Key Takeaways
- Munil Shah, a former engineering leader at UiPath and Microsoft, has joined Talkdesk as chief technology officer.
- Flexport welcomed a former Microsoft Corporate Vice President (CVP) and executive-in-residence, who previously served as a vice president at Amazon Web Services and joined Splunk in 2021 as president and chief growth officer. This executive will oversee sales, marketing, communications, and non-profit efforts .
- Builder.ai saw the addition of a longtime Microsoft CVP as president. Another Microsoft CVP joined Reston, Virginia-based edtech company Ellucian as Chief Operating Officer (COO) .
- Intel hired a former Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) executive to lead its Data Center and AI group. This individual had previously served as the executive vice president and general manager of HPE’s AI and High-Performance Computing business unit .
- Lumen appointed a two-decade Microsoft veteran as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Executive Vice President. This executive had managed security efforts for Microsoft’s North America business and had an interesting stint as a mascot for the Seattle Seahawks .
- Amazon promoted the leader of Amazon’s aviation operations to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations .
- Zscaler, a cloud security giant, hired a former executive vice president from Salesforce as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), who had more than 14 years of experience at Microsoft .
- Talkdesk, a customer service contact center software company, raised a $230 million Series D round in 2021 and has experienced multiple rounds of layoffs.
- Ajay Nair, a longtime engineering leader at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, joined Elastic as a group vice president. Elastic reported revenue of $328 million, up 19% year-over-year in its most recent quarter.
- Libretto, a startup led by former employees at Redfin, announced a $3.7 million investment round. The company is led by former Redfin CTO Sasha Aickin and aims to help customers improve prompt engineering.
- Kareem Choudhry, a longtime Xbox exec, is leaving Microsoft after more than 26 years, amid a large Xbox leadership shakeup. Choudry led various video game-related initiatives, including Xbox Cloud Gaming.