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UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments

CIO Business Intelligence

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society announced that it has appointed Avril Chester as its new Chief Technology Officer. In her new role, Avril will have “responsibility for executive leadership of all the technology functions, including technical architecture, software development, operations and product delivery.”

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Knowledge graphs: the missing link in enterprise AI

CIO Business Intelligence

There are some organizations that have invested in the technology, he adds, like large media and publishing companies, or pharmaceutical firms working on drug discovery. Novartis, for example, uses a graph database to link its internal data to an external database of research abstracts.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. based Aquinox Pharmaceuticals last year. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital. New Athira execs Mark Worthington, general counsel, and Rachel Lenington, chief technology officer and head of product development strategy. Athira Photos). The Bothell, Wash.-based Lessen Photo).

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A CIO’s first rule for automation: Have a clear business case

CIO Business Intelligence

As an example, the technology organization of the pharmaceutical segment at Cardinal Health collaborates closely with business leaders so they can identify current pain points and determine the right processes to automate, focusing on how these tools will improve the customer or employee experiences, says CIO Greg Boggs.

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Tech Moves: Flexe taps new CTO; Talus adds head of biology; Vouched names a sales VP

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(Flexe Photo) — Pirasenna Thiyagarajan joined Seattle warehousing logistics and shipping startup Flexe as its chief technology and product officer. Thiyagarajan in recent years held multiple CTO roles at Bay Area startups. Flexe’s former longtime CTO David Glick left his role in January 2023.

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