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Hiring and movement of senior corporate leaders, including chief financial officers and other C-suite roles, and the mandates attached to them.
Supermicro hired ex-Western Digital CFO Mark Long as finance chief, nearly two years after promising to replace David Weigand. He inherits a co-founder's indictment in an alleged $2.5 billion chip-smuggling case and a grand jury subpoena on internal controls.
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SEI hired Kristie Edling-Day from LPL Financial to run technology and product at a firm reporting about $2.1 trillion in assets. CEO Ryan Hicke spoke as much about scale and technical debt as about AI, and said AI spending sits inside the existing technology budget.
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Cross River made former Lazard Asset Management CEO Evan Russo its president on Oct. 1, with CEO Gilles Gade keeping technology and partnerships. Russo's career is in investment banking and asset management, while PYMNTS puts most digital-asset work in integration.
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Kingfisher has appointed Sebastian Gundel as chief executive from February 2027, according to a Global Banking & Finance Review headline. Only the name and the start month are on the record, so what Gundel will change is still inference.
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Karandeep Anand takes over Disney's technology on 2 October, about a year after Disney's lawyers told the company he ran to strip its characters out of user-made chatbots. Several of his engineers come with him.
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Boston Dynamics made former Amazon AI chief Rohit Prasad CEO from October 7, with Atlas deployments at Hyundai and Google DeepMind scheduled for 2026. His record is in shipping AI software to households, while the job he takes on is getting a humanoid to work reliably through factory shifts.
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HD Hyundai gave Lee Sang-kyun its shipyards and its data-center and reactor plans, but put its 830 billion won engine expansion under Han Joo-seok. The only new venture with a budget so far extends the engine business the group already runs.
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Pinterest named James Dibbo, who ran finance for Amazon Ads and Prime Video, as its CFO from October 26, after forecasting slower third-quarter revenue growth. The fair test is whether revenue per user, about $1.60 a quarter, grows faster than Pinterest's user base.
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NetApp has named Liam Varndell and Simon Mead as its new UK&I senior directors for solutions engineering and partner sales. Both have started meeting partners and customers, so what they hear in those talks will shape NetApp's regional channel plans.
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Omnissa has named former Palo Alto Networks president Amit Singh CEO, effective immediately, to push its 15,000-customer endpoint business toward AI agents. His plan stretches the management software already on customers' devices to cover AI agents too, so buyers would get agent controls from a vendor they already use.
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SpaceX has named Starship veteran Kevin Holland to run its Memphis data centers and bring up six compute phases by year-end. Managers from its rocket and satellite units now oversee capacity that Anthropic and Google have agreed to rent for a combined $2.17 billion a month.
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Polymarket has hired Warren Jenson, formerly finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Nielsen, to set capital strategy for a business now marked at about $21bn with no revenue figure attached to it.
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Warren Jenson, who has been finance chief at Amazon, Delta Air Lines and Electronic Arts, takes over capital strategy at a company that has published no audited numbers and paid $112m for its way back into the United States.
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