Category:

Prada and UNESCO Launch Ocean Fund to Strengthen Education and Preservation

Prada Group and UNESCO have unveiled the SEA BEYOND Multi-Partner Trust Fund, a five-year initiative aimed at strengthening humanity’s relationship with the ocean. Prada has committed an initial €2 million to the fund, which will finance projects that combine science, education, and culture to promote sustainable ocean stewardship. Areas of focus include introducing ocean literacy into school curricula, creating opportunities for youth engagement, supporting cultural heritage linked to the sea, and ensuring communities have a stronger voice in shaping marine policy…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

Plaid CEO Says Analytics Will Define Its Future in Enterprise Technology

Plaid CEO Zach Perret said the company’s future will be defined less by connectivity and more by analytics as it looks ahead to the next five years. Founded 12 years ago as a data connectivity layer linking bank accounts to FinTech applications, Plaid has grown into a platform that now serves a wide customer base, including developers, chief risk officers, CFOs and technology executives…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

Gifting Made Effortless: Goody’s Katy Carrigan

This episode is brought to you by The Software Report, a leading information source on software companies and solutions. Today, we speak with Katy Carrigan, CEO of Goody, a gifting platform making it easy to send personal and business gifts via email, text, or link—no address required…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

NatWest Announces Departure of Chief Data and Analytics Officer Anderson

NatWest Group announced that its Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Zachery Anderson, will leave the bank next month after more than five and a half years in the role. Anderson, who also leads open banking, personalisation, and AI, played a central role in shaping NatWest’s data and AI strategy. A bank spokesperson said, “Zachery is leaving NatWest Group to pursue an opportunity outside the bank…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

Norstella Appoints Kris Joshi as CEO to Drive Life Sciences Innovation

Norstella announced the appointment of Kris Joshi as its new Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Mike Gallup, who will transition to the role of Executive Chairman. Norstella, through its brands Citeline, Evaluate, MMIT, Panalgo, and The Dedham Group, provides pharma intelligence solutions to support biopharma companies across the drug development and commercialization lifecycle. The company also offers its integrated data platform, NorstellaLinQ, which connects insights to help accelerate innovation in life sciences…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

eMed Announces Appointment of Linda Yaccarino as Chief Executive Officer

eMed Population Health announced the appointment of Linda Yaccarino, former CEO of X (Twitter), as its new Chief Executive Officer. Yaccarino, who also held senior leadership roles at NBCUniversal as Chairman of global advertising and partnerships, brings decades of experience in steering large-scale transformations and building strategic partnerships. Her appointment marks a key step for eMed as it expands its GLP-1/GIP population health management services across employer and government programs…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

Icertis Appoints Anand Subbaraman as CEO, Samir Bodas Becomes Executive Chairman

Icertis, an AI-powered contract intelligence company, has announced that Co-Founder and CEO Samir Bodas will transition to the role of Executive Chairman after more than 15 years of leadership, while Chief Operating Officer Anand Subbaraman has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer. Bodas co-founded the company in 2009 with Monish Darda and expanded it to nearly $350 million in annual recurring revenue…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

Amazon Advances Packaging Sustainability with Major Plastic Waste Cuts

Amazon is scaling up its efforts to reduce waste and promote sustainable packaging, reporting significant progress across its global operations. Since 2015, the company has avoided more than 4.2 million metric tons of packaging, the equivalent weight of over 480 Seattle Space Needles. In 2024 alone, Amazon reduced plastic packaging by 16.4% worldwide and shipped 12% of its orders without any additional packaging…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke to Step Down and Launch New Startup

GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke announced that he will step down from the Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform to start a new venture. Dohmke, who joined Microsoft after selling his startup more than a decade ago, said his “startup roots” influenced the decision. “I’ve decided to leave GitHub to become a founder again,” he wrote in a blog post, without revealing further details…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos
Category:

Purpose-Driven AI: How Sri Ambati Leads H2O.ai Forward

As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of H2O.ai, Sri Ambati has built one of the most widely adopted AI platforms in the world, empowering more than 20,000 organizations, including over half of the Fortune 500. His vision to democratize AI is rooted in moments that revealed technology’s life-saving potential: his mother’s breast cancer diagnosis sparked a commitment to use mathematics against disease, and during the Delta wave of the COVID-19 pandemic…

Posted On : Published By : jcarlos