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Adam Selipsky Returns to Infrastructure Heading New $10B Data Center Firm

Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky has been named Co-Founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly launched company backed by more than $10 billion. As reported by GeekWire, the venture was unveiled by KKR, which partnered with Nvidia, Vistra, and the Kuwait Investment Authority to build infrastructure for artificial intelligence computing. Selipsky previously spent years building AWS before serving as CEO of Tableau Software, later returning to lead AWS until 2024…

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Tech Veteran Edwin Poot Named Chief Technology Officer at Yuno

Yuno has appointed Edwin Poot as Chief Technology Officer, adding a payments and fintech infrastructure leader as the company expands its global financial infrastructure platform. Poot will lead Yuno’s global engineering organization, overseeing platform development, infrastructure, and technology capabilities for merchants worldwide. Poot joins Yuno from Thredd, where he served as Global Chief Technology Officer…

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Starburst Names Paras Malhotra Security Chief to Drive AI and Data Governance

Paras Malhotra is joining Starburst as Chief Information Security Officer, taking on security, governance, risk and compliance, and product security as the company builds more AI capabilities into its enterprise data platform. His role spans Starburst’s SaaS and on-premises offerings, with a focus on protecting customer data as organizations connect more AI tools to corporate systems…

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Zendesk Brings In Amplitude’s Tifenn Dano Kwan as AI Bookings Climb

Zendesk is hiring Amplitude’s former marketing chief after its AI bookings more than doubled in fiscal 2026. Tifenn Dano Kwan will join the customer service software company as Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing global marketing, market differentiation, and pipeline. The company said AI bookings are on track to more than double again in fiscal year 2027 to more than $400 million. Zendesk has also recently rolled out agentic messaging, voice AI agents, and email AI agents…

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CData Appoints Raviv Levi as CPTO, Adds AI and Embedded Sales Leaders

Levi joins CData from Sift, where he also served as chief product and technology officer. He previously held senior leadership roles at Cisco, including vice president of Security Strategy and Innovation for Cisco’s Security Business Group. His background spans product, cloud security, platform development, and enterprise-scale infrastructure…

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Bhawna Singh Appointed to Lead AI Strategy and Modernization at Lightspeed

Lightspeed Commerce has appointed Bhawna Singh to spearhead its global technology strategy as the company accelerates its transition into AI-driven retail and hospitality management. The move coincides with the launch of new conversational AI assistants designed to automate merchant decision-making across inventory and payments. Founder and CEO Dax Dasilva noted that Singh possesses a “rare combination of deep engineering expertise and the strategic instinct to move fast,” which is essential for the company’s current expansion across 100 countries…

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Lambda Overhauls Executive Team to Scale Gigawatt-Level AI Supercomputing

Lambda is moving to institutionalize its operations as it pivots from a specialized provider to a global utility for the superintelligence era. The company recently announced a major leadership overhaul, appointing veteran infrastructure operator Michel Combes as CEO and naming John Donovan, former CEO of AT&T Communications, as Chairman of the Board. This restructuring follows a $1.5 billion Series E fundraise and targets a massive expansion to 3 gigawatts of AI compute under management by 2030…

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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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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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