The Biggest Moves in Tech This Week

These are the most notable hires, promotions, and departures within the US tech community in the last week. For executive news updated daily, check out The Org's People on the Move.

Tech Giants

Canoo has named Ambassador Josette Sheeran as President, effective immediately. Sheeran has been a board member of Canoo since December 2020 and also serves as the Executive Chairman of the McCain Institute, a Washington think tank. Source | Full Story

Marqeta has added Randy Kern to its executive team as the modern card issuing platform’s new Chief Technology Officer. Kern was a Salesforce executive and held the Chief Customer Technology Officer and EVP of Infrastructure Engineering roles throughout his seven years at the company. He also spent several years at Microsoft, where he led development for the Azure Compute team as the Partner Director of Development. Source | Full Story

Appfire has named Jagdish Chugani to its executive team as its new Chief People Officer. Prior to Appfire he served as the SVP of Talent at PlanSource and served as a member of the Human Capital at UnitedHealth Group. Source | Full Story

JFrog appointed Sagi Dudai as EVP of Product and Engineering. He joins JFrog from business cloud communications sompany Vonage, where he served as Chief Technology Officer. Source

Hootsuite has hired Maggie Lower as its new CMO. She joins the social media managemnet platform after a year serving as the CMO at Cision. Source

Binance hired Manuel Alvarez as its new Chief Administrative Officer. Alvarez was formerly the Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Source

Software AG promoted Scott Little to CRO and Dr. Benno Quade will become CCO effective August 1, 2021. Source

Sensyne Health hired David Ruau to the newly created role of Chief Scientific Officer effective September 1st, 2021. Ruau was previously the Head of Global Data Assets and Decision Science at Bayer. Source

CareerBuilder named Susan Arthur as CEO. Arthus joins from Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group, where she was COO. Source

Zeal Network promoted Paul Dingwitz to CTO and Sonke Martens to COO. Source

Growing Companies

Iron Ox has recrtuited former Waymo and Google technical lead David Silver as its first-ever Director of Robotics. As the first Director of Robotics at the farm tech company, he will be responsible for leading and scaling up the robotics team immediately, says CEO Brandon Alexander. He will report to SVP of Engineering Sarah Osentoski. Source | Full Story

AppHarvest has named Mark Keller, an Amazon veteran, as its new SVP, Software Applications Platform. Keller is an Army Veteran and helped Amazon launch its first four large-scale Kiva robotics sortable warehouses. Source | Full Story

Slice, a tech platform that powers the largest network of pizzerias nationwide, has hired Jayant Mittal as its new CFO. He previously served as the Director of Worldwide Corporate Development at Amazon, where he led corporate development in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Source | Full Story

BitTitan hired Craig McDonogh as it’s VP of Marketing. Prior to BitTitan, Craig held leadership roles at Perspectium, ServiceNow, and BMC Software. Source

Zignal Labs appointed Guy Churchward as CEO. Churchward most recently served as CEO of Datera. Source

Seismic appointed Linda Ho as Chief People Officer. Prior to joining Seismic, Linda spent 14 years in various HR leadership roles at Autodesk. Source

Talkwalker hired Tod Nielsen as CEO. Nielsen was previously the President and CEO of FinancialForce. Source

Mindtree appointed Aan Chauhan as CTO. Prior to Mindtree, Chauhan was the CTO of NxT Digital. Source

Corelight appointed Julie Parrish as CMO. Parrish was previously COO and CMO for RedSeal. Source

HashiCorp announced it’s Founder, Mitchell Hashimoto, has decided to step down from the executive team and will move to a full-time engineering position. Source

Armis appointed Sachin Shah as CTO for Operational Technology and Industrial Control Systems. Shah most recently worked for Intel Corporation. Source

Emerging Companies

Intrinsic has named Wendy Tan-White as its first CEO after the industrial robotics software venture was spun out of Alphabet's X moonshot laboratory. Previously she had been a VP at X. Source | Full Story

bolt has revealed that its US CEO, Eric Gewirtzman, will transition to become the CEO of Insurance Exchange for bolttech. In his place, Chief Revenue Officer Jim Dwane will assume the corner office as bolt’s new CEO. Source | Full Story

Atom Computing has named its new chief executive, Rob Hays. Hays, who has been appointed as CEO, President, and a member of Atom Computing's Board of Directors, joins the startup from Lenovo, where he served as the Chief Strategy Officer for its Infrastructure Solutions Group. Source | Full Story

Parascript hired VPhired Dawn Wood as P of Sales. Wood most recently worked with Kofax. Source

VeroSource Solutions hired Gerry Fairweather as VP of Innovation and Analytics. Fair weather most recently served as CIO for the Province of New Brunswick. Source

Adaptigent appointed Bob Eustace as CTO and Ashley Watson as CFO. Source

Sensorion hired Otmane Boussif as CTO effective August 1, 2021. Boussif Joined from Novartis where he was Global Head of Cell and Gene Therapy Technical Development and Global Head of Early Phase Development. Source

Syntellis Performance Solutions appointed Flint Brenton as CEO. Most recently, Brenton served as President and CEO of Centrify. Source

Bitrise named Pablo Pinillos as CFO. Pinillos was previously the VP of Strategic Growth & Business Transformation at Qlik. Source

Agilitech promoted Phil Sanders to CRO. Source

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