Qorvo Appoints Former JDS Uniphase EVP to its BoardSusan L. Spradley

Semiconductor firm Qorvo announced the election of Susan L. Spradley to its Board of Directors. Spradley has substantial senior management experience in the communications industry, most recently as EVP and GM, Network and Service Enablement for Viavi Solutions (formerly JDS Uniphase).

Shopify Appoints former CEO and Chairperson of Constant Contact Gail Goodman to its Board

Canadian e-commerce company Shopify appointed Gail Goodman to its board of directors. Gail is the former CEO and Chairperson of Constant Contact, a software company providing small businesses with online marketing tools to grow their businesses. After becoming CEO in April 1999, she led Constant Contact through its initial public offering and for eight years as a publicly traded company, until its acquisition by Endurance International Group Holdings in February, 2016. Shopify announced that Trevor Oelschig has resigned from its board of directors.

Tableau Software Appoints New Relic President Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its Board               

Tableau Software appointed Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its Board of Directors. Koplow-McAdams is President at New Relic. Her leadership has helped New Relic perform as a high-growth company, extend its product portfolio, and bolster its enterprise sales force.

Tech Data Appoints Director from Consumer Goods and Pharmaceutical DomainBridgette Heller

Tech Data Corporation appointed Bridgette Heller to the company’s Board of Directors. Heller has served as EVP, Early Life Nutrition, and a member of the Executive Committee for Danone since July 2016.

Integrated Device Technology Appoints Egon Zehnder Leader as Director           

Integrated Device Technology appointed Selena Loh LaCroix to serve as a director of the Company, filling a new vacancy. LaCroix, based in Dallas, is global leader of Egon Zehnder's Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Professionals Practice.

Cotiviti Appoints SAP Exec to Board of Directors              

Cotiviti Holdings announced that Mala Anand, President of Analytics at SAP SE, was elected to Cotiviti’s Board of Directors to serve as an independent director.

Shutterfly Announces Board Appointment 

Shutterfly elected new independent director, Elizabeth (Libby) Sartain, to its board of directors. Sartain is an executive and advisor with more than 30 years of experience as a senior human resources leader. Her diverse industry exposure includes technology, media, consumer products, professional services, and manufacturing. Sartain is currently the vice chairman of the board of AARP and holds board seats at Manpower Group and the SHRM Foundation. Sartain has served as chief people officer at Yahoo.

Sophos Group Appoints Successful Entrepreneur as Non-Executive Director

Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, announced that Vin Murria is to be appointed as a non-executive director. Vin was the founder and CEO at Advanced Computer Software until it was sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2015. Prior to that Vin was CEO of Computer Software Group which was backed by HG Capital and then acquired Hellman & Friedman in 2007. Vin's earlier career includes 15 years with Kewill Systems where she was COO before leaving in 2002. Vin is currently a non-executive director for Softcat and for Zoopla Property Group, and a partner at Elderstreet Investments.

Date Range: November 12, 2016 - January 2, 2017

Citrix Systems’ Couple of Executives Leave

Each of Klaus Oestermann, SVP and General Manager, Delivery Networks, and Jesse Lipson, Corporate VP and General Manager of Cloud Services, of Citrix Systems announced and informed Citrix that he will be leaving the company.

ServiceNow Announces Executive Changes  

ServiceNow announced that Daniel R. McGee stepped down from his role as COO. The company appointed Chirantan CJ" Desai, 46, as the company's Chief Product Officer, to take effect upon his commencement of employment, which occurred in December 2016. Most recently, Desai served as the President of the Emerging Technologies Division at EMC.

Arista Networks Announces Resignation of Worldwide Sales Operations Leader     Mark Smith

Mark Smith, the SVP, Worldwide Sales Operations of Software Driven Cloud Networking company Arista Networks, informed the Company that he will voluntarily resign from his position. The sales function for the Company will continue to report to Anshul Sadana, the Company's Chief Customer Officer.

LogMeIn and GetGo Announce New Board of Directors for Combined Company  

LogMeIn named the nine directors who will serve on the Board of Directors for the combined company effective upon the close of its proposed merger with Citrix Systems’s GetGo subsidiary, a wholly owned subsidiary consisting of Citrix’s GoTo family of service offerings.

The Board will be comprised of four directors designated by Citrix and five members of LogMeIn’s current Board of Directors. As previously announced, the four Citrix designees are Bob Calderoni, Jesse Cohn, and Peter Sacripanti, all of whom also serve as current Citrix directors, as well as Citrix’s COO and CFO, David Henshall.

Joining them from LogMeIn’s current Board will be LogMeIn’s president and CEO, Bill Wagner, LogMeIn’s Chairman of the Board, Michael Simon, as well as Steven Benson, Michael Christenson and Edwin Gillis.

Unisys Appoints IBM Exec to Manage Cloud and Infrastructure Services Portfolio Serving Federal Clients  

Gary Wang has joined Unisys Federal as VP, cloud and infrastructure services, and will manage the company's portfolio of cloud-related products and services for Unisys' federal government clients. Wang most recently served as CTO, cybersecurity and biometrics at IBM, where he led the cybersecurity and biometrics solution portfolio and service solution transformation. Prior to that, he held various senior executive roles at Lockheed Martin, where he was responsible for winning and delivering several large cloud and infrastructure contracts.

Date Range: November 27, 2016 - January 19, 2017

PayPal Exec Joins Sallie Mae’s Board

Student loan bank Sallie Mae appointed Kirsten O. Wolberg to its board of directors. Wolberg currently serves as VP of Talent at PayPal. Wolberg also played an instrumental role in the separation of eBay and PayPal into two independent companies and was responsible for the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology. She brings more than 20 years of experience in technology management, strategy, product, finance, and operations. Wolberg currently serves on the board of YearUp and holds a leadership role with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Spirent Communications Appoints Two Non-Executive Directors  Gary Bullard 

Spirent Communications announced that Gary Bullard and Bill Thomas have each been appointed as non-executive directors. Gary Bullard has had a long and successful career in senior international executive roles in companies such as IBM, BT and Logica and currently has a number of non-executive roles. Since 2010 he has also been a non-executive director at Rotork.

Bill Thomas has extensive experience of leading highly complex services businesses and technology led organizations including HP Enterprise Services and EDS EMEA. He is currently a non-executive director of The Co-operative Bank, serves on the advisory board of cyber security specialist FireEye and chairs the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity.

Date Range: November 27, 2016 - January 19, 2017

BNY Mellon Appoints President of SAP North America as Director

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation has elected Jennifer B. Morgan as independent director. Morgan has served as President of SAP North America since 2014, where she is responsible for the company’s strategy, revenue and customer success in the U.S. and Canada. Since being named President, she has led SAP’s rapid shift to the cloud in North America while helping customers achieve growth in the digital economy. Morgan served in a number of leadership roles for SAP since joining the company in 2004, including as head of SAP North America’s public sector organization and president of its Regulated Industries business unit.

Xerox Announces Board Changes      

Xerox announced the appointment of Cheryl G. Krongard, a former senior partner with Apollo Management, to the Xerox board of directors. Krongard currently serves as a director on the boards of Legg Mason and Air Lease Corporation.

PayPal Exec Joins Sallie Mae’s BoardKirsten O. Wolberg

Student loan bank Sallie Mae appointed Kirsten O. Wolberg to its board of directors. Wolberg currently serves as VP of Talent at PayPal. Wolberg also played an instrumental role in the separation of eBay and PayPal into two independent companies and was responsible for the chief operating functions for PayPal Technology. She brings more than 20 years of experience in technology management, strategy, product, finance, and operations. Wolberg currently serves on the board of YearUp and holds a leadership role with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Qorvo Appoints Former JDS Uniphase EVP to its Board

Semiconductor firm Qorvo announced the election of Susan L. Spradley to its Board of Directors. Spradley has substantial senior management experience in the communications industry, most recently as EVP and GM, Network and Service Enablement for Viavi Solutions (formerly JDS Uniphase).

Shopify Appoints former CEO and Chairperson of Constant Contact Gail Goodman to its Board

Canadian e-commerce company Shopify appointed Gail Goodman to its board of directors. Gail is the former CEO and Chairperson of Constant Contact, a software company providing small businesses with online marketing tools to grow their businesses. After becoming CEO in April 1999, she led Constant Contact through its initial public offering and for eight years as a publicly traded company, until its acquisition by Endurance International Group Holdings in February, 2016. Shopify announced that Trevor Oelschig has resigned from its board of directors.

Tableau Software Appoints New Relic President Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its Board    

Tableau Software appointed Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its Board of Directors. Koplow-McAdams is President at New Relic. Her leadership has helped New Relic perform as a high-growth company, extend its product portfolio, and bolster its enterprise sales force.

Tech Data Appoints Director from Consumer Goods and Pharmaceutical Domain

Tech Data Corporation appointed Bridgette Heller to the company’s Board of Directors. Heller has served as EVP, Early Life Nutrition, and a member of the Executive Committee for Danone since July 2016.

Integrated Device Technology Appoints Egon Zehnder Leader as Director 

Integrated Device Technology appointed Selena Loh LaCroix to serve as a director of the Company, filling a new vacancy. LaCroix, based in Dallas, is global leader of Egon Zehnder's Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Professionals Practice.

Cotiviti Appoints SAP Exec to Board of Directors    

Cotiviti Holdings announced that Mala Anand, President of Analytics at SAP SE, was elected to Cotiviti’s Board of Directors to serve as an independent director.

Shutterfly Announces Board Appointment Elizabeth (Libby) Sartain

Shutterfly elected new independent director, Elizabeth (Libby) Sartain, to its board of directors. Sartain is an executive and advisor with more than 30 years of experience as a senior human resources leader. Her diverse industry exposure includes technology, media, consumer products, professional services, and manufacturing. Sartain is currently the vice chairman of the board of AARP and holds board seats at Manpower Group and the SHRM Foundation. Sartain has served as chief people officer at Yahoo.

Sophos Group Appoints Successful Entrepreneur as Non-Executive Director

Sophos, a global leader in network and endpoint security, announced that Vin Murria is to be appointed as a non-executive director. Vin was the founder and CEO at Advanced Computer Software until it was sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2015. Prior to that Vin was CEO of Computer Software Group which was backed by HG Capital and then acquired Hellman & Friedman in 2007. Vin's earlier career includes 15 years with Kewill Systems where she was COO before leaving in 2002. Vin is currently a non-executive director for Softcat and for Zoopla Property Group, and a partner at Elderstreet Investments. 

MTS Elects Bosch CFO Maximiliane Straub to Serve on its Board  

MTS Systems Corporation elected Maximiliane Straub to serve on the Company's Board of Directors. Straub serves as the CFO of Bosch and EVP Finance, Controlling and Administration of Bosch North America from 2010 to present.

Date Range: November 27, 2016 - January 19, 2017

New Technology CEO Stats 

New Tech CEO Openings: 14 – NII Holdings (VA), Broadway Industrial Group (Singapore), EMIS Group (UK), YourPeople (CA), Oculus VR (CA), Paymark (New Zealand), 1Spatial (UK), Mr Green & Co Technology (China), 8common (Australia), Quantum Materials (TX), Omnitele (Finland), Avero (NY), Zyber Holdings (Australia), ProText Mobility (FL).

CEOs Appointed

Sources of Appointments: 36 were External appointments, and 42 were internal promotions.

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

Diversity: 10% of the appointments are women CEOs. Chorus (New Zealand), Global Sources (Bermuda), Amobee (Ca), GET Holdings (Hong Kong), SSH Communications Security (Finland), CNV.com (OR), Translarity (CA), Interups (NY).

Geographic Distribution: 48 in North America, 17 in Europe, 11 in Asia/Russia/Australia, and 2 in Middle East & Africa.

The average and median times open CEO roles have been open are about 5 months, and there is little variance by continent. The longest open searches are:

#1 - TeleCity Group, London, UK - $529.6M, September 2014
#2 - Wi-LAN, Ottawa, Ontario - $98.3M, June 2015  

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Fujitsu Limited, Japan - $45.25B, December 2016Shigeru Sasaki

Amobee, California - $42.9M, December 2016Kim Perell

DataTorrent, California, December 2016Guy Churchward

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

New Tech Function Openings: 6 – Nordstrom (Washington), Twitter (CA), Sam's West (AK), USA Truck (China), U.S. Energy Department (Washington, D.C.), and United States Department of Defense (Washington, D.C.). 

Tech Execs Appointed - Sources 

Sources of Appointments: 51 were External appointments, and 17 were internal promotions – Divisional execs (3), Interim or Deputy CIO/CTO (2), Others (12).

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:  13.2% of the appointments are women Tech Execs. Reserve Bank of New Zealand (New Zealand), Qantas Airways (Australia), Catlin Group (Bermuda), NSFOCUS (CA), Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas (Guatemala), Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services (FL), NJVC (VA), Axio Global (NY), Nutanix (CA).

Geographic Distribution: 43 in the US, 13 in Europe, and 12 in Asia/Russia/ Australasia.

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Dell, Texas - $59B, November 2015        
Bask Iyer, CIO and IoT manager at VMware, has been named interim CIO of Dell.

Nordstrom, Washington, $14.4B, January 2017
Nordstrom is searching for a technology executive to lead digital strategy following an executive-level shakeup in which the retailer’s chief information officer and chief technology officer announced their departures in the span of two weeks. The CIO title will be eliminated. The company plans to hire a new CTO by the end of the year who will be responsible for all aspects of technology at Nordstrom.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Twitter, California - $2.2B, December 2016
Twitter's CTO Adam Messinger tweeted that he decided to leave the company and take some time off. Messinger didn't say where he was headed next.

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.

Criteo SA, France - $1.62B, November 2016
Romain Niccoli resigned from his position as the company's Chief Product Officer effective December 31, 2016. Mr. Niccoli has agreed to serve the company in a consulting role for a period of time following his resignation.

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.

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

US Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC - $773.4M, November 2016
U.S.  Government Publishing Office (GPO) named Tracee Boxley Acting CIO. Boxley replaces former GPO CIO Chuck Riddle, who has moved to the U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission. Boxley came to GPO in 2006 as a Senior Customer Advocate for IT and was promoted to Deputy CIO in 2012. 

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.

Sheng Siong Group, Singapore - $577.4M, October 2016
Sheng Siong Group announced the cessation of Gary Pow Han Chin as CIO due to personal reasons. He is responsible for overseeing group's design, development, implementation and maintenance of the various computer systems required for operations, including Management Information System, as well as enterprise Resource Planning System, data recovery plans and back-up schemes.

Global Eagle Entertainment, California - $486.2M, November 2016
Global Eagle Entertainment and Aditya Chatterjee, the company’s CTO, have entered into a Separation and Release Agreement.

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

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.

Momo, China - $346.4M, October 2016
Momo announced that Zhiwei Li, CTO of the company, has resigned from the company for personal reasons.

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.

Carbonite, Massachusetts - $188.6M, November 2016
David Raissipour tendered his resignation as SVP, Product and Engineering of Carbonite.

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).

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.

Just Dial, India - $104.2M, October 2016
Just Dial has announced that R. V. Raman, CTO of the company has resigned from the company.

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.

BSM Technologies, Canada - $39.7M, November 2016
BSM Technologies  announced that Alban Hoxha, CTO of the company, will be leaving the organization to pursue other opportunities, effective January 20, 2017.

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.

Microphase, Connecticut - $9.12M, December 2016
The Company approved the appointment of Mr. Michael Ghadaksaz as the CEO of the Company. Prior to the Ghadaksaz appointment, Ghadaksaz served as the CTO and CMO. No tech chief replacement has been announced.

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.

Sam's West, Arkansas, January 2017
Wal-Mart Stores CIO Karenann Terrell is leaving the company. Terrell has been with the company for six years, beginning as EVP of information systems. She was promoted to CIO in 2012 and has remained in the role for four years.

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

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

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.

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.

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.).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deloitte, Illinois, December 2016
Deloitte is looking for a CISO reporting to the CIO.

West Virginia University, Virginia, December 2016
West Virginia University is seeking an inspiring leader for the position of CIO/Associate Provost for Information Technology.

United Medical Center, Washington, D.C., December 2016
The Not for- Profit Hospital Corporation, commonly known as United Medical Center (UMC), is looking for a CIO to provide technology vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the affiliate-wide information technology (IT) program.

USA Truck, China, January 2017
USA Truck announced that effective January 5, 2017, Christian C. Rhodes' role as CIO of USA Truck.

U.S. Energy Department, Washington, D.C., January 2017
Michael Johnson, Energy Department chief information officer, has left the agency following an almost two-year stint with the organization. Robbie Green, principal deputy CIO for enterprise information resources management, has been named interim CIO.

United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., January 2017
Terry Halvorsen, who as the Pentagon’s CIO, is retiring at the end of February. Current principal deputy CIO, John Zangardi, is expected to step in as acting CIO.

Goldman Sachs, New York - $30.6B, January 2017Elisha Wiesel

Cardtronics, Texas, January 2017Stuart Mackinnon

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Announces Executive Appointments           

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions announced two additions to its executive team. Lisa Khorey joined Allscripts in the newly created role of Chief Client Delivery Officer, and Alan Fowles was named President of Allscripts International.

Khorey and her team will focus on all aspects of delivering Allscripts product and solution suites to clients. These efforts underscore Allscripts renewed focus on delivering top-notch, highly coordinated service to clients. Khorey joins Allscripts from Ernst & Young, where she was the Executive Director of E&Y’s National Provider Practice, specializing in analytics.

Fowles will lead the Allscripts team as the company continues its growth internationally; working with clients to effectively deploy technology to improve the health of the populations they manage.

EMIS Group CEO to Retire; Appoints Director

EMIS Group announced that Chris Spencer, the Group's Chief Executive since 2013, having reached the age of 60, has indicated his intention to retire from his position and from the Board by the end of 2017.

In an unrelated development the Group also appointed David Sides as an additional independent non-executive director. He spent 17 years at Cerner during which time he covered a range of roles including SVP (Worldwide Consulting) and four years as Managing Director of the UK and Ireland business, based in London. He is currently President and CEO of Streamline Health Solutions, and before that was CEO of IMDsoft.

NNIT Announces IT Operations Executive Changes           

Life sciences IT firm NNIT announced that Jess Julin Ibsen has decided to leave his position as EVP and Head of IT Operations at NNIT. NNIT has subsequently appointed Ricco Larsen SVP and new Head of IT Operations. Ricco Larsen comes from a position as Corporate VP, Head of Global Operations at NNIT.

Vocera Communications Names Chief Medical Information Officer

Vocera Communications announced that Benjamin Kanter, MD, FCCP, has been named as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Prior to joining Vocera, Dr. Kanter worked as an industry consultant and thought leader with innovative healthcare IT companies, including Extension Healthcare, where he was the CMIO.

Castlight Health and Jiff Announces Executive Appointments for Combined Company  John Doyle    

Castlight Health and Jiff announced agreement to come together to form a single company. Following the closing of the transaction, Castlight's president and COO, John Doyle, will assume the role of CEO of the combined company. Jiff's current CEO, Derek Newell, will become president of the combined company, responsible for sales and marketing, research and development, and professional services, and will report directly to John Doyle.

Giovanni Colella will continue his service with Castlight in the role of executive chairman of the board of directors, focusing on deepening key partner and customer relationships.

In addition, effective upon closing the transaction, two members of the current Jiff board of directors will be appointed to the Castlight board of directors and one of Castlight's current board members, Ann Lamont, will step down.

Orion Health Appoints Harvard Medical School Professor as an Independent Director       

Global healthcare platform Orion Health appointed Dr. John Halamka as an independent director of the company. Dr. Halamka is the International Healthcare Innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, where he has served in both Republican and Democrat presidential administrations, and Advised national governments throughout the world on health care technology.

CogState Appoints Retired Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s Drug Development Veteran as Non-Executive Director  

Cognitive screening & testing company Cogstate appointed Dr. Richard Mohs as a non- executive director. Dr. Mohs retired from Eli Lilly in 2015, where he held several leadership positions including VP for Neuroscience Early Clinical Development and Leader of the Global Alzheimer’s Drug Development Team. Dr. Mohs is currently Chief Scientific Officer for the Global Alzheimer’s Platform (GAP) Foundation. Richard also serves as a consultant to academic institutions, foundations and biopharmaceutical companies, and is a member of the Board of Governors for the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation.

Instem Appoints COO with Strong Track Record in Building Life Sciences Businesses

Life science software company Instem appointed MaryBeth Thompson as COO of the Group. Thompson has more than 18 years of experience in the life sciences industry, with a primary focus in Regulatory Affairs and Operations with a demonstrable track record as a leader and builder of outsourcing services businesses. During her tenure at PAREXEL International she established and expanded the regulatory outsourcing services practice from a $1 million revenue business with 30 employees to an international organization across the US, Europe and India with more than $30 million of revenues and 300 employees.

Connecture Hires CFO from HealthMEDX  

Connecture, a provider of web-based information systems used to create health insurance marketplaces, announced that Vincent Estrada has joined the company as CFO. Estrada joins Connecture from HealthMEDX, where he served as CFO and EVP of Business Development. Over the past 25 years, Estrada has helped transform healthcare companies by enhancing performance and creating shareholder value. His experiences at these organizations will serve to accelerate the transition of the business and complement the bench strength now at Connecture.

James P.  Purko, the company's CFO and Secretary, will be leaving the Company, to pursue other business opportunities.

MedAdvisor Appoints GM, Product & Strategy         

Australia based digital medication management company MedAdvisor strengthened its management team with the addition of Simon Chamberlain in the newly created role of General Manager - Product & Strategy. His role will be to maximize the awareness of the MedAdvisor platform among all stakeholders including patients, pharmacies, industry bodies, GPs and Government. Chamberlain served as EVP of Corporate Development and General Manager - UK of Hitwise. Prior to joining Hitwise in 2001, Chamberlain was the Commercial Manager of the online consultancy, emitch since 2000.

OptimizeRx Promotes VP, Sales to SVP of Marketing          

Health technology software company OptimizeRx promoted Ed Berger to the new position of SVP, Marketing. He has been OptimizeRx’s VP of Sales, where he played a pivotal role in acquiring major business accounts, including AstraZeneca, Otsuka, Novartis, Shire, and J&J. Prior to joining the company, Berger served in senior marketing roles at Cadient Group Digital and OmnicoSolutions.

Adherium Appoints European BD Frontrunner         

Adherium, a global leader in digital health technologies which address sub-optimal medication use in chronic disease, has appointed Scott Fleming as SVP of Business Development, Europe. John Tarplee stepped down from the role at the end of December 2016 to pursue a new venture. Fleming is a founding member of the digital drug delivery movement. Fleming engineered the sale of MicroDose to Teva Pharmaceutical in 2013, and subsequently took on a key role as the Global Brand Lead for eConnectivity of Teva's respiratory franchise based in Amsterdam, NL.

Lifespot Health Appoints Specialist in Procedural Dermatology as Director

German healthcare technology company Lifespot Health appointed Dr. Philip Bekhor as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. In 1993, Dr. Bekhor established Laser Dermatology. He is a specialist in procedural dermatology, which involves the laser and surgical management of skin disorders including cosmetic dermatology.

3D Signatures Appoints Chief Business Officer   Joost van der Mark      

3D Signatures, a novel personalized medicine company with proprietary software that can analyze a patient's chromosomal arrangement, appointed Joost van der Mark as its Chief Business Officer (CBO). He joins 3DS from BioSyent, where he served as VP of Corporate Development with responsibility for business development and market access initiatives. Prior to joining BioSyent, van der Mark co-founded Orphan Canada, which subsequently sold its assets to Knight Therapeutics in 2014.

Aino Health Appoints Former IBM Exec as Chief Marketing Officer          

Leif Fågelstedt has been appointed as Chief Marketing Officer of Aino Health, which provides cloud based solutions to enhance corporate health and reduce sickness absence levels in private and public organizations. Leif Fågelstedt has extensive experience from senior positions within marketing, advertising and communication. Previous employers include companies such as IBM, Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Eyecarrot Innovations Promotes Insider as CTO      

Eyecarrot Innovations, provider of visual and neuro-cognitive processing products for diagnosing and remediating visual perception, appointed Dr. Sam Mithani to the role of CTO and Director. Over the past 12 months, he has played a key role in developing and extending Eyecarrot's product and technology strategy. Dr. Mithani previously served as the CTO of Made with Magnolia; VP, Technical Services in  the Fine Chemical  Division at  Apotex; and as CTO of a new startup with partners from Indusblue, he established a SaaS magazine platform and contract development services, specializing in Xamarin, Android and iOS development.

Date Range: December 10, 2016 - January 24, 2017

Jeremy King, CTO for global e-commerce, takes over in-store and online technology teams.

Kerry Pauling, most recently head of customer planning and analysis for Wal-Mart International, was promoted to CTO for the group.

Goldman Sachs Promotes Executives to Technology Roles  

Goldman Sachs has hired new CIO Elisha Wiesel who will take over the position at the bank. As CIO, he is to take over from R Martin Chavez, who was recently promoted to CFO. Goldman Sachs also promoted partners Ryan Limaye and Nick Giovanni to co-heads of global technology investment banking. Previously, Limaye was head of enterprise technology banking, while Giovanni was head of Internet banking.

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Names Chief Technology & Administrative Officer From Within Ranks

Mark Roellig has been appointed Chief Technology & Administrative Officer. Roellig has been General Counsel of MassMutual since joining the company in 2005.

Telstra Announces CTO Appointment           

Telstra has appointed Hakan Eriksson as its CTO. Eriksson previously served as SEA and Oceania Chief Strategy Officer at Ericsson. He will replace Vish Nandlall who resigned from his position of Telstra CTO in May 2016.

Carnival Cruise Line Appoints Consultant as SVP and CIO   

Carnival Cruise Line announced that Sean Kenny has been named SVP and CIO for Carnival Cruise Line. Kenny will lead the development and execution of Carnival Cruise Line's increasingly important technology strategy. Kenny most recently was a global client services executive for Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young.

Deutsche Bank Hires MD for Technology from JP Morgan 

Deutsche Bank has hired a new MD for technology from JP Morgan. Robert McMillan has joined the bank as managing director and global head of intelligence. He has a background in regulatory risk and compliance, as well as financial crime compliance.

 Western Digital Announces CTO Changes   Martin Fink

Western Digital named Martin Fink to the position of CTO. Fink most recently served as CTO and director of HP Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Fink succeeds CTO Steven Campbell who will depart the company to pursue other opportunities after a long and distinguished career with Western Digital.

Fink worked in a wide range of business and technology leadership roles during his 30-year career at HP/HPE. Prior to being named CTO and director of HP Labs at HPE in 2012, he was SVP and general manager of Business Critical Systems for HP’s Enterprise, Storage and Servers business unit.

Delphi Automotive Promotes Glen De Vos as CTO  

Delphi Automotive named Glen De Vos as CTO and SVP. De Vos succeeds Jeff Owens, who will retire after more than 40 years with Delphi. As CTO, De Vos will be responsible for Delphi's innovation and global technologies, reporting directly to Clark. De Vos was most recently VP, Software & Services, Delphi Electronics & Safety (E&S), located at the company's Silicon Valley Lab in California.

Adam Messinger to Leave Twitter as CTO    

Twitter's CTO Adam Messinger decided to leave the company. Earlier he served as VP Application Development at Twitter.

Taiwan Mobile Promotes VP of IT Group James Chang as CIO       

Taiwan Mobile announced James Chang, VP of the IT Group appointed as CIO of the company. Previous roles include Senior Director, TBCommerce Network, Senior Delivery Manager, IBM Global Services, and District Manager, AT&T Laboratories.

Dan Little to Retire as CIO of Nordstrom    

Nordstrom announced that the company's CIO has now announced his plan to retire from the retailer this fall. Dan Little joined Nordstrom in 2002 and became CIO three years ago. He only meant to stay in the role for a few years.

Electrolux Names Acting CIO to Permanent CIO Role       

Electrolux has named JP Iversen as its new CIO. Iversen is currently VP of information systems and has been acting CIO since September. Iversen will report directly to president and CEO Jonas Samuelson. Iversen succeeds Marcus Claesson, who is leaving the company to pursue an "external opportunity". Iversen will continue to be based in Stockholm.

Xerox Names Insider as CTO

Xerox has named Steve Hoover as the new CTO. Hoover previously served as CEO of Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC), a Xerox company. In the new role, Hoover will oversee the Xerox global research centres including the PARC, Xerox Research Centre Canada and Xerox Research Centre Europe, as well as Xerox's globally distributed product development and engineering capabilities.

Sabre Chief Product and Technology Officer to Step Down

Sabre Corporation announced that Deborah Kerr, EVP and Chief Product and Technology Officer, mutually agreed that Kerr’s employment will terminate following the expiration of her employment agreement.

Staples Appoints E-Commerce Exec as CTO

Staples appointed Faisal Masud to the newly created role of CTO. He had previously served as EVP of Global E-Commerce since joining the company in May 2013. Faisal Masud has been named CTO at Staples, a newly created role combining the traditional roles of CIO and CDO. In his new role, Masud will be responsible for both e-commerce and global technology and will report directly to Shira Goodman, Staples’ Chief Executive Officer and President.

Qantas Airways Gets CIO from SAP

Australia based Qantas Airways has hired SAP SE executive Susan Doniz as its new CIO, as it ramps up efforts to tap cloud computing, data analytics and other digital initiatives.

Fortinet Appoints Former NSA Cyber Task Force Executive as CISO      Phil Quade   

Fortinet named Phil Quade as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Prior to Fortinet, Quade was the NSA Director’s Special Assistant for Cyber and Chief of the NSA Cyber Task Force with responsibility for the White House relationship in Cyber. Previously, he served as the COO of the Information Assurance Directorate at the NSA.

Helvetia Holding Announces CTO Changes 

Helvetia Holding named Achim Baumstark to serve as CTO. Baumstark will join in the second quarter of 2017 from Helsana AG, where he is CIO and a member of the executive board.

David Cooper Joins WEX as CTO     

WEX announced that David Cooper has joined the company in the newly created role of CTO. The role was created to lead all aspects of corporate technology. In this position, Cooper will spearhead corporate IT and platform strategy, enterprise architecture, program management, information security, and IT infrastructure operations. Prior to joining WEX, Cooper held several senior technology positions, including head of global operations at GlobeOne, SVP of technology at Green Dot, and CTO and SVP of product development at both Fiserv and CashEdge.

Globe Telecom Appoints CISO and Data Protection Officer

Philippines based Globe Telecom named Anton Reynaldo M. Bonifacio as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Data Protection Officer (DPO). Bonifacio previously served as vice president and information security/data privacy officer for Globe.

Associated Banc-Corp. Promotes Deputy Chief Information and Operations Officer to Higher Rank         

Associated Banc-Corp announced changes involving its executive committee. James (Jim) Payne, currently Associated's EVP and deputy chief information and operations officer, has been promoted to EVP and chief information and operations officer. Payne joined Associated in 2015 as EVP and CTO. He has more than 30 years' of operations and technology experience, including 18 years within the financial services industry. Payne succeeds James (Jim) Yee as he plans to retire in the second quarter of 2017.

Software AG Appoints New Chief R&D Officer       

Software AG has appointed Stefan Sigg as new chief R&D officer. Prior to joining Software AG, Dr. Sigg held a leading R&D management position at SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany. Most recently, Dr. Sigg was SVP and head of the SAP Analytics product portfolio, where he managed a global team of more than 1,800 employees. Dr. Sigg's new position at Software AG will focus primarily on product innovation of the company in the key areas of IoT, Real-time Analytics, Process Management, API Management, and Data Integration.

Cardtronics Announces CIO Changes

Cardtronics announced P. Michael McCarthy, Senior EVP - CIO gave notice of his intention to retire from the company, at which time Stuart Mackinnon will assume the role of CIO. Mackinnon was most recently President of Columbus Data Services.

Shutterstock Appoints CTO from Sterling Talent Solutions  

Shutterstock announced that Marty Brodbeck has joined the company as CTO. Brodbeck most recently served as CTO at Sterling Talent Solutions. In this role, Brodbeck oversees the product engineering team as it develops and implements products that deliver leading edge solutions for customers.

American Axle & Manufacturing Promotes Donald E Wright from Executive Director and CIO to VP and CIO Rank

American Axle & Manufacturing Incorporated named Donald E Wright as its new VP and CIO. Wright joined the company in 2012 as executive director and CIO. Prior to that, he was CIO at Atlas Oil. In his 25 years of Information Technology experience, Wright also served in various senior level Information Technology roles with Continental Automotive and LG Philips Displays.

RHI AG Announces CTO Changes   

RHI AG appointed Dr. Gerd Schubert as Chief Operations Officer and CTO of the Management Board for a period of five years. Before joining RHI, Dr. Schubert held international management positions in operations as well as research and development at Ferro Corporation.

National CineMedia Announces Resignation of COO/CTO 

In connection with a change of the organizational and management structure of National CineMedia Alfonso P. Rosabal, the company’s EVP, COO and CTO left the employment of the company.

Gränges Announces Management Changes   

Gränges appointed Torbjörn Sternsjö as SVP Technology & Business Development, will take place in Gränges’ Management team, replacing Paul Neutjens, SVP of Process Engineering & Operational Development, whose role will report to Torbjörn Sternsjö. Torbjörn Sternsjö worked at Gränges since May 2015 in the role Director of Business Development.

Cray Announces R&D Executive Changes    

Cray announced the appointment of Stathis Papaefstathiou to the position of SVP of research and development. With more than 30 years of high tech experience, Papaefstathiou has held senior-level positions at Aerohive Networks, F5 Networks, and Microsoft.  In his most recent position at Aerohive, Papaefstathiou was the SVP of engineering. Papaefstathiou will take over the position currently held by Peg Williams, who is retiring from company.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Appoints Acting CIO as CIO  

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that Kevin Walden has been appointed as CIO of the company. Walden has been serving as acting CIO since early 2016.  In his capacity as CIO, Walden will be responsible for all IT of the company, including information security, information compliance and data communications.  Walden is located with other Kratos Corporate Officers at the Company headquarters in San Diego, CA.

Unisys Appoints IBM Exec to Manage Cloud and Infrastructure Services Portfolio Serving Federal Clients 

Gary Wang has joined Unisys Federal as VP, cloud and infrastructure services, and will manage the company's portfolio of cloud-related products and services for Unisys' federal government clients. Wang most recently served as CTO, cybersecurity and biometrics at IBM, where he led the cybersecurity and biometrics solution portfolio and service solution transformation. Prior to that, he held various senior executive roles at Lockheed Martin, where he was responsible for winning and delivering several large cloud and infrastructure contracts.

Vocera Communications Names Benjamin Kanter as Chief Medical Information Officer    Benjamin Kanter

Vocera Communications announced that Benjamin Kanter, MD, FCCP, has been named as Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Prior to joining Vocera, Dr. Kanter worked as an industry consultant and thought leader with innovative healthcare IT companies, including Extension Healthcare, where he was the CMIO. As CMIO at Vocera, Dr. Kanter will continue improving patient care and physician-nurse communication by working closely with a team of clinical experts, including Chief Medical Officer Bridget Duffy, MD, and Chief Nursing Officer Rhonda Collins, MSN, RN. 

Eyecarrot Innovations Promotes Insider as CTO      

Eyecarrot Innovations, provider of visual and neuro-cognitive processing products for diagnosing and remediating visual perception, appointed Dr. Sam Mithani to the role of CTO and Director. Over the past 12 months, he has played a key role in developing and extending Eyecarrot's product and technology strategy. Dr. Mithani previously served as the CTO of Made with Magnolia; VP, Technical Services in  the Fine Chemical  Division at  Apotex; and as CTO of a new startup with partners from Indusblue, he established a SaaS magazine platform and contract development services, specializing in Xamarin, Android and iOS development.

Christie’s Appoints CIO from Disney/ABC Television Group

Christie’s International has hired Richard Entrup as global CIO, the London-based auction house said. He comes to the auction house from Disney/ABC Television Group, where he oversaw Media IT business engagement.

Date Range: December 10, 2016 - January 2

Scott joins Microsoft's Senior Leadership Team, reporting directly to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. In the new role, Scott holds the companywide CTO once held by Nathan Myhrvold, the founder of Microsoft’s research unit, until he left the company in 1999.

Prior to his role as SVP of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn, Scott held a number of engineering leadership roles at Google and AdMob. While pursuing a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Virginia, Scott was an intern with Microsoft Research in 2001.

Scott is an adviser to several Silicon Valley startups, an active angel investor and founder of the nonprofit organization Behind the Tech.

Date: January 29, 2017

Magnus Mandersson remains Executive Vice President, Advisor to the CEO, focusing on customer relationships, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Mandersson also remains Chairperson of four out of Ericsson's ten regions.

Carl Mellander remains acting Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Ericsson has appointed Wojciech Bajda as the head of industry and society init for Region Middle East. Bajda will be responsible for driving business growth and capturing market opportunities within the Middle East region. Bajda joined the company in Poland in 2000 as a sales manager.

Ciena COO Steps Down

Ciena announced that François Locoh-Donou will step down as senior vice president and COO. Locoh-Donou joined Ciena in 2002 and served in several leadership positions before becoming COO in November 2015.

MTS Systems Corporation Announces Board Changes; Retirement of President, Test and Subsequent Structural ChangesMaximiliane Straub

MTS Systems Corporation elected Maximiliane Straub to serve on the Company's Board of Directors. Straub serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Bosch and EVP Finance, Controlling and Administration of Bosch North America (2010 to present).

MTS announced the retirement of William E. Bachrach as the company's President, Test.

In conjunction with Dr. Bachrach's retirement, given the growth in demand and sophistication of testing needs across the primary markets served by MTS, and to drive greater specific market focus, the Test business will be divided into two business units, 'Materials Test Systems' and 'Vehicles and Structures Test Systems'. The Test business unit will be led by William Becker, a 30-year veteran of MTS, who recently returned to the Company after leading the North American business segment for another global materials test company since 2010.

The 'Vehicles and Structures Test Systems' business unit will focus on providing test solutions to automotive, aerospace, infrastructure and energy markets world-wide. MTS announced that Steven Harrison will join MTS to lead the 'Vehicles and Structures Test Systems' business unit. He joins MTS following a distinguished 22-year career with the U.S. Air Force, followed by successful business leadership roles at National Air Cargo, and, most recently, with AAR CORP. where he served as President of AAR Airlift Group.

Date Range: December 12, 2016 - January 29, 2017

Prior to joining The Priceline Group, Fogel worked in investment banking and asset management at various firms, including Morgan Stanley. The Corporate Development team that previously reported to Fogel will now report to the company's Chief Financial Officer, Dan Finnegan.

Baidu Appoints Microsoft Exec as Group President and COO

Baidu appointed Dr. Qi Lu as Baidu's Group President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Baidu, Dr. Lu served as Microsoft's Global Executive Vice President and led one of Microsoft's three business units. In 2013, Dr. Lu was appointed as Microsoft's Global Executive Vice President and was put in charge of its Office business.

PayPal Appoints Recognized Attorney and Airbnb Business Leader to its Board      

PayPal appointed Belinda Johnson to its board of directors. Johnson is a recognized attorney and business leader who has focused her talents on crafting and directing policies and strategies that enable high-growth, consumer-facing internet companies for more than two decades. Johnson is the Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer at Airbnb.

Yahoo CEO and Five Other Directors to Step Down from Board on Completion of Acquisition by Verizon

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from the board on completion of its $4.8 billion acquisition by Verizon. Mayer will leave the board alongside its cofounder David Filo and board members Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill, Jane Shaw, and Maynard Webb. Eric Brandt will become board chairman once the sale of its core business is completed. The company added that the remaining units of the business will operate as an investment company under the name Altaba. Under the chairmanship of Brandt, Tor Braham, Catherine Friedman, Thomas McInerney, and Jeffrey Smith will all remain on the board.

Twitter Sees Sequence of Leadership Developments 

Twitter's VP of product, Josh McFarland is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. McFarland was leaving to join Greylock Partners.

Twitter's Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger decided to leave the company and take some time off.

Twitter has appointed a new managing director, with Sinéad McSweeney taking up the role in Ireland. McSweeney is the current VP of public policy and communications for the EMEA region. Outgoing managing director Mark Little was stepping down, less than six months after he took up the role.

Total System Services Sees Several Exec Changes    

Payments firm Total System Services announced that it has found a successor to run the business unit it now calls Merchant Solutions after the sudden resignation of its Merchant Services top executive. Barclaycard executive Philip McHugh will take the helm of the merchant specialty segment operated by TSYS. His title will be senior EVP and president of Merchant Solutions. 

Gaylon Jowers, current Senior EVP and President of International, will assume the role of President, Issuer Solutions. Kelley Knutson, Executive Vice President, International, will assume the role of President, International and Allen Pettis, Executive Vice President, North America, has been promoted to President, North America.

Broadridge Financial Solutions Appoints Chief Commercial Diversity Officer      Frieda Lewis    

Broadridge Financial Solutions appointed Frieda Lewis to Managing Director, Chief Commercial Diversity Officer. Lewis joined Broadridge in 2008, serving as Managing Director, Global Relationship Management. In addition to her responsibilities in Relationship Management, Lewis has demonstrated a long-term commitment to Broadridge's diversity and inclusion initiatives. Prior to joining Broadridge, Lewis spent 25 years in the financial services industry, holding senior executive positions at Sun Life Financial and Mellon Financial.

Sabre Corporation Reveals Several Executive Changes

Travel technology company Sabre appointed Sean Menke as president, CEO and a member of Sabre's board. Menke will succeed Tom Klein, who has served as president, CEO and board member since 2013. In addition, the board named Larry Kellner, currently the non-executive chairman of the board, as executive chairman. Kellner joined Sabre as non-executive chairman of the board of directors in August 2013.

Menke joined Sabre in October 2015 and currently serves as executive vice president of Sabre and president of Sabre Travel Network. Prior to Sabre, Menke served as CEO of Frontier Airlines and held senior executive positions at Hawaiian Airlines and Air Canada, among other carriers. 

Sabre's board has designated Karl Peterson as lead independent director.

Sabre Corporation appointed two executives for strategic roles in its hospitality business. Brian Jorgenson will serve as senior vice president of product management and Frank Trampert will lead Sabre's hospitality business in Asia Pacific. Jorgenson comes to Sabre from Fiserv, where he held multiple senior leadership positions across product management, development, and service delivery.

As the Managing Director and Chief Commercial Officer - APAC, Trampert will lead Sabre's hospitality business in Asia Pacific. He has deep experience in both hospitality operations and technology in Asia Pacific including leadership positions with Wyndham Hotel Group in Hong Kong, Carlson Hotels across four continents, Brand Karma in Singapore, and most recently as the CEO for Tune Hotel Group in Malaysia.

Deborah Kerr, Executive Vice President and Chief Product and Technology Officer, mutually agreed that Kerr’s employment will terminate following the expiration of her employment agreement.

Worldpay Group Appoints New COO

Payment processing company Worldpay Group announced that Ruth Prior, currently Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Worldpay, will become Chief Operating Officer. Dave Hobday, Managing Director, Worldpay UK has resigned from Worldpay to take up a position as Chief Executive of a private equity owned business. Company has finalized the appointment of his successor, who has significant board level experience at a UK plc, and a strong track record in business transformation and financial services. Company expects to be able to announce this appointment and for him to join Worldpay in the New Year. Dave will leave Worldpay following a handover period.

David Cooper Joins WEX as CTO    

WEX announced that David Cooper has joined the company in the newly created role of CTO. The role was created to lead all aspects of corporate technology. In this position, Cooper will spearhead corporate IT and platform strategy, enterprise architecture, program management, information security, and IT infrastructure operations. Prior to joining WEX, Cooper held several senior technology positions, including head of global operations at GlobeOne, SVP of technology at Green Dot, and CTO and SVP of product development at both Fiserv and CashEdge.

Moneysupermarket.com Announces CEO Succession Plan  

Moneysupermarket.com Group, the British price comparison website-based business specialising in financial services, announced further to the CEO succession announcement, the company confirmed that Mark Lewis will be appointed an executive director of the company and following a handover will become CEO in April 2017. Peter Plumb will step down as an executive director at the company's annual general meeting.

Shutterfly Announces Board Appointments 

Shutterfly elected two new independent directors, Elizabeth (Libby) Sartain and H. Tayloe Stansbury, to its board of directors. Sartain is an executive and advisor with more than 30 years of experience as a senior human resources leader. Her diverse industry exposure includes technology, media, consumer products, professional services, and manufacturing. Sartain is currently the vice chairman of the board of AARP and holds board seats at Manpower Group and the SHRM Foundation. Sartain has served as chief people officer at Yahoo.

Stansbury is a tech leader with more than 30 years of experience building scalable technology platforms and organizations across a number of leading companies. Since 2009, Tayloe Stansbury has worked at Intuit, where he is EVP and CTO. He previously served as CIO at VMware; as EVP of products and operations at Ariba; in leadership roles at Calico Commerce, Xerox, and Borland International; and in engineering and research roles at Sun Microsystems and Xerox PARC.

carsales.com Announces CEO Changes

Carsales.com Limited announced that Greg Roebuck, the company's managing director and CEO since 2002, will retire from his position and the board has appointed Cameron McIntyre, 46, currently carsales' COO as the next CEO and MD. McIntyre commenced at carsales in 2007 as the chief financial officer & company secretary. He also played a key role in the IPO of the company in 2009. In 2014 Cameron became the chief operating officer of the company which expanded his responsibilities to include the oversight of carsales editorial, marketing, RedBook and data services.

WebMD Appoints Managing Partner of Aberdeen Enterprises Ian G. Banwell as Director  

WebMD has appointed Ian G. Banwell to WebMD's Board.  Banwell was appointed to fill a vacancy created when Jerome C. Keller resigned from the. Banwell is currently Managing Partner of Aberdeen Enterprises.

Shutterstock Directors Leaves; Appoints CTO from Sterling Talent Solutions 

Jeffrey Lieberman, a director of Shutterstock notified the company that he would resign from the company's Board of Directors. Lieberman is a Managing Director of the private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners, or Insight, where he has been employed since June 1998.

Shutterstock announced that Marty Brodbeck has joined the company as CTO. Brodbeck most recently served as CTO at Sterling Talent Solutions. In this role, Brodbeck oversees the product engineering team as it develops and implements products that deliver leading edge solutions for customers.

Travelport Announces Board Changes           

Travel commerce platform Travelport appointed John Smith to its Board of Directors. Until recently, Smith was COO of the Burberry Group. He remains a member of Burberry's Board. Prior to Burberry, Smith spent 23 years at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Joining in 1989, he held a variety of positions including Chief Operating Officer, Director of Finance, Property & Business Affairs and Finance Director. Smith will replace Mr. Gavin Baiera from Angelo, Gordon & Co. who retires from the Board, having served as a member since 2011.

TrueCar Promotes David Green to Senior Vice President of Major Accounts  

Automotive pricing and information website TrueCar announced the promotion of David Green to senior vice president of major accounts within the company’s Dealer Sales and Service team. Green joined TrueCar in 2015 and is currently responsible for the support and account development of the dealer groups within the TrueCar Certified Dealer Network.. Most recently, Green served as the Managing Partner of Showcase Honda in Phoenix, Arizona.

Date Range: December 12, 2016 - January 29, 2017

Adobe CAO Retires    

Richard Rowley retired from his position as the Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Adobe Systems following ten years of service. Mark Garrett, EVP and CFO of Adobe, will serve as the interim principal accounting officer while Adobe completes its search for Rowley’s replacement.

WSJ Senior Special Writer Joins Salesforce as EVP, Global Strategic Affairs

Salesforce announced that Senior Special Writer for The Wall Street Journal Monica Langley will join the company as EVP, Global Strategic Affairs. She will work with the company executive team to develop strategies that will continue to accelerate the company's unmatched growth in the industry. Prior to the company, Langley spent 27 years at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote many page-one profiles, particularly of newsmakers such as CEOs and presidential candidates.

VMware Announces Middle East and North Africa Region Appointments   

VMware has announced several new appointments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, appointing Mohammed Darras as the new country manager for the UAE, Ahmed El Saadi to country manager, for North Africa, Levant, and Egypt, and promoting Ossama Eldeeb to senior manager, MENA Partner Organisation. This announcement comes at a time when customer demand for public cloud infrastructure, applications, and services, is expected to double in the region with market research firm Gartner, predicting a rise from $743 million in 2015 to $1.73 billion in 2020.

Mohammed Darras brings more than 19 years’ sales experience in the region, most recently serving as regional sales manager for Cisco UAE.

Ahmed El Saadi has more than 12 years’ experience to his role at VMware, most recently serving as regional sales manager in Cyber Security for North Africa for Palo Alto Networks.

With over 22 years’ business and IT experience, Ossama Eldeeb has been promoted internally from senior partner business manager, VMware MENA.

Paychex Expands Board, Appoints Successful Entrepreneur as New Member         

HCM Solutions firm Paychex appointed Thomas F. Bonadio, CPA, to fill a newly created board position. Bonadio is CEO and managing partner of the Bonadio Group, the largest certified public accountant firm in New York State outside of Manhattan. He founded Bonadio & Co. in 1978.

Citrix Systems’ Couple of Executives Leave

Each of Klaus Oestermann, SVP and General Manager, Delivery Networks, and Jesse Lipson, Corporate VP and General Manager of Cloud Services, of Citrix Systems announced and informed Citrix that he will be leaving the company.

First Data Launches First Data Integrated Solutions Group; Appoints SAP Exec to Head ISG       

First Data is launching First Data Integrated Solutions Group, or ISG, a new business segment focused on expanded software developer tools for integration with First Data's platforms. First Data has hired EJ Jackson to head up ISG. He comes to First Data from SAP, where he served as SVP and GM of SAP Anywhere. Prior to his role at SAP, Jackson was the president and founder of Provade, a leading VMS SaaS provider in the market.

Red Hat Promotes Finance and Accounting VP to Acting CFO Role           

Red Hat appointed Eric R. Shander to serve as the company's acting CFO and principal financial officer, pending a decision on a permanent replacement. Shander replaces Frank Calderoni, whose resignation was previously disclosed by the Company. Shander joined the company in November 2015 and currently serves as the Company's VP, Finance and Accounting and principal accounting officer. Prior to joining the company, Shander spent over twenty years in a variety of business and finance roles at IBM.

Seagate Technology Appoints Micron Technology’s Worldwide Sales VP to Board  

Seagate Technology named Mark W. Adams to the company’s Board of Directors. From 2006 to February 2012, Adams served in a number of positions at Micron Technology, including as VP of Worldwide Sales and VP of Digital Media. Prior to joining Micron Technology, he served as COO of Lexar Media in 2006 and as VP of Sales and Marketing of Creative Labs from 2002 to 2006.  He has served as a director of Cadence Design Systems since 2015.

ServiceNow Announces Executive Changes 

ServiceNow announced that Daniel R. McGee stepped down from his role as COO. The company appointed Chirantan CJ" Desai, 46, as the company's Chief Product Officer, to take effect upon his commencement of employment, which occurred in December 2016. Most recently, Desai served as the President of the Emerging Technologies Division at EMC.

Arista Networks Announces Resignation of Worldwide Sales Operations Leader    

Mark Smith, the SVP, Worldwide Sales Operations of Software Driven Cloud Networking company Arista Networks, informed the Company that he will voluntarily resign from his position. The sales function for the Company will continue to report to Anshul Sadana, the Company's Chief Customer Officer.

Micro Focus International Announces Reverse Takeover of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s Software Unit and Leadership Changes

Micro Focus International, provider of software and consultancy services for clients updating legacy systems to more modern platforms, appointed a new CEO for the enlarged business it will become after the reverse takeover of the software unit of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. When announcing the deal, Micro Focus said Executive Chairman Kevin Loosemore and CFO Mike Phillips would continue in those roles after the deal. Chris Hsu, who is currently the COO of HP Enterprise and the EVP of HP Enterprise Software, will become the CEO of the enlarged business.

Stephen Murdoch will remain CEO of Micro Focus until completion of the deal, and Loosemore will remain executive chairman until at least 2018.

Fortinet Appoints Former NSA Cyber Task Force Executive as CISO     

Fortinet named Phil Quade as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Prior to Fortinet, Quade was the NSA Director’s Special Assistant for Cyber and Chief of the NSA Cyber Task Force with responsibility for the White House relationship in Cyber. Previously, he served as the COO of the Information Assurance Directorate at the NSA.

SAIC Sees CHRO Changes    

SAIC announced the departure of its CHRO, Kimberly Admire. Karen Wheeler will become SAIC’s new CHRO. Wheeler will succeed Kimberly Admire, who has been the company’s CHRO since 2014. Wheeler has been a SVP and SAIC’s chief procurement officer since 2013.

Proofpoint Announces Resignation of Imperva CEO from Board     

Imperva’s Chair, CEO & President Anthony Bettencourt informed the company of his resignation from the Board of Directors of Proofpoint, leader in advanced cybersecurity solutionsHis resignation was not due to any disagreement with the company or its management.

Tableau Software Appoints Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its Board  

Tableau Software, the business intelligence and analyticsfirm, appointed Hilarie Koplow-McAdams to its Board of Directors. Koplow-McAdams is President at New Relic. Her leadership has helped New Relic perform as a high-growth company, extend its product portfolio, and bolster its enterprise sales force.

Ellie Mae Promotes SVP, Finance as CFO    

SVP of Finance Matthew LaVay has been appointed as CFO. Prior to his current role, he was VP and Corporate Controller at Ellie Mae. Prior to Ellie Mae, he served as VP and Corporate Controller for Taleo and Corporate Controller and Senior Director of Finance for Scientific Learning Corporation.

Pegasystems Appoints Financial Services Business Line Leader from Citi    

Pegasystems appointed Michael Haney as business line leader for financial services. Haney joins Pegasystems from Citi, where he was most recently a director of customer segment management for U.S. retail banking and wealth management. Prior to that, he was Citi's director of technology product management for global retail banking.

LogMeIn and GetGo Announce New Board of Directors for Combined Company 

LogMeIn named the nine directors who will serve on the Board of Directors for the combined company effective upon the close of its proposed merger with Citrix Systems’s GetGo subsidiary, a wholly owned subsidiary consisting of Citrix’s GoTo family of service offerings.

The Board will be comprised of four directors designated by Citrix and five members of LogMeIn’s current Board of Directors. As previously announced, the four Citrix designees are Bob Calderoni, Jesse Cohn, and Peter Sacripanti, all of whom also serve as current Citrix directors, as well as Citrix’s COO and CFO, David Henshall.

Joining them from LogMeIn’s current Board will be LogMeIn’s president and CEO, Bill Wagner, LogMeIn’s Chairman of the Board, Michael Simon, as well as Steven Benson, Michael Christenson and Edwin Gillis.

Software AG Appoints SAP SVP as New Chief R&D Officer

Software AG has appointed Stefan Sigg as new chief R&D officer. Prior to joining Software AG, Dr. Sigg held a leading R&D management position at SAP SE. Most recently, Dr. Sigg was SVP and head of the SAP Analytics product portfolio.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Announces Executive Appointments          

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions announced two additions to its executive team. Lisa Khorey joined Allscripts in the newly created role of Chief Client Delivery Officer, and Alan Fowles was named President of Allscripts International.

Khorey and her team will focus on all aspects of delivering Allscripts product and solution suites to clients. These efforts underscore Allscripts renewed focus on delivering top-notch, highly coordinated service to clients. Khorey joins Allscripts from Ernst & Young, where she was the Executive Director of E&Y’s National Provider Practice, specializing in analytics.

Fowles will lead the Allscripts team as the company continues its growth internationally; working with clients to effectively deploy technology to improve the health of the populations they manage.

HubSpot Appoints President of Atlassian Jay Simons to its Board of Directors        

Inbound marketing & sales software firm HubSpot announced that Jay Simons, president of Atlassian, joined the HubSpot Board of Directors. Jay joined Atlassian in 2008 as VP of sales and marketing to lead the company's pioneering efforts to develop a high-velocity, low-touch sales model. Jay has more than 18 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career at Plumtree Software and held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles.

Jerry Rulli to Step Down as COO of Progress Software; to Cut Jobs

Progress Software announced that Jerry Rulli, COO, will be leaving the company at the end of the fiscal first quarter of 2017. Rulli served as the President of Openedge Business Unit at Progress Software from 2014 to mid 2015 and served as its SVP of Business Line Executive. Rulli served as an EVP of worldwide sales at Iron Mountain before Progress. In addition, Progress intends to reduce headcount by approximately 450 employees, totaling over 20% of the Company's workforce.

BroadSoft Appoints Dino Di Palma as Chief Revenue Officer          Dino Di Palma

Communication software and service provider BroadSoft appointed Dino Di Palma as Chief Revenue Officer. In this newly created position, Dino will lead the BroadSoft global sales organization and continue to drive revenue growth, with the new, expanded BroadSoft Business portfolio and the ‘Powered by BroadSoft’ branding and partner initiatives. Prior to joining BroadSoft, Mr. Di Palma was the CEO of Benu Networks.

Callidus Software Announces Board Changes

Global enterprise software and SaaS company Callidus Software appointed Nina Richardson, a renowned business executive, to its board of directors. Richardson has over 30 years of experience ranging from start-up environments to multi-billion dollar corporations. Most recently, she served as the COO at GoPro. The company announced the retirement of Michele Vion Choka from its board. Michele has served on CallidusCloud’s board of directors since 2005 including holding the role of chairperson of the Compensation Committee.

SecureWorks Announces Couple of Executive Appointments           

Intelligence-driven security solutions provider SecureWorks added Jason Capitel and Alexandra Gobbi to its executive leadership team. Capitel joins SecureWorks as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. He most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer for Dell EMC’s Enterprise Content Management Division.

Gobbi joins SecureWorks as Chief Marketing Officer. Prior to joining SecureWorks, Gobbi was SVP of Corporate Marketing and Communications for EarthLink. She has also previously served as VP of Marketing and Communications at PRGX Global and Director of Global Market Intelligence for Enterprise Services at Hewlett-Packard. Gobbi is a member of the advisory board of the National Technology Security Coalition.

Monotype Imaging Announces Management Changes         

Text and imaging solutions company Monotype Imaging appointed Anthony Callini as the company's new CFO and EVP. Prior to joining Monotype, Callini served as the SVP of Finance at Avid Technologies. From 2004 to 2013, Callini held a number of financial leadership positions at Open Solutions, most recently as the SVP-Finance and Treasurer.

Blucora Appoints Amazon Executive as President of TaxAct           

Blucora, a leading provider of technology-enabled financial solutions, appointed Sanjay Baskaran has been named President of TaxAct, to grow its position as a leading provider of affordable digital and downloadable tax software for individuals, business owners and tax professionals. He succeeds JoAnn Kintzel who resigned in October 2016. Baskaran recently served as General Manager, North America Credit Cards at Amazon.

Hortonworks Appoints COO from TIBCO   

Open and connected data platforms company Hortonworks appointed Raj Verma president and COO. Verma is an experienced enterprise sales veteran, most recently being the COO of TIBCO Software. He also held various other executive roles during his 12-year tenure at TIBCO, including EVP of worldwide sales and chief marketing officer.

Date Range: December 12, 2016 - January 29, 2017

New Technology CEO Stats

New Tech CEO Openings: 11 – Aixtron (Germany), IRIS Corporation (Malaysia), Cherry (Sweden), Numerex (GA), Myriad Group (Switzerland), Nuix (Australia), Micronet (Israel), HealthWarehouse.com (KY), Netccentric (Singapore), Urbanise.com (Australia), and DTG (Netherlands). 

CEOs Appointed

Sources of Appointments: 48 were External appointments, and 44 were internal promotions.

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

Diversity: 4.3% of the appointments are women CEOs. GFT Technologies (Germany), Electronic Commodities Exchange (NY), Pounce Technologies (Ontario), Apica (Sweden).

Geographic Distribution: 59 in North America, 15 in Europe, 15 in Asia/Russia/Australia, and 3 in Middle East & Africa.

The average and median times open CEO roleshave been open are about 5.5 months, and there is little variance by continent. The longest open searches are:

#1 -  TeleCity Group, London, UK - $529.6M, September 2014  
#2    Wi-LAN, Ottawa, Ontario - $98.3M, June 2015.  

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CEOs Appointed in the month January 2017 

Tata Consultancy Services, India - $17.1B, January 2017Rajesh Gopinathan

F5 Networks, Washington - $2B, January 2017François Locoh-Donou

SoftAtHome, France - $4.9M, January 2017David Viret-Lange

JDA Software Group, Arizona, January 2017Girish Rishi

Facebook Names Head Global Music Strategy and BD

Facebook has hired Tamara Hrivnak to head its global music strategy and business development. The former director of music partnerships at YouTube and Google Play is a veteran of the music business, having spent almost eight years at Warner Music Group and Warner/Chappell before joining Google in 2011.

Intel Promotes Three Corporate Officers 

Intel has promoted three corporate officers. Steven R. Rodgers was promoted from SVP to EVP. He is general counsel of Intel and leads Intel’s Law and Policy Group. Rodgers joined Intel in 2000, was elected SVP in 2015.

Aicha S. Evans was elevated from corporate VP to SVP. She is general manager of the Communication and Devices Group at Intel and is responsible for driving wireless communications for all Intel platforms. Evans joined Intel in 2006, was elected to corporate VP in 2014.

Leslie S. Culbertson was promoted from corporate VP and director of finance to SVP and director of human resources. She will oversee all of Intel’s human resource functions and policies. Culbertson joined Intel in 1979, was elected to corporate VP and director of finance in 2003.

Oracle Appoints Product Development SVP to Lead the Startup Cloud Accelerator Program Expansion Reggie Bradfor

Oracle announced the expansion of its Startup Cloud Accelerator program. The initiative will continue to fuel cloud-enabled innovation around the globe by opening new centers in Bristol, Delhi–NCR, Mumbai, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore and Tel Aviv. Oracle SVP of Product Development Reggie Bradford, will lead the program expansion alongside Oracle Group VP of Development Sanket Atal, who first launched the pilot program in India.

IBM Announces Couple of Executive Changes   

Stanley J. Sutula III, VP and Controller, resigned his position to undertake a position as CFO at another public company. IBM Board elected Robert F. Del Bene, 57, to become VP and Controller. Del Bene is currently General Manager, IBM Global Financing and previously served as IBM's Treasurer. Del Bene joined the Company in 1981 and has also served as the senior finance executive for various IBM business units including Global Services and Sales & Distribution.

International Business Machines Corporation named executive officers Michael D. Rhodin and Bridget A. van Kralingen will retain their operational responsibilities and remain SVPs of the Company, but will no longer be Section 16 “executive officers” as defined by the Exchange Act of 1934, effective January 1, 2017.

Texas Instruments Appoints Board Member, CFO & COO     

Texas Instruments announced that Todd M. Bluedorn has been elected to the company's board of directors. Bluedorn is chairman of the board and CEO of Lennox International. Before joining the company, Bluedorn, held a number of senior management positions at United Technologies Corporation, including president of three different businesses.

Texas Instruments also announced that Rafael Lizardi will become SVP and CFO. Lizardi, 44, joined TI in 2001 and was named vice president in 2010 followed by corporate controller in 2012.

Brian Crutcher has been promoted to COO. Crutcher, 44, is a 21-year veteran of the company and has been EVP responsible for all business and sales operations, Kilby Labs and IT. Crutcher joined TI in 1996 and during his first 10 years served in a variety of leadership roles in the sales organization, including VP in charge of the Americas.

Accenture Witnesses Several Leadership Moves

Valerie Abend has joined Accenture as managing director, Accenture Security - Financial Services, North America. Previously, she was Senior Critical Infrastructure Officer at the U.S. Department of Treasury (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) advising U.S. banking regulatory principals on cybersecurity.

Madeleine Chenette joined as office managing director for Montreal. In this role Chenette will be responsible for expanding Accenture's business presence in Quebec, focusing on bringing innovation to clients, attracting top talent and strengthening the company's impact in the Quebec community. Chenette joins Accenture from KPMG Canada, where she led the strategy service line for the past four years.

Wayne Hull was named as managing director and head of Accenture Digital for South and Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Accenture, Hull was the Digital Advisor for Sportradar Global. He has held a number of senior positions including board member and Global SVP for AGT International, Director and General Manager for Cisco in the Middle East and Pakistan. He also headed the Technology Group and Financial Services Consulting practices at IBM Southern Africa.

Accenture has hired Tammy Soares as managing director to lead Accenture Interactives West region in North America. In her new role, she will be responsible for overseeing Accenture Interactives business in eight states: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Most recently, she served as president and CEO of Publicis Groupes Rosetta.

The Priceline Group Announces CEO Changes

The Priceline Group reported that Glenn Fogel, the company's current Head of Strategy and Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, has been named CEO of the company. Current Interim CEO and non-Executive Chairman of the Board Jeff Boyd, who served as the company's CEO from 2002-2013, Chairman of the Board since 2013 and Interim CEO since April of 2016, will assume the role of Executive Chairman.

Prior to joining The Priceline Group, Fogel worked in investment banking and asset management at various firms, including Morgan Stanley. The Corporate Development team that previously reported to Fogel will now report to the company's Chief Financial Officer, Dan Finnegan.

TCS Approves Removal of Director; Appoints New CEO and COO      

Tata Consultancy Services approved removal of C. P. Mistry as director of the company. Mistry was the chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, between 2012 and 2016.

TCS announced that Rajesh Gopinathan has been appointed as CEO and Managing Director. Gopinathan takes over from N Chandrasekaran who has been appointed as the Chairman of Tata Sons. TCS has also named N Ganapathy Subramaniam, who is currently President, TCS Financial Solutions as the President and COO and appointed him as a director on the board of the company. Prior to becoming the CFO Rajesh was the VP- Business Finance. N. Ganapathy Subramaniam is curently the President of TCS Financial Solutions.

Baidu Appoints Microsoft Exec as President and COO

Baidu appointed Dr. Qi Lu as Baidu's Group President and COO, in charge of products, technology, sales, marketing and operations, effective immediately. Prior to joining Baidu, Dr. Lu served as Microsoft's Global EVP and led one of Microsoft's three business units. In 2013, Dr. Lu was appointed as Microsoft's Global EVP and was put in charge of its Office business.

Nvidia Appoints General Counsel and Company Secretary from Law Firm   

Nvidia has named Tim Teter as SVP, general counsel and company secretary. Teter will be responsible for all of the company's legal activities. He will take on these responsibilities from David Shannon, who previously announced his intention to retire from the company. Teter most recently served as a partner at the law firm Cooley, where for more than two decades he focused on litigating patent and technology-related matters.

Adobe Combines Chair-CEO Roles and Appoints Lead Director; Chief Accounting Officer Retires        

Adobe announced that its Board of Directors has elected Shantanu Narayen as Chairman of the Board. Narayen will continue in his role as President and CEO of Adobe and succeeds Co-Chairs and Co-Founders of the company, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, who will remain on the Board.

The company also announced that board member Jim Daley, a 35-year Price Waterhouse veteran and prior CFO of a publicly traded technology company, has been named Lead Director to ensure continued sound corporate governance. Daley has been a board member since 2001 and was formerly the head of the audit committee.

Richard Rowley retired from his position as the Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Adobe Systems following ten years of service. His decision to retire was previously announced in October 2016. Mark Garrett, EVP and CFO of Adobe, will serve as the interim principal accounting officer while Adobe completes its search for Rowley’s replacement.

WSJ Senior Special Writer Joins Salesforce as EVP, Global Strategic AffairsMonica Langley

Salesforce announced that Senior Special Writer for The Wall Street Journal Monica Langley will join the company as EVP, Global Strategic Affairs. She will work with the company executive team to develop strategies that will continue to accelerate the company's unmatched growth in the industry. Prior to the company, Langley spent 27 years at The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote many page-one profiles, particularly of newsmakers such as CEOs and presidential candidates.

PayPal Appoints Recognized Attorney and Airbnb Business Leader to its Board     

PayPal appointed Belinda Johnson to its board of directors. Johnson is a recognized attorney and business leader who has focused her talents on crafting and directing policies and strategies that enable high-growth, consumer-facing internet companies for more than two decades. Johnson is the Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer at Airbnb.

Yahoo CEO and Five Other Directors to Step Down from Board on Completion of Acquisition by Verizon

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from the board on completion of its $4.8 billion acquisition by Verizon. Mayer will leave the board alongside its cofounder David Filo and board members Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill, Jane Shaw, and Maynard Webb. Eric Brandt will become board chairman once the sale of its core business is completed. The company added that the remaining units of the business will operate as an investment company under the name Altaba. Under the chairmanship of Brandt, Tor Braham, Catherine Friedman, Thomas McInerney, and Jeffrey Smith will all remain on the board.

VMware Announces Middle East and North Africa Region Appointments  

VMware has announced several new appointments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, appointing Mohammed Darras as the new country manager for the UAE, Ahmed El Saadi to country manager, for North Africa, Levant, and Egypt, and promoting Ossama Eldeeb to senior manager, MENA Partner Organisation. This announcement comes at a time when customer demand for public cloud infrastructure, applications, and services, is expected to double in the region with market research firm Gartner, predicting a rise from $743 million in 2015 to $1.73 billion in 2020.

Mohammed Darras brings more than 19 years’ sales experience in the region, most recently serving as regional sales manager for Cisco UAE.

Ahmed El Saadi has more than 12 years’ experience to his role at VMware, most recently serving as regional sales manager in Cyber Security for North Africa for Palo Alto Networks.

With over 22 years’ business and IT experience, Ossama Eldeeb has been promoted internally from senior partner business manager, VMware MENA.

Infosys Appoints Deputy COO; Announces Cessation of General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer           

Infosys has appointed Ravikumar S. as Deputy COO. In addition to his current responsibility of heading the global delivery organization, Ravikumar S. will oversee certain strategic Business Enabling Functions and will be based in India.

Infosys announced that David Kennedy, its General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, and the Company have mutually agreed that Mr. Kennedy's employment with the Company will cease end of 2016.

Activision Blizzard Names New CEO     

Activision Blizzard announced the launch of a newly created Consumer Products division and the appointment of veteran Mattel and Disney executive Tim Kilpin as its CEO and president. Most recently, Kilpin served as Mattel’s president and chief commercial officer, overseeing the company’s sales and marketing functions across all regions. Previously, he served as EVP for Mattel’s Boys and Girls Division. Prior to that, Kilpin was EVP of franchise management for The Walt Disney Company.

Micron Technology CEO to Retire           

Micron Technology announced the upcoming retirement of its CEO, Mark Durcan. The Board of Directors has formed a special committee to oversee the succession process and has initiated a search, with the assistance of an executive search firm, to identify and vet candidates. Mark Durcan will continue to lead Micron as CEO during this process and will assist the company with its search and subsequent leadership transition.

Analog Devices Announces Changes to Board Membership   Mark M. Little

Analog Devices announced that Mark M. Little, former SVP, GE Global Research and CTO of GE, has been elected as a Director of the Company, and that the Board of Directors of the Company intends to elect Robert H.  Swanson, Executive Chairman of Linear Technology Corporation, as a Director following the closing of the Company’s acquisition of Linear Technology Corporation.

Richard Beyer and John Hodgson will retire from the Company’s Board. Dr.  Little is the former SVP, GE Global Research and CTO of GE. Swanson, a founder of Linear Technology, has served as Executive Chairman of the Linear Technology board of directors since January 2005.

Paychex Expands Board, Appoints Successful Entrepreneur as New Member        

HCM Solutions firm Paychex appointed Thomas F. Bonadio, CPA, to fill a newly created board position. Bonadio is CEO and managing partner of the Bonadio Group, the largest certified public accountant firm in New York State outside of Manhattan. He founded Bonadio & Co. in 1978.

Western Digital Announces CTO Changes         

Western Digital appointed Martin Fink to the position of CTO. Fink most recently served as CTO and director of HP Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Fink succeeds CTO Steven Campbell who will depart the company to pursue other opportunities after a long and distinguished career with Western Digital. Prior to being named CTO and director of HP Labs at HPE in 2012, Fink was SVP and general manager of Business Critical Systems for HP’s Enterprise, Storage and Servers business unit.

Ericsson Announces Topmost Management Changes

Ericsson announced that in connection with Borje Ekholm assuming the position as President and CEO of Ericsson, Jan Frykhammar, who has temporarily held the position as President and CEO, remains a member of the Executive Leadership Team and is appointed Executive Vice President and Advisor to the CEO. Jan Frykhammar will support Borje Ekholm during a transition period and will focus on corporate governance and efficiency.

Magnus Mandersson remains Executive Vice President, Advisor to the CEO, focusing on customer relationships, and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Mandersson also remains Chairperson of four out of Ericsson's ten regions.

Carl Mellander remains acting Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

Ericsson has appointed Wojciech Bajda as the head of industry and society init for Region Middle East. Bajda will be responsible for driving business growth and capturing market opportunities within the Middle East region. Bajda joined the company in Poland in 2000 as a sales manager.

Autodesk CEO to Step Down         

Autodesk announced that Carl Bass has decided to step down as president and CEO. The company's board has instituted a CEO search to consider candidates inside and outside the company and has formed an Interim Office of the Chief Executive to oversee the company's day-to-day operations. Bass will remain on staff as a special advisor to the company in support of the transition to a new CEO. He will continue to sit on the company's board of directors.

Skyworks Solutions Appoints New Worldwide Operations Leader

Bruce J. Freyman retired from his position as EVP, Worldwide Operations of Skyworks Solutions, in connection with a planned reduction in his commitments. Freyman will continue as an employee of the Company serving in a non-executive transition role supporting his successor, Steven C. Machuga, 52, the new VP, Worldwide Operations. Machuga has been with the company since 1999 and most recently served as Skyworks’ VP of external manufacturing and operations engineering.

Red Hat Promotes Finance and Accounting VP to Acting CFO Role          

Red Hat appointed Eric R. Shander to serve as the company's acting CFO and principal financial officer, pending a decision on a permanent replacement. Shander replaces Frank Calderoni, whose resignation was previously disclosed by the Company. Shander joined the company in November 2015 and currently serves as the Company's VP, Finance and Accounting and principal accounting officer. Prior to joining the company, Shander spent over twenty years in a variety of business and finance roles at IBM.

Seagate Technology Appoints Micron Technology’s Worldwide Sales VP to Board 

Seagate Technology named Mark W. Adams to the company’s Board of Directors. From 2006 to February 2012, Adams served in a number of positions at Micron Technology, including as VP of Worldwide Sales and VP of Digital Media. Prior to joining Micron Technology, he served as COO of Lexar Media in 2006 and as VP of Sales and Marketing of Creative Labs from 2002 to 2006.  He has served as a director of Cadence Design Systems since 2015.

Motorola Solutions Elects Former Emotient CEO to its Board 

Motorola Solutions announced that Ken Denman has been elected to its board of directors. Denman was previously President and CEO of Emotient. He also held CEO positions at two Silicon Valley software companies Openwave Systems and iPass, and was COO – Wireless, for MediaOne International. Denman currently serves on the board of ShoreTel and Mitek.

Citrix Systems Reveals Executive Departures     

Citrix Systems announced the departure of Christopher S. Hylen, SVP and General Manager, Mobility Apps, in connection with the closing of the transaction with LogMeIn.

Each of Klaus Oestermann, SVP and General Manager, Delivery Networks, and Jesse Lipson, Corporate VP and General Manager of Cloud Services, of Citrix Systems announced and informed Citrix that he will be leaving the company.

First Data Launches First Data Integrated Solutions Group; Appoints SAP Exec to Head ISG EJ Jackson     

First Data is launching First Data Integrated Solutions Group, or ISG, a new business segment focused on expanded software developer tools for integration with First Data's platforms. First Data has hired EJ Jackson to head up ISG. He comes to First Data from SAP, where he served as SVP and GM of SAP Anywhere. Prior to his role at SAP, Jackson was the president and founder of Provade, a leading VMS SaaS provider in the market.

ServiceNow Announces Executive Changes

ServiceNow announced that Daniel R. McGee stepped down from his role as COO. The company appointed Chirantan CJ" Desai, 46, as the company's Chief Product Officer, to take effect upon his commencement of employment, which occurred in December 2016. Most recently, Desai served as the President of the Emerging Technologies Division at EMC.

Twitter Sees Sequence of Leadership Developments

Twitter's VP of product, Josh McFarland is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. McFarland was leaving to join Greylock Partners.

Twitter's Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger decided to leave the company and take some time off.

Twitter has appointed a new managing director, with Sinéad McSweeney taking up the role in Ireland. McSweeney is the current VP of public policy and communications for the EMEA region. Outgoing managing director Mark Little was stepping down, less than six months after he took up the role.

Date Range: January 3rd - February 8th 2017

TCS Approves Removal of Director

Tata Consultancy Services approved removal of C. P. Mistry as director of the company. Mistry was the chairman of Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, between 2012 and 2016.

Adobe Combines Chair-CEO Roles and Appoints Lead Director 

Adobe announced that its Board of Directors has elected Shantanu Narayen as Chairman of the Board. Narayen will continue in his role as President and CEO of Adobe and succeeds Co-Chairs and Co-Founders of the company, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke, who will remain on the Board.

The company also announced that board member Jim Daley, a 35-year Price Waterhouse veteran and prior CFO of a publicly traded technology company, has been named Lead Director to ensure continued sound corporate governance. Daley has been a board member since 2001.

PayPal Appoints Recognized Attorney and Airbnb Business Leader to its Board     Belinda Johnson

PayPal appointed Belinda Johnson to its board of directors. Johnson is a recognized attorney and business leader who has focused her talents on crafting and directing policies and strategies that enable high-growth, consumer-facing internet companies for more than two decades. Johnson is the Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer at Airbnb.

Yahoo CEO and Five Other Directors to Step Down from Board on Completion of Acquisition by Verizon

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from the board on completion of its $4.8 billion acquisition by Verizon. Mayer will leave the board alongside its cofounder David Filo and board members Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill, Jane Shaw, and Maynard Webb. Eric Brandt will become board chairman once the sale of its core business is completed. The company added that the remaining units of the business will operate as an investment company under the name Altaba. Under the chairmanship of Brandt, Tor Braham, Catherine Friedman, Thomas McInerney, and Jeffrey Smith will all remain on the board.

Analog Devices Announces Changes to Board Membership       

Analog Devices announced that Mark M. Little, former SVP, GE Global Research and CTO of GE, has been elected as a Director of the Company, and that the Board of Directors of the Company intends to elect Robert H.  Swanson, Executive Chairman of Linear Technology Corporation, as a Director following the closing of the Company’s acquisition of Linear Technology Corporation.

Richard Beyer and John Hodgson will retire from the Company’s Board. Dr.  Little is the former SVP, GE Global Research and CTO of GE. Swanson, a founder of Linear Technology, has served as Executive Chairman of the Linear Technology board of directors since January 2005.

Paychex Expands Board, Appoints Successful Entrepreneur as New Member        

HCM Solutions firm Paychex appointed Thomas F. Bonadio, CPA, to fill a newly created board position. Bonadio is CEO and managing partner of the Bonadio Group, the largest certified public accountant firm in New York State outside of Manhattan. He founded Bonadio & Co. in 1978.

Seagate Technology Appoints Micron Technology’s Worldwide Sales VP to Board 

Seagate Technology named Mark W. Adams to the company’s Board of Directors. From 2006 to February 2012, Adams served in a number of positions at Micron Technology, including as VP of Worldwide Sales and VP of Digital Media. Prior to joining Micron Technology, he served as COO of Lexar Media in 2006 and as VP of Sales and Marketing of Creative Labs from 2002 to 2006.  He has served as a director of Cadence Design Systems since 2015.

Motorola Solutions Elects Former Emotient CEO to its Board     

Motorola Solutions announced that Ken Denman has been elected to its board of directors. Denman was previously President and CEO of Emotient. He also held CEO positions at two Silicon Valley software companies Openwave Systems and iPass, and was COO – Wireless, for MediaOne International. Denman currently serves on the board of ShoreTel and Mitek.

Xerox Announces Board Changes            

Xerox announced that the company’s CEO, Jeff Jacobson, and Greg Brown, chairman and CEO of Motorola Solutions, have joined Xerox’s board. As previously announced, Ursula Burns will retire as chairman of the. Richard J. Harrington, who has served on the board since 2004, will also retire and will not stand for re-election at the annual shareholders meeting.

Marvell Technology Appoints Former President and Co-Founder of ARM Holdings as Director Tudor Brown

Marvell Technology Group appointed Tudor Brown, MBE, to its Board. Brown currently serves on the boards of the Lenovo Group, Tessera Technologies and the SMTC. Previously, he was one of the founding members of ARM Holdings. During his tenure, he served in a range of leadership roles, including EVP of Global Development, Chief Technical Officer, COO and President, and was a member of their board. He also served on the Boards of P2i and ANT Software.

Qorvo Appoints Former JDS Uniphase EVP to its Board

Semiconductor firm Qorvo announced the election of Susan L. Spradley to its Board of Directors. Spradley has substantial senior management experience in the communications industry, most recently as EVP and GM, Network and Service Enablement for Viavi Solutions (formerly JDS Uniphase).

Proofpoint Announces Resignation of Imperva CEO from Board     

Imperva’s Chair, CEO & President Anthony Bettencourt informed the company of his resignation from the Board of Directors of Proofpoint, leader in advanced cybersecurity solutionsHis resignation was not due to any disagreement with the company or its management.

 MTS Systems Corporation Announces Board Changes; Retirement of President, Test and Subsequent Structural Changes

MTS Systems Corporation elected Maximiliane Straub to serve on the Company's Board of Directors. Straub serves as the CFO of Bosch and EVP Finance, Controlling and Administration of Bosch North America (2010 to present).

SYNNEX Corporation Appoints Retired Xerox Exec to its Board

SYNNEX, a leading IT design-to-distribution business process services company, appointed Ann Vezina to the company's Board of Directors. Vezina most recently was the Corporate VP, HR, of Xerox Business Services, a role she was promoted to in 2013.  Prior to that she was the Corporate VP and COO for Xerox Business Services, where she led the operation and growth of Enterprise BPO.  Vezina came to Xerox when it acquired Affiliated Computer Services where Vezina had been the EVP and Group President, Commercial Solutions and Services since 2006.

Teradata Announces Board Appointments         

Teradata announced the election of Timothy Chou and Dan Fishback to its board. Timothy Chou began his career at one of the original Kleiner-Perkins startups, Tandem Computers. More recently he launched a new book, Precision: Principles, Practices and Solutions for the Internet of Things.

Dan Fishback is a well-regarded executive in Silicon Valley with an extensive background in guiding technology companies that specialize in applying analytics to solve complex business problems. He currently serves on the boards of several technology companies.

Zynga Appoints Couple of Board Members with Venture Capital and Global Technology Experience     

Two new directors are joining Zynga’s Board, Carol G. Mills and Janice M. Roberts. Mills brings more than three decades of experience building global engineering teams to Zynga's Board. She currently serves as Chairman of Xactly and serves on the Board of Directors for RELX Group. Most recently, Mills served as the Interim CEO of Blue Coat Systems in late 2011. Before that, she spent nearly two years at Juniper Network, where she served as EVP and General Manager of its Infrastructure Products Group.

Roberts brings more than three decades of venture capital and technology experience to Zynga's Board. She is currently a Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures. Roberts serves on the Boards of Zebra Technologies and RealNetworks, and most recently served on the board of ARM Holdings. Prior to joining Benhamou Global Ventures, Roberts served as a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund for 13 years. Preceding her career in venture capital, Roberts held a number of executive roles in Europe and the U.S.

David DeWalt to Step Down from FireEye Board; CFO Changes Announced        

David DeWalt notified FireEye of his decision to resign as the Company's Executive Chairman and board member. DeWalt had served as a member of the Company's Board since May 2012, as the Company's CEO and Chairman of the Board from 2012 to 2016, and as the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board since 2016.

Michael Berry informed the Company of his decision to resign as EVP, CFO and COO of the Company, in order to pursue another opportunity. Frank Verdecanna, the Company's SVP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, was promoted and appointed as EVP and CFO. Verdecanna will also remain as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer.

HubSpot Appoints President of Atlassian Jay Simons to its Board of Directors       Jay Simons

Inbound marketing & sales software firm HubSpot announced that Jay Simons, president of Atlassian, joined the HubSpot Board of Directors. Jay joined Atlassian in 2008 as VP of sales and marketing to lead the company's pioneering efforts to develop a high-velocity, low-touch sales model. Jay has more than 18 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career at Plumtree Software and held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles.

Gigamon Appoints Former Dell and Cisco Exec to its Board        

Gigamon appointed Dario Zamarian to its board of directors. Zamarian is a senior technology executive with broad experience in the IT industry. He has served as an Operating Advisor at The Blackstone Group since October 2013.  Prior to Blackstone, he served as Global VP and World Wide General Manager at Dell in its enterprise systems & solutions and networking business units.  Prior to Dell, Zamarian was VP and General Manager at Cisco in its security and routing divisions.

Shutterstock Announces Resignation of Jeffrey Lieberman as Director 

Jeffrey Lieberman, a director of Shutterstock notified the company that he would resign from the company's Board of Directors. Lieberman has served as a member of Shutterstock’s Board since June 2007. Lieberman is a Managing Director of the private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners, or Insight, where he has been employed since June 1998.

Former PeopleSoft CMO Joins Talend’s Board  

Talend announced that it has named Nanci Caldwell to its board of directors. Caldwell brings more than two decades of global IT and software industry experience to Talend’s board. Caldwell is the former EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of PeopleSoft. Prior she spent nearly two decades at Hewlett-Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in Canada, U.S. and globally. A highly sought after corporate director, Caldwell currently sits on the boards of CIBC, Citrix, Equinix, and Donnelly Financial Solutions.

Callidus Software Announces Board Changes

Global enterprise software and SaaS company Callidus Software appointed Nina Richardson, a renowned business executive, to its board of directors. Richardson has over 30 years of experience ranging from start-up environments to multi-billion dollar corporations. Most recently, she served as the COO at GoPro. The company announced the retirement of Michele Vion Choka from its board. Michele has served on CallidusCloud’s board of directors since 2005.

Date Range: January 3rd - February 8th 2017

Yahoo CEO and Five Other Directors to Step Down from Board on Completion of Acquisition by Verizon

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from the board on completion of its $4.8 billion acquisition by Verizon. Mayer will leave the board alongside its cofounder David Filo and board members Eddy Hartenstein, Richard Hill, Jane Shaw, and Maynard Webb. Eric Brandt will become board chairman once the sale of its core business is completed. The company added that the remaining units of the business will operate as an investment company under the name Altaba. Under the chairmanship of Brandt, Tor Braham, Catherine Friedman, Thomas McInerney, and Jeffrey Smith will all remain on the board.

Qorvo Appoints Former JDS Uniphase EVP to its Board

Semiconductor firm Qorvo announced the election of Susan L. Spradley to its Board of Directors. Spradley has substantial senior management experience in the communications industry, most recently as EVP and GM, Network and Service Enablement for Viavi Solutions (formerly JDS Uniphase).

SYNNEX Corporation Appoints Retired Xerox Exec to its BoardAnn Vezina

SYNNEX, a leading IT design-to-distribution business process services company, appointed Ann Vezina to the company's Board of Directors. Vezina most recently was the Corporate VP, HR, of Xerox Business Services, a role she was promoted to in 2013.  Prior to that she was the Corporate VP and COO for Xerox Business Services, where she led the operation and growth of Enterprise BPO.  Vezina came to Xerox when it acquired Affiliated Computer Services where Vezina had been the EVP and Group President, Commercial Solutions and Services since 2006.

Zynga Appoints Couple of Board Members with Venture Capital and Global Technology Experience     

Two new directors are joining Zynga’s Board, Carol G. Mills and Janice M. Roberts. Mills brings more than three decades of experience building global engineering teams to Zynga's Board. She currently serves as Chairman of Xactly and serves on the Board of Directors for RELX Group. Most recently, Mills served as the Interim CEO of Blue Coat Systems in late 2011. Before that, she spent nearly two years at Juniper Network, where she served as EVP and General Manager of its Infrastructure Products Group.

Roberts brings more than three decades of venture capital and technology experience to Zynga's Board. She is currently a Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures. Roberts serves on the Boards of Zebra Technologies and RealNetworks, and most recently served on the board of ARM Holdings. Prior to joining Benhamou Global Ventures, Roberts served as a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund for 13 years. Preceding her career in venture capital, Roberts held a number of executive roles in Europe and the U.S.

Former PeopleSoft CMO Joins Talend’s Board  Nanci Caldwell

Talend announced that it has named Nanci Caldwell to its board of directors. Caldwell brings more than two decades of global IT and software industry experience to Talend’s board. Caldwell is the former EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of PeopleSoft. Prior she spent nearly two decades at Hewlett-Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in Canada, U.S. and globally. A highly sought after corporate director, Caldwell currently sits on the boards of CIBC, Citrix, Equinix, and Donnelly Financial Solutions.

Callidus Software Announces Board Changes

Global enterprise software and SaaS company Callidus Software appointed Nina Richardson, a renowned business executive, to its board of directors. Richardson has over 30 years of experience ranging from start-up environments to multi-billion dollar corporations. Most recently, she served as the COO at GoPro. The company announced the retirement of Michele Vion Choka from its board. Michele has served on CallidusCloud’s board of directors since 2005.

Date Range: January 3rd - February 8th 2017

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

New Tech Function Openings: 2 – TDC (Denmark) and ChannelAdvisor (NC)

Tech Execs Appointed - Sources

Sources of Appointments: 66 were External appointments, and 21 were internal promotions –Interim or Deputy CIO/CTO (1), Others (20).

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:  10.3% of the appointments are women Tech Execs.

Geographic Distribution: 66 in the US, 9 in Europe, and 12 in Asia/Russia/ Australasia.  

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Dell, Texas - $59B, November 2015         
Bask Iyer, CIO and IoT manager at VMware, has been named interim CIO of Dell.

Nordstrom, Washington, $14.4B, January 2017
Nordstrom is searching for a technology executive to lead digital strategy following an executive-level shakeup in which the retailer’s chief information officer and chief technology officer announced their departures in the span of two weeks. The CIO title will be eliminated. The company plans to hire a new CTO by the end of the year who will be responsible for all aspects of technology at Nordstrom.

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.

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.

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.

TDC, Denmark - $2.9B, February 2017
TDC announced that Senior EVP of TDC Operations and COO, Peter Trier Schleidt resigned from the company. The Board of Directors has decided to appoint Andreas Pfisterer as acting Head of TDC Operations and Chief Technology and Information Officer (CTIO) and member of the company's Corporate Management Team.

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.

Twitter, California - $2.2B, December 2016
Twitter's CTO Adam Messinger tweeted that he decided to leave the company and take some time off. Messinger didn't say where he was headed next.

Criteo SA, France - $1.62B, November 2016
Romain Niccoli resigned from his position as the company's Chief Product Officer effective December 31, 2016. Mr. Niccoli has agreed to serve the company in a consulting role for a period of time following his resignation.

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.

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

US Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC - $773.4M, November 2016
U.S.  Government Publishing Office (GPO) named Tracee Boxley Acting CIO. Boxley replaces former GPO CIO Chuck Riddle, who has moved to the U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission. Boxley came to GPO in 2006 as a Senior Customer Advocate for IT and was promoted to Deputy CIO in 2012. 

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.

Sheng Siong Group, Singapore - $577.4M, October 2016
Sheng Siong Group announced the cessation of Gary Pow Han Chin as CIO due to personal reasons. He is responsible for overseeing group's design, development, implementation and maintenance of the various computer systems required for operations, including Management Information System, as well as enterprise Resource Planning System, data recovery plans and back-up schemes.

Global Eagle Entertainment, California - $486.2M, November 2016
Global Eagle Entertainment and Aditya Chatterjee, the company’s CTO, have entered into a Separation and Release Agreement.

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

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.

Momo, China - $346.4M, October 2016
Momo announced that Zhiwei Li, CTO of the company, has resigned from the company for personal reasons.

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

Carbonite, Massachusetts - $188.6M, November 2016
David Raissipour tendered his resignation as SVP, Product and Engineering of Carbonite.

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).

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.

ChannelAdvisor, North Carolina - $ 113.2, February 2017
ChannelAdvisor co-founder and CTO Aris Buinevicius is retiring.

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

Just Dial, India - $104.2M, October 2016
Just Dial has announced that R. V. Raman, CTO of the company has resigned from the company.

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.

BSM Technologies, Canada - $39.7M, November 2016
BSM Technologies  announced that Alban Hoxha, CTO of the company, will be leaving the organization to pursue other opportunities, effective January 20, 2017.

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.

Microphase, Connecticut - $9.12M, December 2016
The Company approved the appointment of Mr. Michael Ghadaksaz as the CEO of the Company. Prior to the Ghadaksaz appointment, Ghadaksaz served as the CTO and CMO. No tech chief replacement has been announced.

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.

Sam's West, Arkansas, January 2017
Wal-Mart Stores CIO Karenann Terrell is leaving the company. Terrell has been with the company for six years, beginning as EVP of information systems. She was promoted to CIO in 2012 and has remained in the role for four years.

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

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.

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.

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.).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Deloitte, Illinois, December 2016
Deloitte is looking for a CISO reporting to the CIO.

West Virginia University, Virginia, December 2016 
West Virginia University is seeking an inspiring leader for the position of CIO/Associate Provost for Information Technology.

United Medical Center, Washington, D.C., December 2016
The Not for- Profit Hospital Corporation, commonly known as United Medical Center (UMC), is looking for a CIO to provide technology vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the affiliate-wide information technology (IT) program.

USA Truck, China, January 2017
USA Truck announced that effective January 5, 2017, Christian C. Rhodes' role as CIO of USA Truck.

U.S. Energy Department, Washington, D.C., January 2017
Michael Johnson, Energy Department chief information officer, has left the agency following an almost two-year stint with the organization. Robbie Green, principal deputy CIO for enterprise information resources management, has been named interim CIO.

United States Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., January 2017
Terry Halvorsen, who as the Pentagon’s CIO, is retiring at the end of February. Current principal deputy CIO, John Zangardi, is expected to step in as acting CIO.

Other Moves:

MCBC Holdings – CIO David A. Kirkland was involved in an automobile accident and Kirkland is the subject of related criminal charges. Pending the result of legal proceedings, Kirkland has been placed on administrative leave by the Company. In his absence, Richie Brashears, the director of the company's IT function will temporarily report to CFO.

Mogo Finance Technology – CTO Eric Miles passed away from prostate cancer. The company is well positioned with a strong technology leadership team and does not intend to replace the CTO role at this time.

Tech execs appointed in 28 days ended February 17, 2017

Microsoft, Washington - $85.3B, February 2017Kevin Scott

Blackbaud, South Carolina - $730.8M, February 2017Todd Lant

Smaato, California, February 2017Gerry Louw

TierPoint, Missouri, February 2017Terry Morrison

VMware Announces Middle East and North Africa Region Appointments  

VMware has announced several new appointments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, appointing Mohammed Darras as the new country manager for the UAE, Ahmed El Saadi to country manager, for North Africa, Levant, and Egypt, and promoting Ossama Eldeeb to senior manager, MENA Partner Organisation. This announcement comes at a time when customer demand for public cloud infrastructure, applications, and services, is expected to double in the region with market research firm Gartner, predicting a rise from $743 million in 2015 to $1.73 billion in 2020.Mohammed Darras

Mohammed Darras brings more than 19 years’ sales experience in the region, most recently serving as regional sales manager for Cisco UAE.

Ahmed El Saadi has more than 12 years’ experience to his role at VMware, most recently serving as regional sales manager in Cyber Security for North Africa for Palo Alto Networks.

With over 22 years’ business and IT experience, Ossama Eldeeb has been promoted internally from senior partner business manager, VMware MENA.

Citrix Systems Reveals Executive Departures    

Citrix Systems announced the departure of Christopher S. Hylen, SVP and General Manager, Mobility Apps, in connection with the closing of the transaction with LogMeIn.

Date Range: January 20th - February 22nd

SYNNEX Corporation Appoints Retired Xerox Exec to its Board

SYNNEX, a leading IT design-to-distribution business process services company, appointed Ann Vezina to the company's Board of Directors. Vezina most recently was the Corporate VP, HR, of Xerox Business Services, a role she was promoted to in 2013.  Prior to that she was the Corporate VP and COO for Xerox Business Services, where she led the operation and growth of Enterprise BPO.  Vezina came to Xerox when it acquired Affiliated Computer Services where Vezina had been the EVP and Group President, Commercial Solutions and Services since 2006.

SEEK Appoints Former Booz & Company Management Consultant as Non-Executive Director   

Online employment marketplace SEEK announced that Vanessa Wallace has been appointed to the Board as a non- executive Director. Vanessa has over 30 years of experience as a management consultant with Booz & Company. Her roles at Booz & Company included Executive Chairman of Booz & Company (Japan), lead partner of the financial services practice in Global Markets and lead partner for the strategy practice. She is currently a non-executive director of Wesfarmers and AMP and is Chairman of AMP Capital Holdings.

Meredith Appoints Retailing Veteran to Board          Beth J. Kaplan

Meredith Corporation elected Beth J. Kaplan to the company's board of directors. Most recently, she served as President and COO of Rent the Runway, where she still serves on the board. She is former Managing Member of Axcel Partners and President and Chief Marketing and Merchandising Officer of General Nutrition.

Zynga Appoints Couple of Board Members with Venture Capital and Global Technology Experience        

Two new directors are joining Zynga’s Board, Carol G. Mills and Janice M. Roberts. Mills brings more than three decades of experience building global engineering teams to Zynga's Board. She currently serves as Chairman of Xactly and serves on the Board of Directors for RELX Group. Most recently, Mills served as the Interim CEO of Blue Coat Systems in late 2011. Before that, she spent nearly two years at Juniper Network, where she served as EVP and General Manager of its Infrastructure Products Group.

Roberts brings more than three decades of venture capital and technology experience to Zynga's Board. She is currently a Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures. Roberts serves on the Boards of Zebra Technologies and RealNetworks, and most recently served on the board of ARM Holdings. Prior to joining Benhamou Global Ventures, Roberts served as a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund for 13 years. Preceding her career in venture capital, Roberts held a number of executive roles in Europe and the U.S.

Xero Appoints Susan Peterson as an Independent Director   

New Zealand based accounting software & online bookkeeping firm Xero appointed Susan Peterson as an independent non-executive director. She is currently a director on listed companies Trustpower, Vista Group and Property for Industry. Susan is also a director on The New Zealand Merino Company.

Former PeopleSoft CMO Joins Talend’s Board

Talend announced that it has named Nanci Caldwell to its board of directors. Caldwell brings more than two decades of global IT and software industry experience to Talend’s board. Caldwell is the former EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of PeopleSoft. Prior she spent nearly two decades at Hewlett-Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in Canada, U.S. and globally. A highly sought after corporate director, Caldwell currently sits on the boards of CIBC, Citrix, Equinix, and Donnelly Financial Solutions. 

Date Range: January 20th - February 22nd

Castlight Health Announces Board Changes 

Personalized health shopping platform provider Castlight Health appointed John C. Doyle, James Currier and Derek Newell as members of the Board upon the completion of the merger.  Following the merger, the Board is expected to consist of: Giovanni Colella, Bryan Roberts, James Currier, John C. Doyle, Michael Eberhard, David Ebersman, Derek Newell, Ed Park, David B. Singer, and Kenny Van Zant. Dr. Roberts will resign from his position as Chairman of the Board, and Dr. Colella will be appointed as the Executive Chairman of the Board.

Alternate Health Announces Board and Management Changes      Dr. Jamison Feramisco  

Alternate Health, diversified healthcare company that uses its expertise in technology to revolutionize patient care and service delivery, appointed Jamison Feramisco and Adam Desmond. Dr. Jamison Feramisco, MD, PhD, is trained in both Internal Medicine and Dermatology and completed his PhD research thesis in the laboratory of Nobel Laureates Drs. Mike Brown and Joe Goldstein at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Feramisco is the founder and President of Apri Health (formerly Transfuse Solutions), a next-generation healthcare data analytics and change management company based in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as chief medical officer of both Third Eye Health, a technology-enabled medical services company, and Advanced Healthcare Solutions nursing home chain.

Adam Desmond began his career at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the financial quadrant. He then went on to Raymond James and Associates where he helped develop a high yield fixed income department. This experience gave him the groundwork to found ASG Securities in 1998. Adam recently created Needle Rock Capital to leverage his past expertise in the financial industry and his relationships. In addition, he founded Needle Rock Farms, to explore alternative health solutions. Adam prides himself on being a member of the Elks Club.

The company announced that the following individuals have tendered their resignations to the respective roles as indicated: Marjorie Sanderson resigned as director and CEO, Jim Griffiths resigned as CFO, Marcelin O'Neill resigned as a director of the company; and Rick Macartney resigned as a director of the company. The board of directors is now comprised of Bryan Korba, Jim Tykoliz, Jim Griffiths, Jamison Feramisco and Adam Desmond.

The company also announced recent appointments to the company's board of directors and officers of the company. The following directors and officers have been appointed: Bryan Korba – chairman and CEO. Bryan has spent the last 17 years as the managing partner of JDIFU Capital. Bryan currently serves on the board of Empower Heroes. Bryan previously served on the boards of 36 Power Equity, Luxe Home, Dallas Challenge and the UNT Venture Fund.

Michael English – CFO. Mike English has over 30 years' experience working in diverse industries including data security and encryption software, telecommunications, and heavy industrial electric motors and controls.

Thomas Bartlett – COO. Tom Bartlett has over thirty years of private equity, investment banking, corporate advisory, and operating experience. Throughout his career, Tom has financed, advised or served in executive management capacities to drive growth and value appreciation of businesses operating across a spectrum of industries and business models. Prior to joining Alternate Health Corp. as its COO, Tom served as the president and CFO of an insurance services company where Tom was directly responsible for executing multiple acquisitions and financings for the business in addition to overseeing the overall operational and financial functions of the company.

Marcelin O'Neill – corporate secretary and compliance officer. Marcelin O'Neill is currently a director and CEO of Cervantes Capital Corp.  O'Neill served as a director of Jagercor Energy Corp. from December 2011 to May 2014, and as CFO and Corporate Secretary of Jagercor, from July 2013 to May 2014. She served as a director of Brandenburg Energy Corp. from February 2008 to February 2013, and as CFO and Corporate Secretary from August 2010 to February 2013.

CogState Appoints Former BHP Billiton Exec as an Independent Non-Executive Director

Leading cognitive science company Cogstate appointed Jane McAloon as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Until mid-2015, Jane was part of the Group Management Committee of BHP Billiton as President, Governance and Group Company Secretary from 2013, having been Group Company Secretary from 2007. Prior to joining BHP Billiton in 2006, Jane was part of the executive team at AGL as Group Manager External and Regulatory Services and Group Company Secretary.

OptimizeRx Appoints James Lang to Board of Directors     

Health technology software company OptimizeRx appointed James Lang to its board of directors. Lang brings to OptimizeRx more than 25 years of experience in healthcare data, analytic, and technology enabled business services. Lang presently serves as an executive advisor to Water Street, a strategic private equity firm focused exclusively on building market-leading companies in healthcare. He is also a director of BioVie, a development-stage company pioneering an innovative therapeutic that targets complications due to liver cirrhosis. Lang previously served as CEO of Decision Resources Group.

Global Health Appoints Company Secretary  

Global Health, the practice management software company, appointed Glenn Fowles as Company Secretary.  Fowles takes over this position from the Chairman, being the undersigned, who was appointed on an interim basis on 11 January 2017.

Certive Solutions Witnesses Board Shuffle

Certive Solutions, provider of revenue cycle management solutions, announced the resignation of John Shackleton as chairman of the board.  Shackleton had served as chairman of the board for over 4 years. Subject to time commitments, Shackleton has agreed to consider sitting on the company's Advisory Council in the future to continue to guide and assist where appropriate. Jeff Wareham has been appointed as a director.  Wareham has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Michael Lodge Bartlett will assume the role of Executive Chairman of the Board.  Bartlett has previously served as Vice-Chairman.

Intrinsic4D Appoints Interim CEO    

Chris Schnarr has resigned as a director of Intrinsic4D, the 360-degree tour" anatomy software firm. Jorey Chernett has resigned as director and the CEO of the corporation. The board of directors has appointed Kyle Appleby, current CFO of the corporation, as interim CEO.

Telerx and C3i Healthcare Connections Announce Executive Changes Joel Morse       

Telerx appointed Global COO Joel Morse as president of Telerx and C3i Healthcare Connections. Morse brings nearly 30 years of leadership experience in business strategy, operations and development to this role, having served as the founder and CEO of C3i. for more than 20 years. Since the acquisition of C3i by Telerx in June 2014, Morse has led the Global Healthcare Operations and Global Process Excellence teams, overseeing all healthcare operations and ensuring the high standard of quality across all services and solutions.

Morse succeeds current president, Linda Schellenger, who made the personal decision to retire from her position at the end of the first quarter of 2017.

Bracket Appoints Successful Entrepreneur as Leader for the Scientific Services Division     

Bracket, a leading clinical trial technology and specialty services provider, added Jennifer Peters to its growing team as the Company's new SVP and General Manager for the Scientific Services division. Peters most recently served as a Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Greenphire, a global provider of disruptive clinical trials payment and process optimization technology products serving pharmaceutical sponsors, biotech companies and CROs. She led Greenphire from an idea-stage startup, with three founding employees at its inception in October 2007 to a global technology enterprise with more than 100 employees and 500+ clients when it was sold to a private equity firm in 2014.

CompuGroup Medical US Announces New CEO     

Global eHealth provider CompuGroup Medical US has appointed Benedikt Brueckle as the new CEO of CompuGroup Medical US. Werner Rodorff, its current CEO, will continue to serve as CTO. In his current role as CEO, Brueckle will be responsible for leading CGM US and its market-leading IT solutions that support the clinical and practice management activities that take place in physician practices, community health centers, hospitals and laboratories.

Healthwise Appoints New General Counsel and Corporate Secretary           

Health content and patient education solutions company Healthwise promoted Tammy A. Zokan as general counsel and corporate secretary. Zokan has served as associate counsel for Healthwise since joining the health education, technology and services nonprofit in 2013. Zokan joined Healthwise after serving as an in-house attorney for WinCo Foods. Previous to that, she served as a partner at Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke.

HealthcareSource Appoints CTO from Scribe Software

Provider of talent management solutions for the healthcare industry HealthcareSource announced that Bob Zurek has joined the company as SVP and CTO. In this role, he is responsible for HealthcareSource's IT, engineering, product development, and platform integration strategy. Zurek most recently served as CTO for Scribe Software, a leading data integration provider, where he led engineering, product management, and quality assurance, and was focused on expanding one of the Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offerings.

Canada Health Infoway Announces Board Changes  

Canada Health Infoway, a digital health solutions non-profit corporation created and funded by the federal government of Canada, appointed Dr. Peter W. Vaughan as Chair of the company's board. He will succeed Graham W. S. Scott, C.M., Q.C., who has served as the company's board Chair since August 2010. Dr.  Vaughan has extensive experience as a medical doctor in Canada, as well as in the United States, Central America and Europe. He was President and CEO, as well as Medical Director, of the South Shore District Health Authority in Nova Scotia from 2006-2012, then served as Deputy Minister of Health and Wellness for Nova Scotia from 2014 until his retirement in January 2017. During his tenure as Deputy Minister, he was a Member of the Corporation of Infoway, and was also an observer to the Infoway Board.

SynerMed Appoints Chief Medical Officer from Care1stJorge Weingarten, MD

SynerMed, developer of customized information technology and business management solutions for independent physicians, appointed Jorge Weingarten, MD, as Chief Medical Officer. He joins the company from Care1st, a health plan where he oversaw all clinical operations as the company grew from a single line of Medi-Cal business with 40,000 members to more than 500,000 members in Medi-Cal and Medicare throughout California, Arizona and Texas.

Founder and President of C30 Joins InTouch as Chief Medical Officer after Acquisition     

Telehealth services firm InTouch Health announced the acquisition of C30 Medical Corporation (C3O), a physician-led telemedicine management and physician coverage provider consisting of board certified specialists in emergent Tele-Neurology and Tele-Neurocritical Care.  In conjunction with the acquisition, Herbert Rogove, DO, FCCM, FACP, Founder and President of C30, joins InTouch as Chief Medical Officer.

Dr. Rogove has over thirty years of experience directing and establishing ICUs and Intensivist, Hospitalist and Emergency Medicine programs in academic and community hospital settings. He has also held numerous leadership and administrative positions at major tertiary care facilities throughout the United States, and joined the board of directors of the American Telemedicine Association in 2012, serving as Secretary/Treasurer from 2014 through 2016.

Limeade Appoints New VP of Alliances and VP of Product and Marketing 

Corporate wellness technology company Limeade appointed Eric Ranta as its new VP of alliances. As an enterprise software and HCM veteran, Ranta brings executive and managerial experience from Workday, SAP and Siebel across product management, value selling, professional services and alliances. He is now responsible for leading the alliances program at Limeade. Ranta joins Limeade from Workday.

Limeade also named Lee Rossini as its new VP of product and marketing. The former Microsoft VP led U.S. product and retail marketing, engineering the retail launches in Microsoft history for Xbox One, Windows 10, Surface and Halo 5. Rossini worked at Microsoft for the past 14 years leading teams, driving innovation and growing market share for the $5 billion U.S. consumer business."

Cerner Exec Joins Nextech Systems as VP of Product Management

Nextech Systems, the provider of EMR software and practice management for specialty healthcare providers, appointed Jeff Lew as the company's new VP of product management. Most recently, he served as the director of operations and program office at Cerner's innovations lab.

xG Health Solutions Appoints VP, Care Management from VillageMD

xG Health Solutions, the healthcare consulting and analytics services company, announced that Jess Cramer has joined the organization as VP, Care Management. Prior to joining xG Health, Cramer led care management and physician operations for the market launch team at VillageMD.

MedAvante Goes through Multiple Leadership Changes       

MedAvante announced that Michael T. Ropacki, PhD, has been appointed VP, Research and Development to lead the company's continued expansion of clinical science and signal detection capabilities Dr. Ropacki was previously Director, Clinical Research Neuroscience, Research and Development, for Janssen Research & Development (Johnson & Johnson) where he was responsible for leading the Cognitive Health in Aging Registry: Investigational, Observational and Trial studies in dementia research – Prospective Readiness Cohort (CHARIOT-PRO) program, and he was also responsible for the development and execution of other clinical programs within the neuroscience therapeutic area.

Ian C. Neilson has accepted the position of SVP, Global IT to lead the company's rapidly growing IT operations supporting clinical science and signal detection capabilities. Neilson was a key senior IT executive for more than 19 years at Covance, now a division of LabCorp Holdings, serving most recently as VP, Technology and Innovation within the Clinical Development Services division.

Susan Vallow has assumed a new position as VP, Patient eSolutions, joining the company from GSK where she was Senior Director and Head of Patient Focused Outcomes. Vallow's role will be to lead the expansion of the company's Virgil Investigative Study Platform into trials that rely on patient-reported outcomes (PRO) as key endpoint measures.

Date Range: January 25th - February 27th