C-suite Leadership Appointments

2025 C-suite Leadership Appointments:

• Shake Shack Names Justin Mennen as Chief Information and Technology Officer

2024 C-suite Leadership Appointments:

• Adobe Appoints Lara Balazs as Chief Marketing Officer
• Workday Names Rob Enslin President, Chief Commercial Officer
• Coupa Welcomes Michael Agresta as Chief Financial Officer
• Arlen Shenkman to Join UKG as President, Chief Financial Officer
• ColorTokens Appoints Former MD Anderson CTO Chuck Suitor as Strategic Advisor for Healthcare
• SPHERE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES EVP, CFO AND TREASURER, DAVID BYRNES, WILL BE LEAVING THE COMPANY
• iCIMS Appoints Jody Kaminsky as Chief Marketing Officer
• ThoughtSpot Taps Former Salesforce Exec As Its New CEO
• SugarCRM Appoints David Roberts as Chief Executive Officer; Craig Charlton Transitioning to Chairman of the Board
• Docebo Appoints Alessio Artuffo as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member
• Cerebras Announces New Board Members and Chief Financial Officer - Cerebras Systems, a pioneer in accelerating generative AI, today announced the appointment of new independent Board members
• Glenda Dorchak, a former IBM, Intel and Spansion executive, and Paul Auvil, former CFO of VMWare and Proofpoint.
• Apple announces Chief Financial Officer transition - Apple CFO Luca Maestri steps down and Kevan Parekh, vice president of financial planning and analysis at Apple, will become CFO.
• Starbucks names Brian Niccol as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Brian Niccol has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer. Niccol will start in his new role on September 9, 2024.
• Box Appoints Tricia Gellman as Chief Marketing Officer
• UKG Names Jennifer Morgan as Chief Executive Officer
• OpenAI co-founder John Schulman leaves ChatGPT maker for rival Anthropic
• Celonis Appoints Greg Czajkowski as EVP Engineering to Advance Platform Innovation
• Avaya Announces CEO Leadership Transition - CEO Alan Masarek to Retire at Year End; Current Board Chair Patrick Dennis Named CEO
• Hitachi Energy to appoint Andreas Schierenbeck as new Chief Executive Officer, Claudio Facchin to step down on June 30, 2024
• Nike Hires Cheryan Jacob as CIO
• IBM names Hans Dekkers GM of APAC amid AI, cloud growth
• Accenture Announces Leadership Appointments - 
  • Angie Park, Lead, Business and Commercial Finance, and former Head of Investor Relations, will become Chief Financial Officer on December 1, 2024, and will join the Global Management Committee. 
  • Mauro Macchi, Market Unit Lead, Italy, Central Europe, and Greece (ICEG) and a member of the Global Management Committee, will become Chief Executive Officer, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) on September 1, 2024. 
  • Angela Beatty, Global Lead, Talent, Rewards, and Employee Experience, will become Chief Leadership and Human Resources Officer on September 1, 2024, and will join the Global Management Committee. 
  • Karthik Narain, Group Chief Executive, Technology, will add the responsibilities of Chief Technology Officer to become Group Chief Executive, Technology, and Chief Technology Officer, and Bhaskar Ghosh, Chief Strategy Officer, will add the responsibilities of innovation to become Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, both on September 1, 2024. 
  • Atsushi Egawa, Market Unit Lead, Japan, and Ryoji Sekido, Technology Lead, Growth Markets, will become co-CEOs of Asia Pacific on September 1, 2024.
• OpenAI welcomes Sarah Friar (CFO) and Kevin Weil (CPO)
• Sprinklr Appoints Trac Pham as Co-Chief Executive Officer
• UiPath to Re-Appoint Daniel Dines as Chief Executive Officer; Rob Enslin Steps Down as CEO and Board Member
• Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki announced as Chief Scientist
• Cohesity Appoints Dr. Craig Martell as Chief Technology Officer
• John Kelly joins Remote as Chief Revenue Officer
• IBM Appoints New Chief Sustainability Officer Christina Shim
• Freshworks Announces CEO Transition - Founder and CEO Girish Mathrubootham will transition to role of Executive Chairman, President Dennis Woodside to become Chief Executive Officer & President
• PayPal appointed former Walmart EVP Srini Venkatesan as its CTO
• PayPal Appoints Shaun Khalfan as Chief Information Security Officer
• JPMorgan Chase has tapped former PayPal and eBay executive Sri Shivananda as its new firmwide technology chief
• D2L Expands Leadership Team - Lee Poteck promoted to Chief Revenue Officer and Amy Clark appointed as Chief People Officer
• Dr. Andrew Ng appointed to Amazon’s Board of Directors
• Tim Bryant Appointed Chief Revenue Officer of SAP SuccessFactors in Asia Pacific and Japan
• Wipro Appoints Malay Joshi as Chief Executive Officer for Americas 1 Strategic Market Unit
• Wipro Appoints Anne-Marie Rowland as CEO of Capco
• Carl Eschenbach Takes the Helm as Workday CEO
• SAP appoints new Managing Director for UAE 
• HPE appoints Kristin Major chief people officer
• Infogain Appoints Dinesh Venugopal as Chief Executive Officer
• Barracuda Networks appoints new Chief Legal Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer
• Provenir Adds Chief People Officer Lori Copeland to Executive Team
• Perceptyx Names People Analytics & HR Strategy Veteran Al Adamsen SVP of Leader & Workforce Transformation
• Coalfire® Appoints Camie Shelmire as Chief People Officer
• Roanne Parry joins CSL as chief human resources officer
• Birlasoft Appoints Manjunath Kygonahally as Chief Executive Officer for Rest of the World Region