HP has appointed Board Member Bruce Broussard as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, following the departure of Enrique Lores, who stepped down after seven years as CEO and 36 years with the company. The board has formed a CEO Search Committee and hired an executive search firm to find a permanent successor…
PayPal Holdings has appointed Enrique Lores as President and Chief Executive Officer, following a review by the company’s Board of Directors of its competitive position and execution pace. Lores, who has served on PayPal’s board for nearly five years and as Board Chair since July 2024, will succeed Alex Chriss. During the transition period, Chief Financial and Operating Officer Jamie Miller will act as Interim CEO. The Board also named David W. Dorman as Independent Board Chair…
NextEra Energy Resources and Meta have signed clean energy agreements totalling about 2.5 gigawatts across 13 project sites in the U.S. These contracts include 11 power purchase agreements and two energy storage agreements that will support Meta’s aim to operate on 100% clean energy. Most of the capacity, up to 2.1 gigawatts, will come from nine solar projects across Texas, the Southwest Power Pool region, and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator market…
Mark Zuckerberg is signaling that Meta’s revamped AI effort will start showing up in consumer products within months, with commerce emerging as a marquee use case for 2026. On Meta’s earnings call, Zuckerberg said the company rebuilt its AI foundations in 2025 after restructuring its AI lab, and plans to begin “shipping” new models and products soon. He highlighted “agentic” shopping tools designed to help users find the right products from businesses in Meta’s catalog—positioning personalized context (history, interests, content, relationships) as the differentiator that could make Meta’s agents more useful than rivals…
CrowdStrike co-founder and CEO George Kurtz is calling 2026 the “breakout year” for the agentic security operations center, arguing that SOC teams are being pushed to reinvent how they work as enterprises race to adopt AI. Kurtz said the SOC is entering a “revolution” phase where automating triage and investigation through AI agents becomes essential to keep pace with rising workloads and new risks tied to securing AI tools…
Hume AI has announced the appointment of Andrew Ettinger as Chief Executive Officer as the company expands its role as a research infrastructure provider for voice-based AI. Ettinger brings more than 15 years of experience in data and AI infrastructure, having led teams responsible for over $2 billion in annual recurring revenue across Pivotal, Astronomer, and Appen…
OpenText Corporation, an enterprise information management and security software provider, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Ayman Antoun as Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board, effective April 20, 2026. The appointment follows a comprehensive CEO search led by the Board. Antoun succeeds James McGourlay, who has served as Interim CEO and will transition into a role within the Executive Leadership Team…
IDEXX Laboratories has promoted Mike Erickson to President and Chief Executive Officer, effective May 12, 2026. Current President and CEO Jay Mazelsky will become executive chair of the board at that time and plans to retire following the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in May 2027. Mazelsky will work with Erickson during the transition, and Erickson will join the board when he assumes the CEO role…
Amazon is expanding its water stewardship work through Get Blue™, a new initiative launched with Water.org alongside Gap Inc., Starbucks, and Ecolab. “Through Get Blue, we’re using Amazon’s scale and innovation to show what’s possible when companies work together toward a common good,” said Kara Hurst, Amazon’s Chief Sustainability Officer. The program is designed to fund access to safe water and sanitation through Water.org’s market-driven solutions, with partner activations—products, content, and customer experiences—planned to roll out more broadly later in 2026…
Darktrace has announced that Jill Popelka is stepping down as Chief Executive Officer. Charles Goodman, Chairman of the Darktrace Board, has been appointed Interim CEO while the Board searches for a permanent successor. Popelka will continue to support the company in an advisory capacity during the transition…
