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SailPoint Strengthens Executive Team with The Appointment of Levent Besik as New CPO

SailPoint has appointed Levent Besik as Chief Product Officer. Besik joins the Austin-based identity security leader following a tenure as vice president of product management at Microsoft, where he led the platform strategy for both human and non-human identities. With a career pedigree that includes executive product roles at Okta and Google—where he oversaw Customer Identity and Cloud AI platforms respectively—Besik brings a specialized blend of cloud-scale AI and security expertise to SailPoint…

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Autodesk Names Mike Kelly as Chief Information Officer to Drive AI Strategy

Autodesk has appointed Mike Kelly as Chief Information Officer, explicitly tasking the veteran executive with leading the firm’s internal AI adoption and enterprise technology strategy. Kelly joins the design and engineering software leader from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where he built the CIO function from the ground up as an operating partner…

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Zoom Names Russell Dicker as Chief Product Officer to Drive AI-Led Automation

Zoom Video Communications has named Russell Dicker as its Chief Product Officer, signaling a shift from a communication tool to an AI-driven “system of action.” Dicker, who previously served as corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is tasked with overseeing the integration of machine learning and automation across Zoom’s entire portfolio…

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Anthropic Appoints Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors

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…

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Google Research Expands AI Powered Flash Flood Forecasting to Global Urban Centers

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…

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Mission-Critical Software: Finastra’s Chris Walters

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…

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Notable Technology CEOs: 2026 Series

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…

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Tanium Appoints 30-Year Tech Veteran Carol MacKinlay as Chief People Officer

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…

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