ConcertAI has appointed Missy Jerome as Chief People Officer to guide its workforce and organizational strategy during a period of expansion. In this role, Jerome will lead efforts across talent development, leadership planning, and organizational design, with a focus on building high-performing teams across AI, technology, and life sciences functions…
HSBC Holdings has appointed David Rice as its first Chief AI Officer, as the bank moves to embed AI more deeply across its operations and customer services. The new role is intended to provide centralized leadership for AI adoption as HSBC expands the use of generative AI tools across the organization. The bank said it is making such tools available to all employees to simplify internal processes, policies, and procedures, while also equipping frontline teams with technology to deliver more tailored customer interactions…
KnowBe4, a platform focused on human and AI risk management, has named Veena Bricker as its Chief Human Resources Officer, strengthening its leadership team as it expands its workforce and operational priorities. Reporting to CEO Bryan Palma, Bricker will oversee recruitment, compensation, employee relations, and training initiatives, while shaping the company’s broader people strategy…
JumpCloud has named Shianne Sampson as Chief Revenue Officer, adding a seasoned software sales executive as the company pushes deeper into enterprise and international markets. The appointment follows the recent hiring of Roland Palmer as Chief Information Security Officer and adds to a broader leadership buildout as JumpCloud expands its unified IT management platform…
Microsoft has signed a long-term agreement with U.S.-based biochar company Liferaft to purchase one million carbon removal units over the next 10 years, backing a climate solution that also carries agricultural and local economic benefits. The deal, among the largest biochar-based carbon removal agreements to date and the largest announced so far in the United States, will be fulfilled through Liferaft’s facilities in Iowa and Illinois…
RealPage has appointed Zahir Khoja as its first Chief Fintech Officer. This newly established executive role signals the company’s broader push to deepen financial services across its real estate software platform. Khoja will join the Executive Management Committee and report directly to President and CEO Dirk Wakeham, overseeing the company’s fintech strategy and operations. His remit includes payments, financial services, and emerging resident-focused financial offerings, with an emphasis on improving transaction flows, strengthening compliance and risk controls, and making financial interactions more seamless for property operators and residents…
Microsoft has named Jacob Andreou Executive Vice President of Copilot, putting him in charge of the Copilot experience across both consumer and commercial products as the company reorganizes its AI leadership. In a message to employees, CEO Satya Nadella said Microsoft is bringing Copilot together as a unified effort spanning the user experience, platform, Microsoft 365 apps, and AI models…
BioNTech Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Ugur Sahin and Co-Founder Özlem Türeci plan to transition out of their current roles by the end of 2026 to lead a new biotechnology company focused on next-generation mRNA technologies. BioNTech said the new venture will operate independently, with its own resources, operations, and funding options, while the company’s supervisory board has begun a search for successors as part of the leadership transition…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said artificial intelligence is driving a shift in how traffic moves across the internet, with AI bots on track to generate more activity than humans by 2027. Prince said bot traffic has expanded alongside generative AI as agents increasingly perform tasks on behalf of users, often at far greater scale. “If a human were doing a task…you might go to five websites,” he said. “Your agent…will often go to 1,000 times the number of sites…
Bitly has appointed Matt Young as Chief Technology Officer as part of a broader effort to reinforce its leadership team and support continued platform expansion. The move follows CEO Peter Krivkovich’s ongoing strategy to enhance organizational capabilities since assuming leadership in 2025. Young will oversee engineering and data functions, guiding the company’s technical direction and scalability initiatives…
