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How Canadian Tire CIO & CTO balances lessons learned and leading with purpose

CIO Business Intelligence

And with his dual titles at the company—CIO and CTO—Rex Lee is in the driver’s seat to support digital transformation and implement shared knowledge across teams and management. I also felt personally responsible for putting the corporation in such a challenging position where revenues weren’t coming into the organization.

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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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Haystax Technology (@HaystaxTech) Names Advisory Board Members (including @BobGourley and @BobFlores)

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Bettenhausen has overall responsibility for security, public safety and preparedness for the domestic and global operations and facilities of AEG, a leading sports and entertainment presenter. Bob Gourley, Founder and CTO, Crucial Point LLC. Analysis CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC' Media Contact: Laura Taylor. 202-271-8216.

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

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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. Thumu was previously chief product and technology officer for the global digital sports platform Fanatics, where he worked for nearly a decade.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Sun’s team will include two VPs of AI technology, Sebastian Wieczorek and Ulf Brackmann; a CTO, Johannes Hoffart, and a global AI product manager, Nadine Hoffmann.

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Tunstall’s CTO wants to build the Porsche 911 of telehealth

CIO Business Intelligence

Gary Steen joined assistive technology provider Tunstall Healthcare as its group chief technology officer (CTO) in August 2021, having previously been managing director for technology at telecommunications provider TalkTalk. The Porsche 911 of healthcare Steen sees his challenge at Tunstall akin to that of a famous sports car manufacturer. “If

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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