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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO Business Intelligence

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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Tech Moves: Workday CIO joins Tanium board; Madrona investor departs; City of Seattle hires CTO

GeekWire

The company raised $150 million in early 2021. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — The City of Seattle announced Thursday it hired Rob Lloyd as its interim CTO and director of the IT department. Gilfoyle joined Madrona in 2021 and was previously an investment associate at K50 Ventures.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

CIO Business Intelligence

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.”

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Tech Moves: Expedia names new CTO; F5 adds board members; Humanly hires sales exec

GeekWire

Thumu joins the company following the sudden departure in May of two of former CTO Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu , former senior vice president, core services product and engineering. Since 2021, Thacker has overseen the emerging business team at Amazon Ads, according to a memo cited by the tech news site.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. December 2021. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry.