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

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

QBE Insurance Appoints Non-Executive Director with FinTech Experience

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

Frito-Lay CIO Joins Board of Sprouts Farmers Market

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

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

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

Bank of Cyprus Public Company Appoints Hyperion CIO as Director 

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

Date Range: July 11th - August 30th

Accenture Appoints Wolters Kluwer Chair/CEO to Board      

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

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

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

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

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

Maxim Integrated Products Announces Board Appointments

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

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

QBE Insurance Appoints Non-Executive Director with FinTech Experience

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

Seagate Technology Director Resigns; Former Logitech CFO

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

CSC Goes Through Board Changes     

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

Frito-Lay CIO Joins Board of Sprouts Farmers MarketKristen Blum

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

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

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

Leidos Appoints Lockheed Martin Designee to Board 

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

Gogo Makes Board Appointment         

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

ShoreTel Appoints New Board Member with Significant Financial Expertise

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

Former NBCUniversal Cable Exec Joins GoPro Board

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

Bank of Cyprus Public Company Appoints Hyperion CIO as Director 

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

Date Range: July 11th - August 30th

New Technology CEO Stats 

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

CEOs Appointed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Date: September 15, 2016

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

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

Tech Execs Appointed - Sources

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Castlight Health Makes Board and Leadership Changes

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

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

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

Cogstate Announces Company Secretary Changes    

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

Instem Hires Global Sales Leader from LabVantage Solutions         

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

Adherium Announces Multiple Leadership Changes 

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

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

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

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

Connecture Names SVP of Payer Solutions   

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

Streamline Health Chief Legal Counsel Steps Down

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

Certive Solutions Appoints COO and VP of SalesBrian Diver

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

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

Rennova Health CFO Leaves

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

DATATRAK Appoints Autodesk Exec as New Independent Director          

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

WebMD Health Services Taps CTO from Premise HealthJacob Sims

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

Verisk Health Names CEO from Accretive Health   

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

Date Range: August 2nd - September 12th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dow Chemical Company Names Long Time IT Exec as CIOMelanie Kalmar

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

Telefonica Appoints CISO     

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

Erez Yarkoni to Leave Telstra as CIO           

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

Airbus Group Announces CIO Changes         

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

Equinix Witnesses Tech Executive Changes 

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

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

MTN Appoints Chief Digital Officer 

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

Lear Appoints VP, Cyber Security for E-Systems      

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

Turkcell Tech Group EVP Resigns    

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

W. R. Berkley Taps CIO from Risk Solutions International

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

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

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

CTO Zining Wu Leaves Marvell Technology Group  

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

LIXIL Appoints Chief Digital Officer to Bring in New Technologies           

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

PTC Appoints Andrew Timm as CTO           

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

Ellie Mae Hires Visa Exec as Chief Architect

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

Amec Foster Wheeler Appoints CIO from Centrica Energy

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

Rostelecom Appoints New VP for IT

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

Lancope CISO Joins QTS Realty Trust         

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

F.N.B. Taps FirstMerit CISO

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

Singapore Based Public Transport Operator SMRT Promotes Tech Exec as CTO   

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

Union Bank of the Philippines CIO Retires   

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

Corbion Appoints CTO to Drive Innovation and Technology Agenda

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

GoPro CIO Joins Sophos in Similar Role       Tony Young

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

PRA Group Names Assistant VP, Application Development and Support    

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

Q2 Holdings Appoints Former Fiserv Exec as New Chief Security Officer  

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

Kudelski Security Names CTO as Part of Major Leadership Shuffle 

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

The Andersons Gets New CIO from Armstrong World Industries

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

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

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

WebMD Health Services Taps CTO from Premise Health

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

Date Range: August 2nd - September 12th

Cisco Middle East Appoints Managing Director of East Region    Shukri Eid  

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

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

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

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

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

Harris Corporation Appoints New Board Members   James Albaugh

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

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

ARRIS International Announces Board and CEO Changes   

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

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

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

Cheetah Mobile Announces New CEO and Director

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

Date Range: August 10th - September 20th

Paypal Announces Geographic Leadership Changes  

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

JD.Com Announces Executive Changes        

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

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

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

Square Announces Executive Changes          

Square announced that Ajmere Dale, 46, will join the Company as Chief Accounting Officer. Dale will assume the responsibility as Chief Accounting Officer from Sarah Friar, who will continue her role as the Company’s CFO. Prior to that, Dale served as VP and Corporate Controller for SolarCity, where he was responsible for financial accounting and reporting.

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

Wayfair Names VP of Operations Product Innovation Team

Wayfair, the e-commerce company selling home improvement goods, announced that Doran Robinson has joined the company as VP of Operations Product Innovation. With extensive experience spearheading technological innovation and service delivery improvements for major U.S. companies, Robinson will drive the expansion of the fulfilment and service systems that power Wayfair’s operations, and will lead efforts to deliver a world-class post-order experience.

WebMD Announces CEO Changes   Steven L. Zatz, M.D.

WebMD Health Corp. has appointed Steven L. Zatz, M.D., its President, to serve as its CEO. Dr. Zatz has been a member of the senior leadership of WebMD and its predecessor companies for 17 years. Dr. Zatz was appointed President of WebMD in 2013 and, for the last three years, has been responsible for all aspects of the company's advertising and sponsorship business, which represents approximately 80% of the company's revenue. Prior to becoming President, Dr. Zatz was EVP of Professional Services, responsible for Medscape, the company's site for healthcare professionals.

David J. Schlanger, who has served as CEO since 2013, is leaving the company by mutual agreement.

Benefitfocus Names Former Infor and SumTotal CFO to Similar Role        

Cloud based benefits enrollment portal Benefitfocus announced that Jeffrey Laborde has been appointed CFO. Laborde brings to Benefitfocus extensive strategic and financial leadership experience in the technology sector. Laborde has previously served as CFO at both Infor and SumTotal Systems.

Dropbox’s CFO is Departing for Health Reasons

File hosting service provider Dropbox’s CFO Vanessa Wittman is stepping down due to health reasons. She’ll be replaced by financial deputy Ajay Vashee. Wittman joined Dropbox in 2015 from Motorola Mobility, with longtime experience in the public sector. She was CFO at Marsh & McLennan and was a corporate development executive at Microsoft.

Vashee, who joined Dropbox in 2012, will now lead its financial operations and strategy. His previous jobs included roles at New Enterprise Associates and Morgan Stanley. 

Date Range: August 10th - September 20th

Salesforce Appoints Former Microsoft Exec as First Chief Equality Officer

Salesforce announced Tony Prophet will join the company as Chief Equality Officer. Prophet will be responsible for leading the company's equality initiatives, focusing on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality. Prophet is a respected leader who has held senior executive roles at Microsoft and HP. He most recently served as Microsoft's Corporate VP of Education Marketing. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Gannett.

VMware Announces Board Changes  

VMware reported that Michael S. Dell has been elected to the VMware board of directors as chairman. In addition, Egon Durban was elected to the VMware board. Both of these appointments were triggered by Dell Technologies' completion of the acquisition of EMC, creating a family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information.

With this change, Joseph M. Tucci, the company's chairman of the board of directors since 2007, as well as John R. Egan who served as a director on the company board of directors since 2007, are resigning from the company board.

Dell currently serves as chairman of the board and CEO of Dell Technologies.

Dassault Systemes Makes Geographic Leadership Changes  

Dassault Systemes has appointed Samson Khaou as the Managing Director of its India Geo. Dr. Chandan Chowdhury, who has been the India MD over the last five years will be taking over a new role as VP (Global Affairs & Business Development).

Samson Khaou will develop Dassault Systemes' India business strategy in line with the country's opportunities across sectors like aerospace and defense, transportation and mobility, consumer goods, life sciences, natural resources, industrial equipment, financial and business services, energy process and utilities. Samson Khaou is with Dassault Systemes since 1989. He launched Dassault Systemes' business in Korea and then he took the responsibility of Industry Services for Europe before leading the Asia Pacific South geo in 2011. Under his leadership, the revenue doubled, with several innovative projects such as Virtual Singapore being initiated.

Dr. Chandan will be in charge of defining new engagement and business models, focusing on the government's initiatives in areas like 'Make in India', urban transformation, digital India, smart cities and developing centers-of-excellence for creating industry-ready professionals to increase employability and interactions with senior scientists.

Workday Elects Member of its CEO Advisory Board as Director      Lee J. Styslinger, III

Workday elected Lee J. Styslinger, III as a director of Workday. Styslinger has served as a member of Workday's CEO Advisory Board since 2015. Additionally, he has served as the CEO of Altec, a leading equipment and service provider for the electric utility, telecommunications, contractor, lights and signs, and tree care markets, since 1997 and as its Chairman since 2011.

Citrix Systems Appoints SVP, Products and APJ Region Sales Laeder

Citrix Systems appointed Jeff Russo as SVP, Products. Most recently, Jeff served as VP of Product Development at Citrix where he led development services for all product groups. During his 19 year career at Citrix Systems Jeff helped the company to grow from a $50 million to a $3 billion technology company and held executive management positions ranging from Corporate VP of Operations and Chief of Staff to multiple VP of product development roles.     

Citrix has announced that Stanimira Koleva has been appointed group VP (GVP) of sales and services for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Most recently, Koleva was the SVP and chief operations officer, 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.

Palo Alto Networks Announces Sales Leadership Changes   

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, Anderson's leadership as SVP of Worldwide Field Operations, for its sales organization has been instrumental to its growth. rior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he was EVP of Worldwide Sales at F5 Networks, where he oversaw all sales activities for the company beginning in 2007.

Dave Peranich joins the company as its new EVP, Worldwide Sales. Peranich joins Palo Alto Networks after having served in several roles over a nine-year career at Riverbed Technology. Most recently, Peranich was Riverbed’s president of worldwide field operations, but he previously held the titles of EVP of worldwide field operations and SVP of worldwide sales.

First Data Appoints Leader for APAC Region           

First Data announced that Ivo Distelbrink will join the company to lead its business in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Reporting to Chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, Distelbrink will be based in Singapore and will also serve on First Data’s Management Committee. Distelbrink joins First Data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), where he most recently held the role of Managing Director and Regional Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) for APAC.

NetApp Appoints CMO from IBM; Appoints Area Leader for Greater China

NetApp announced the appointment of Jean English as CMO. English brings a wealth of leadership and marketing experience to the company and to the role of CMO. Her experience in business-to-business marketing spans over 20 years. Jean joins the company from IBM, where, most recently, she was the global VP for IBM Cloud Marketing and led the go-to-market transformation for IBM's cloud business.

NetApp named Fredy Cheung as Area VP, Greater China. As an industry veteran, Cheung brings deep expertise and knowledge to NetApp in the region and across the globe. He also has experience with and unique insights about the diversified new economic models of Greater China's ICT market.  Cheung was previously the CEO of Capital Online Data Services Ltd. Beijing.

ANSYS Announces Leadership Succession Plan        

Computer-aided engineering software developer ANSYS announced a leadership succession plan. James E. Cashman, who has served as ANSYS’ CEO since 2000, will become Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Dr. Ajei S. Gopal, a technology industry veteran who has served as a member of the ANSYS Board since 2011, has been appointed President and COO and will continue to serve on the Board. Dr. Gopal will become CEO on January 1, 2017. Dr. Gopal is a 25-year industry veteran with extensive management and business development experience at large software and technology companies. He has held leadership roles at companies including Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, CA Technologies and IBM, and also brings start-up experience, having co-founded ReefEdge Networks. 

Ronald W. Hovsepian, who currently serves as Chairman of the ANSYS Board, will assume the role of Lead Independent Director as part of this transition.

Sabre Appoints Global Sales Leader for its Traveler Experience Corporate Business Division          

Travel technology company Sabre Corporation has appointed Florian Tinnus VP of global sales and account leadership for Sabre Traveler Experience. Most recently Florian was the global head of Corporate Travel IT for the Amadeus IT Group. There he led the commercial organization for travel and expense solutions and services for corporate customers.

CSC Appoints Former Hartford Life CFO as Director; CA Exec Joins as VP, Controller Lizabeth H. Zlatkus    

CSC has named Lizabeth H. Zlatkus, 57, to the company's board of directors. Zlatkus previously worked for 28 years at The Hartford Financial Services Group, as CFO and chief risk officer, as well as co-president of The Hartford Life Insurance Cos. She currently serves on the board of Boston Private Financial Holdings and Legal & General Group. Zlatkus also serves as development chair of the Connecticut Science Center Trustee Board. Previously, she served as chair of the Pennsylvania State University Business School board and as regulatory chair for the North American Chief Risk Officers Council.

CSC appointed Neil Manna VP, controller and principal accounting officer. Prior to joining the company, Manna served since 2008 as SVP, chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer of CA Technologies.

PTC Appoints Andrew Timm as CTO           

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

Tableau Software Announces Multiple Management Changes          

Tableau Software appointed Adam Selipsky as president and CEO. Christian Chabot, Tableau's co-founder and current CEO, will continue to serve as chairman of Tableau's board of directors. Adam Selipsky has spent over a decade building Amazon Web Services. Selipsky currently serves as VP of Marketing, Sales and Support for AWS. Prior to joining Amazon, he was an executive at RealNetworks. Before that, he was a Principal at Mercer Management Consulting.

 Christian Chabot will remain actively involved in the company as chairman of the board of directors. He will continue to assist the company with long-term strategy and customer evangelism. Additionally, Tableau is bolstering its technology leadership.

Chris Stolte, Tableau's co-founder and Chief Development Officer, will transition to Technical Advisor and Andrew Beers will take the leadership of the product development team as Chief Development Officer.

Francois Ajenstat, one of the company's long-time product leaders, will be elevated to a new position as Chief Product Officer.

CoreLogic Hires SVP of Government and Industry Relations with Public Policy Leadership Experience

CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, hired Stuart Pratt as SVP of government and industry relations. Pratt most recently served as president and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association. During his three decades with CDIA he was recognized as a champion for the consumer credit industry and regularly served on U.S. presidential and gubernatorial task forces on policy matters touching all facets of credit and related information flows. Additionally, he has advised the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding European Union-U.S. trade negotiation and has counseled private and government entities overseas on responsible uses of consumer data.

Ellie Mae Hires Visa Exec as Chief Architect

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

Qlik Technologies Inc. Announces Board Changes   

Project Alpha Merger (Merger Sub) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Qlik Parent (Parent), completed its merger with and into Qlik Technologies. The directors of Acquisition Sub became directors of the Company and the board consisted of Orlando Bravo, Seth Boro, Chip Virnig, Andrew Almeida, Marcel Bernard, Jim Lines, David Murphy and Lars Björk. Each of Messrs. Bravo, Boro, Virnig, Almeida, Bernard, Lines and Murphy is affiliated with Thoma Bravo.

Kingsoft Sees CEO Changes  

Chinese software company Kingsoft announced that retirement of Dr. Hongjiang Zhang as Executive Director and CEO.  After his retirement, Dr. ZHANG will continue to serve as a consultant of the Group.

The Board announced that Tao ZOU, currently an executive Director and SVP of the company, has been appointed as CEO of the company to replace Dr. ZHANG since the effective date of his retirement by the Board of the company, a director of Kingsoft Cloud by the board of directors of Kingsoft Cloud and a director of Cheetah by the board of directors of Cheetah.

James McGeever Resigns from the Board of Directors of Cornerstone OnDemand

James McGeever resigned from the Board of Directors of talent management software‎ firm Cornerstone OnDemand as a result of the pending acquisition of NetSuite, where McGeever currently serves as President and COO, by Oracle Corporation, a competitor of the Company.

Pegasystems Appoints Bain Partner to its Board; Appoints CMO     Dianne Ledingham

Pegasystems appointed Dianne Ledingham, partner and director at Bain & Company, to its Board of Directors. Ledingham brings more than 25 years of experience as a trusted advisor to leading technology companies in enterprise software, mobile, cloud, and IT services, with a specialty in sales and channel effectiveness. Ledingham has had several governance roles at Bain including serving on Bain's Board of Directors.

Pegasystems also appointed Tom Libretto, 44, as CMO and SVP. Libretto has more than 20 years of marketing leadership experience in global technology organizations including Lotus, IBM, Nokia, and most recently as managing director, global head of digital experience at JPMorgan Chase (JPMC).

comScore Witnesses Board and Executive Resignations

Non-Executive Chairman William Katz notified the Company that he intends to provide notice of resignation to the global media measurement and analytics company comScore’s Board of Directors. ComScore has been under heavy scrutiny this year due to an ongoing audit of accounting issues, which had stopped the company from filing financial reports for year-end 2015 and 2016’s first and second quarters. The issues revolve around how comScore counted some of its non-cash revenues.

The company received notice from Serge Matta that he intends to resign as an Executive Vice Chairman of the Company. He previously was the Company's CEO from February 2014 until August 2016, a role he exited in August in the midst of an audit issue. Matta has been with comScore since shortly after its inception in 1999.

Gian Fulgoni took over as CEO then. President Bill Livek, formerly Rentrak CEO before the merger, will see his role continue to expand at comScore.

Melvin Wesley III also resigned as an EVP of the Company. He previously was the Company's EVP and CFO from August 2014 until August 2016.

Marketo Announces Leadership Changes after Acquisition by Vista Equity Partners

After Vista Equity’s acquisition of Marketo, the following persons, who were the directors of Marketo, became directors of the Company: Robert F. Smith, Brian N. Sheth, Martin A. Taylor, Maneet S. Saroya, John Stadler and Betty Hung. Phillip M. Fernandez, who was a director of the Company immediately prior to the Merger, will continue to be a director of the Company. The following persons, who were directors of the Company prior to the completion of the Merger, have resigned and are no longer directors of the Company: Lynne Biggar, Susan L. Bostrom, Cambria Dunaway, Tae Hea Nahm, Roger S. Siboni and Wesley R. Wasson.

Effective upon completion of the Merger, the following persons, who were the officers of Marketo, became officers of the Company: Maneet S. Saroya and John Stalder. The following officers of the Company immediately prior to the Merger will continue to be officers of the Company: Phillip M. Fernandez, Brian Kinion, Jason L. Holmes and Steven M. Winter.  Frederick A. Ball, who was an officer of the Company prior to the completion of the Merger, has resigned and is no longer an officer of the Company.

Marketo announced the promotion of Chandar Pattabhiram to SVP and CMO. The appointment follows the decision of Sanjay Dholakia to leave Marketo in order to spend more time at home with his family. In addition, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Fred Ball will also be leaving the company. Pattabhiram, who was previously group VP of marketing, will continue to position Marketo as the marketing industry's innovation leader and best solution for high-growth and enterprise businesses.

Barry N. Bycoff Submits His Resignation as Member of Board of Progress Software          

Barry N. Bycoff, a member of the Board of Directors of Progress Software Corporation, submitted his resignation as a member of the Board of. Bycoff was initially elected to the Board in March 2007. Bycoff was a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital.

Q2 Holdings Appoints Former Fiserv Exec as New Chief Security Officer  

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

SecureWorks Announces Board Alterations   

Information security service provider SecureWorks announced that David W. Dorman, a director of the Company, notified the company’s Board of Directors in writing that he will resign from the Board, before the effectiveness of his election to the Board of Directors of Dell Technologies.

The board elected Dr. Yagyensh C. (Buno) Pati to the Board to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Dorman. Dr. Pati has been a Partner of Centerview Capital Technology, a private investment firm, since May 2016.

Bottomline Technologies Witnesses Multiple Board Changes           

Bottomline Technologies, a leading global provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, announced that Joseph L. Barry, Jr. and James W. Zilinski each informed the company of his intention to retire as a member of the Board. As previously reported, Daniel M. McGurl and James L. Loomis will not stand for re-election to the Board at the Annual Meeting.

IntraLinks Appoints Insidesales Exec to its Board    

Secure document sharing application service provider IntraLinks announced that Jim Steele has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Steele is currently president and chief revenue officer of Insidesales.com, and is the former president and chief customer officer of Salesforce.com.

Date Range: August 10th - September 20th

Before joining Yahoo!, Dr. Lu worked as a research staff member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University, and was a faculty member at Fudan University in China.

Date: October 4, 2016

New Technology CEO Stats 

New Tech CEO Openings: 11 – Viacom (NY), Lands' End (WI), Jenoptik (Germany), Optiemus Infracom (India), Perion Network (Israel), Westell Technologies (IL), Quest Solution (OR), Brady (UK), Micronet (Israel), WANdisco (UK), TransBiotec (CA).

CEOs Appointed

Sources of Appointments: 52 were External appointments, and 46 were internal promotions.

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

Diversity: 5.1% of the appointments are women CEOs. Polycom (CA), WorldPay US (GA), Style Research (UK), Vertafore (WA), and Emerald Medical Applications (Israel).

Geographic Distribution: 66 in North America, 19 in Europe, 15 in Asia/Russia/Australia, and 2 in Middle East/ Africa.

The average and median times open CEO roles have been open are about 9 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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Before joining Yahoo!, Dr. Lu worked as a research staff member at IBM’s Almaden Research Center and Carnegie Mellon University, and was a faculty member at Fudan University in China.

Microsoft appointed Sriram Rajamani as the new managing director of its India lab, effective August 1, 2016. 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 02 years. Prior to joining the India lab, he headed the Software Productivity Tools group within Microsoft's Redmond research lab.

Facebook Taps Snapdeal’s Chief Product Officer 

Facebook has appointed former Chief Product Officer at Snapdeal and Bharti Airtel, Anand Chandrasekaran for its Messenger platform. In a global role, Chandrasekaran will be working out of the Silicon Valley headquarters of the company and will help develop strategies and partnerships for the platform that already boasts of a billion users globally. Chandrasekaran, who served as the senior director of mobile and search products at Yahoo between 2011 and 2014, worked with Airtel and Snapdeal in India in the past two and a half years.

Amazon.com Appoints Founding Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech as Director

Daniel P. HuttenlocherAmazon.com elected Daniel P. Huttenlocher as a director of the company. Huttenlocher has been founding Dean and Vice Provost, Cornell Tech at Cornell University since 2012, and has worked for Cornell University since 1988 in various positions. Huttenlocher has served as a director of Corning since February 2015.

Alibaba Appoints Former McKinsey Exec as its SVP, Strategy & Investments

Alibaba appointed Madhur Deep as its SVP, Strategy & Investments. In his new role, Deep will take care of strategy and investment team in India at Alibaba. Prior to this appointment, Deep worked for McKinsey & Company as its Senior Engagement Manager.

Samsung Electronics Nominates Jay Y. Lee to Board

Samsung Electronics has nominated Jay Y. Lee, the son of its longtime chairman, to its board of directors. More than two years after the hospitalization of Chairman Kun-Hee Lee, the Board of Samsung Electronics believes that the time is now right to nominate Jay Y. Lee as a member of the Board to allow him to take a more active role in the Company's strategic decision-making. Following Lee's appointment, Sang-Hoon Lee, who will continue as CFO, plans to stand down from his position on the Board in order to maintain the Board's current structure of four members of the management and five independent outside directors.

Intel Announces Multiple Executive Changes 

Intel Corporation appointed Robert “Bob” H. Swan as EVP and CFO. He replaces Stacy Smith, who, as previously announced, is taking a broader role within Intel leading manufacturing, sales and operations. Smith served nine years as Intel’s CFO.

Swan joins Intel from growth equity firm General Atlantic where he served as an operating partner working closely with the firm's global portfolio companies on growth objectives. Prior to General Atlantic, he served nine years as the CFO of eBay. Before that, he was CFO at Electronic Data Systems and at TRW. He also served as CFO, COO and CEO of Webvan Group. Prior to that, Bob served in senior finance roles at GE.

Intel and TPG announced a definitive agreement under which the two parties will establish a newly formed, jointly-owned, independent cybersecurity company. The new company will be called McAfee following transaction close. Chris Young will be appointed CEO of the new company upon closing of the transaction. Young is senior vice president and general manager of the Intel Security Group.

IBM to Reorganize Internal Blockchain Team; Couple of IBM Cloud Marketing Execs Depart 

IBM announced that it is planning to reorganize its internal blockchain team into a business unit that is to include its artificial intelligence and cloud computing initiatives. The new unit, in addition to working on blockchain technology, will also lead IBM's efforts to bridge its financial services work with its Watson artificial intelligence initiative. The firm said that the unit, Industry Platforms, will be led by Bridget van Kralingen, a former SVP of Global Business Services. The firm's entire blockchain leadership will move to the new unit.

Jean English, Global VP for IBM Cloud Marketing, has left. She has joined NetApp as CMO. She has expertise in developing and implementing comprehensive marketing strategies and led the go-to-market transformation for IBM's cloud business.

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

Qualcomm Named Ann M. Livermore to its Board      

Ann M. LivermoreQualcomm appointed Ann M. Livermore to its board of directors. With her nearly 30 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Livermore brings extensive experience in senior leadership positions, and broad knowledge and experience in the areas of technology, business management, marketing, sales, and research and development. Livermore was formerly an EVP at Hewlett-Packard, where from 2004 until June 14, 2011 she led the HP Enterprise Business business unit of HP.

Adobe Chief Accounting Officer Retires         

Adobe announced that retirement of Richard Rowley as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Adobe following 10 years of service. Rowley currently expects to remain in his role until January 31, 2017.

Salesforce Appoints Former Microsoft Exec as First Chief Equality Officer

Salesforce announced Tony Prophet will join the company as Chief Equality Officer. Prophet will be responsible for leading the company's equality initiatives, focusing on gender, LGBTQ and racial equality. Prophet is a respected leader who has held senior executive roles at Microsoft and HP. He most recently served as Microsoft's Corporate VP of Education Marketing. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Gannett.

PayPal Appoints COO and Europe Regional Leader     

William J. Ready has been appointed as EVP, COO at PayPal. Prior to this appointment, Ready previously served as the company's SVP, Global Head of Product and Engineering from January 2016 to September 2016, as SVP, Merchant and Next Generation Commerce from April 2015 to January 2016, and as CEO and GM of Braintree from December 2013 through April 2015.

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.

Netflix Hires Ex-Universal Television Exec as VP-Content       

Netflix announced that it hires Bela Bajaria, ex-Universal Television, as VP-content, leading team focused on TV and film licensing from major U.S.  studios, and co-production relationships with major U.S. networks.

ADP’s President, Global Enterprise Solutions Resigns to Join NCR    

Mark Benjamin resigned as President, Global Enterprise Solutions of Automatic Data Processing. He joined ADP as an account representative and moved up in a number of leadership positions, including ADP’s small business and employer services divisions.

Benjamin is joining NCR as President and COO.

JD.Com Announces Executive Changes        

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

Infosys Announces Appointments and Resignations

Sangita Singh, Wipro's former chief executive for healthcare and life sciences, is to join Infosys as EVP and head its nearly $800-million healthcare and life sciences portfolio.

Sanjay Purohit, an EVP at Infosys, has resigned. Purohit was in-charge of the strategic initiatives with Pravin Rao, the COO of Infosys.

ARM Holdings Announces Executive Appointments   

ARM Holdings, the semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group, appointed Masayoshi Son as Chairman and Executive Director; Ronald Fisher as Executive Director and Alok Sama as Executive Director. Masayoshi Son currently acts as Chairman and CEO for SoftBank and Chairman for Sprint Corporation, and holds executive directorships in Yahoo Japan Corporation and Alibaba Group Holding Limited.

Ronald Fisher currently holds executive positions in SoftBank and Sprint Corporation, and has held previous executive directorships in E*TRADE Financial Corporation and GSI Commerce Inc.

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

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

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

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

VMware Announces Board Changes  

VMware reported that Michael S. Dell has been elected to the VMware board of directors as chairman. In addition, Egon Durban was elected to the VMware board. Both of these appointments were triggered by Dell Technologies' completion of the acquisition of EMC, creating a family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information.

With this change, Joseph M. Tucci, the company's chairman of the board of directors since 2007, as well as John R. Egan who served as a director on the company board of directors since 2007, are resigning from the company board.

Dell currently serves as chairman of the board and CEO of Dell Technologies.

Applied Materials Announces Resignation of Robert H. Swan as Director

Robert H. SwanApplied Materials announced that Robert H. Swan notified the company that he was resigning as a member of the Board of Directors of Applied Materials. Swan is Operating Partner, General Atlantic.

Intuit Appoints Nikhil Rungta as its Managing Director of its India Business

Intuit has appointed Nikhil Rungta as its managing director of its India business. Previously, he was appointed chief marketing officer at Housing.com. Prior to that, Rungta was the SVP of marketing at Reliance Jio and the CMO for Google India, where he led the position for four years. Overall, Rungta has over 20 years of experience in the marketing field and has worked in leadership roles at Yatra and Yebhi, where he headed the marketing for the companies.

HP Promotes Chief Academic Officer to Distinguished Technologist; Appoints MD for South African Business

Elliott Levine, chief academic officer at HP (formerly Hewlett-Packard), has been promoted to distinguished technologist.

HP has appointed David Rozzio as the new managing director of its South African business. Rozzio replaces Thibault Dousson.

Ericsson Announces CHRO and Tech Leader Changes

Ericsson announced it will move the position as CHRO to Sweden and that Bina Chaurasia, will resign from her role as SVP and CHRO. Joining Ericsson from Hewlett Packard in 2010, Chaurasia has built a world class global HR function for Ericsson.

Maj-Britt Arfert has been appointed acting CHRO while the search for a successor is underway.

Ulf Ewaldsson appointed Chief Strategy and Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Strategy and Technology for the Ericsson Group. Ulf Ewaldsson currently holds the position as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Group Function Technology.

Dassault Systemes Makes Geographic Leadership Changes  

Dassault Systemes has appointed Samson Khaou as the Managing Director of its India Geo. Dr. Chandan Chowdhury, who has been the India MD over the last five years will be taking over a new role as VP (Global Affairs & Business Development).

Samson Khaou will develop Dassault Systemes' India business strategy in line with the country's opportunities across sectors like aerospace and defense, transportation and mobility, consumer goods, life sciences, natural resources, industrial equipment, financial and business services, energy process and utilities. Samson Khaou is with Dassault Systemes since 1989. He launched Dassault Systemes' business in Korea and then he took the responsibility of Industry Services for Europe before leading the Asia Pacific South geo in 2011. Under his leadership, the revenue doubled, with several innovative projects such as Virtual Singapore being initiated.

Dr. Chandan will be in charge of defining new engagement and business models, focusing on the government's initiatives in areas like 'Make in India', urban transformation, digital India, smart cities and developing centers-of-excellence for creating industry-ready professionals to increase employability and interactions with senior scientists.

Analog Devices Announces Business Group Leadership Changes      

Analog Devices announced that Richard Meaney, SVP, Industrial, Healthcare and Consumer Business Group, will leave the company. Rick D. Hess, who currently leads the Communications and Automotive business groups will assume leadership of the Industrial, Healthcare and Consumer business groups, previously run by Meaney.

Micron Technology Announces Retirement of Mark Heil as VP and Corporate Controller      

Mark Heil, VP and Corporate Controller of Micron Technology announced his intention to retire from the Company. Heil served as the Company's interim Principal Financial Officer and interim Principal Accounting Officer from March 2015 to June 2015.

Workday Elects Member of its CEO Advisory Board as Director     

Workday elected Lee J. Styslinger, III as a director of Workday. Styslinger has served as a member of Workday's CEO Advisory Board since 2015. Additionally, he has served as the CEO of Altec, a leading equipment and service provider for the electric utility, telecommunications, contractor, lights and signs, and tree care markets, since 1997 and as its Chairman since 2011.

Abhijit Bhaduri Leaves Wipro as Chief Learning Officer         

Wipro confirms that Abhijit Bhaduri, currently the chief learning officer, has decided to pursue his entrepreneurial ambition after a rewarding career with the organization. Given this, Abhijit will continue with Wipro in an advisory role. The company did not confirm if the post of chief learning officer will see an executive from outside or within company folds brought in to replace Bhaduri. He will start his own executive coaching firm in the next few months.

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

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

Enphase Energy CFO Joins Skyworks Solutions as SVP and CFO        

Skyworks Solutions announced that Kris Sennesael has joined Skyworks as SVP and CFO. Sennesael, most recently served as CFO for Enphase Energy, a semiconductor-based energy solutions provider. Prior to Enphase, Sennesael was CFO at Standard Microsystems, and, previously, he held increasingly responsible financial positions at ON, AMI Semiconductor and Alcatel Microelectronics.

Citrix Systems Appoints APJ Region Sales Leader

Citrix has announced that Stanimira Koleva has been appointed group VP (GVP) of sales and services for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Most recently, Koleva was the SVP and chief operations officer, 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.

Palo Alto Networks Announces Sales Leadership Changes   

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, Anderson's leadership as SVP of Worldwide Field Operations, for its sales organization has been instrumental to its growth. rior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he was EVP of Worldwide Sales at F5 Networks, where he oversaw all sales activities for the company beginning in 2007.

First Data Appoints Co-CEO at Lebenthal as Board Member; Appoints Leader for APAC Region         

First Data Corporation appointed Barbara A. Yastine as Board of Directors. Yastine most recently served as a director and Co-CEO at Lebenthal Holdings. Prior to Yastine’s most recent role at Lebenthal Holdings, she served as Chair, President, and CEO of Ally Bank from 2012 to 2015. She also previously held the role of Chief Administrative Officer of Ally Financial. In addition Yastine is also a member of the Board of Primerica.

Ivo Distelbrink will join the company to lead its business in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Reporting to Chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, Distelbrink will be based in Singapore and will also serve on First Data’s Management Committee. Distelbrink joins First Data from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), where he most recently held the role of Managing Director and Regional Head of Global Transaction Services (GTS) for APAC.

Maxim Integrated Products Announces Board Appointments

Maxim Integrated Products, engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits, elected MaryAnn Wright and Tracy Accardi to its Board of Directors.

Wright serves as Group VP, Technology and Industry Relations at Johnson Controls. Before joining Johnson Controls, Wright was EVP of Engineering, Product Development, Commercial and Program Management at Collins & Aikman Corporation from 2006-2007. Prior to that, she served in several executive management positions at Ford Motor.

Accardi has served as VP of Global Research and Development, Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic since 2014. Previously, Accardi was CTO at Omniguide Surgical from 2012 to 2014, and Executive Consultant at Mednest Consulting from 2011 to 2012, after having held senior research and development positions at Covidien, Johnson & Johnson Company, and Philips Medical Systems.

Harris Corporation Appoints New Board Members   

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

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

Date Range: August 24th - October 11th

Samsung Electronics Nominates Jay Y. Lee to Board

Samsung Electronics has nominated Jay Y. Lee, the son of its longtime chairman, to its board of directors. More than two years after the hospitalization of Chairman Kun-Hee Lee, the Board of Samsung Electronics believes that the time is now right to nominate Jay Y. Lee as a member of the Board to allow him to take a more active role in the Company's strategic decision-making. Following Lee's appointment, Sang-Hoon Lee, who will continue as CFO, plans to stand down from his position on the Board in order to maintain the Board's current structure of four members of the management and five independent outside directors.

Qualcomm Named Ann M. Livermore to its Board      

Qualcomm appointed Ann M. Livermore to its board of directors. With her nearly 30 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Livermore brings extensive experience in senior leadership positions, and broad knowledge and experience in the areas of technology, business management, marketing, sales, and research and development. Livermore was formerly an EVP at Hewlett-Packard, where from 2004 until June 14, 2011 she led the HP Enterprise Business business unit of HP.

Applied Materials Announces Resignation of Robert H. Swan as Director

Applied Materials announced that Robert H. Swan notified the company that he was resigning as a member of the Board of Directors of Applied Materials. Swan is Operating Partner, General Atlantic.

VMware Announces Board Changes  

VMware reported that Michael S. Dell has been elected to the VMware board of directors as chairman. In addition, Egon Durban was elected to the VMware board. Both of these appointments were triggered by Dell Technologies' completion of the acquisition of EMC, creating a family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information.

With this change, Joseph M. Tucci, the company's chairman of the board of directors since 2007, as well as John R. Egan who served as a director on the company board of directors since 2007, are resigning from the company board.

Dell currently serves as chairman of the board and CEO of Dell Technologies.

Workday Elects Member of its CEO Advisory Board as Director     Lee J. Styslinger, III

Workday elected Lee J. Styslinger, III as a director of Workday. Styslinger has served as a member of Workday's CEO Advisory Board since 2015. Additionally, he has served as the CEO of Altec, a leading equipment and service provider for the electric utility, telecommunications, contractor, lights and signs, and tree care markets, since 1997 and as its Chairman since 2011.

First Data Appoints Co-CEO at Lebenthal as Board Member    

First Data Corporation appointed Barbara A. Yastine as Board of Directors. Yastine most recently served as a director and Co-CEO at Lebenthal Holdings. Prior to Yastine’s most recent role at Lebenthal Holdings, she served as Chair, President, and CEO of Ally Bank from 2012 to 2015. She also previously held the role of Chief Administrative Officer of Ally Financial. In addition Yastine is also a member of the Board of Primerica.

Maxim Integrated Products Announces Board Appointments

Maxim Integrated Products, engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits, elected MaryAnn Wright and Tracy Accardi to its Board of Directors.

Wright serves as Group VP, Technology and Industry Relations at Johnson Controls. Before joining Johnson Controls, Wright was EVP of Engineering, Product Development, Commercial and Program Management at Collins & Aikman Corporation from 2006-2007. Prior to that, she served in several executive management positions at Ford Motor.

Accardi has served as VP of Global Research and Development, Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic since 2014. Previously, Accardi was CTO at Omniguide Surgical from 2012 to 2014, and Executive Consultant at Mednest Consulting from 2011 to 2012, after having held senior research and development positions at Covidien, Johnson & Johnson Company, and Philips Medical Systems.

Harris Corporation Appoints New Board Members   

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

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

IMS Health Holdings Announces Board Changes

IMS Health Holdings announced that in connection with the closing of the merger, Ari Bousbib, John G. Danhakl, James Fasano, Karen L.Katen, Sharad S. Mansukani, Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, Todd B. Sisitsky and Bryan M.  Taylor resigned as directors of the company.

Akamai Technologies Appoints Former Sprint CEO as Board Member

Akamai 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.

Alfred Castino to Resign as Board of Director from Synopsys

Synopsys announced that Alfred Castino notified the company of his decision not to stand for re-election to company's Board of Directors. Castino has been an independent business consultant since August 2008. From August 2002 to August 2008, Castino served as SVP and CFO of Autodesk.

CDK Global Appoints CEO of Sparta Systems and CEO of CROSSMARK to its Board of Directors       

CDK Global announced that its board of directors has appointed two new highly qualified independent directors, Eileen J. Martinson and Stephen F. Schuckenbrock, to its board. Eileen Martinson, is the CEO of Sparta Systems and Steve Schuckenbrock, is the CEO of CROSSMARK.

CSC Appoints Former Hartford Life CFO as Director; CA Exec Joins as VP, Controller

CSC has named Lizabeth H. Zlatkus, 57, to the company's board of directors. Zlatkus previously worked for 28 years at The Hartford Financial Services Group, as CFO and chief risk officer, as well as co-president of The Hartford Life Insurance Cos. She currently serves on the board of Boston Private Financial Holdings and Legal & General Group. Zlatkus also serves as development chair of the Connecticut Science Center Trustee Board. Previously, she served as chair of the Pennsylvania State University Business School board and as regulatory chair for the North American Chief Risk Officers Council.

ARRIS International Announces Board and CEO Changes   

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

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

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

Microsemi Appoints Kimberly Alexy to its Board of Directors           

Microsemi appointed Kimberly Alexy to its board of directors. Alexy is a seasoned finance professional and corporate board member with more than 20 years of combined experience. Alexy brings a deep base of capital markets experience with valuable insights into shareholder value creation, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financings. Over the past decade she has been an active board member at multiple publically traded companies and has chaired audit, compensation, nomination and governance committees, and has served on a series of special committees. She currently serves on the board of directors for FireEye, Five9, CalAmp and VIZIO.

WEX Elects Audit Committee Financial Expert John Bachman to Board          

WEX elected John (Jeb) E. Bachman to the company’s board. Bachman is an “audit committee financial expert” who spent more than 35 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers and is on the board of directors for The Children’s Place, a public company. A partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers until his retirement in 2015, Bachman served as the U.S. assurance operations leader from 2007 to 2013, with full financial and operational responsibility.

Match Group Appoints CFO of IAC/InterActiveCorp to Board of Directors    

Glenn H. Schiffman, 47, was elected to the Board of Directors of Match Group. Schiffman has served as CFO of IAC/InterActiveCorp (IAC) since April 2016. Prior to joining IAC, Schiffman served as Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, since March 2013. Prior to his tenure at Guggenheim Securities, Schiffman was a partner at The Raine Group, from September 2011 to March 2013.

Ubiquiti Networks Appoints Broadcom SVP as Member of the Board

Ubiquiti Networks appointed Michael E. Hurlston to the Board. Hurlston is SVP and General Manager, Wireless Communications and Connectivity Division at Broadcom Limited.

Logitech International Announces Board Changes

Logitech named Patrick Aebischer, president of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), to board. Long-standing director, Kee Lock Chua, retired from the board, having decided not to stand for re-election.

Dialog Semiconductor Appoints Former GM Exec to the Company's Board    Mary Chan

Dialog Semiconductor appointed Mary Chan to the company's Board of Directors. Most recently at GM, Chan served between 2012 and 2015 as President, Global Connected Consumers & OnStar Service USA. Chan currently serves as an Independent Director on the Board of SBA Communications. In addition, Chan is also currently the Managing Partner at VectoIQ which serves a number of companies in the area of smart transportation. Previously she also served on the Boards of the Mobile Marketing Association and CTIA - The Wireless Association.

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 tenureluding 10 years as VP and Treasurer and most recently as VP, Corporate Productivity and Hospitality.

Qlik Technologies Announces Board Changes   

Project Alpha Merger (Merger Sub) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Qlik Parent (Parent), completed its merger with and into Qlik Technologies. The directors of Acquisition Sub became directors of the Company and the board consisted of Orlando Bravo, Seth Boro, Chip Virnig, Andrew Almeida, Marcel Bernard, Jim Lines, David Murphy and Lars Björk. Each of Messrs. Bravo, Boro, Virnig, Almeida, Bernard, Lines and Murphy is affiliated with Thoma Bravo.

James McGeever Resigns from the Board of Directors of Cornerstone OnDemand

James McGeever resigned from the Board of Directors of talent management software‎ firm Cornerstone OnDemand as a result of the pending acquisition of NetSuite, where McGeever currently serves as President and COO, by Oracle Corporation, a competitor of the Company.

Pegasystems Appoints Bain Partner to its Board

Pegasystems appointed Dianne Ledingham, partner and director at Bain & Company, to its Board of Directors. Ledingham brings more than 25 years of experience as a trusted advisor to leading technology companies in enterprise software, mobile, cloud, and IT services, with a specialty in sales and channel effectiveness. Ledingham has had several governance roles at Bain including serving on Bain's Board of Directors.

Barry N. Bycoff Submits His Resignation as Member of Board of Progress Software          

Barry N. Bycoff, a member of the Board of Directors of Progress Software Corporation, submitted his resignation as a member of the Board of. Bycoff was initially elected to the Board in March 2007. Bycoff was a Venture Partner at FirstMark Capital.

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.

Equiniti Group Appoints Former TSB Bank CFO Darren Pope as Independent Non-Executive Director          

Equiniti Group appointed Darren Pope as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Most recently Darren served as CFO of TSB Bank having led the initial stages of its separation from Lloyds Banking Group.

Talend Appoints Concur founder and CEO, Steve Singh as Director   Steve Singh

Talend, a software vendor specializing in big data integration, appointed Concur founder and CEO, Steve Singh, to its board of directors. Singh brings significant experience successfully disrupting markets, scaling organizations, and building brands, and as a board member will assist Talend’s leadership team with its strategy and execution in the rapidly growing market for cloud and big data integration. In addition to his SAP commitments, Singh currently serves as chairman of the board of Center ID and on the board of Docker and Modumetal.

SecureWorks Announces Board Alterations   

Information security service provider SecureWorks announced that David W. Dorman, a director of the Company, notified the company’s Board of Directors in writing that he will resign from the Board, before the effectiveness of his election to the Board of Directors of Dell Technologies.

The board elected Dr. Yagyensh C. (Buno) Pati to the Board to fill the vacancy on the Board resulting from the resignation of Dorman. Dr. Pati has been a Partner of Centerview Capital Technology, a private investment firm, since May 2016.

Bottomline Technologies Witnesses Multiple Board Changes           

Bottomline Technologies, a leading global provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, announced that Joseph L. Barry, Jr. and James W. Zilinski each informed the company of his intention to retire as a member of the Board. As previously reported, Daniel M. McGurl and James L. Loomis will not stand for re-election to the Board at the Annual Meeting.

IntraLinks Appoints Insidesales Exec to its Board    

Secure document sharing application service provider IntraLinks announced that Jim Steele has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. Mr. Steele is currently president and chief revenue officer of Insidesales.com, and is the former president and chief customer officer of Salesforce.com.

Cheetah Mobile Announces New CEO anVell coverage of board changes in technologyd Director

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

Date Range: August 24th - October 11th

First Data Appoints Co-CEO at Lebenthal as Board Member    

First Data Corporation appointed Barbara A. Yastine as Board of Directors. Yastine most recently served as a director and Co-CEO at Lebenthal Holdings. Prior to Yastine’s most recent role at Lebenthal Holdings, she served as Chair, President, and CEO of Ally Bank from 2012 to 2015. She also previously held the role of Chief Administrative Officer of Ally Financial. In addition Yastine is also a member of the Board of Primerica.

Maxim Integrated Products Announces Board Appointments

Maxim Integrated Products, engaged in designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing a range of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits, elected MaryAnn Wright and Tracy Accardi to its Board of Directors.

Wright serves as Group VP, Technology and Industry Relations at Johnson Controls. Before joining Johnson Controls, Wright was EVP of Engineering, Product Development, Commercial and Program Management at Collins & Aikman Corporation from 2006-2007. Prior to that, she served in several executive management positions at Ford Motor.

Accardi has served as VP of Global Research and Development, Breast and Skeletal Health Solutions at Hologic since 2014. Previously, Accardi was CTO at Omniguide Surgical from 2012 to 2014, and Executive Consultant at Mednest Consulting from 2011 to 2012, after having held senior research and development positions at Covidien, Johnson & Johnson Company, and Philips Medical Systems.

CDK Global Appoints CEO of Sparta Systems to its Board of Directors          

CDK Global announced that its board of directors has appointed Eileen J. Martinson, to its board. Eileen Martinson, is the CEO of Sparta Systems.

CSC Appoints Former Hartford Life CFO as Director; CA Exec Joins as VP, Controller

CSC has named Lizabeth H. Zlatkus, 57, to the company's board of directors. Zlatkus previously worked for 28 years at The Hartford Financial Services Group, as CFO and chief risk officer, as well as co-president of The Hartford Life Insurance Cos. She currently serves on the board of Boston Private Financial Holdings and Legal & General Group. Zlatkus also serves as development chair of the Connecticut Science Center Trustee Board. Previously, she served as chair of the Pennsylvania State University Business School board and as regulatory chair for the North American Chief Risk Officers Council.

Microsemi Appoints Kimberly Alexy to its Board of Directors           

Microsemi appointed Kimberly Alexy to its board of directors. Alexy is a seasoned finance professional and corporate board member with more than 20 years of combined experience. Alexy brings a deep base of capital markets experience with valuable insights into shareholder value creation, mergers and acquisitions, and debt and equity financings. Over the past decade she has been an active board member at multiple publically traded companies and has chaired audit, compensation, nomination and governance committees, and has served on a series of special committees. She currently serves on the board of directors for FireEye, Five9, CalAmp and VIZIO.

Dialog Semiconductor Appoints Former GM Exec to the Company's Board    Mary Chan

Dialog Semiconductor appointed Mary Chan to the company's Board of Directors. Most recently at GM, Chan served between 2012 and 2015 as President, Global Connected Consumers & OnStar Service USA. Chan currently serves as an Independent Director on the Board of SBA Communications. In addition, Chan is also currently the Managing Partner at VectoIQ which serves a number of companies in the area of smart transportation. Previously she also served on the Boards of the Mobile Marketing Association and CTIA - The Wireless Association.

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 tenureluding 10 years as VP and Treasurer and most recently as VP, Corporate Productivity and Hospitality.

Pegasystems Appoints Bain Partner to its Board

Pegasystems appointed Dianne Ledingham, partner and director at Bain & Company, to its Board of Directors. Ledingham brings more than 25 years of experience as a trusted advisor to leading technology companies in enterprise software, mobile, cloud, and IT services, with a specialty in sales and channel effectiveness. Ledingham has had several governance roles at Bain including serving on Bain's Board of Directors.

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.

Date Range: August 24th - October 11th

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

Sources of Appointments: 70 were External appointments, and 24 were internal promotions –CTO/CIO (promoted to other tech role) (2), Divisional execs (6), Interim CIO/CTO (1), Others (15). 

Diversity:  9.57% of the appointments are women Tech Execs. Voya Financial (NY), Crawford & Company (GA), Sedgwick (CA), Mspark (AL), The Garden City Group (NY), Community West Bank National Association (CA), Virtual Instruments (CA), Bentley Systems (PA), United States Small Business Administration, (Washington, D.C.).

Geographic Distribution: 76 in the US, 10 in Europe and 6 in Asia/Russia/ Australasia, 1 in Middle East & Africa, and 1 in Latin America. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Magyar Telekom Telecommunications, Hungary - $2.22B, September 2016
Magyar Telekom announced that Chief Technology and IT Officer, Walter Goldenits shall leave his position with effect from December 31, 2016 to become CTO at Telekom Germany with effect from January 1, 2017.

Amedisys, Louisiana - $1.35B, October 2016
Amedisys announced that Martin B.  Howard, CIO, is leaving the company, effective October 31, 2016. Michael North, SVP of operations, will assume the role of interim CIO. North, a seasoned IT executive, most recently led Amedisys' successful conversion to the Homecare Homebase platform.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knosys, Australia - $0.805M, September 2016
Knosys Limited announced that Mr. Alistair Wardlaw has resigned from the Board and as Knosys' CTO. His other business interests include his stake in the MMG Interactive partnership (MMGI), which is the major subcontractor to Knosys in technology support and provision of IT services. Knosys will continue to sub-contract technology services to MMGI.

*Replacement has not been announced, or if the role is vacant.

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.

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.

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. 

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.   

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tech execs appointed in 30 days ended October 15, 2016.

VMware Announces Board Changes 

VMware reported that Michael S. Dell has been elected to the VMware board of directors as chairman. In addition, Egon Durban was elected to the VMware board. Both of these appointments were triggered by Dell Technologies' completion of the acquisition of EMC, creating a family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information.

With this change, Joseph M. Tucci, the company's chairman of the board of directors since 2007, as well as John R. Egan who served as a director on the company board of directors since 2007, are resigning from the company board.

Dell currently serves as chairman of the board and CEO of Dell Technologies.

Twilio COO Transitions to Role of SVP of Commercial Operations Roy Ng

Cloud communications company Twilio announced that Roy Ng has transitioned from his position as the company's COO to SVP of Commercial Operations. Prior to Twilio, Roy was COO of SAP's Cloud Business and VP Global Business Operations at SuccessFactors, which was acquired by SAP for $3.4 billion. Prior to that, Roy was VP at Goldman Sachs where he advised global technology, media, and telecom clients on M&As and financings.

Ellie Mae Hires Visa Exec as Chief Architect

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

GoDaddy Announces Resignation of CAO    

Matthew B. Kelpy, the Chief Accounting Officer of GoDaddy resigned.  Kelpy will continue to serve as the company's principal accounting officer till end of December this year. Kelpy was previously employed as Treasurer, Chief Accounting Officer & Controller by AOL.

Diebold Nixdorf Appoints Executive to Lead Software R&D          

Diebold Nixdorf has appointed Ashvin Mathew to head software and solutions R&D. Mathew has been appointed as VP and CTO for software. He will be tasked to lead the firm's strategic development of cloud-based solutions and software-as-a-service offerings. Mathew earlier served Microsoft, where he spent most of his over 2 decades career in cloud and enterprise-level software development.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Appoints Chief Platform Architect        

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has appointed Martin Davy to the newly created role of chief platform architect and EVP of engineering. Prior to joining HMH, Davy was VP of worldwide product engineering for the Pegasystems, where he led the engineering and development operations aspects of the Pega platform, partnering with the head of product and the head of Cloud Operations.

Talend Appoints Concur founder and CEO as Director  Steve Singh

Talend, a software vendor specializing in cloud-based big data integration, appointed Concur founder and CEO, Steve Singh, to its board of directors. Singh brings significant experience successfully disrupting markets, scaling organizations, and building brands, and as a board member will assist Talend’s leadership team with its strategy and execution in the rapidly growing market for cloud and big data integration. In addition to his SAP commitments, Singh currently serves as chairman of the board of Center ID and on the board of Docker and Modumetal.

Date Range: August 31st - October 21st

Tech Entrepreneur Joins Board of Intercontinental Exchange     Thomas E. Noonan    

Intercontinental Exchange reported that Thomas E. Noonan, 55, has joined its Board of Directors. Noonan is an entrepreneur who has started and sold companies focused on technology and cyber security, including Internet Security Systems, and is a General Partner of TechOperators. He served as the Senior Director and General Manager of Energywise solutions for Cisco Systems from July 2013 until November 2015.

US Commercial Bank Webster Financial Corp Appoints Former IBM Exec as Boards Member      

Webster Financial Corporation appointed Lauren C. States as director. States most recently was VP of Strategy and Transformation for IBM's Software Group.  Prior to that, States was CTO for IBM Corporate Strategy. 

Former Apple and Motorola Exec Rita Lane Joins Sanmina’s Board of Directors    

Global electronics manufacturing services provider Sanmina named Rita Lane to the Company's Board of Directors. Lane has over 30 years of experience in building and hardware operations and supply chain teams in the Americas, Asia and Europe for Fortune 100 companies. She is currently the Principal at Rita LaneHajime, a supply chain advisor for start-up companies.  Lane was previously with Apple as VP of Operations for iPad, Mac desktop, and accessories from 2008 to 2014 and with Motorola as SVP Integrated Supply Chain /Chief Procurement Officer from 2006 to 2008.

HealthEquity Appoints Former Skype CFO as Director        

HealthEquity, the non-bank health savings trustee, appointed Adrian T. Dillon, 62, to the Company’s Board. Dillon brings with him more than 35 years of financial leadership and experience with business operations, corporate development and consumer financial technology. He served as the CFO and CAO of Skype, EVP of Finance and Administration of Agilent Technologies, CFO of Verigy, and Chief Financial & Planning Officer at Eaton.

DSW Appoints Director with Digital Experience

Footwear retailer DSW named Joanne Zaiac as an independent director. Zaiac currently serves as COO of DigitasLBi North America, a Publicis Groupe unit and global marketing and technology agency. She brings over 30 years of experience in brand, digital, social and mobile marketing at several Fortune 500 brands. Zaiac joined DigitasLBi in 1999. 

Date Range: August 31st - October 21st

Qualcomm Named Ann M. Livermore to its Board     

Qualcomm appointed Ann M. Livermore to its board of directors. With her nearly 30 years at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Livermore brings extensive experience in senior leadership positions, and broad knowledge and experience in the areas of technology, business management, marketing, sales, and research and development. Livermore was formerly an EVP at Hewlett-Packard, where from 2004 until June 14, 2011 she led the HP Enterprise Business business unit of HP.

First Data Appoints Co-CEO at Lebenthal as Board Member   

First Data Corporation appointed Barbara A. Yastine as Board of Directors. Yastine most recently served as a director and Co-CEO at Lebenthal Holdings. Prior to Yastine’s most recent role at Lebenthal Holdings, she served as Chair, President, and CEO of Ally Bank from 2012 to 2015. She also previously held the role of Chief Administrative Officer of Ally Financial. In addition Yastine is also a member of the Board of Primerica.

Halma Appoints Its Group Talent Director to BoardJennifer Ward

Halma, a group of technology companies that makes products for hazard detection and life protection, appointed Jennifer Ward as a Director of the Company. Ward was appointed as Halma's first Group Talent Director and member of the Executive Board in March 2014. Prior to joining Halma, Jennifer spent over 15 years leading Talent and Organisational Development for divisions of PayPal (an eBay company), Bank of America and Honeywell.

Rightmove Appoints Sage Group Exec as Non-Executive Director 

UK's largest online real estate portal and property website Rightmove appointed Jacqueline de Rojas as a non-executive director. Jacqueline holds a full time position as EVP of Northern Europe for The Sage Group plc and is a Non-Executive Director of tech UK, where she serves as President. She has worked in the software, technology and digital sectors since 1984 holding executive roles with digital and enterprise sales-focused businesses including Citrix Systems, CA Technologies, McAfee and Business Objects amongst others.

Just Eat Appoints P&G’s CMO for Northern Europe to its Board    

Roisin Donnelly, who spent 31 years with Procter & Gamble and rose to be CMO for Northern Europe, joined the board of Just Eat, the online food ordering company. Donnelly, 54, had been P&G's brand director for Northern Europe since July 2014. She oversaw marketing for all P&G brands in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway. Before that she spent 14 years leading the P&G marketing department for the UK and Ireland. She was marketing director for P&G's Prestige Fragrance division for North America and Latin America from 1996 to 1999, and marketing director for P&G's former Max Factor cosmetics brand in the UK from 1991 to 1993.

US commercial bank Webster Financial Corp Appoints Former IBM Exec as Boards MemberLauren C. States       

Webster Financial Corporation appointed Lauren C. States as director. States most recently was VP of Strategy and Transformation for IBM's Software Group.  Prior to that, States was CTO for IBM Corporate Strategy. 

Former Apple and Motorola Exec Rita Lane Joins Sanmina’s Board of Directors    

Global electronics manufacturing services provider Sanmina named Rita Lane to the Company's Board of Directors. Lane has over 30 years of experience in building and hardware operations and supply chain teams in the Americas, Asia and Europe for Fortune 100 companies. She is currently the Principal at Hajime, a supply chain advisor for start-up companies.  Lane was previously with Apple as VP of Operations for iPad, Mac desktop, and accessories from 2008 to 2014 and with Motorola as SVP Integrated Supply Chain /Chief Procurement Officer from 2006 to 2008.

DSW Appoints Director with Digital Experience

Footwear retailer DSW named Joanne Zaiac as an independent director. Zaiac currently serves as COO of DigitasLBi North America, a Publicis Groupe unit and global marketing and technology agency. She brings over 30 years of experience in brand, digital, social and mobile marketing at several Fortune 500 brands. Zaiac joined DigitasLBi in 1999. 

Date Range: August 31st - October 21st

IMS Health Holdings Announces Board Changes

IMS Health Holdings announced that in connection with the closing of the merger, Ari Bousbib, John G. Danhakl, James Fasano, Karen L.Katen, Sharad S. Mansukani, Ronald A. Rittenmeyer, Todd B. Sisitsky and Bryan M.  Taylor resigned as directors of the company.

CACI International Appoints SVP, Health from Harris’ Government Healthcare Services Business Unit

CACI International appointed Antoine (Tony) Azar as SVP, Health to lead the company’s growth in its Health market. Azar comes to CACI from Harris Corporation, where he established and managed the company’s Government Healthcare Services Business Unit and served as VP and General Manager for both Civilian and Health business areas.

WebMD Announces CEO and CFO ChangesSteven L. Zatz, M.D.

WebMD appointed Steven L. Zatz, M.D., its President, to serve as its CEO. Dr. Zatz has been a member of the senior leadership of WebMD and its predecessor companies for 17 years. Dr. Zatz was appointed President of WebMD in 2013. Prior to becoming President, Dr. Zatz was EVP of Professional Services, responsible for Medscape, the company's site for healthcare professionals. As a result of this transition, Dr. Zatz's responsibilities will expand to include WebMD Health Services.

The company also announced that David J. Schlanger, who has served as CEO since 2013, is leaving the company by mutual agreement.

WebMD also appointed Blake DeSimone as EVP and CFO of the company. DeSimone is replacing Peter Anevski, whose employment was terminated without cause by the company. Prior to joining the company, DeSimone served as CFO of D+M Holdings from 2010 to June 2015.

Omnicell Board Member Steps Down           

Randy D.  Lindholm, 61, resigned as a member of Omnicell's Board of Directors. Lindholm serves as an Advisor to the medical device field. Lindholm served as the CEO and President of Medtronic VidaMed from 1999 to 2002.

Imprivata Appoints New Directors and Tripwire’s President as New President and CEO    

Healthcare IT & Communications Solutions firm Imprivata announced that as per the agreement and plan of merger, the members of the board of directors of the company resigned as directors of company. Marcel Bernard, James Lines, Paul Zuber, Andrew Almeida, Kenneth Virnig, S. Scott Crabill and Gus Malezis were elected to the company board of directors.

Imprivata appointed Gus Malezis as its new President and CEO. Prior to joining Imprivata, Gus was most recently the President of Tripwire, a leading global provider of endpoint detection and response, security and compliance solutions. Gus has a strong track record of leading growth and innovation for leading technology and security companies such as Tripwire, McAfee, 3Com and Merisel.

Orion Health Appoints Former Thermo Fisher Scientific Exec as Independent Director