Anthropic has announced that the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed Dr. Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Novartis, to Anthropic’s Board of Directors. As a physician-scientist leading a major innovative medicines company, Narasimhan brings extensive experience in navigating highly regulated industries and overseeing the approval of over 35 novel medicines…
A significant breakthrough in climate resilience is expanding life-saving infrastructure to the world’s most vulnerable urban centers. According to a technical update from Google Research, the rollout of new flash flood predictions on the Flood Hub platform now provides up to 24 hours of advance notice for rapid-onset events. This Google-led initiative specifically targets urban areas with population densities exceeding 100 people per square kilometer, addressing a critical “warning gap” where developing nations in the Global South previously lacked the physical sensors and hydrological maps necessary for traditional forecasting…
nCino has appointed Keith Kettell as Chief Revenue Officer to spearhead the company’s next phase of global expansion in agentic banking. Kettell joins the executive team with more than two decades of experience scaling go-to-market organizations, including a recent tenure as CRO at the identity decisioning platform Alloy…
Intel has appointed Aparna Bawa as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal & People Officer, a dual-mandate role designed to centralize the company’s governance and cultural transformation. Reporting directly to CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Bawa will join the semiconductor giant in May to oversee global legal, ethics, compliance, and human resources…
In this episode, we speak with Chris Walters, CEO of Finastra, a financial services software provider across lending, payments, treasury and capital markets, and digital and retail banking. Finastra serves roughly 7,000+ customers worldwide, including about 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, and supports large-scale financial workflows—helping move about $7 trillion in transactions per day and supporting syndicated lending activity measured in the trillions…
Technology tends to celebrate vision in its most theatrical form, rewarding the executives attached to the loudest categories and the biggest claims. Equally important are the leaders working in the parts of business that still have to function no matter what the market is excited about. They are operators, building in the parts of business where companies first begin to slow down or break…
Tanium has appointed Carol MacKinlay as Chief People Officer, tasking the veteran HR leader with steering the company’s global talent strategy and organizational growth. MacKinlay joins the executive team as Tanium continues to scale its “Autonomous IT” platform, which recently earned “Leader” status in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools…
Five9 has appointed Jay Lee as Chief Marketing and Growth Officer, creating a new unified role to align the company’s global marketing, revenue strategy, and operations. Lee joins Five9 to oversee the go-to-market (GTM) engine for the firm’s “Intelligent CX Platform,” focusing on the convergence of data analytics and AI-powered customer experience…
Airwallex has appointed Carolyn Renzin as Chief Regulatory and Compliance Officer to oversee its global infrastructure expansion. Based in New York, Renzin joins the executive team at a pivotal moment, as the company projects a 70% increase in compliance expenditure and a 50% growth in its dedicated regulatory team for 2026…
Sardine has appointed Mike Lemberger as Chief Operating Officer, succeeding Co-Founder Aditya Goel as the AI-powered risk platform prepares for global operational scaling. Lemberger, a veteran of the payments industry, has served as an advisor to Sardine since 2025 and is tasked with strengthening enterprise relationships following the company’s reported 500% revenue growth over the last two years…
