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Adobe co-founder John Warnock passes away

Adobe has announced the passing of Dr. John Warnock, the co-founder of the company, who died at the age of 82. Dr. Warnock, along with Dr. Charles Geschke, co-founded Adobe in 1982.

Sean Jones appointed deputy laboratory director for Science and Technology at Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne National Laboratory has announced the appointment of Sean Jones as the new Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology, effective from October 9.

IBM elects Michael Miebach to board

The IBM board of directors has elected Michael Miebach, the chief executive officer of Mastercard and a member of its board of directors, to the board.

Boomi appoints Sean Wechter as CIO

Boomi has announced the appointment of Sean Wechter as its new chief information officer.

Eventbrite appoints Dr. Pilar Manchón to board

Eventbrite has appointed Dr. Pilar Manchón to the company’s board. Dr. Manchón is the senior director of Engineering, Research Strategy at Google AI.

International Data Group (IDG) names Genevieve Juillard as CEO

International Data Group (IDG), has announced the appointment of Genevieve Juillard as its chief executive officer, effective from September 5th, 2023.

Yahoo appoints Tressie Lieberman as chief marketing officer

Yahoo has announced the appointment of Tressie Lieberman as their new chief marketing officer (CMO). She will report to CEO Jim Lanzone.

T-Mobile appoints IBM CFO James Kavanaugh to board

T-Mobile US has appointed James Kavanaugh has been appointed to its board of directors. He will also serve on the board’s Audit Committee.

Jason Strle joins Discover as chief information officer

Jason Strle has been named Discover’s new chief information officer. He will join the company’s executive committee as an executive vice president.

Nintex appoints Niranjan Vijayaragavan as its chief product officer

Nintex has appointed Niranjan Vijayaragavan as chief product officer. In his new role, Mr. Vijayaragavan will help define the company's product strategy and execute for scale.

Avaya appoints JFrog CPO Sagi Dudai as board advisor

Avaya has appointed Sagi Dudai as board advisor. Mr. Dugai currently serves as the chief product and engineering officer at JFrog.

Epicor appoints Vaibhav Vohra chief product & technology officer

Epicor has appointed Vaibhav Vohra as the company's chief product and technology officer, unifying the product development and product management teams under his leadership. 

DocuSign appoints American Express group president Anna Marrs to its board

DocuSign has appointed Anna Marrs to the company's board. Ms. Marrs will also join the board's Audit committee, DocuSign said in a statement. 

Twitter’s head of trust and safety steps down

Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin has stepped down from the company. She confirmed her resignation on Thursday. 

SAIC appoints Microsoft’s regulated industries head as CEO

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has appointed Toni Townes-Whitley as the company’s chief executive officer.

Elon Musk appoints Linda Yaccarino as the new Twitter CEO

Elon Musk has appointed Linda Yaccarino, NBC Universal Media's head of advertising, as Twitter's new CEO.

GM snags Apple’s Cloud Services VP to start new software org

General Motors (GM) has appointed Mike Abbott, former vice president of Engineering for Apple’s Cloud Services division, as executive vice president, Software.

Shutterfly names Sally Pofcher CEO

Shutterfly has appointed Sally Pofcher as the company's chief executive officer.

Vimeo names Mark Carter CISO

Vimeo has appointed Mark Carter as the company's first chief information security officer.

NEC appoints Kris Ranganath as SVP of Digital Platform

NEC announced the appointment of Kris Ranganath as their new senior vice president (SVP) of Digital Platform (DPF).

Mark McLaughlin joins Snowflake board

Snowflake announced the appointment of Mark McLaughlin to its board of directors, following the resignation of Carl Eschenbach.

CloudBees appoints Sumeet Arora to board

CloudBees has appointed Sumeet Arora, chief development officer at ThoughtSpot, to its board of directors.

Susan Wojcicki steps down as CEO; CPO Neal Mohan to lead YouTube

Susan Wojcicki is stepping down as the chief executie with YouTube, after nine years. Neal Mohan, YouTube chief product officer will be the new head.

Comerica CEO Curtis Farmer elected to Texas Instruments board

Curtis Farmer, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Comerica and Comerica Bank, has been elected to Texas Instruments' board of directors.

Atlassian COO Anutthara Bharadwaj promoted to president

Atlassian has promoted Anutthara Bharadwaj to the position of President.

Gigamon appoints Chaim Mazal chief security officer

Gigamon has appointed Chaim Mazal as chief security officer.

Boomi appoints Alison Biggan chief marketing officer

Boomi has appointed Alison Biggan, former president, corporate marketing at SAP as chief marketing officer. 

LogicMonitor hires Taggart Matthiesen from Lyft to lead Product

LogicMonitor has hired Taggart Matthiesen as its new chief product officer. Mr. Matthiesen joins LogicMonitor from Lyft, where he was vice president of Product.

Salesforce appoints three new independent directors

Salesforce has appointed three new directors as part of its ongoing board refreshment process. 

Acquia appoints Stephen Reny as president and CEO

Acquia has named Stephen Reny as president and CEO.

Bret Taylor to step down as Salesforce vice chair and co-CEO

Bret Taylor will step down as vice chair and co-CEO of Salesforce, effective January 31, 2023.

Intel elects Barbara Novick to board

Barbara Novick, co-founder and senior advisor at BlackRock, was elected to chipmaker Intel's board of directors. Ms. Novick will serve as an independent director and join the board’s Audit & Finance...

IBM announces new chairman for Europe, Middle East and Africa

Ana Paula Assis, general manager IBM Europe, Middle East & Africa, will take on the expanded role of chairman Europe, Middle East & Africa, says IBM.

Xerox appoints John Bruno as president and COO

Xerox has appointed John Bruno as president and chief operating officer (COO).

Ernest Maddock elected to Teradyne’s board

Teradyne has announced the election of Ernest Maddock to its board of directors. Mr. Maddock was also appointed to the board’s Audit Committee.

Tony Fadell joins Arm board

Arm has appointed Tony Fadell, designer of the iPod and former CEO of Nest Labs, to its board. 

BlackSky appoints Jon Kirchner as CPO

BlackSky has appointed Jon Kirchner as its new chief product officer.

Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association appoints Jeff Farrah executive director

The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Association (AVIA) has appointed Jeff Farrah as the organization’s inaugural executive director.

Wipro appoints Suzanne Dann as CEO for Americas 2 Strategic Market Unit

Wipro has appointed Suzanne Dann as chief executive officer of Wipro Americas 2 Strategic Market Unit.

GM appoints former Lyft, Tesla exec to board

Jonathan McNeill, the co-founder and CEO of DVx Ventures, has joined its board of directors, General Motors said in a statement.

Yahoo appoints Kat Downs Mulder as SVP and general manager of Yahoo News

Yahoo has appointed Kat Downs Mulder to SVP and general manager of Yahoo News.

HPE names Regina Dugan to board

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has appointed Regina Dugan to HPE’s board of directors. Ms. Dugan will also serve as a member of the board’s Technology Committee.

Boomi appoints Larry Quinlan to its board

Cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) provider Boomi has appointed former Deloitte CIO Larry Quinlan as an independent, non-executive member of its board.

Intel names Shlomit Weiss SVP and general manager of Design Engineering

Intel is appointing Shlomit Weiss as senior vice president and co-general manager (GM) of the company's Design Engineering Group (DEG).

Splunk appoints Jason Lee as CISO

Splunk has appointed Jason Lee as the company’s chief information security officer (CISO).

CloudBees names Anuj Kapur as CEO

CloudBees has appointed Anuj Kapur as president and chief executive officer.

Sabre appoints Garry Wiseman as its chief product officer

Sabre has appointed Garry Wiseman as the company's chief product officer.

Avaya removing Jim Chirico; appoints Alan Masarek as new chief executive

Avaya has appointed Alan Masarek as its president and CEO and as a member of Avaya’s board of directors.

Asana names Krista Anderson-Copperman to board of directors

Asana has appointed Krista Anderson-Copperman, a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), to its board of directors, the company said in a statement.  

TikTok global chief security officer steps down

TikTok's global chief security officer Roland Cloutier is stepping down, after being with the company for two years.