tech:

taffy

TeleTech Appoints Former Accenture Chairman To Board

[Techtaffy Newsdesk]

TeleTech has appointed Robert Frerichs, former chairman of Accenture, to its board. Mr. Frerichs spent 35 years in executive leadership roles at Accenture including international chairman, group chief executive – North America, chief risk officer and chief operating officer of Accenture’s Communication and High Tech operating group, among others. Mr. Frerichs was a member of Accenture’s board of directors prior to the company’s initial public offering in July 2001 and also served on the company’s strategic planning teams during key periods over the past twenty years.

Mr. Frerichs currently serves as the executive chairman of the board of directors of the Aricent and Merkle. Mr. Frerichs is a certified public accountant and certified at the fellow level in manufacturing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Illinois.

[Image Courtesy: Mr. Robert Frerichs]

Just in

Island raises $175M

Dallas, Texas-based enterprise browser company Island raised $175 million in Series D funding, raising the company's valuation to $3 billion.

Binance founder Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison — Gizmodo

Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering violations as part of Binance’s agreement with the United States Department of Justice, writes Maxwell Zeff in Gizmodo. 

StepSecurity raises $3M

Seattle, WA-based cybersecurity startup StepSecurity has closed a $3 million seed funding round.

Microsoft’s latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there’s no fix — PCWorld

Microsoft said this week that the most recent Windows security update for Windows 10 and Windows 11 may break VPN connections, writes Mark Hachman in PCWorld.