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This week, Amazon poached Ford's CTO, Pony.ai found its new CFO ahead of potential IPO, and Intel announced a massive internal restructuring.

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The 10 Most Important Tech Moves This Week

Ford’s technology chief, Ken Washington, has left his post to become Amazon’s VP of Software Engineering.

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Ford’s CTO Jumps Ship To Lead Software Engineering For Amazon

Adaptive enterprise software startup Adapdix has found its new Chief Operating Officer, John Genovesi from Rockwell Automation.

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Adapdix Recruits a COO From Rockwell Automation

Mike Ford has been elevated from SVP of Systems Engineering and Software Development to serve as Sony Pictures Imageworks’ new chief technologist.

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Mike Ford

Sony’s Animation Studio Names a New CTO

Pony.ai, an autonomous driving tech venture, has revealed that it has hired Lawrence Steyn as its new Chief Financial Officer to boost its global growth.

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Lawrence Steyn

Pony.ai Hires a New CFO From JP Morgan Ahead of Potential IPO

When publications rejected Benjamin Cohen’s story pitch on LGBTQIA issues, he decided to publish it himself. What came of the decision was PinkNews -- a media outlet focused on the LGBTQIA community. Since then, PinkNews has quickly grown to be one of the world's most influential LGBTQIA publications.

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Meet the Team Behind The World's Most Influential LGBTQIA Publication, PinkNews

Intel has made the move to create four new business units as part of a wide-reaching restructuring under CEO Pat Gelsinger, who took over in February 2021.

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Intel’s Massive Internal Restructure Spurs Executive Shuffle

Shift5, a DC metro area-based startup, has revealed that André Browne has joined its fast-growing team as its new Director of Engineering. 

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Shift5 Hires a New Director of Engineering To Build Cyber Defense Solutions

Box, the cloud media storage platform that went public in 2015, has named Diego Dugatkin as its new SVP and Chief Product Officer.

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Box Adds Product Chief From Adobe

The winner of the Democratic primaries is almost guaranteed to be the next mayor of New York City, with its 3.7 million registered Democrats. Although there is no definite path to victory, each candidate's campaign team plays an essential role in strengthening their platform. The Org has looked into the campaign teams of the front running candidates for New York City's mayoral election to see who’s been putting in the hard yards on the election trail.

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A Look Into the NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Campaign Teams

Gaztelu has nearly ten years of experience building and scaling consumer tech platforms both in the U.S. and abroad. He most recently worked as Chief Commercial Officer at Domestika, where he was helping to accelerate the global learning community’s international expansion efforts.

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Nextdoor Hires Former Houzz Exec as New Head of International 

OfferUp, an online C2C marketplace focused on in-person transactions, named Todd Dunlap as its new CEO. Co-founder of OfferUp, Nick Huzar will remain President and Board Chair and become the company’s Chief Product Officer.

Incoming OfferUp CEO Todd Dunlap (left) and OfferUp Co-Founder and CPO Nick Huzar (right). Image Credit: PRNewswire.

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Todd Dunlap Named Chief Executive Officer of OfferUp

Anti-counterfeiting authentication startup Proof Authentication has found its new CEO, Dan McKinnon, who joins the tech venture from sneaker giant New Balance.


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Daniel McKinnon

Proof Authentication Hires CEO Alongside Series A Funding Round

Allure’s Michelle Lee has left her job as the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief to join Netflix’s editorial and publishing team.

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Michelle Lee

Netflix Lures Allure’s Editor-In-Chief For Publishing Role

Former soccer star Steven Caldwell has joined sports analytics and video technology platform Best Athletes as CEO. 

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Steven Caldwell

Best Athletes Recruits Star CEO Ahead of Growth Push

Data encryption provider Sotero has named Brian Hartpence as its new VP of Sales and Kevin Keane, who has been appointed as VP of Business Development.

Brian Hartpence (L) and Kevin Keane (R). Images courtesy of Sotero

Brian Hartpence and Kevin Keane

Sotero Hires Sales and Business Development Execs to Scale

Toyota has elevated Brian Kursar to Group Vice President of Digital Technology.

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Toyota Promotes New Digital Tech Lead For North America

A novel ‘founder dating’ experiment is helping HR tech startup Pyn secure a pathway to “world domination” and AUD$8.2M in new funding.

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The Multi-Million Dollar “Founder Dating” Success Story

GameStop’s new CEO, Matt Furlong, has an even newer title, Director, as the company announced he will join its Board of Directors upon his first day of work.

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GameStop Adds CEO Matt Furlong as a Director

Google is synonymous with searching for information online, but it has so much more going on. We’ve pulled together a list of some of the largest and most innovative ventures owned by the tech giant.

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