprise Software.

Aeryon Labs, Canada
Dave Kroetsch, company founder, moves into the new role of CTO.

BJC Health System, Missouri
BJC HealthCare has appointed Jerry Fox Jr. to serve as its new CIO. Prior to Rockwell, Fox held technology leadership positions at Dana Corp.

Two Pore Guys, California
Two Pore Guys announced that Jordan Hubbard has joined 2PG as VP of Engineering. Hubbard is best known for his role as a manager and director of engineering at Apple from 2001 to 2013.

First Keystone Community Bank, Pennsylvania
Jeff Wozniak, IT Manager and Information Security Officer, was promoted to SVP.  

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Allscripts Promotes Strategic Initiatives SVP to Interim CFO Role  

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions announced that Dennis M. Olis has been named interim CFO. Since November, 2016, Olis has served as Allscripts SVP, Strategic Initiatives and from November 2012 until November 2016, was the Company’s SVP, Operations. Prior to joining Allscripts in 2012, Olis worked for over 25 years in various finance roles at Motorola, most recently as Corporate VP Finance Operations of Motorola Mobility and before that as Corporate VP of Finance, Research & Development, Portfolio Management and Planning at Motorola.

Quality Systems Announces COO Changes; Sees Changes at Subsidiary NextGen Healthcare Information Systems As WellDaniel J. Morefield

Daniel J. Morefield tendered his resignation from his position as Quality Systems' EVP and COO and subsidiary NextGen Healthcare Information Systems' COO. Morefield has served as a member of the company's executive team since 2012. The Board appointed Scott E. Bostick to succeed Morefield as EVP and COO of the company. Bostick joined the company in March 2016 as the Chief Client Officer. Previously, Bostick served as the SVP at CareFusion from 2009 to 2015.

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems reported that Allen Plunk recently joined NextGen as SVP, RCM Operations. With this addition, Morefield will now exit the organization and move on to his next challenge. Scott Bostick will assume the role of COO adding Revenue Cycle Operations to his current responsibilities, leading the Client Success organization - comprised of Sales, Marketing, Service, and Implementation. Bostick joined NextGen as EVP, Chief Client Officer early in calendar year 2016. Before joining NextGen, he served as the SVP the America's Commercial Organization for CareFusion, 2009-2015.

OptumInsight Get New CEO

UnitedHealth announced that Eric Murphy has been named CEO of OptumInsight. He was previously enterprise growth officer for Optum. Murphy succeeds Bill Miller.

Inovalon CTO Steps Down

Joseph R. Rostock’s employment as the CTO of Inovalon Holdings, the provider of cloud-based platforms to the healthcare industry, ended. Rostock will remain an employee of the company through May 2017 to assist in the transition of his functions to members of the company’s Technology Department.

Emis Group Announces New CEO   

UK based healthcare software firm EMIS Group announced that Andy Thorburn will join the company as CEO. This follows the announcement in December 2016 of the intention of Chris Spencer, current CEO, to retire from the board during 2017.

Andy has an excellent track record of achievement in his previous roles, both in the UK and overseas. He has recently returned to the UK after 4 years working for Digicel, latterly as the Group COO. He was previously CEO of Digicel Caribbean and Central America and CEO of Digicel Jamaica. Prior to joining Digicel Andy had over 16 years' experience in the software industry having had senior management roles at INTEC, Chronicle Solutions and a number of Benchmark Capital Portfolio companies. Andy was also a Managing Director within BT Group.

Cognosante Appoints Multiple Senior Leaders          

Cognosante, a provider of healthcare consulting, technology solutions, and business process outsourcing services, named Alex Cobey as Chief Legal Officer. Prior to joining Cognosante, Cobey was a Partner at the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he spent almost twenty years in the firm's corporate department.

Steve Schliesman joined as VP & General Manager, Military & Veterans Health. Before joining Cognosante, Steve was the Deputy Director, DoD/VA Interagency Program Office.

Cognosante appointed Mustafa El Rafey as Chief People Officer. Prior to joining Cognosante, Mustafa held various HR and corporate leadership roles with world class consumer goods, retail, and e-commerce companies. As the global Head of Talent Management at Mars, Starbucks, and QVC, Mustafa designed and led high impact organization and human capital solutions to enhance employee experience, and develop organization capability and performance.

Orion Health Group Appoints CFO and Global Sales Leader

Orion Health Group, the New Zealand based global healthcare platform advancing integration, population health management and precision medicine, appointed Mark Tisdel as its CFO. Currently, Tisdel serves at Model N as its CFO.  Previously, he worked for Steelwedge Software, Spigit, Selectica, Riverstone Networks, PeopleSoft, WarpSpeed Communications, GTE Mobilnet, Mengel, Metzger, Barr & Co LLP and Kay Bee Toys.

Orion Health appointed its new EVP for Global Sales, Marketing, and Strategy, Teri Thomas. While currently US-based, she will be moving to New Zealand to take up the role.

Press Ganey Appoints Associate Chief Nursing OfficerDr. Mary Jo Assi

Healthcare performance improvement solutions provider Press Ganey announced that Dr. Mary Jo Assi has joined its executive team as Associate Chief Nursing Officer. Assi joins Press Ganey from the American Nurses Association (ANA) where she was the VP of Nursing Practice and Innovation.

NantHealth Appoints COO from BlackBerry; Names New Chief Medical Officer

Evidence-based personalized healthcare company NantHealth appointed Ronald A. Louks as its COO. Prior to joining the company, Louks served as president of Devices & Emerging Solutions at BlackBerry. Earlier, Louks served as CEO of the OpenNMS Group. He held a number of senior leadership positions at Sony Ericsson, most recently serving as its CTO.

NantHealth appointed Sandeep (Bobby) Reddy, MD, as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Reddy joined NantHealth in December of 2016 as Senior Executive Director of Medical Affairs and prior to that position, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Caris Life Sciences.

Imprivata Appoints FireEye VP as New VP Sales International        

Imprivata appointed Adam Bangle as VP Sales International. With a wealth of experience in the security sector, Adam will spearhead Imprivata's growth strategy in Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific markets, focusing on building and expanding current field sales operations. He has over 25 years' experience in sales, business development, and management gained from a variety of roles including VP Sales, Fraud and Risk Intelligence at RSA and VP EMEA at Splunk. Adam joins Imprivata most recently from FireEye where he held the role of VP.

AdvancedMD Appoints CFO from inContact

AdvancedMD welcomed Greg Ayers to the company's leadership team as CFO. Ayers joins AdvancedMD after eight years at inContact, where he served as CFO, playing an instrumental role in the company's recent acquisition by NICE Systems. Ayers was named Utah Business CFO of the year in 2010.

Redbrick Health Appoints Gary Smithson as Chief Medical Officer 

Health engagement and behavior change technology company RedBrick Health announced that Gary Smithson, M.D., has joined its leadership team as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Smithson is a board-certified pediatrician and accomplished health care executive with over 30 years of business and clinical experience. Dr. Smithson has previously served as senior consultant at both Willis Towers Watson and Deloitte Consulting. He brings expertise in collaborative provider-focused care models, including accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes.

Castlight Health Announces Board and Executive Changes after Jiff Acquisition    

Health benefits platform Castlight Health announced that it has completed its acquisition of Jiff to create the most comprehensive health benefits platform in the industry. As previously announced, a number of management and board of director changes became effective with the completion of the transaction. John Doyle assumed the role of CEO, and former Jiff CEO Derek Newell was named president.

Castlight Health co-founder Giovanni Colella transition from CEO to executive chairman of the board, and John Doyle, Derek Newell and Jiff co-founder James Currier were appointed to the board. Additionally, Ann Lamont stepped down from the board.

Priya Jain, the Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Castlight Health will resign from the company in order to pursue another professional opportunity. Jain also served as the company’s principal accounting officer. Siobhan Nolan Mangini, the company’s CFO, was appointed principal accounting officer, effective upon Jain’s departure.

Connecture Names Aesynt CEO Kraig McEwen to Board   Kraig McEwen 

Kraig McEwen was appointed to the board of directors of Connecture, provides the web-based sales, service, and process automation solutions provider to the health insurance industry. McEwen serves as the CEO and Director at Aesynt (Mckesson Autuomation.), a subsidiary Mckesson Provider Technologies.

Practice Fusion Appoints Former Allscripts Exec as New Chief Marketing Officer 

Practice Fusion announced that Bevey Miner has joined the company's executive team as CMO. Miner has more than 20 years of health IT experience from senior executive roles. While at Allscripts, Miner was executive director of the National ePrescribing Patient Safety Initiative (NEPSI), a free ePrescribing solution that was sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Dell, Anthem and Aetna.

MDLive Appoints Medical Group President 

MDLive reported Dr. Richard Gilbert has been appointed President of the company's Medical Group. Dr. Gilbert will be responsible for all aspects of clinical leadership, strategy, structure and operations. Prior to MDLive, Dr. Gilbert served as the Chief Medical Officer of Mednax. He also essayed CEO roles with Southeast Anesthesiology Consultants, Southeast Pain Care (founder) and Quantum (founder).

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Procter and Gamble Announces CIO Changes

Procter and Gamble has appointed Javier Polit as CIO. Polit joins PandG from the Coca-Cola, where he served as CIO of the company's bottling investments group for more than a decade. He succeeds Linda Clement-Holmes, who is retiring after 35 years of service.

Verizon Announces New Operating Structure; Announces Management Changes   

Verizon announced a new operating structure focused on three areas: Media and Telematics, Network and Technology, and Customer and Product Operations. As part of this structure, effective April 3, 2017 the company has hired Hans Vestberg, former CEO of Ericsson, as EVP for Verizon's new Network and Technology team.

Marni Walden will be EVP for Media and Telematics and John Stratton will be EVP for Customer and Product Operations. Walden will continue to lead Verizon's integration and expansion of its telematics (connected car and fleet management) portfolio, through acquisitions of Hughes Telematics, Fleetmatics and Telogis.

The Customer and Product Operations includes Verizon Wireless, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Verizon Partner Solutions, Verizon Consumer Markets and Verizon Business Markets. Stratton will focus on growing these core businesses, while accelerating Verizon's shift toward a digital-first model. Stratton will also lead operations and sales for the Internet of Things products and services, including smart communities.

Intel Announces Executive Promotions         

Intel Corporation announced that Diane Bryant, Murthy Renduchintala and Stacy Smith have been promoted to Group Presidents and Renduchintala has been appointed chief engineering officer. Bryant has been named Group President of the Data Center Group (DCG). She has been leading DCG since 2012 and is responsible for the group's P&L, strategy and product development.

Renduchintala has been named Group President, Client and Internet of Things Business & Systems Architecture Group (CISA), and appointed chief engineering officer.

Smith has been named Group President of Manufacturing, Operations and Sales. He has overseen the company's global Technology and Manufacturing Group and its worldwide sales organization since last fall.

IBM Appoints New CIO and New Chief Digital Officer for IndiaSouth Asia           

VP, IT Fletcher Previn has been named CIO, replacing CIO Jeff Smith. In his previous role Fletcher had responsibility for the desktop computing environment (Windows, Mac, Linux), the employee mobility program at IBM, the IBM intranet, and the Mac, PC, and Box@IBM programs. Before joining the office of the CIO, he led a development team in IBM Sales & Distribution. Prior to joining IBM in 2006, Fletcher managed the Enterprise Systems Group at Walmart.com.

IBM has appointed Nipun Mehrotra as chief digital officer for IndiaSouth Asia, and the appointment comes with months of Bob Lord, IBM's first ever chief digital officer, being charged with bringing together the digital business group (DBG). Over the past two years, as the VP for strategy growth initiatives, Mehrotra led IBM's transformational strategy across several areas in Asia & India.

Mastercard’s CIO Promoted to President, Operations and Technology

Mastercard has appointed Ed McLaughlin to President, Operations and Technology. McLaughlin succeeds Rob Reeg, who will move to a consulting role. In this role, McLaughlin will oversee all of Mastercard's technology functions, including the global network, processing platforms, information security and technology operations. For the past 16 months, McLaughlin has served as the company's CIO, directing the development efforts for products and services, implementing the IT digital roadmap, and managing the development of Mastercard's global tech hubs.

SAP Cloud Platform President Named CTO 

SAP Cloud Platform President Bjoern Goerke has been named as new CTO. As CTO, Goerke will advance the company's technology strategy and serve as a key external spokesperson.

UPS Names Juan Perez as Chief Information and Engineering Officer    Juan Perez    

UPS named Juan Perez as Chief Information and Engineering Officer. Appointed in March 2016 to the position of CIO, Perez has proven to be a change agent for the organization throughout his 27 years with the company, finding new ways to quickly put technology and engineering into action. Perez also worked with the IT team that developed the On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation (ORION) system used by UPS operations to optimize delivery routes to improve service and efficiency.

Qualcomm Goes through CTO Shuflle

Qualcomm announced that Dr. James H. Thompson, EVP of engineering, Qualcomm Technologies, has been appointed to the additional position of CTO. Matt Grob, EVP, Qualcomm Technologies and CTO, will transition to the role of EVP of technology, Qualcomm Technologies.

In addition to leading QCT engineering, as CTO, Thompson will align the companywide technical and product roadmaps across all business areas. He also will have oversight of Corporate R&D and Corporate Engineering.

21st Century Fox Hires Global CISO from Palantir Technologies     

21st Century Fox named Melody Hildebrandt to the role of Global CISO. In this role, she will oversee the protection and risk management for enterprise communications, technologies and assets for 21CF. She joins the company from Palantir Technologies, where she served as EVP and directed the cybersecurity practice.

Phillips 66 Names New Chief Digital and Administrative Officer     

Phillips 66 hired Zhanna Golodryga as SVP and chief digital and administrative officer. Golodryga recently worked as CIO and SVP of services at Hess Corp. She has more than three decades experience in the energy industry.

State Street Announces Technology Executive Appointments          

State Street Corporation named Ravi Arimilli and Pinar Emirdag as SVPs (SVP) within its Global Technology Services group and Kirk Wylie was named SVP and principal risk architect. Most recently Arimilli was at IBM as an IBM Fellow and the chief architect for analytics, big data and block-chain platforms.

Emirdag has joined the company as SVP and head of digital product development. In this role she will oversee the management of crypto and digital currencies and assets, block-chain products and will support the development of new business product opportunities in the company's business lines.

Wylie is the founder of Open Gamma, a derivatives risk software startup launched in 2009, bringing Open Source market risk software to markets and developing proprietary offerings. He will be in charge of technologies employed to standardise risk calculations, hardware acceleration and software deployments appropriate for on-demand, real-time risk analytics.

Lam Research Appoints New Corporate CTO          

Richard A. Gottscho, formerly EVP, Global Products, assumed the position of EVP and Corporate CTO of Lam Research Corporation.

VF Corporation Announces New CIO as Last CIO Retires   

VF Corporation announced that Martin Schneider, VP & CIO will retire at the end of 2017. Sandra Harris, VP, Global Business Technology, will succeed Schneider as VP & CIO. Harris, an eight-year veteran of VF, previously served as VP & CFO, Global Supply Chain, Shared Services, and Direct-to-Consumer for VF.

NTT DATA Appoints CTO for Public Sector

NTT DATA announced it has named Shamlan Siddiqi as CTO of the company’s public sector group. Siddiqi will define and lead the group’s technology, advisory and innovation vision and strategy, supporting its efforts to improve agency outcomes through pragmatic innovations and focused services.

CenturyLink Announces Senior Tech Leadership after Level 3 Acquisition

CenturyLink announced the senior leadership team that will report to Glen F. Post III, chief executive officer and president effective at the time of closing of the company's acquisition of Level 3 Communications Aamir Hussain, EVP, CTO and network operations, who will be responsible for product development, platforms and infrastructure and information technology. Girish Varma, EVP, IT and managed services, who will be responsible for technology/strategic consulting, big data, managed security services and managed hosting.

Fortis Promotes its Alberta CEO as CIO       

Fortis named Phonse Delaney as EVP, CIO. Phonse served most recently as President and CEO of Fortis Alberta. Prior to that appointment in 2014, he held the position of EVP, Operations, Engineering and IT of Fortis Alberta, a position he held since 2008.

Levi Strauss Appoints CIO from Within Ranks

Chris Clark, global supply chain and business intelligence groups leader, was promoted to SVP and CIO, replacing Roland Paanakker, at Levi Strauss.

Severstal Names SAP Exec as New CIO       

Severstal, a Russian company mainly operating in the steel and mining industry, appointed Sergey Dunaev as CIO of AO Severstal Management and Chief Executive Officer of OAO Severstal Infocom. Sergey Dunaev has worked at SAP SE since October 2014.

Flex Names Qualcomm Exec as CTO and SVP of the Cloud Business Unit

Flex announced Dr. Kevin Kettler has joined the company as CTO and SVP of the Cloud Business Unit, which is part of the Communications and Enterprise Compute (CEC) business group at Flex. Dr. Kevin Kettler is a seasoned industry expert with more than 25 years of experience working across the server, storage and compute market segments, among others. Most recently, Dr. Kettler was a full time consultant in Qualcomm's new datacenter business unit.

Broadcom Exec Neil Kim Joins Marvell Technology as CTO           

Marvell Technology Group announced that Neil Kim has joined the company as its CTO. Prior to joining the company, Kim served as Broadcom's EVP of Operations and Central Engineering. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2000, Neil was VP of Engineering at Western Digital Corporation.

J Sainsbury plc Appoints Phil Jordan as Group CIO  

J Sainsbury plc appointed Phil Jordan as Group CIO. He will join the business in January 2018 and will be a member of Sainsbury's Operating Board. Phil Jordan joins from Telefonica where he was Global CIO and previously European CIO.

News Corporation Announces Tech Exec Changes   

News Corp. announced that Marc Frons has been appointed CTO. He has served in that role in an interim capacity since October 2016. Latha Maripuri, who currently serves as News Corp’s CISO, and Christina Scott, CTO for News UK, have both been promoted to Deputy CTO positions, while retaining their existing responsibilities. Marc Frons joined News Corp. in 2015 as SVP and Global Head of Mobile Platform and Deputy Head of Technology.

KAR Auction Services Announces Thomas Fisher as EVP and CIO 

KAR Auction Services announced that Thomas Fisher has joined the company as EVP and CIO. Fisher brings two decades of customer-focused technology strategy, operations, sales and product development experience to KAR. Working across KAR's end-to-end remarketing platform, Fisher will design and implement an enterprise strategy that leverages KAR's diverse technology assets to rapidly deploy the company's data-driven customer insights and product solutions.

Nokian Tyres Announces New CIO  

Nokian Tyres plc announced that Frans Westerlund has been appointed VP, CIO and Processes. Westerlund, 50, will join Nokian Tyres from Fiskars Corporation where he is currently SVP, CIO, Head of Business Processes & IT.

Staples Appoints CISO from Hewlett-Packard EnterpriseBrett Wahlin

Staples announced Brett Wahlin has been appointed to the role of CISO. Wahlin joins Staples from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he served as VP and CISO.

Metso Corporation Appoints Vesa Erolainen as CIO 

Vesa Erolainen has been appointed the CIO of Metso, the industrial equipment and services company. He has a long and successful career within information technology, latest serving as the CIO of Pöyry and before that in CIO and other IT Leadership positions in Myllykoski and UPM. Metso's previous CIO Pirkka Penttinen is leaving Metso on his own initiative.

Hiscox Group Appoints Barclays’ CTO as New CIO

Hiscox appointed Ian Penny as CIO for the Hiscox Group. Ian is currently CTO at Barclays, where he is responsible for the group's IT infrastructure development and has led the bank's cloud computing initiatives for three years.

Bombardier Appoints Jeff Hutchinson as CIO          

Bombardier reported the appointment of Jeff Hutchinson as CIO. Hutchinson has more than 30 years of experience leading and transforming IT organizations at large, matrixed companies including Honeywell, Maple Leaf Foods, SAP and Danone/Dannon.

Vallourec Appoints New Digital Chief
            from within Ranks

Premium tubular solutions company Vallourec named Barthélémy Longueville to the position of Chief Digital Officer. As the group puts its transformation plan into action, the CDO's task will be to steer Vallourec's digital strategy. Barthélémy Longueville joined Vallourec in 2006.

Hilltop Holdings Names Toby Pennycuff as CIO     

Financial holding company Hilltop Holdings appointed Toby Pennycuff, former head of IT at Essex Property Trust, as its new CIO. He will work closely with IT leaders across the company’s subsidiaries as he oversees day-to-day IT functions to support the operations needs of Hilltop’s four business units: banking, mortgage origination, financial advisory, and insurance.

RH Appoints CTO and President of RH Digital Innovations           

Retailer RH appointed Prakash Muppirala as CTO and President of RH Digital Innovations. Prior to joining RH, Muppirala served as SVP, Global e-Commerce at Staples.

Magyar Telekom Appoints New Chief Technology and IT Officer   

Hungarian telecommunications company Magyar Telekom announced that Dr. Kim Kyllesbech Larsen, the new Chief Technology and IT Officer of the company. Dr. Larsen, 52, joins the Company from Deutsche Telekom, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President - Technology Economics & Transformation as well as Technology Architecture & Innovation.

Qualys Appoints Mark Butler as CISO          

Qualys, a provider of cloud security, compliance and related services, appointed Mark Butler, a former Fiserv executive, as CISO. Butler will serve as Qualys' lead CISO evangelist. Prior to Fiserv, Butler held roles in global security consulting, independent technical research and comprehensive assessment services as well as several foundational security roles at H&R Block.

Etsy CTO Departs     

John Allspaw, CTO, will be leaving the company and Mike Brittain, VP of Engineering, will be named interim CTO.

Cardtronics Appoints CISO from Bank of America   

Cardtronics announced Dan Antilley has been named its new CISO. Antilley will join Cardtronics from Bank of America, where he served as SVP, Global Information Security Operations Executive.

Vonage Names Hosting.com Exec as CISO 

VoIP service & cloud unified communications company Vonage has appointed Johan Hybinette as the Company's CISO. Most recently, he served as CISO at Hosting.com, a major international managed cloud provider, where he managed the company's vast portfolio of compliance certifications and led the organization's risk and compliance transformation to improve overall efficiency and communications. Prior to Hosting.com, he held both CISO and CTO roles at Schryver Medical.

Progress Appoints Dmitri Tcherevik as CTO 

Progress appointed Dmitri Tcherevik to the role of CTO. In his new role, Dmitri will lead Progress’ technology vision, strategy and evolution across the entire portfolio of Progress products. This includes driving incubation projects, contributing to product roadmaps, working on technology M&A and partnership opportunities. Dmitri will also evangelize the company’s core product strategy and cognitive-first perspectives to the market.

WestJet Appoints CIO from Southwest AirlinesCraig Maccubbin

WestJet announced that Craig Maccubbin has been named EVP and CIO. Craig joins WestJet from Southwest Airlines, where he was most recently the CTO. During his 25-year career, Craig has held a number of leadership positions, including CIO for organizations such as Spirit Airlines, LasVegas.com and Black Entertainment Television.

Denny’s Taps New CIO from within Industry

Full-service restaurant chain Denny’s Corporation appointed Michael Furlow as SVP of IT and CIO. Prior to joining Denny’s, Furlow served as CIO for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers from October 2015 to April 2017, where he helped improve the company’s business model and environments with effective technology tactics and execution. He previously spent four years as SVP of IT and CIO at CEC Entertainment.

VASCO Data Security International Appoints Jeff Cole as CIO        

VASCO Data Security International appointed Jeff Cole to the position of CIO. Cole has held senior management positions at leading companies in the technology field and most recently served as Senior Director Information Management for CareerBuilder. Prior to CareerBuilder, Cole held various management positions for Discover Financial Services rising through a series of roles with increasing responsibility.

NASA's Chief Cyber Leader Departs

Jeannette Hanna-Ruiz, the space agency’s associate CIO for IT security and senior agency information security official, is leaving after only eight months in the role. Michael Witt, who joined NASA in February 2017, will become acting senior agency information security officer, replacing Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz.

Date Range: March 29th - May 25th

Date Range: March 29th - May 25th