7 years ago0258Former McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson executive brings deep experience in adaptive learning, track record of outperforming education industry competition.
Knewton, Inc. today announced that it has appointed Brian Kibby as the company's chief executive officer. Mr. Kibby, a champion of personalized learning who previously served...
7 years ago073Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company") today announced the appointment of Shawn G. Williams as Chief Human Resources Officer ("CHRO"), reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Kevin Sheehan and effective immediately. Williams' appointment comes as Gary Melampy, the Company's current...
7 years ago0123After multiple resignations and departures of Uber's top leaders, yet another high-ranking employee has left the embattled tech company.
AG Gangadhar, the head of engineering, is the latest to depart. According to Recode, Gangadhar was over the engineering department where former Uber employee Susan Fowler — whose viral blog post on...
7 years ago072On Tuesday (July 11), Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the social networking company had hired Ned Segal as its new chief financial officer.
Twitter has a new CFO: @nedsegal! Welcome to the flock
— jack (@jack) July 11, 2017
Segal comes to Twitter from software maker Intuit where he served as the SVP of finance. According to...
7 years ago071Amazon's Twitch announced Tuesday (July 11), that Kate Jhaveri has joined the company as senior vice president of marketing.
News: I'm super stoked to join @twitch to lead marketing and comms! Awesome community, platform and team. This is going to be fun!
— kate jhaveri (@taneyhill) July 11, 2017
The live streaming video...
7 years ago0172Culture Amp, the leader in analyzing employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness in tech startups, released their fifth annual report today on New Tech employee engagement.
Titled What New Tech employees need, the survey shows what the most innovative tech companies are doing to stay agile and successful in an ever-changing...
7 years ago07143-year-old Simon Sinek is one of the most sought-after leadership consultants in the country.
He is the author of three best-selling books and has a fourth on the way. (It's called Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team and is due out in September, just in case you were wondering).
Sinek is...
7 years ago079The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) has announced the winners of its 2017 Business Diversity Awards.
Presented annually, the awards recognize companies for their outstanding efforts in advancing purchasing opportunities for diverse suppliers within the electric power industry, particularly minority, women-owned, veteran, and LGBTQ...
7 years ago0567Today, OpenText announced the launch of OpenText People Center. It is the latest addition to the OpenText EIM portfolio which currently consists of product solutions such as Content Suite, Process Suite, Experience Suite, Analytics Suite, Discovery Suite and Business Network.
The new HR application from one of the global leaders in...
7 years ago058Dive Brief:
A joint study conducted by Oracle and the MIT Technology Review found that cloud-based data-sharing between HR and finance allows companies to better manage change. The study polled 700 C-level executives and HR, finance and IT managers.
The study also shows that 46% of managers and 47% of C-level executives said they...
7 years ago081UAE-based technology startup Bayzat has raised US$3 million in funding from undisclosed investors, taking the company’s total amount of external financing to $7.5 million in the last 24 months. As most MENA businesses (especially SMEs) continue to rely on basic Microsoft Office tools to manage their Human Resource (HR) tasks, Bayzat...
7 years ago0108Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and Caribbean markets, has named Kenji Sato as the new president and CEO of Canon Information and Imaging Solutions (CIIS).
In addition to his newly appointed role with CIIS, Sato...