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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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Five9 Names Jay Lee Chief Marketing and Growth Officer to Strengthen Go-To-Market Strategy

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…

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Sardine Appoints Former Visa Executive Mike Lemberger as New Chief Operating Officer

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…

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Liberty Mutual’s $600M Commitment to Build Stronger, More Resilient Neighborhoods

Liberty Mutual has transitioned its philanthropic arm to a $600 million endowment model, a move designed to provide permanent, inflation-protected funding for community resilience. By moving away from annual budget allocations, the Liberty Mutual Foundation can now provide more stable, multi-year capital to nonprofits addressing housing instability, workforce development, and climate change…

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S&P Global Appoints Firdaus Bhathena to Lead Technology and Enterprise Transformation

S&P Global has appointed Firdaus Bhathena as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology and Transformation Officer (CTTO) as the company moves to centralize its technology leadership and accelerate its use of AI and other emerging tools. In the newly created role, Bhathena will oversee a unified enterprise technology organization, support broader operational change, and help shape the company’s next stage of growth. He will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Martina Cheung, join the executive leadership team, and work from the company’s New York headquarters…

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Louie Pastor Takes Helm as Xerox Appoints New CEO

Xerox Holdings Corporation has announced a leadership transition with Louie Pastor appointed as Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Steve Bandrowczak, who will step down from the role. The company said in a release that the change comes as it continues to advance its strategy as a services-led, software-enabled business focused on hybrid workplace solutions..

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Algolia Names Stephen Lynch as CEO to Lead Next Phase of AI Search Growth

Algolia has named Stephen Lynch as Chief Executive Officer, appointing the enterprise software executive to lead the company as AI-driven search and retrieval become more central to business applications. Lynch succeeds Bernadette Nixon, who stepped down from the CEO role at the end of December 2025 and will remain on Algolia’s Board of Directors. The company said the leadership change comes at a time when search is moving beyond a standalone software feature and becoming a core layer for generative AI, automated workflows, and real-time decision systems…

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