Takis Georgakopoulos has taken over as Chief Executive Officer and a board member at Fiserv, succeeding Mike Lyons, who stepped down to become the next president and CEO of Truist Financial Corporation. The linked moves place Georgakopoulos at the helm of a major payments and financial technology company while returning Lyons to commercial banking…
Adobe has appointed Steven Day as interim Chief Financial Officer following the departure of Daniel Durn, who is leaving to become finance chief at Marvell Technology. Day, a two-decade Adobe veteran, has served as senior vice president of customer experience orchestration business unit finance and corporate finance since 2023. The transition leaves Adobe searching for a permanent CFO while it also continues the search for a successor to longtime CEO Shantanu Narayen…
Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky has been named Co-Founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly launched company backed by more than $10 billion. As reported by GeekWire, the venture was unveiled by KKR, which partnered with Nvidia, Vistra, and the Kuwait Investment Authority to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence computing. Selipsky previously spent years building AWS before serving as CEO of Tableau Software, later returning to lead AWS until 2024…
Frontier has raised another $915 million from corporate buyers including Stripe, Google, Shopify, Salesforce, H&M Group, and Anthropic to support permanent carbon removal projects. The new funding doubles the coalition’s total commitment to $1.8 billion, giving emerging carbon removal companies more long-term demand as they move toward commercial scale…
NMI CEO Steve Pinado is tying the company’s recent acquisitions of Dwolla and Fee Navigator to a broader bet on payments intelligence. As merchants weigh cards, account-to-account transfers, digital wallets, real-time payments, and installment options, NMI is building tools to help businesses choose the best payment path for each transaction. The recent deals support that strategy from different sides of the payments stack…
Yuno has appointed Edwin Poot as Chief Technology Officer, adding a payments and fintech infrastructure leader as the company expands its global financial infrastructure platform. Poot will lead Yuno’s global engineering organization, overseeing platform development, infrastructure, and technology capabilities for merchants worldwide. Poot joins Yuno from Thredd, where he served as Global Chief Technology Officer…
Former Humana and Marriott technology leader Eric Tagliere has joined R1 as Chief Information Officer, bringing more than 30 years of transformation experience to the healthcare revenue management company. In the role, Tagliere will help lead R1’s technology strategy, innovation, and execution as the company expands its healthcare revenue management platform…
ICIMS has appointed Brad Korch as Chief Financial Officer, reuniting him with newly named CEO Marc Thompson after the two previously worked together at EverCommerce. Korch will oversee the company’s global finance organization, including accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax, shared services, business intelligence, and analytics. Korch most recently served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Head of Investor Relations at EverCommerce, a SaaS provider for service-based small and midsize businesses…
Epicor has appointed Rachel Barger as Chief Revenue Officer, giving the enterprise software company a new leader for global sales and recurring revenue. Barger will oversee commercial execution as Epicor continues expanding its AI-driven, industry-focused software across the make, move, and sell economy. Barger brings more than 20 years of global technology leadership experience across enterprise software and SaaS…
Waymo is giving old robotaxi batteries a second life on the electric grid. The self-driving car company is partnering with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose thousands of retired EV batteries into large-scale energy storage systems for solar power. Waymo’s autonomous ride-hail vehicles wear through batteries faster than personal electric vehicles because they spend far more time on the road…
