Public Utility Company Appoints CEO of Avid Technology as Director
Electricity supplier Edison International and Southern California Edison announced that Louis Hernandez, Jr. has been elected to the board of directors of each company. Hernandez, is chairman, president and CEO of Avid Technology, a provider of solutions used by media organizations and creative professionals. Prior to joining Avid in 2013, Hernandez was the chairman and CEO of Open Solutions, a technology provider to financial institutions worldwide. He is a proven growth-oriented executive who has founded, operated or invested in technology companies focused on Sports and Media, e-Commerce and Financial Services.
Payments Technology Executive Joins Molson Coors Brewing Company's Board 
Betty DeVita
Molson Coors Brewing Company announced that payments technology executive Betty DeVita has joined its board of directors. DeVita is the chief commercial officer, Commerce Platform, at Mastercard, focused on expanding adoption of the company's digital solutions. Prior to her current role, DeVita served as president of Mastercard Canada.
QBE Insurance Appoints Non-Executive Director with FinTech Experience
QBE Insurance Group Limited appointed Kathryn (Kathy) Lisson as a Non-Executive Director. Lisson recently retired as a partner of Ernst & Young. In this role, Lisson was responsible for EY's FinTech implementation in the insurance sector in Canada, combining new customer analytic insight analytics, contactless payments, monitoring technology and fraud detection with policy, claims and underwriting systems offered as cloud or SAAS solutions. Until 2011, Lisson was Chief Operating Officer for QBE European Operations in London with responsibility for claims, technology and operation support functions.
Frito-Lay CIO Joins Board of Sprouts Farmers Market
Sprouts Farmers Market elected Kristen Blum, 50, as director. Blum currently serves as SVP and CIO of Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. She served as the CTO and EVP of J. C. Penney Company, since January 2012. She served as the CIO and SVP of Enterprise Transformation programs for North America at PepsiCo. She joined PepsiCo in 2010. She served as the CIO and SVP at Abercrombie & Fitch from 2006 to 2010.
First Midwest Bancorp Names Former Accenture CIO to Board 
Frank B. Modruson
First Midwest Bancorp, the parent company of First Midwest Bank, appointed Frank B. Modruson to its board of directors. Modruson is president of Modruson & Associates. Modruson spent the majority of his career at Accenture, where he served as a client partner and as CIO. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Zebra Technologies Corporation and Forsythe Technology, as well as on the boards of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company.
Bank of Cyprus Public Company Appoints Hyperion CIO as Director
The Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus Public Company appointed Lyn Grobler as a Non-Executive member of the Board of Directors. Grobler was appointed Group CIO of Hyperion Insurance Group in 2016 and she is currently a member of Hyperion's Group Executive Committee. Prior to this Grobler was at BP for 16 years, holding a variety of different roles across IT and global trading, exiting as VP & CIO, Corporate Functions.
Date Range: July 11th - August 30th