Equinix Appoints Senior Sales and Channel Executive as Chief Sales Officer          

Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, has appointed Mike Campbell as Chief Sales Officer. In this newly expanded role, Campbell will directly lead company's Global Accounts, Business Development and Channel Programs, coordinating sales execution across regional teams globally and delivering more tightly integrated solutions to customers. 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.

Alcatel-Lucent Splits Chair-CEO Structure         

Marc Rouanne has been appointed as Chairman of the Board and Olivier Durand as CEO of the company. The Board of Directors acknowledged the expiration of the term of Philippe Camus as Chairman and CEO of the company, and decided to distinguish the positions of Chairman of the Board and CEO.

Marc Rouanne remains Chief Innovation and Operating Officer of Nokia Corporation, as Alcatel-Lucent has joined Nokia following successful exchange of shares, creating an innovation leader in next-generation technology and services for an IP connected world.

Olivier Durand's current employment contract as Group CFO will be suspended. Durand has spent over 18 years within the Alcatel-Lucent Group.

Capgemini Group Makes Cloud Infrastructure Services Management Reshuffle         

Capgemini Group announced executive appointments: Patrick Nicolet, formerly Head of the Infrastructure Services business, continues to be a member of the Group Executive Board, in charge of the newly created Competitiveness central department that encompasses Delivery, Industrialization and Procurement. Patrick also now oversees Capgemini's India operations.

Capgemini's Group Sales Director Paul Nannetti now leads the Cloud Infrastructure Services business.

Brocade Appoints Director of Infrastructure Analytics for APJ         

Brocade appointed Paddy McDermott as Director of Infrastructure Analytics for Asia Pacific Japan (APJ). Based in Sydney, most recently, McDermott spent five years as principal architect and senior solutions consultant at Virtual Instruments, performing network analytics on critical customer applications and virtualized infrastructure. McDermott held a variety of storage and cloud consulting and architect roles during a successful 16-year career. He has an in-depth understanding of data center and cloud architecture, with consulting experience at companies such as Telstra, Hitachi Data Systems, Dell, Sun Microsystems, and StorageTek.

Paycom Elects Legal Expert to BoardLarry Parman

Paycom Software, a leading provider of comprehensive, cloud-based HCM software, announced that Larry Parman, president and CEO of Parman & Easterday, has been appointed to board, replacing Conner Mulvee, who tendered his resignation. Parman founded Parman & Easterday, LLP, a law firm, in 1985. 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 CMO Changes 

GoDaddy announced that Philip H. Bienert has resigned as chief marketing officer. The company appointed Barbara Rechterman as chief marketing officer, upon Bienert's resignation. Rechterman has been its Chief Customer Officer since March 2015. Prior to joining The Go Daddy Group, Rechterman was employed from 1988 to June 1997 in various capacities at Parsons Technology, including as Co-President, VP and Controller.

21Vianet Group Appoints Board Member with Investment Experience in the Venture Capital Industry      

21Vianet Group, one of the largest carrier-neutral Internet and data center service provider in China, has appointed Wei Yuan as a director. Yuan is the president of Tus-Holdings Co. Ltd. Yuan has 16 years of investment experience in the venture capital industry and has served as a director or supervisor in several listed companies. Additionally, Kong Kat Wong, co-founder and VP of Xiaomi Corporation, will transition to Board Observer status.

CYREN Appoints VP of Global Cloud Operations    Hesham Eassa

Cloud-based cyber security solutions provider CYREN announced that Hesham Eassa has joined the company as VP of global cloud operations. Eassa most recently served as VP of global cloud operations at Zscaler for the past three years. Eassa is responsible for the infrastructure and operation of CYREN's global security cloud.

Date Range: May 27th - July 10th

FactSet Research Elects Two New Directors from Tech Industry    

FactSet Research Systems elected two new directors, Sheila B. Jordan and Malcolm Frank. Jordan currently serves as SVP, CIO at Symantec. Frank, currently serves as EVP, Strategy & Marketing at Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. 

G4S Appoints Director from Telecom Domain Barbara Thoralfsson        

British multinational security services company G4S plc appointed Barbara Thoralfsson as a non-executive director of its board. Thoralfsson has extensive international and board and technology experience, having been CEO of Norwegian mobile phone operator NetCom ASA (Telia) and a non-executive director of Tandberg ASA, Telenor ASA, and Cable & Wireless Plc. Barbara has also served as a non-executive director on the boards of Electrolux AB and Orkla ASA.

Colfax Appoints CEO of Hackbright Academy with Prior Experience in Tech Investments to Board of Directors 

Fluid handling products manufacturer Colfax appointed Sharon Wienbar, CEO of Hackbright Academy and venture partner at Scale Venture Partners, to its Board of Directors. Wienbar has served as the CEO and as a director of Hackbright Academy, the leading software engineering school for women founded in San Francisco, since November 2015. At Scale Venture Partners, where Wienbar has served since 2001, she led investments in technology companies and has served on the board of numerous portfolio businesses. She continues to serve on the board of Everyday Health as well as the boards of Applause Software Quality and Actiance.

Date Range: May 27th - July 10th

Texas Instruments Elects Retired PwC Veteran to the Board of Directors    

Texas Instruments elected Jean Hobby to the Board of Directors of the company. While at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ms. Hobby, 55, served as strategy officer from 2013 until retirement in 2015. Earlier positions there included U.S. sector lead for the firm's multi-billion dollar Technology, Media and Telecom practice from 2008 to 2013, and CFO from 2005 to 2008. She currently serves on the board of Greatbatch.

Kimberly Clark Appoints CEO of OpenTable as Board Member      

Kimberly-Clark announced that Christa S. Quarles, CEO of OpenTable was elected to its board of directors. Quarles was appointed CEO in November of 2015 after serving as CFO. Prior to joining OpenTable, Quarles served as Chief Business Officer of Nextdoor, and held positions of increasing responsibility with The Walt Disney Company, including SVP, General Manager, Mobile and Social Games.

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.

Barclays Appoints Director with Extensive Board-Level Experience across Different Industries    Mary Francis CBE 

Mary Francis CBE has been appointed as a Non-executive Director of Barclays. She has extensive board-level experience and is currently serving on the boards of Swiss Re Group and Ensco. Mary has also had a distinguished and varied executive career including twelve years at HM Treasury, before serving as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Deputy Private Secretary to the Queen and as Director General of the Association of British Insurers.

Ventas’ Newest Director Comes with Entrepreneurial Success and Expertise in Investment Markets         

S&P 500 real estate investment trust Ventas elected Roxanne M. Martino, CEO of Aurora Investment Management since 1990, to its Board. Over nearly three decades, Martino built the Chicago firm into one of the largest managers in the fund-of-funds industry, managing $14 billion at Aurora's peak.

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 Board

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.

Legrand Appoints Former Sequana EVP as Director 

French industrial group Legrand approved to appoint for a four-year term, Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, as an independent Director. Ms. Isabelle Boccon-Gibod served as EVP at Sequana S.A. until 2013 and Senior Advisor since June 2006. Boccon-Gibod served as EVP of Special Projects at Arjowiggins at Sequana S.A. She started her professional career with the International Paper Group in 1991.

TomTom Co-Founder Joins Iliad Board        

Iliad, the parent company of Free, the inventor of the Freebox, has elected Corinne Vigreux as an independent board member. Corinne Vigreux is a co-founder of TomTom and managing director of its consumer business. She was also present at the creation of former European PDA powerhouse Psion.

Fannie Mae Appoints Founder and Managing Member of The Catalyst Group Renee L. Glover to Board   

Fannie Mae elects Renee L. Glover, 66, to Board of Directors. Glover is the Founder and Managing Member of The Catalyst Group. Ms. Glover previously served as president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority and its affiliates.

AMP Appoints its Board Member and Former Investment Banker Catherine Brenner as New Chairwoman

Wealth management and insurance giant AMP announced that Catherine Brenner has been elected Chairman of AMP Limited Board. Brenner joined the AMP Limited Board in 2010 and was until recently the Chairman of AMP Life and NMLA. She holds directorships with Boral and Coca-Cola Amatil and was formerly a senior investment banker and corporate lawyer.

Hasbro Adds Couple of Female Directors     

Toy and board game company Hasbro announced that Hope Cochran, former CFO of King Digital, and Mary Beth West, EVP, Chief Customer and Marketing Officer for J.C.  Penney Company, have been appointed to the company’s board of directors.

Cochran joined King Digital in 2013 as CFO. Prior, she served as CFO of Spring subsidiary Clearwire.

West joined J.C.  Penney as Chief Customer and Marketing Officer in 2015.  She served as the Chief Category & Marketing Officer and EVP at Mondelez Global until then.

Lincoln Financial Group Elects Retired GSK Exec to Serve on BoardDeirdre P. Connelly

Lincoln Financial Group announced that Deirdre P. Connelly has been elected to serve on its Board of Directors. Connelly served from February 2009 until her retirement in February 2015 as president of North American Pharmaceuticals at GlaxoSmithKline.

RSA Insurance Group Appoints Director with Deep Understanding of Insurance Sector and Financial Services Expertise        

RSA Insurance Group appointed Isabel Hudson as a Non-Executive Board Director. Hudson has significant experience in general insurance, both as an executive and non-executive director, along with a wealth of relevant board experience. Isabel also brings wide ranging commercial, corporate finance and business development experience from the UK and internationally. Hudson is currently Chairman of the National House Building Council (NHBC).

FactSet Research Elects Symantec CIO as New Board Member      

FactSet Research Systems elected Sheila B. Jordan to board. Jordan currently serves as SVP, CIO at Symantec. Jordan had previously worked as SVP of Communication and Collaboration IT at Cisco.

FMC Elects Director with Background in Process Technology, Safety, Sustainability and Environmental Management           

FMC Corporation has elected Margareth vrum as a director of the company.  vrum is EVP of Technology, Projects & Drilling for Statoil Group, an international energy company based in Stavanger, Norway.  She is responsible for technology research, procurement, projects and drilling.

Genpact Appoints Retired Deloitte Vice-Chair to its Board   

Genpact appointed Carol Lindstrom, formerly of Deloitte, to its Board of Directors. Lindstrom recently retired as vice chairman of Deloitte, where she led strategic relationship management, and was also president of the Deloitte Foundation. She was a member of the Deloitte & Touche Board of Directors for six years and served on the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Board of Directors for eight years.

Date Range: May 27th - July 10th

By the numbers, overall:

• Total Tech Exec Roles Open:85  
• New Tech Exec Appointments: 87 (5 women or 5.74%, 82 men)

In terms of the 85 Open Roles, the functional breakdown is as follows:

• 40 CIO roles
• 29 CTOs
• 14 CISOs
• 2 Tech & Ops

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

New Tech Function Openings: 9 – Unisys (PA), Teradata Labs (CA), Cartesian (KS), Peeple App (CA), MobileGuard (NC), New York Power Authority (NY), SafeAuto (OH), Mazuma Credit Union (KS),  Jellyvision Lab (IL)

Tech Execs Appointed - Sources

Sources of Appointments: 75 were External appointments, and 12 were internal promotions – Divisional execs (2), tech executives joining from acquired companies (1), Interim CIO (1), Others (8)

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:  5.74% of the appointments are women CIOs. JPMorgan Chase (NY), CBRE Group (CA), Lincoln Electric Holdings (OH), Horizon Global (MI), BevMo Holdings (CA).

Geographic Distribution: 71 in the US, 7 in Europe and 9 in Asia/Russia.

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Tech Exec Open Roles (as of July 13, 2016)

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.

UBS AG, Switzerland - $31.9B, March 2016        
Global CIO of UBS Oliver Bussmann resigns. New COO Axel Lehmann will act as head of IT until a replacement is named.

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.

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.

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.

hhgregg, Indiana - $2.00B, March 2016
On March 23, 2016, Trent Taylor resigned from hhgregg as CIO to pursue other opportunities.

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.

Corbion, Noord-Holland - $948.4M, September 2015      
Corbion has announced that Mr. Sven Thormählen, CTO and member of the company's board of management, is stepping down as board member and will leave the company. His tasks and responsibilities as CTO will temporarily be covered by the CEO of the company.

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

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.

Of Note: Other Tech Function Moves

• Himax Technologies announced CTO and SVP Chih-Chung Tsai has retired from his current position effective June 30, 2016 after 15 years of service and 11 years as the company’s CTO. Mr. Tsai will remain with the company and assume the position of vice chairman of Himax Technology Limited. Mr. Tsai has transferred his duties to designated company-wide functional business segment leaders who will report directly to CEO and President Jordan Wu.

Tech execs appointed in 28 days ended July 13, 2016

JPMorgan Chase, New York, $88.0B, June 2016Lori Beer

Vmware, California, $6.7B, June 2016Dirk Hohndel

Evernote, California, $177.6M, July 2016Anirban Kundu

KeyLogic Systems, West Virginia, June 2016J. Kevin Reid

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.

Athenahealth Announces Board and Executive Changes

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.

FireEye’s EVP and General Counsel Joins Board of Vocera Communications          

Alexa KingVocera Communications announced that Alexa King, EVP and general counsel at FireEye, joined the company’s board. Since 2012, King has led the legal team at FireEye. Before FireEye, she was general counsel at Aruba Networks. Her early career included working at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and Fenwick & West. 

The role that King is stepping into on the Vocera Board has opened up as Brian Ascher, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock (Palo Alto, Calif.), rotates out of the Board position he has held since 2002.

Castlight Health Announces Board and Management Appointments

Enterprise healthcare technology firm Castlight Health appointed Michael L. Eberhard to the board. Eberhard has been the President of Global Distribution at Concur Technologies since January 2015. He joined Concur in 2003, and served on various roles.

Castlight Health also appointed John C. Doyle as President, Siobhan Nolan Mangini as CFO and Treasurer, and Priya Jain as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company. John C. Doyle, 48, previously served as CFO, VP and Treasurer since November 2012 and has served as COO since November 2015.

Achaogen Siobhan Nolan Mangini, 35, most recently served as VP, Finance & Business Operations. She joined the company in February 2012. Prior to joining Castlight she worked at Bain & Company.

Priya Jain, C.P.A., 36, joined the Company in March 2016 as VP, Corporate Controller. Most recently, Jain was Corporate Controller at AlienVault, a cybersecurity company, from March 2015 to February 2016, where she led all accounting, reporting, tax, subsidy operations, and treasury activities.

Connecture Announces Resignation of Robert Douglas Schneider as President and Chief Product Officer, Effective July 29, 2016    

Robert Douglas Schneider, President and Chief Product Officer of Connecture, a company solely focused on delivering integrated Web-based sales, service and process automation solutions to the health insurance industry, will be resigning from Connecture for personal reasons. Schneider's Chief Product Officer responsibilities and duties will be transitioned in an orderly fashion to the current Connecture leadership team if and until a new Chief Product Officer is named.

OptimizeRx Appoints SVP of Product and Strategy

OptimizeRx, the provider of patient financial support services in the eRx workflow, appointed Brian J. Dillon to the new position of SVP of Product and Strategy. Prior to joining OptimizeRx, Dillon provided consulting services focused on the HiTECH (Health Information Technology) and pharmaceutical manufacturers services sector. Earlier in his career, he served as partner at AccelaPartners.

HTG Molecular Diagnostics Appoints Leader for North American Capital Sales     

HTG Molecular Diagnostics appointed Suzanne Hill as VP of North American Capital Sales. Prior to joining HTG, Hill served as Director of Sales at Silicon Biosystems in San Diego. Earlier in her career, she held a number of commercial positions of increasing responsibility at Illumina.

Alcidion Group Named Co-Founder of Resapp Health to Board      

Alcidion Group, a global leader in Clinical Informatics, appointed Brian Leedman to the board of the company. Leedman is the co-founder of Resapp Health where he currently serves in the role of Executive Director and VP, Corporate Affairs. Leedman is a marketing and investor relations professional with over 10 years' experience in the biotechnology/healthcare industry.

Jayex Healthcare Announces Resignation of Directors         

Jayex Healthcare, healthcare self-service solutions and patient flow management company, announced that John Allinson has tendered his resignation as Director of the company. Allinson has been part of the Jayex Group since 2006 in both executive and non-executive roles during this time.

Shane Tanner has tendered his resignation as director of the company. Tanner has served on the JHL Board since September 2015 and has overseen the company’s Initial Public Offering on the ASX together with the acquisition of Appointuit Pty Ltd. and Jayex Technology UK.

Certive Solutions Appoints United Healthcare Exec as VP of Sales  

Certive Solutions appointed Michael Groeger as VP of Sales. With over 30 years of healthcare distribution experience, Groeger comes to Certive from United Healthcare having spent the last eight years as the National Director of Private Equity Distribution of Commercial Products.

CIOX Health Appoints Couple of New Board Members       

Health information management company CIOX Health announced appointment of Jeremy Delinsky and Jeff Hammerbacher to its board of directors. Delinsky is CTO of Wayfair and Hammerbacher is the founder and chief scientist at Cloudera and an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Cognosante Appoints VP of Capture from NCI

Cognosante, provider of consulting, technology, and BPO services to healthcare organizations in the United States, appointed Sean Bauer as VP of Capture. In this role, Sean will apply 20 years of executive management and leadership experience and an extensive track record designing innovative business solutions to enhancing the company's business acquisition process and client portfolio. Prior to joining Cognosante, Sean served as VP of Capture Management at NCI.

Healthways’ CEO Donato Tramuto to Join Sharecare Board

Donato TramutoHealth and wellness engagement platform Sharecare announced it is acquiring the Population Health business of Healthways. Donato Tramuto, Healthways’ CEO, will join the Sharecare board of directors to ensure continuity in customer support and successful growth for the Population Health business.

Millennium Health Appoints CFO and Chief Administrative Officer

Personalized medicine & health solutions Millennium Health named Michael Keane as CFO. Most recently, Keane was EVP and CFO of Genomatica.

The company also appointed Thomas W. Arnst as Chief Administrative Officer. Most recently, Arnst was EVP, chief administrative officer, general counsel, head of global HR and corporate secretary at Expert Global Solutions until its sale to Alorica in June 2016.

Date Range: June 13th - August 1st

Verizon Appoints Cisco Exec as VP, Smart Communities     

Mrinalini Ingram joined in the newly created position of VP, Smart Communities at Verizon. In this highly visible role, Ingram will shape the long-term vision and lead the execution of Verizon's Smart Communities product and solutions organization. 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.

United Technologies Names GE's Vince Campisi as Digital SVP and CIO  

United Technologies appointed Vince Campisi as SVP, Digital, and CIO. He succeeds Nancy Davis, who will retire at the end of 2016, concluding a 37-year career at UTC. Campisi most recently served as COO for GE Digital. Campisi started with GE in 1999 and progressed through leadership roles in software development, IT, quality and operations. His most recent previous position was as General Manager, Cloud Services & CIO for GE Software.

Eli Lilly and Company Promotes Aarti Shah to SVP and CIO           

Aarti ShahEli Lilly and Company announced the promotion of Aarti Shah, Ph.D., to SVP and CIO. She has been the global brand development leader for immunology since 2013. Shah joined Lilly in 1994 as a senior statistician after completing her doctorate in applied statistics. In her new role, she will lead the efforts of a worldwide IT organization with more than 1,300 employees, in addition to many contractors and external business partners, to deliver innovative IT solutions to the business.

Boeing’s SVP for Engineering, Test & Technology Adds on CTO Role       

Boeing Company has appointed Greg Hyslop as CTO, replacing John Tracy. Hyslop was recently Boeing's SVP for Engineering, Test & Technology. He will continue in that role, reporting to Boeing chairman, president and CEO Dennis Muilenburg and serving on the company's executive council, while taking on the CTO duties.

Deloitte Exec to Lead Accenture Security     

Accenture announced Kelly Bissell is joining the company to lead Accenture Security. Bissell brings extensive knowledge of the cyber security landscape and comes to Accenture from Deloitte & Touche, where he headed up global Cyber Risk for the firm. During his career, he has served in almost every IT capacity from developer, network engineer, data center director, CISO, CTO and CIO.

Scotiabank Appoints Silicon Valley Technology Leader as EVP, Digital Banking    

Scotiabank announced that it has appointed Shawn Rose to the newly created position of EVP, Digital Banking. Most recently, he served as Group Chief Product Officer at Moneysupermarket.com, and previously as a CTO and VP of Core Platforms at Pearson, the largest education company and book publisher in the world. He also held senior roles at Ustream, FOX Broadcasting and CBS Interactive.

AIG Appoints JPMorgan Chase Exec as Chief Digital Officer          

AIG announced that Michael Lewis will join AIG as Chief Digital Officer. Most recently, Lewis served as global CTO, Digital for the consumer businesses at JPMorgan Chase. Lewis has also held senior technology roles at organizations such as Lloyd’s Banking Group, where he was Group CTO, and Bank of America, where he served as SVP, Technology Architecture & Development Executive.

UBS Group Names Standard Chartered IT Exec as CIO      

UBS Group named Michael Dargan as CIO. Dargan, who will assume his role in mid-September, will be responsible for group technology. Dargan was most recently Standard Chartered’s CIO for corporate and institutional banking.

Airbus Group Announces Technology Executive Changes    

Airbus Group appointed Paul Eremenko as its new CTO. Eremenko is currently heading the Group's A3 Innovation Centre based in San Jose, California. He is an aeronautics and astronautics engineer and worked at Google, Motorola and DARPA, the Pentagon's research agency. In his new capacity, Paul Eremenko is joined by Andy Anderson (58), who since the departure of the previous CTO Jean Botti (58) end of March was serving as acting CTO. As of 1 July 2016, Anderson, a 20-year veteran of Airbus Group, will resume his previous role as COO for the CTO organization and serve as Deputy to Paul Eremenko.

Nordea Establishes New Group Digital Unit; Announces Executive Changes         

Nordea established a new Group Digital unit with the objective to drive the digital agenda forward across the group.   The unit will be co-headed by Poul Raaholt, previously head of Group IT at Nordea, and Ewan MacLeod, previously responsible for the Retail digital transformation programme at Royal Bank of Scotland.

Alvaro Garrido, previously Group Head of Technology at Standard Chartered Bank, is appointed new head of Group IT.

VMware Names Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist as VP and Chief Open Source Officer

Dirk HohndelVMware appointed Dirk Hohndel as VP and Chief Open Source Officer. Before joining VMware, Hohndel spent nearly 15 years as Intel's Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, guiding Intel's engagements in open source. Prior to his work at Intel, he served as CTO of SuSE and Unix Architect of Deutsche Bank.

RBS Appoints JP Morgan Chase Exec as the Head of Technology for its Global Hub in India       

RBS has appointed Punit Sood as the Head of Technology for its Global Hub in India. Sood previously worked at JP Morgan Chase. Sood has also worked at Citibank, Mphasis and GE Capital Services.

Givaudan Announces IT Executive Changes 

Givaudan has announced the retirement of Adrien Gonckel as CIO.  Fabien Jaunault, currently Head of IT Demand, is appointed Head of Global Information Management & Technology (IM&T). As Head of Givaudan Business Solutions, Anne Tayac will be responsible for designing Givaudan Business Solutions (GBS), a global organization for business services and solutions, to be gradually implemented in support of Givaudan's 2020 strategic pillar 'delivering with excellence'.

CA Appoints Former AirGrub and Cisco Exec as GM of India Technology Center  

CA Technologies announced that Surya Panditi has been named General Manager 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.

Seagate Technology Promotes President of Operations and Technology to COO    

Seagate Technology has appointed William D. Mosley as the company's COO. Mosley has served as President of Operations and Technology since October 2013. He joined Seagate in 1996. Prior to joining Seagate, Mosley was a Research Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a Senior Engineer at Micropolis and Conner Peripherals.

CBRE Group Appoints Capital One Exec as Chief Digital & Technology Officer   

CBRE Group announced that Chandra Dhandapani has been named the company’s Chief Digital & Technology Officer. Dhandapani is a longtime technology executive at Capital One Financial Corporation. Most recently, she served as Digital Transformation Leader and CIO of the banks Financial Services division, comprised of Capital Ones Auto Finance, Mortgage, Home Equity and Home Loans Servicing businesses.

Lincoln Electric Company Promotes Michele Kuhrt as EVP and CIO          

The Lincoln Electric Company has promoted Michele Kuhrt to EVP and CIO. Kuhrt joined Lincoln Electric in 1997 as Director of Taxes and in 2006 was elected as a Company Officer and SVP, Tax with responsibility for Lincoln Electric's global tax matters and the US payroll shared services center.

Starz Promotes Broadcast Engineering and Digital Platforms           Execs

Starz announced the promotion of Brad Martens to SVP, Broadcast Engineering and Jason Wyrick to SVP, Digital Platforms. Martens is responsible for the engineering, operations and transmission of the STARZ and STARZ ENCORE channels. Prior to joining the Starz engineering team in 2008, Martens was a Project Engineer with Beck Associates and served as Senior Director of Engineering and Operations for TCI/AT&T Broadband’s Digital Media Center.

Wyrick joined Starz in 2005 and was most recently VP of Digital Platforms at Starz. Prior to joining the company, Wyrick held a variety of management and engineering positions at both Fortune 500 companies as well as startups.

Pure Storage Appoints Epic Exec as VP and CTO of Global Healthcare Solutions  

Enterprise flash storage solutions company Pure Storage announced that Vik Nagjee has joined the company as VP and CTO of Global Healthcare Solutions. Prior to joining Pure, Nagjee was the CTO of Epic, where he directed the architecture, implementation and business development of Epic's service provider business, Epic Hosting.

Intercontinental Exchange Exec to Join TMX Group as CIO           

TMX Group appointed Jay Rajarathinam as CIO. Most recently, he served as SVP, Global Head of Infrastructure, Intercontinental Exchange. Prior to that, he held senior positions at Barclays and Wells Fargo.

Shutterstock Announces the Resignation of Anshu Aggarwal as CTO          

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.

Blackhawk Network Appoints CTO from PayPal

Sachin DhawanBlackhawk Network announced that Sachin Dhawan has been appointed to SVP, CTO. Most recently, Dhawan was VP of engineering for global consumer products at PayPal where he led development of the company's digital wallet and global omnichannel shop products.

ADP Exec Joins ExlService as CTO  

ExlService Holdings, the provider of decision-analytics, operation management, outsourcing, business transformation and IT services, appointed Mike Toma to the role of CTO. Mike is joining the company after nearly 13 years with ADP. Most recently, as SVP & CIO, he led ADP’s International product and technology organizations in Europe, Latin America, and Asia Pacific regions.

Chinese Online Consumer Finance Marketplace Yirendai Appoints COO and CTO 

Yirendai, a leading online consumer finance marketplace in China, appointed Yang Cao to the positions of COO and CTO of the company. Prior to joining Yirendai, Cao was the GM of Asia-Pacific operations at xAd. Cao also served as CTO of WhitePages and held technology executive positions at TokBox and StarCite.

Himax Technologies Announces Retirement of CTO

Himax Technologies announced CTO and SVP Chih-Chung Tsai has retired from his current position after 15 years of service and 11 years as the company’s CTO. Tsai will remain with the company and assume the position of vice chairman of Himax Technology Limited.

FBL Financial Group and Farm Bureau Financial Services Announce CIO Changes

Casey Dbecker has been named CIO of FBL Financial Group and its affiliated insurance companies that go to market as Farm Bureau Financial Services. In this role, Decker will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s IT efforts, replacing Daniel Greteman, who served as CIO since January 2015. Decker joined FBL in 2004 as a programmer analyst and progressed to Business Technology VP. Since 2014, Decker served as Agency Support VP.

Premier Promotes Leigh Anderson to SVP and CIO

Leigh AndersonPremier, a leading healthcare improvement company, promoted VP - COO, ITS Leigh Anderson to SVP and CIO. Anderson will assume the responsibilities of Keith Figlioli who resigned from his position as SVP of healthcare informatics. Prior to joining Premier, he served in lead informatics roles at Hospital Corporation of America, Health Trust, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) and AT&T.

KCG Holdings Appoints New CTO Replacing Jon Ross      

KCG Holdings announced that Mike Blum, who joined the firm in January as Global Head of Client Technology, has been named CTO. Jon Ross, KCG's CTO, will be leaving the company to pursue a variety of personal projects in the technology space, unrelated to trading and markets. Most recently, Blum was CTO at Teza Technologies. Ross will remain at KCG as CTO through the transition period.

EarthLink Appoints Chief Information and Product Officer

EarthLink Holdings appointed Jacob J.  Ferro (Jay), Jr. as EVP, Chief Information and Product Officer. Ferro will provide leadership and oversight of EarthLink's technology operations including R&D, product and customer services offerings and investments. Prior to joining EarthLink, Ferro was CIO of the American Cancer Society (ACS) where he was responsible for the people, strategy and operations of hundreds of local offices nationwide. 

Date Range: June 13th - August 8th

New Technology CEO Stats 

New Tech CEO Openings: 13 – Avnet (AZ), Torstar (Canada), Great Elm Capital Group (MA), LOGIX Communications (TX), Ericsson (Sweden), William Hill (UK), NLY Scandinavia (Sweden), Pocket App (UK), Coins.sx (UK), Ericsson Power Modules (Sweden), 8Telecom International Holdings (China), B.S.D. Crown (Israel), Rent.com.au (Australia)

CEOs Appointed

Sources of Appointments: 40 were External appointments, and 38 were internal promotions – Chair/Director (5), COO/President/EVP-Operations (10), CFOs (4), Divisional execs (3), iCEO (4), Others (12)

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

Diversity: 2.56% of the appointments are women CEOs. Gravity4 (CA) and PagerDuty (CA).

Geographic Distribution: 47 in North America, 16 in Europe, 15 in Asia/Russia/Australia.

The average and median times open CEO roles have been open are about 6.5 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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The Board of William Hill PLC announced that James Henderson is stepping down as CEO with immediate effect. Philip Bowcock, CFO, has been appointed as Interim CEO. The search for a permanent replacement has been instigated.

Cypress Semiconductor, California, $1.81B, April 2016
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. announced that its CEO, T.J. Rodgers, will step down. In the interim, daily operational activities will be taken over by an Office of the CEO comprised of four current Cypress EVPs: Hassane El-Khoury (EVP, Programmable Systems Division), Dana Nazarian (EVP, Memory Products Division), Joe Rauschmayer (EVP, Manufacturing) and Thad Trent (CFO). Rodgers will remain on the Cypress Board and become a project leader working on key technical projects.

T-Mobile Netherlands B.V., Netherlands - $1.8B, June 2016
Deutsche Telekom announced a complete revamp of its management team at T-Mobile Netherlands. The new Dutch team will see its CEO named this summer, as the current CEO Mark Klein is leaving in September to join Ergo.

Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA - $1.4B, May 2015   
Steven Laub, president and CEO of microcontroller vendor Atmel, plans to step down Aug. 31, according to the company. Atmel said its board will conduct a search for Laub’s successor. Both internal and external candidates will be considered.

Salt Mobile SA, Switzerland - $1.4B, December 2015    
Swiss mobile operator Salt CEO Johan Andsjo has resigned, with immediate effect. The board of directors has appointed Pierre-Alain Allemand as the company's interim CEO. Allemand has been at Salt since the recent change of ownership. A search for Andsjo's successor has been initiated. 

Pelephone Communications, Israel - $1.03B, October 2015
Gil Sharon, CEO of Pelephone, announced that he was ending his tenure after ten years as CEO of the company, following his upcoming appointment as CEO of Discount Investment Corporation. Sharon will be leaving Pelephone in three months, after transitioning the role to his successor. 

Black Box, Pennsylvania - $964.4M, December 2015     
Black Box Corporation announced that Michael McAndrew will be stepping down as the President and CEO of the company, effective upon the appointment of his successor. Mr. McAndrew will remain available to ensure a smooth transition. The Nominating & Governance Committee of the Board is in charge of succession planning and has engaged a national executive search firm to conduct an external search for candidates. 

Xchanging plc, UK - $836.00M, January 2016
Ken Lever intended to retire from his role as CEO and from the Board of Xchanging plc. Ken Lever ceased be a Board Director and employee of the Company at the close of business on 31 December 2015.

Shanda Games Limited, China - $714M, November 2014  
Yingfeng Zhang has been appointed as acting CEO and the Board will begin a global search for a permanent successor.

Imation, Minnesota - $678M, October 2015
Imation announced that Bob Fernander, an existing member of the company’s Board of Directors, has been appointed as Interim CEO.

Kulicke and Soffa Industries, Singapore - $612M, October 2015     
Bruno Guilmart that he will step down as President, CEO and as a Director of the company effective immediately. The Board has named Jonathan H. Chou, Kulicke & Soffa’s SVP and CFO, to fill the role of interim CEO and it has formed a committee to conduct a search for a permanent successor among external and internal candidates.

Torstar, Ontario - $565.3M, July 2016
Torstar Corporation announced that David Holland has decided to retire as President and CEO of Torstar Corporation later this fall. Torstar has initiated a search to fill the joint position of President and CEO of Torstar and Publisher of the Toronto Star. Mr. Holland has worked in a number of divisions within Torstar since 1986, and has served as President and CEO for the past seven years.

TESSCO Technologies, Maryland, $530.7M , May 2016
TESSCO Technologies  announced launched a CEO succession plan and are now engaged in a search for a new CEO with experience in achieving superior profitable growth through innovative marketing, sales and productive operations. The company expects the new CEO to be hired sometime during fiscal year 2017. In the meantime, Bob Barnhill remains the CEO, firmly dedicated to driving performance.

TeleCity Group, London - $529.6M, September 2014    
Michael Tobin, who had led the FTSE 250 group for a decade, left the company, with chairman John Hughes taking over executive responsibilities while a replacement is found.

UXC Limited, Victoria - $529.4M, November 2015         
UXC Limited announced that Managing Director & CEO, Cris Nicolli has informed the Board of Directors of his intention to retire in 2016. A succession planning process has been in place for some time to enable the Board of Directors to choose Nicolli's successor and both internal and external candidates have been considered for the role.

QLogic, Aliso Viejo, CA - $520.2M, August 2015       
QLogic appointed Christine King as executive chairman and Jean Hu as acting CEO. Hu has served as SVP and CFO since 2011 and will continue in that role and retain her CFO responsibilities while serving as acting CEO. Prasad Rampalli has resigned his positions as president and CEO in order to pursue other opportunities.

TiVo, California - $480.6M, November 2015        
TiVo announced that Thomas S. Rogers, its current CEO and president, will be stepping down from that role effective on the earlier of January 31, 2016 or upon the appointment of his successor.

5N Plus, Quebec - $366.4M, November 2015      
5N Plus announced that Jacques L'Ecuyer has informed the board of directors of the company of his desire to step aside from his current position of president and CEO. He will remain as President and CEO until the new President and CEO has been appointed by the board of directors.

FARO Technologies, Florida - $330.4M, November 2015
FARO Technologies announced that Jay Freeland plans to step down as President and CEO and member of the Board of Directors. Freeland will remain in his current role until a successor is appointed. Freeland is leaving to pursue other business and personal interests.

Tangoe, Connecticut, $219.4M , May 2016
Tangoe announced that Albert R. Subbloie, Jr. resigned from his positions as President and CEO and as both a member and Chairman of the Board of Directors. On May 2, 2016, the Board appointed James D. Foy, one of the company's directors, as Acting CEO.

exceet Group, Luxembourg, $197.20M, March 2016
Ulrich Reutner has decided to resign as CEO of exceet Group SE and from related functions for private reasons on 1 March 2016. He will continue to support exceet until the end of 2016 to ensure a smooth transition and to support the planned divestment of the IDMS segment with his experience in this market. The CFO of exceet, Wolf-G\xFCnter Freese, will act in addition to his duties as CFO, as CEO ad interim with immediate effect.  

Automated Systems Holdings, Hong Kong - $194.7M, September 2015   
Leung Tat Kwong, Simon has resigned as an Executive Director and the CEO of the Company with effect from 1st October 2015; Wang Yueou has been appointed as the Acting CEO of the Company with effect from 1st October 2015 and continues to act as an Executive Director and the Joint Company Secretary of the Company.

3i Infotech, India - $175.0M, June 2016
3i Infotech announced that Mr. Madhivanan Balakrishnan, Managing Director & Global CEO of the company has decided to step down. Padmanabhan Iyer, Director and CFO of the company shall be designated as the acting CEO of the company in addition to his current role.

First Sensor, Germany, $163.1M, May 2016
First Sensor AG announced that CEO Dr. Martin U. Schefter to leave the company.

Global Sources, Hong Kong, $162.10M, March 2016
Global Sources  announced that CEO Spenser Au is retiring. He will remain engaged until the end of the year to assist the company in transitioning to a successor.

Speed Commerce, Texas - $140.6M, December 2015   
On December 17, 2015, Speed Commerce announced that Dalton Edgecomb was appointed as its Interim CEO and Interim President, and Bruce Meier was appointed as its Interim CFO. Mr. Edgecomb is a principal of Winter Harbor, LLC and has more than 20 years of experience advising companies through cash management and cost reduction, capital structure refinancing, crisis management and business plan development for restructuring purposes.

Capinfo Company Limited, Beijing - $130.5M, November 2015
The board of directors of Capinfo Company Limited announced that due to change of work allocation, Dr. Wang Xu has tendered his resignation as Chairman, executive director, CEO and chairman of Nomination Committee and Strategy Committee of the company which will be effective when a new Chairman is elected by the Board. Dr. Wang Xu confirmed that he did not have any disagreement with the Board and there is no other matter relating to his resignation that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company.

Pricer, Sweden, $109M, May 2016
Pricer AB announced the resignation of Jonas Vestin as President and CEO. The Board of Directors of has appointed Charles Jackson as acting CEO. Charles Jackson has been with Pricer during the period 2002 - 2010 and returned to the position of EVP in 2014.

GB Group, U.K, $100.5M, April 2016
GB Group plc announced that, after 13 years as CEO of GBG, Richard Law has formally decided to retire and asked the board to start the search for a successor. Richard has family matters that need his attention and these can be best served by him following a more flexible portfolio career once his commitments to GBG have been fulfilled.

Q-Free ASA, Norway - $99.2M, November 2015 
In a board meeting in Q-Free ASA held on November 3, 2015 the board approved the step down of Thomas Falck as CEO of the company with immediate effect. CFO Roar is appointed as interim CEO in the company.

Wi-LAN, Ottawa, Ontario - $98.3M, June 2015        
CEO James (Jim) Skippen intends to retire and will stay on until such time as a suitable replacement has been identified and hired. A special committee of the Board will immediately begin the search for a new permanent CEO with the assistance of a leading search firm.

Avanza Bank Holding AB, Sweden - $94.5M, December 2015
Avanza announced that its CEO Martin Tiveus intends to leave his position. He will remain in his current role during his six months period of notice. Martin Tiveus became CEO of the company in 2011.

Omesti Berhad, Malaysia - $92.7M, December 2015     
Omesti Berhad announced that Gan Nyap Liou alias Gan Nyap Liow, Managing Director will resign. The effective date is December 31.

Mobotix AG, Germany - $89.4M, February 2016 
MOBOTIX AG has announced the resignation of Klaus Gesmann as CEO, CFO, and as a member of management board. An interim manager will initially be placed in charge of the Finance department, previously under his control, while CTO Dr. Oliver Gabel is temporarily taking over the Purchasing department. A third board member will be appointed in the near future.

8Telecom International Holdings, China - $83.1M, July 2016
8Telecom International Holdings Co. Ltd. Announced that resignation of Ye Tianyun as Executive Chairman and CEO of the company, effective from July 26, 2016.

Tecnotree, Finland, $82.4M, April 2016
Tecnotree has announced the resignation of Ilkka Raiskinen as CEO following its application for a restructuring programme designed to stave off bankruptcy. Tecnotree appointed the EVP MEA & APAC Padma Ravichander as Interim CEO. Ravichander has been with Tecnotree for duration of 5 years.

Perceptron, Michigan - $78.30M, January 2016
Perceptron announced that the board of directors of the company appointed current Board Chair W. Richard Marz as interim president and CEO. Mr. Marz will continue to serve as chairman of the board. Mr. Marz succeeds Jeffrey M. Armstrong, who resigned his roles as director, president and CEO of the company, effective January 26, 2016. The Board of Directors will initiate a search to identify a new president and CEO of the Company. Mr. Marz will serve as interim president and CEO until a successor is appointed.

Daiwa Associate Holdings, Malaysia - $68.5M, November 2015        
The board announced that Mr. Hui Lap Shun John, an executive Director of the company, has been appointed as the chairman of the company and the acting CEO with effect from November 25, 2015.

Mesiniaga Bhd, Malaysia - $50.9M, December 2015      
Mesiniaga Berhad announced that Mohamed Fitri Bin Abdullah, managing director will resign. The effective date is January 01, 2016.

GuestLogix, Toronto, Ontario - $50M, September 2015    
GuestLogix announced that Brett Proud has advised the Board that effective immediately he is retiring from his position as CEO and Director. Proud has agreed to remain available to the Board and management in a consultative role through the end of the year. A special committee of the Board has begun the search for a new permanent CEO. In the interim, Chairman Louis Belanger-Martin will play a larger role in both the strategic direction of the business, as well as the oversight of critical client and partnership relationships.

Blue Star Infotech, India - $43.40M, January 2016
Blue Star Infotech announced that at its board meeting held on January 27, 2016, the board has accepted the resignation of Mr. Sunil Bhatia as CEO and MD. The board also approved the resignation of Mr. Aloke Ghose, as CFO and Company Secretary. Mr. V. Sudarshan was appointed as CFO and Company Secretary, effective January 27, 2016. He has also been appointed as Compliance Office, effective January 27, 2016.

Ensogo, Hong Kong - $43.6M, June 2016
The Board of Ensogo advised that it has accepted the resignation of CEO, Mr. Kris Marszalek. Marszalek is a co-founder of E88 and has been the CEO since August 2014. The Board is yet to announce the appointment of a new CEO.

Lantronix, California - $42M, November 2015    
On November 18, 2015, Kurt Busch resigned as President and CEO of Lantronix Mr. Busch also resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of the company and withdrew himself as a nominee for director at the company's AGM scheduled to be held on November 19, 2015. The Board appointed Jeremy Whitaker, as interim CEO of the company, while the Board finalizes the search for a new CEO.

Fireswirl Technologies, Vancouver, BC - $41.2M, September 2015    
Fireswirl Technologies announced that Tony Lau has resigned as the CEO, President and CTO of the company and as a member of the company's board of directors. Lawrence Ng has been appointed to replace Lau as the company's Interim CEO and has been appointed to the board.

Bull Will Co., Taiwan - $41.00M, January 2016
Serial System announced resignation of Mr. Peter Ho I Chin as Executive Chairman and Group CEO of Bull Will Co., Ltd, effective from January 07, 2016.

Elephant Talk Communications, New York - $33.2M, November 2015
Elephant Talk Communications appointed Robert H. Turner as Executive Chairman and Tim Payne, the current President of Elephant Talk North America, as interim CEO. Together, both appointees will be responsible for managing and growing Elephant Talk's global operations. Mr. Steven van der Velden has stepped down as Chairman, CEO and a director of the Company.

Towerstream Corporation, Rhode Island - $31.7M, February 2016    
On February 16, 2016, the Board of Directors of Towerstream Corporation appointed Philip Urso as Interim CEO and Arthur Giftakis as COO of the company. Mr. Urso presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Mr. Giftakis as SVP of Engineering and Operations of the company. Urso co-founded Towerstream, has served as the company's director and chairman since inception and was CEO from inception until November 2005.

zamano, Ireland, $26.400M , May 2016
The Board of zamano plc announced that Ross Conlon has tendered his resignation as CEO and director of the company with effect from May 9, 2016 to pursue other interests. Ross has agreed to facilitate a smooth handover. The board will immediately commence a process for the appointment of a new CEO of the company.

Act-On Software, Oregon - $24.9M, October 2015
Act-On Software's CEO and Chairman Raghu Raghavan is stepping aside from the company. Raghavan, who will still be involved with the company, said a new CEO will be named soon. Prior to Act-On, Raghavan helped to start California-based Responsys.

Nexgram Holdings Berhad, Malaysia - $24.7M, June 2016
Nexgram Holdings Berhad announced the resignation of Mr. How Han Lun as executive director and interim CEO of the company with immediate effect.

Temple & Webster, Australia, $24.0M, April 2016
Board of Temple & Webster Group Ltd. has accepted the resignation of Brian Shanahan as CEO and also appointed Mark Coulter, current COO as Interim CEO.

Daegis, Texas - $23.7M, November 2015 
Daegis announces management changes with the terms of the merger agreement and effective as of the effective Time on November 23, 2015. Timothy P. Bacci and Susan K. Conner were removed from the positions of CEO and CFO, respectively, of the company.

Anoto Group, Sweden, $22.80M, March 2016
Anoto Group AB (publ) appointed Joonhee Won a new interim CEO. Stein Revelsby will resign from office with immediate effect after five years as CEO. The recruitment process of finding a long-term alternative as CEO will be initiated within a few months.

Photon Control, Canada - $21.5M, June 2016
Christopher Weston has stepped down as President and CEO and has resigned from the Board of Photon Control. Michael Goldstein, Deputy Chairman of the Board, has been appointed Chairman and Acting CEO.

Publishing Technology, UK - $21.4M, September 2015    
Publishing Technology PLC announced that after careful consideration, the Board announced that Michael Cairns has stepped down as CEO with immediate effect and will be replaced as acting CEO by the company's current CTO David Montgomery.

Panoramic Universal Limited, India - $21.20M, January 2016
Panoramic Universal has announced that Mr. Babu Iyer intimated about his intention to resign as Director from the Board of the Company and as Managing Director of the Company.

RoomLinX, Colorado - $20.8M, February 2016    
RoomLinX announced that in order to focus on capital requirements, public markets, investor & public relations, and M&A opportunities, effective January 4, 2016, Aaron Dobrinsky, CEO, has handed all of his day to day executive positions at the company and its subsidiaries to existing members of the management team. With his focus to help build shareholder value, Mr. Dobrinsky has assumed the role of Chairman of the Board.

Europtronic Group, Singapore, $18.7M, April 2016
Europtronic Group Ltd. announced the resignation of Mr. Huang Chien-Hung as CEO and Executive Director of the company with effect from 8 April 2016. In the interim period, the duties of the CEO would be undertaken by the Vice Chairman the Company, Mrs. Huang Chuang Shueh-Ou.

Ground Properties, Hong Kong - $16.7M, November 2015      
Ms. Chai Xiu had tendered her resignation as the CEO of the Company with effect from 10 November 2015 in order to devote more time on her other business commitment. Ms. Chai will remain as an executive director and the chairman of the Company. The Company is in the process of identifying a suitable candidate to assume the role as CEO and further announcement in this regard will be made as and when appropriate.

Posera-HDX Limited, Toronto, ON - $16.1M, September 2015    
Posera-HDX announced that Paul K. Howell has stepped down as CEO effective immediately. Mr. Howell will continue as a director of the company. An interim CEO will be appointed as soon as possible.

LRAD, California, $15.20M, March 2016
Tom Brown, the company's President and CEO, is resigning from the company. The company's Board of Directors has initiated a replacement search. Mr. Brown joined the Company as a member of the Board in March 2006 and became President and CEO in August 2006.

Image Sensing Systems, Minnesota - $15.2M, June 2016
Image Sensing Systems announced that Dale Parker has resigned as CFO, Interim CEO, COO and Director. The board has appointed Chad Stelzig as Interim CEO. Mr. Stelzig has most recently served as VP of Engineering of ISS in addition to his prior position as Director of Algorithm and Software Engineering at the Company.

Corum Group Limited, Australia - $13.8M, November 2015     
Corum Group Limited announced that David Tonuri has resigned from his positions of Managing Director and CEO with immediate effect. Current CFO, David Clarke, has assumed the position of interim CEO. David will hold this position for the time necessary for the board to undertake a search process for a new CEO.

RiT Technologies, Israel - $13.2M, June 2016
RiT Technologies  announced that Yossi Ben Harosh has resigned from his position as the President and CEO.

Schmitt Industries, Oregon - $13.00M, January 2016
Schmitt Industries announced that on January 8, 2016, James A. Fitzhenry, the President and CEO of the company tendered his resignation as an officer of the company, including any positions held with any of the company's subsidiaries. Mr. Fitzhenry will retain his position as a director of the company. On January 8, 2016, the company appointed board member David M. Hudson as its Interim President and CEO.

Pinnacle Technology Group plc, UK - $11.90M, January 2016
Pinnacle Technology Group plc announced that Nicholas Scallan, CEO, intends to step down from the Board at this year's Annual General Meeting proposed to be held on 23 March 2016. He will remain as CEO until this time. As announced on 7 December 2015, James Dodd will also step down as a non-executive director at the time of the AGM.

International Datacasting Corporation, Ontario - $7.2M, February 2016    
International Datacasting Corporation announced a change in management. As previously announced, the Board has commenced a formal process to explore strategic alternatives with a view to enhancing shareholder value. Accordingly, IDC's Senior Management team including the Co-CEO's Chris Barrett and Steeve Huin, as well as the CFO, Steve Archambault, have voluntarily offered their resignations. Archambault has agreed to serve as CFO and interim CEO during this transition period.

SpendSmart Networks, California, $6.46M, March 2016
Alex Minicucci resigned his position as CEO and was appointed to the position of Chief Strategy Officer. The Board of Directors appointed Chairman Jerold Rubinstein to the position of interim CEO. Mr. Rubinstein will serve as interim CEO until the appointment of a permanent CEO. Mr. Rubinstein has served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the company's Audit Committee since October 2013.

Birdstep Technology, Norway, $6.37M, March 2016
Lonnie Schilling, the CEO of Birdstep Technology ASA will step down from his position as the company's CEO. Mr. Schilling will continue to serve as the company's CEO for the notice period of six months, which starts on April 1, 2016.

Spectra7 Microsystems, Canada, $6.07M, May 2016
The Board of Directors of Spectra7 Microsystems  announced with great sadness, the sudden death of its President and CEO, Tony Stelliga. Dave Mier, CFO, and Cynthia Cole, VP, General Counsel and Corporate Development, have been jointly appointed by the Board on an interim basis to lead the company's management team overseeing daily operations and corporate strategy. Mr. Mier and Ms. Cole will act in such capacity until the Board identifies an appropriate candidate for the position of President and CEO. 

Great Elm Capital Group, California - $4.5M, July 2016
On July 18, 2016, Mr. Richard S. Chernicoff was appointed, on an interim basis, as CEO of the Great Elm Capital Group. Mr. Chernicoff will remain a member of the company's board of directors.

Asdion Berhad, Malaysia - $2.34M, November 2015     
Asdion Berhad announced that Tai Tee Yap, CEO has resigned. The effective date is November 11, 2015.

Sitestar, Virginia - $1.99M, December 2015       
On December 14, 2015, the Sitestar Corporation board of directors terminated Frank Erhartic for cause from his position as president and CEO of the company effective immediately. Mr. Erhartic also agreed to resign his position as a director of the Company effective immediately. The board has appointed Steven L. Kiel as interim president and CEO. Steven L. Kiel, 37, is the founder and president of Arquitos Capital Management.

Spindle, Arizona - $0.6M, June 2016
Spindle named Michael J. Schwartz as its Interim CEO. Schwartz replaces Bill Clark who has held the CEO role since 2011. Prior to joining Spindle, Schwartz was Chief Technology Officer, International Group of Fiserv.

OTCO International, India - $0.45M, November 2015   
OTCO International announced that Ms. Chinnamma Pullatu Mathew is re-designated as Non-Executive & Non-Independent director from her existing position as executive & non-independent director and CEO of the company. She is not holding the post of CEO hereafter.

Zaio Corporation, Alberta - $0.43M, November 2015    
ZAIO announced that David King has been terminated from his position as President and CEO by the Board of Directors. Joel Strickland, Chairman of the Board has been appointed interim CEO, and Phil Wazonek, currently a Zaio Director has been appointed interim President and COO.

VidWrx, Canada - $0.4M, June 2016
VidWrx announced that CEO Steve Hancock was injured in a cycling accident on June 8. Steve is currently hospitalized with serious injuries the full extent of which is still being assessed. As a result the Board of Directors announced that Steve will be stepping down as CEO and Director of the Company.

Rent.com.au, Australia - $0.3M, July 2016
Founder and Managing Director of Rent.com.au, Mr. Mark Woschnak, has announced that he is stepping down as Managing Director and CEO of Rent.com.au Limited and its associated entities. Mr. Greg Bader, who has been providing strategic consulting services to RENT, will assume the interim CEO role while a thorough recruitment process is undertaken by the board.

Vogogo, Canada - $0.2M, June 2016
Vogogo announced that Geoff Gordon will be resigning as President and CEO. Mr. Gordon has also indicated his resignation from the board of directors of the Company.

Agritek Holdings, Colorado - $0.03M, November 2015  
On November 4, 2015, Justin Braune resigned as the CEO and as the sole member of the Board of Directors of Agritek Holdings. B. Michael Friedman will act as interim CEO, and sole member of the board, and shall serve until the 2016 annual meeting of stockholders and thereafter, until his respective successor is duly elected, qualified and practicable to replace Mr. Friedman. Mr. Friedman was previously the company's CEO from 2009 until he was replaced by Mr. Braune in March 2015.

Kashin, Nevada, $0.01M, March 2016
On February 28, 2016 in a Consent to Action in Lieu of a General Meeting of the Shareholders of Kashin to remove and terminate Carl Maybin II as the CEO and as a Director, Richard Dryer as the CIO and as a Director, to appoint Richard Specht as the Interim CEO, Interim CFO and Interim President and to appoint Scott Kline as the CIO and as a Director.

Primary Opinion, U.K - $0.01M, December 2015
Primary Opinion Limited announced that Mr. Martin Burke has tendered his resignation as CEO & Managing Director of the company effective 10 December 2015. Mr. Burke will continue to assist the board for the next 3 months to ensure a smooth transition of the Australian operations.

BreedIT Corp., New York - $0.01M, November 2015    
On November 10, 2015, the board of directors of BreedIT Corp. accepted the resignation of Mr. Yoel Yogev as the company's CEO and a director, effective November 10, 2015. Mr. Yogev stated that the reason for his resignation was to permit him to pursue other business interests. Mr. Itschak Shrem, who has served as the company's chairman since December 31, 2013, has been appointed as interim CEO and will continue to serve as chairman of the company's board of directors.

Kronologi Asia Berhad, Selangor, Malaysia - October 2015    
Kronologi Asia Berhad announced appointment of Mr. Teo Chong Meng Philip Dominic (Executive Director) as Acting CEO and Mr. Tan Wee Seng Gerard (Independent Non-Executive Director) as Non-Executive Chairman.

NETIA SA, Poland, October 2015
Netia announced Boguslawa Matuszewska's term as temporary president of its management board (CEO) expired on 06 October. As a member of the company's supervisory board, she was appointed temporarily to perform the duties of the CEO with effect from 06 July for no longer than three months. Netia also announced that she resigned her membership of the company's supervisory board with effect from 06 October.

Wall Street Media Co., New York, NY - October 2015       
Wall Street Media Co. announced that Jerrold D. Burden immediately resigned as the sole director, CEO, President, Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer of the company. The company also announced that Jeffrey A. Lubchansky was appointed as the company's sole officer and director, serving as the company's interim CEO, President, Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer.

Epcylon Technologies, Toronto, ON - September 2015
Effective on September 22, 2015, the board of directors of Epcylon Technologies accepted the resignation of Jack J. Bensimon as the CEO and member of the board of directors of the company. Gary Schwartz, as director of lead strategies on behalf of the company, will be overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company until a replacement for CEO has been appointed.

HashingSpace, Los Angeles, CA - September 2015    
Timothy M. Roberts resigned as the Chairman and CEO. No replacements announced yet.

Compumed, California, November 2015   
CompuMed announced that W. Scott Rombach has resigned as President, CEO, and Director of CompuMed, effective November 13, 2015. Lee Keddie and David Pointer, existing Directors, will serve in the role of interim Co-CEOs for the company.

Oniqua Pty, Queensland, November 2015
Oniqua Intelligent MRO announced that effective December 4, 2015 company co-founder and CEO Andy Hill will retire after 25 years of service. Steve Herrmann, EVP of marketing and alliances for the company, will serve as interim CEO to ensure a smooth and successful transition during the search for Mr. Hill's successor. Hill will continue to provide strategic advice and counsel to the company on a consulting basis.

Openreach, Greater London, November 2015    
BT announced that Joe Garner is to step down as CEO of Openreach after deciding to take up a new challenge as CEO of Nationwide.

Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques, Geneva, November 2015
SITA announced that CEO Francesco Violante will step down in the second half of 2016 after more than 13 years at the helm. A global search for Violante's successor is currently under way.

1st Detect Corporation, Texas, November 2015
Astrotech Corporation and its subsidiary 1st Detect Corporation, announced the demise of 1st Detect CEO Bob C. Kibler on October 31 due to heart complications. Mr. Kibler joined the company on June 23, 2014 and served as CEO of 1 Detect Corporation since December 4, 2014. Thomas B. Pickens III, Chairman and CEO of Astrotech Corporation and Chairman of 1st Detect, who was also the CEO of 1 Detect from inception to December 3, 2014 will serve as Acting CEO until a successor is named.

PeerTV, Israel, November 2015    
PeerTV Plc announced the resignation of Wes Wilcox as CEO of PeerTV Limited.

Ournett Holdings, New York, November 2015   
Effective as of October 22, 2015, Mr. Xavier Rey has resigned as the CEO of Ournett Holdings and as a member of the company's Board of Directors.

ShopKeep POS, New York, December 2015       
Effective Jan. 1, 2016, ShopKeep announced that President and CEO, Norm Merritt, will be stepping down as head of the company for personal reasons. Michael DeSimone, who was formerly CEO of Borderfree will serve as ShopKeep’s acting CEO.

Total Client Services, South Africa, December 2015     
Total Client Services Limited announced its shareholders that Mr. Lindikhaya Sipoyo has decided not to renew his employment contract for a third term. However, in order to ensure a seamless transition, Lindikhaya has agreed to continue to fulfill the role as Executive Director and CEO until a suitable replacement is found.

Micromax Informatics Limited, India - January 2016
Micromax announced that CEO Vineet Taneja has resigned from the company. Taneja was appointed the CEO in May 2014. The company's four promoters, Rajesh Agarwal, Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma and Sumeet Kumar, that own about 80% stake, are now in charge of the company.

Imagination TV, Florida - January 2016
STEVEN SAMBLIS, has stepped down as CEO, CFO and President and as a Member of the Board of Directors of the company. JOE SIRIANNI, who has consented to act as a President, Secretary and Treasurer, is appointed as President, Secretary and Treasurer of the company.

HempTech Corporation, Florida - January 2016
In connection with the new operating structure and upon completion of the Agronetix Merger, Sam Talari will become the Acting CEO and CFO of Agronetix. The Company will start to recruit a CEO for HempTech Sam Talari will remain as the acting CEO for HempTech.

Superloop, Australia, February 2016       
Superloop Limited announced that Superloop Executive Director and Founder, Mr. Bevan Slattery will be taking the role of Interim CEO of Superloop. Slattery will remain in the role of company Chairman. 

AppYea, Texas, February 2016     
On February 4, 2016, AppYea's sole director, CEO and CFO, Jackie Williams, passed away. Effective February 16, 2016, pursuant to the company's Bylaws, shareholders holding a majority of the common share votes, voted by written consent to appoint Keri Williams and Devin Beavers to serve as directors of the company. In addition, on February 16, 2016, the newly appointed board of directors appointed Devin Beavers to serve as interim CEO and interim CFO.

Globecomm Systems,New York, March 2016
Globecomm Systems announced that Keith A. Hall is stepping down as CEO and that Current CFO, Jason D. Juranek, will serve as Interim CEO. Mr. Hall will continue to be a resource for the Company during this interim period to ensure a smooth transition.

Trendit, Israel, March 2016
The Board of Directors of Trendit appointed Lior Romano as Executive Director. Mr. Romano will also act as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is appointed. Mr. Romano is also CEO of Contacts+. Benny Saban, CEO of the company, has notified the Board of his resignation from his role as CEO and as a member of the company's board.             

Gulf Bridge International, Qatar, March 2016
Gulf Bridge International has appointed Amr Eid as acting CEO. Eid will take on the job effective immediately, in addition to his role and responsibilities as chief commercial officer.

Interups, New York, April 2016
Until April 26, 2016, the company's sole director and officer was Likhitha Palaypu, who resigned as an officer, and is the daughter of Laxmi Prasad, formerly the company's majority shareholder. The company appointed Hadley W. Donenberg as Director, Interim CEO.

VGTel, New York, April 2016
VGTel announced that effective August 31, 2015, the interim management team, consisting of Amilya Antonetti, interim CEO, and K. Bryce Toussaint, interim President elected not to renew the 90-day interim management contract, and as of August 31, 2015, Ms. Antonetti and Mr. Toussaint are no longer affiliated with the company. The Board of Directors is seeking replacements for both President and CEO positions. 

Compliance Science, New York, April 2016
Compliance Science announced co-founder and CEO Mitch Kraskin has stepped down from his role as CEO. Effective March 29, David Eisner, a board member since March 2015, has assumed the role of executive chairman of Compliance Science and will be responsible for the company's operations and appointment of the next CEO. Michael D Angelo continues in his senior executive and board roles. Mr. Kraskin remains a non-executive board member of the company he co-founded in 2003.

Dyn, New Hampshire, May 2016
Jeremy Hitchcock, who co-founded Dyn, resigned as CEO. No one was named CEO. Jim Baum, who was named as chairman of the privately held company's board of directors in January, will be executive chairman.

CÜR Media (OTCPK:CURM), Connecticut, May 2016
CÜR Media appointed James Urie as Executive Chairman of the Board and as Interim president and Interim CEO, to assume the duties previously performed by Mr. Brophy, to serve until his successor shall be duly appointed, unless he resigns, is removed from office, or is otherwise disqualified from serving as an officer and a director of the Company. 

ZipLocal, Canada, May 2016
ZipLocal announced that the Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Raj Ravindran, CFA, MBA, Ph.D as Interim CEO and Interim CFO.  Both positions were vacant as a result of the resignations of Paul Van Damme as CFO and Director, and Kevin Dane as CEO and Director.

MediaWorks Integrated Systems, California, May 2016
MediaWorks said the board had accepted Mr. Mark Weldon's resignation as CEO.

Ubiquity, California, June 2016
Ubiquity announced that on June 8, 2016, Nick Mitsakos, who is presently Co-Chairman has been appointed as Interim CEO and will remain as Co-Chairman of the company. Mr. Carmichael who has served the dual roles of CEO and Creative Architect will relinquish the role of CEO and will remain Co-Chairman and will continue to serve as Chief Creative Architect of the company.

Gateway Media, Missouri, June 2016
Gateway Media announced that Gabe Douek CEO has left the company.

Lavu , New Mexico, June 2016
Marc Chesley has stepped down as the CEO of Lavu. Chesley confirmed that he left Lavu June 9, 2016.

HGS Colibrium, Georgia, June 2016
HGS Colibrium’s Board of Directors announced that Mark Poling has resigned as CEO and is leaving as a founder to pursue other interests.

Quikflo Health, Canada, June 2016
QuikFlo Health announced that it has, subject to regulatory approval, appointed David Lane as a director and interim CEO. Mr. Lane has significant experience as a director and officer of various public companies across various industry sectors.

chatAND, New York, June 2016
chatAND has appointed Victoria Rudman as the Interim CEO of the company. Ms. Rudman currently also serves as the CFO. 

WordLogic, Canada, June 2016
Frank Evanshen hereby resigned from the Board of Directors and the position of CEO and President of WordLogic.

NLY Scandinavia, Sweden, July 2016
Qliro Group AB (publ) announced that Magnus Mansson intends to step down as CEO of Nelly. Magnus will remain in his current role until further notice and has a six month notice period. Magnus Månsson will assume the role of CEO of Gina Tricot after he has concluded his assignment at Nelly.

Pocket App, UK, July 2016
Pocket App has announced that Hugh Griffiths, a former Director of Mobile Services at Microsoft, has been appointed as Interim CEO. Paul Swaddle, the incumbent CEO, has taken up the position of Chairman and will continue to drive innovation and development, marketing and product marketing.

Coins.sx, UK, July 2016
The Board of Directors of Coinsilium Group Limited appointed Mr. Mark McDonnell as interim CEO of its investee company operating as Magnr. Mark has over 25 years' experience in the Financial Services Industry and has held senior positions at Lehman Brothers, AIG Financial Products and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mark is a director of Sherpa Millbank Ltd. and is a founding partner of EMx Capital Strategies LLC.

Ericsson Power Modules, Sweden, July 2016
Ericsson has announced the departure of Hans Vestberg as the president, CEO and member of the board of directors. Jan Frykhammar, EVP and CFO, will assume the CEO position until a new CEO is in office.

LOGIX Communications, Texas, July 2016
Astra Capital Management closed on its acquisition of Logix Communications. Matt Asmus, previous CEO of Logix, and Craig Sheetz, previous CFO, left the company as part of the sale. Astra partner Matt Murphy was named chairman and interim CEO of Logix. 

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

Citrix Systems, Florida, Massachusetts - $3.4B, July 2016Bill Wagner
LogMeIn and Citrix Systems announced that the companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement for LogMeIn to combine with Citrix’s GoTo business in a reverse morris trust transaction. LogMeIn’s Bill Wagner will continue in his role as President and CEO, and LogMeIn’s Ed Herdiech will serve as CFO. Michael Simon, former CEO and current Chairman of the Board of LogMeIn, will remain in place as Chairman of the combined company’s Board.

Orange Belgium, Belgium - $1.4B, July 2016
The Board of Directors of Orange Belgium has decided to appoint Michael Trabbia to the position of CEO as from September 1st 2016. Michael Trabbia joined Orange in January 2011 and became Group SVP for Corporate Public Affairs.

Jack Henry & Associates, Missouri - $1.3B, July 2016
David B. Foss named President and CEO of the Company, and John F.  Prim resigned from his role as CEO and assumed the role of Executive Chairman of the Company.

ePlus, Virginia - $1.2B, July 2016
ePlus  announced that its Board of Directors has promoted Mark P. Marron to CEO and President. Mr.  Marron succeeds Phillip G. Norton, who will assume the new position of Executive Chairman. Marron is currently COO of ePlus  and President of ePlus Technology.

Pakistan Mobile Communications, Pakistan - $901.3M, July 2016
VimpelCom and Global Telecom Holding (GTH), together with Warid Telecom Pakistan and Bank Alfalah announced the completion of the transaction to merge Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Mobilink) and Warid Telecom (Warid), creating Pakistan's next generation digital telecommunications provider. With the completion of the merger transaction, Mobilink now enters the next major phase of its transformation and CEO Jeffrey Hedberg will hand over the CEO role of Mobilink and Warid to Aamir Ibrahim, currently Chief Commercial Officer and Deputy CEO of Mobilink.

Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka - $533.4M, July 2016
The Board of Directors of Dialog Axiata have named Supun Weerasinghe as the successor to Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya from January 1, 2017.Weerasinghe joined the Dialog Group in 1999 and occupied several management positions in the Group prior to being appointed to the position of Dialog's Group COO in 2010.

Kontron, Germany - $489.9M, July 2016
Sten Daugaard is taking over the position of CEO effective immediately. Daugaard, originally from Denmark, has held various management positions in his home country, the US, and Germany, and has extensive experience with restructuring companies.

Computer Task Group, New York - $346.6M, July 2016Arthur Crumlish
CTG announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Arthur (Bud) Crumlish as the company's President and CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Crumlish joined CTG in 1990 and since July 2001 has served as SVP and General Manager of Strategic Staffing Services (SSS).

AVEVA Group, UK - $290.2M, July 2016
The company announced that Richard Longdon will step down from his role as CEO and as a Director of the company with effect from December 31, 2016. The board of company announced that James Kidd, CFO, has been appointed as deputy CEO with immediate effect and he will assume the role of CEO with effect from January 1, 2017.

Schaffner Holding, Switzerland - $200.2M, July 2016
On 15 July 2016, Schaffner Holding AG announced the leaving of the long-term CEO of the Group, Alexander Hagemann, with immediate effect. He is said to pursue new challenges outside of the company. Ad interim, the Group's CFO Kurt Ledermann, who has been with the company for more than 8 years, will take over as CEO.

United Online, California - $145.3M, July 2016
B. Riley Financial has completed the acquisition of United Online As part of the transaction, Robert J. (Rusty) Taragan will be rejoining United Online as its CEO. Rusty previously spent 15 years at United Online, and its predecessor company NetZero, most recently as the President of its Communications Segment.

Beetel Teletech Limited, India - $127.9M, July 2016
Brightstar Corp. appointed Deval Parikh as the CEO and Director of Beetel Teletech Limited, effective immediately. Parikh has more than two decades of experience in the telecommunications and technology domains in both Silicon Valley (U.S.) and India, with focus on marketing, product management, engineering, supply chain and sales. 

Bell Techlogix, Indiana - $98.4M, July 2016
Bell Techlogix appointed Ron S.  Frankenfield as CEO effective July 18, 2016. Mr.  Frankenfield joins the company from Unisys where he was president of the Global Services business.

ExtraHop Networks, Washington - $64.8M, July 2016
ExtraHop announced three key leadership changes, readying the company for its next phase of growth. First, the company has appointed Arif Kareem, former president of Fluke Networks and networking and telecommunications industry veteran, as its new CEO.

Pronto Software, Australia - $56.6M, July 2016
Pronto Software Limited appointed existing COO, Chad Gates as Managing Director succeeding David Jackman from 15 July 2016. During his 17-year tenure, David Jackman has tripled the size of Pronto Software.

TeamTalk, New Zealand - $39.5M, July 2016
TeamTalk Limited has appointed Andrew Miller to be its new CEO. Andrew Miller will take up the role in early September. He is currently the Commercial Business General Manager at Callaghan Innovation.

Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies, Ontario - $38.4M, July 2016
Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies  appointed Patrick Arkeveld as its new CEO. Lorne Wallace, founder and former CEO of Lone Wolf, will assume an active role as Executive Chairman. Arkeveld served as President of Lone Wolf for the past year.

dotDigital Group, UK - $35.7M, July 2016
dotdigital Group Plc announced that Simone Barratt will not be returning to the business following a period of illness. Milan Patel, currently interim CEO, has formally been appointed as CEO with immediate effect.

Fahrenheit IT; Global Employment Solutions, Colorado - $28.5M, July 2016
Global Employment Solutions and Fahrenheit IT announced that Howard Brill who has led the company for the past 16 years is moving to the role of Executive Chairman and Wayne Cavanaugh who has served as the company’s CFO, COO and President has been promoted to CEO.

Infogain India, India - $20.9M, July 2016
India Infogain has named Sunil Bhatia as CEO effective July 1, 2016. Mr. Bhatia has held the position of CEO Designate at Infogain since the completion of Infogain.

eHarmony, California - $19.3M, July 2016
eHarmony announced that it has selected long-time VP and member of the original eHarmony team, Grant Langston, as CEO. Founder and CEO, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, will retire as CEO and remain eHarmony chairman. The company said the changes will be effective immediately.

PJSC Datagroup, China - $17.9M, July 2016
Datagroup has appointed Mikhail Shelemba as the new CEO of the company. Shelemba has previously worked at the consultancy McKinsey & Company. Shelemba replaces Alexander Kardakov, the founder of Datagroup, who has been serving as CEO on a temporary basis.

Veriato, Florida - $13.9M, July 2016
Veriato announced the promotion of COO Mike Tierney to CEO and a member of the company’s board of directors. In the planned succession, effective immediately, former CEO Jason Judge will continue to play an active role on Veriato’s board.

TotalMobile, UK - $12.9M, July 2016
Jim Darragh, the former CEO at CMO Software, has been appointed as CEO TotalMobile in succession to Colin Reid who is retiring from full time work.

TradingScreen, New York - $12.3M, July 2016
TradingScreen announced that the Board of Directors of TradingScreen  appointed Pierre Schroeder as the CEO. He has served as interim CEO since May 10, 2016. 

ProctorU, California - $12.0M, July 2016
ProctorU named Scott McFarland as CEO. McFarland joins the fast-growing company after service as COO for PerfectServe.

Solexel, California - $11.6M, July 2016
The company recently named  Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and CFO Mark Kerstens as CEO, unveiled its new brand and introduced its Sprint lightweight photovoltaic (PV) solar panel system for flat commercial roofs.

Insurance Information Institute, New York - $9.4M, July 2016
The Insurance Information Institute (III) announced that it has hired Sean Kevelighan, most recently with Zurich Insurance, as president and CEO.

Solitron Devices, Florida - $7.8M, July 2016
Solitron Devices announced that on July 22, 2016, Shevach Saraf retired as Chairman, CEO, President, CFO, Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors. On July 22, 2016, the Board of Directors of the company appointed Tim Eriksen as CEO and Interim CFO effective as of July 22, 2016. Mr. Eriksen, age 47, was elected a director of the company on August 4, 2015.

ShopRunner, Pennsylvania - $7.7M, July 2016Sam Yagan
ShopRunner appointed Sam Yagan as its CEO. Sam has co-founded several popular consumer internet businesses, including SparkNotes and OkCupid.

Skyhook Wireless, Massachusetts - $6.1M, July 2016
Skyhook appointed Craig Waggy as CEO. Waggy's appointment comes as Skyhook and its parent company, TruePosition, begin operating as a single business. Additionally, Karl Holzthum joins Skyhook as chief sales and marketing officer. Waggy joined TruePosition in 2005, serving as its EVP of finance and administration from 2005 to early 2014 when he was appointed CEO.

Hickok, Ohio - $6.0M, July 2016
Hickok Incorporated announced that Robert L. Bauman informed of his decision to retire as President and CEO. The company appointed Mr. Brian E. Powers as President and CEO effective September 1, 2016. Mr. Powers, is Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors and has held this position since 2014.

Velosecure, New York - $4.6M, July 2016
Identity Finder LLC appointed Dr. Jo Webber as its CEO. Dr. Webber brings more than 16 years of experience leading global technology companies. Jo is an experienced technologist and software company CEO who has led three previous companies including Energy Solutions International.

Gravity4, California - $2.3M, July 2016
Gravity4 announced that days after a S.F. Superior Court judge ruled that Gurbaksh Chahal violated probation, Gurbaksh Chahal has stepped down as CEO of Gravity4. At Gravity4, Chahal is replaced by Chahal’s sister Kamal Kaur, who was listed as the chairwoman and CEO on the company's website as of July 28, 2016.

Gaming Corps, Sweden - $1.1M, July 2016
The Board of Gaming Corps has decided on a change of CEO. Magnus Kolaas takes over from Nicklas Dunham with immediate effect. Magnus, who took place in Gaming Corps Board of Directors at the Annual General Meeting in June, has a background in digital development, international sales, marketing and business development and has also founded and managed Ymer advertising and marketing agency network IN, The Library, SwopGate, and Swarmplanet and more.

Knosys, Australia - $0.6M, July 2016
Knosys Ltd. appointed its new CEO, industry veteran and experienced technology company executive, Mr. John Thompson. The appointment of Mr. Thompson follows the resignation of former CEO, Mr. Ashley Gall.

iGAMBIT, New York - $0.6M, July 2016
iGAMBIT appointed Rory T. Welch as President and CEO, to replace current President and CEO John Salerno. Mr. Salerno will remain in the role of Chairman of Board of Directors. Rory T. Welch, holds the position of President and CEO of Subsidiary Wala d/b/a ArcMail Technologies.

Omni Market Tide, Australia - $0.1M, July 2016
Omni Market Tide Limited announced the departure of Megan Boston as Managing Director of OMT. The company announced the immediate appointment of Steve Terry as CEO. Prior to joining OMT, Steve spent the last six years working as the General Manager for the Queensland operation of TechnologyOne Limited.

The Virtual Learning Company, New York, July 2016
Virtual Learning Company announced that, on July 20, 2016, at a duly called meeting of the board of directors of the company, Vincent Simonelli was appointed to fill one of the vacancies on the board of directors. Following Simonelli’s appointment to the board, the board accepted the resignation of Mr. Roger Fiddler as the then-serving President/CEO of the company and appointed Mr. Simonelli to that position, to initially serve without pay.

Telefónica UK, UK, July 2016
Telefonica UK (O2) has confirmed that CFO Mark Evans has been appointed as CEO to take over from Ronan Dunne on 01 August 2016. Evans also manages the giffgaff brand, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telefonica, and is Chairman of Tesco Mobile.

ROHDE & SCHWARZ, Germany, July 2016
As of July 1, 2016, Christian Leicher and Peter Riedel lead Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG. Leicher, the new President and CEO, has been a member of the Executive Board since 2005.

Workfront, Utah, July 2016
Workfront announced the hiring of Alex Shootman as the company's President, CEO and member of its Board of Directors. Most recently, Shootman was the president of Apptio.

Teradata Applications, Indiana, July 2016
Marlin Equity Partners announced that it has acquired Revenew. The transaction follows Marlin's recent acquisition of the Marketing Applications business from Teradata Corporation. Revenew has been merged with the marketing operations business of TMA to create a differentiated leader with the unique ability to serve customers' central and channel marketing requirements. In addition, Marlin also announced that it has named John Stammen, previously CEO of Revenew, as CEO of the new Aprimo.

KEYMILE, Germany, July 2016
Keymile has appointed founder/CEO of RMU CAPITA Rolf Unterberger as its new CEO with effect from start-July 2016. He replaces Axel Foery.

Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology, UK, July 2016
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology has appointed Richard Pollard as the managing director. Most recently Richard was with Ocean Optics.

NetMotion Wireless, Washington, July 2016
NetMotion Wireless announced that its president, Christopher Kenessey, has been appointed CEO.

InTouch Technologies, California, July 2016
InTouch Health has appointed Joseph M. DeVivo as its new CEO. Mr. DeVivo was most recently President, CEO and Director of AngioDynamics.

NABUfit Global, Utah, July 2016
NABUFIT Global announced that Brian Palm Svaneeng Mertz was appointed as a member of the board of directors and its CEO. At the same time Ulrik Moll, who has been the company's CEO since December 2015 has ceased his services with company. Mr. Mertz served as a director and as the company's CEO from November 2014 through December 2015.

Deploy Technologies, Canada, July 2016
Deploy Technologies announce the appointment of Murray Simser, former CEO of Watts Unlimited, as CEO.

Vortex Brands, California, July 2016
Vortex Brands Co. announced that reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Sagan Labs and that Nicholas Busse will become its new CEO.

NuState Energy Holdings, South Carolina, July 2016
On July 8, 2016 Kathleen Roberton resigned her position as CEO and member of the Board of Directors of NuState Energy Holdings Mr. Kevin Yates, the current Chairman of the Board, will serve as CEO. Mr. Yates will remain as Chairman of the Board.

Yota Devices, Dubai, July 2016
Dmitriy Moyseyev has been named as new CEO by Yota Devices. Earlier, Moyseyev served as COO and takes up the role from Vladiislav Martynov in the top job.

Atlatl Software, South Carolina, July 2016
Atlatl Software announced that Marc Murphy has been selected to lead the company as its new CEO. Most recently, Murphy was CEO at SPARC LLC.

Identa, Israel, July 2016
IDenta Corp. announced that Mr. Nash Abramov has been appointed as the new CEO of the company. In the last 20 years, Mr. Abramov has been dealing with the management of companies in the technological-industrial sector. In the recent years he has dedicated his experience, expertise and professionalism especially to family owned companies.

Blink Couture, Colorado, July 2016
on June 13, 2016, Blink Couture announced that, A. Terry Ray, the sole officer and director, resigned from her respective positions as President, CEO, CFO, Secretary and sole director. Immediately prior to her resignation as a director, on June 13, 2016, A. Terry Ray appointed Michael Toh Kok Soon as a director of the company, to fill the vacancy created by her resignation, and also appointed Michael Toh Kok Soon as the President, CEO, CFO and Secretary. Michael Toh Kok Soon is the Managing Director of Toga Capital Sdn Bhd.

MuscleSound, Colorado, July 2016Andy Jackson
MuscleSound brought on Andy Jackson, a veteran fitness tech executive, to lead the company. Stephen Kurtz, a co-founder and the previous CEO, has been named chairman of the business and will begin working researching health care applications of the company's product. Jackson most recently has been CEO of CloudTag.

PagerDuty, California, July 2016
PagerDuty appointed Jennifer Tejada as CEO and a member of the board. Tejada previously served as president and CEO of Keynote Systems.

Y3 Technologies, Singapore, July 2016
Y3 Technologies has appointed Marc Dragon as CEO. Marc has more than 18 years of experience serving clients in Asia Pacific, and has been in multiple leadership roles at IBM, Deloitte Consulting and Antuit.

Data-as-a-Service, Florida, July 2016
DataMentors announced key organizational changes in the company's leadership team to strengthen strategy execution and drive growth and profitability. Anders Ekman, previously serving as DataMentors' President, has been named CEO.

ZopNow Retail, India, July 2016
ZopNow has appointed Raj Pandey as its CEO. Pandey has replaced Mukesh Singh. Prior to this appointment, Pandey has worked as an executive director of TMT investment banking at JP Morgan. He also worked for Deloitte Consulting.

mLevel, Illinois, July 2016
The company announced that Jordan Fladell, mLevel co-founder, will assume the position of CEO.

Annai Systems, California, July 2016
Annai Systems announced it has appointed biotech veteran James Jamie Levine as CEO. Michael Penley will continue to have key executive responsibilities as Annai’s chief business officer. Prior to joining Annai, he was the CEO of Sapphire Energy  and of Verenium Corporation where he led the successful commercialization of new products for a wide variety of customer industries.

Robi Axiata, Bangladesh, July 2016
Robi Axiata Limited has appointed COO Mahtab Uddin Ahmed as its CEO and managing director, effective 1 November. Ahmed will replace Supun Weerasinghe, who will return to Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata, as the successor to the incumbent Group CEO Hans Wijayasuriya, effective 1 January.

Kinetic Social, New York, July 2016
Kinetic Social appointed digital marketing veteran Matt Gilbert as CEO as well as to the company's Board of Directors. e arrives at Kinetic from 500 friends, a leading SaaS omni-channel loyalty and lifecycle marketing solution for ecommerce, omni-channel retail, and CPG brands that he co-founded in 2011.

Compliance Science, New York, July 2016
ComplySci, formerly Compliance Science, appointed Jean-Marc Levy as CEO and as a member of its board of directors.

Across Systems, Germany, July 2016
Gerd Janiszewski (aged 47) to take over the role of the CEO of Across Systems GmbH.  Most recently, he served in an executive position for Transline Gruppe GmbH.

Mobile Phone Recycling Organisation, UK, July 2016
MPRO announced that Dr. Leland A. Babitch, M.D., MBA, has been named president and CEO. Prior to joining MPRO, Dr. Babitch served as an executive medical director at The Advisory Board Company.

NextGxDx, Tennessee, July 2016
Mark Harris announced that Rob Metcalf has succeeded him as CEO of NextGxDx. Most recently, he served as president and COO for Digital Reasoning.

Civitas Media, North Carolina, July 2016
Civitas Media announced that Lior Yahalomi, a board member and prior President of Civitas, has been appointed CEO effective July 8, 2016. Mr. Yahalomi replaces Ralph Martin, who is stepping down.

LiveHive, California, July 2016
LiveHive announced that its board of directors named Graham Curme as CEO. Curme succeeds former CEO Suresh Balasubramanian, who will continue to serve the company in the newly created role of Chief Strategy Officer. Curme co-founded and most recently served as CEO at Operatix.

StockTwits, California, July 2016
StockTwits announced that it has named Ian Rosen, former CEO, CoFounder at EVEN Financial, as CEO.

Integra ServiceConnect, Maryland, July 2016
Integra ServiceConnect appointed Richard 'Rick' M.  Hassett, MD, as CEO. Most recently, Rick served as an Executive in Residence at Warburg Pincus. Previously, he was CEO of NovaSom.

Opengear, Utah, July 2016
Gary Marks has been appointed CEO of the company. Previously, Marks served as the company's President. 

Avid Life Media, Ontario, July 2016
Avid Life Media appointed Rob Segal as CEO and James Millership as President are three months into their new roles at the company and have transformative changes planned for the company and its brand Ashley Madison.

vCargo Cloud, Singapore, July 2016
vCargo Cloud Pte Ltd. appointed Mr. Tay Koong Phong as CEO. Mr. Tay will be responsible for vCargo's business development and growth and to drive its strategic plans. He is also responsible for synergizing the operation of vCargo with the group's business plans.

comForte 21, Germany, July 2016
comForte 21 GmbH has appointed Michael J. Deissner as new CEO. Deissner is joining comForte from Cytonet, where he was one of the Managing Directors for the last 15 years.

Starticket, Switzerland, July 2016
Stefan Riedel named new CEO of Starticket AG. Following the merger with ticketportal, Starticket is reorganizing. Stefan Riedel previously held various positions at Salt Mobile and brings many years of experience in business development, strategy, process optimisation, and marketing.

ApplyDirect, Australia, July 2016
The Board of Directors of ApplyDirect Limited appointed Lorcan Barden as the company's new CEO. Prior to ApplyDirect, Lorcan was CEO of efm Logistics Services Group. 

Other Moves

Overstock.com, Utah - $1.7B, July 2016
Overstock.com Inc. announced founder Patrick M. Byrne has resumed his position as CEO of the 17-year old online retailer of home furnishings, décor, electronics, jewelry and apparel. Byrne took a medical leave of absence April 11, 2016 to deal with complications of a Stage IV diagnosis of Hepatitis C, contracted after receiving a head wound in rural China in 1984. 

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