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This monthly feature brings you updates on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new employee, or accolade, we know the details. Check out our monthly updated list and you might just find someone you know, or even find yourself!
Mustafa Suleiman
Mustafa Suleiman and Karen Simonyan
Microsoft has hired two former DeepMind executives to run its new AI division, Microsoft AI. The new hires include Mustafa Suleiman, former head of applied AI and DeepMind co-founder who will become his CEO at Microsoft AI, and Karen, a former researcher at DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014.・Includes Mr. Simonian. Both joined Microsoft from Inflection AI, a generative AI company they co-founded in 2022.
Karen Simonyan
“Several members of the Inflection team have chosen to join Mustafa and Karen at Microsoft,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a March 19 blog post. “They include some of the world’s best AI engineers, researchers, and builders. Over the past five years, they have designed, led, launched, and collaborated on many of the most important contributions in the advancement of AI. We look forward to them contributing their knowledge, talent, and expertise to our consumer AI research and product manufacturing.”
rick scarfield
rick scarfield
VAST Data, a New York City company aiming to centralize AI processing and data storage, has hired Rick Scafield as chief revenue officer (CRO) ahead of its planned IPO later this year. Mr. Scurfield joins his VAST Data from his competitor NetApp, where he spent more than 20 years.
“VAST Data’s mission goes beyond ambition. It is a pledge to completely reimagine AI infrastructure to innovate and remove obstacles that limit progress within AI infrastructure,” said Scarfield. said in a press release. “He is thrilled to be joining VAST at such a pivotal moment in the history of technology.”
Amit Rai and Nathan Golding
Amit Rai
Vultr, the private cloud that is challenging cloud giants with high-end AI and HPC workloads, has hired two new hires. Amit Rai joins Vultr from Zoominfo as the new general manager of AI and enterprise cloud, and Nathan Golding from competitor Equinix is Vultr’s new senior vice president of engineering.
nathan golding
JJ Kardwell, CEO of Constant, Vultr’s parent company, said: “Amit and Nathan bring years of experience and proven success in building and scaling enterprise technology platforms and businesses.” It helps us fulfill our mission to make performance cloud computing easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible.”
christopher hall
christopher hall
Precise, a provider of data integration and integrity tools, has promoted Christopher Hall to its new chief product officer. Hall joined Precisely (then known as Syncsort) following its acquisition of Pitney Bowes in 2019 and will oversee product strategy and roadmap for the entire Precisely product suite.
“As initiatives like GenAI and advanced analytics become top priorities for organizations, having trust in the underlying data is critical,” Hall said in a press release. “We are proud of our extensive track record of providing our customers with accurate, consistent and contextual data to drive successful and trusted results.”
Yvonne Wassenaar
Yvonne Wassenaar
In March, Aration announced the appointment of Yvonne Wassenaar to its board of directors. This move adds to Alation an experienced director who also serves on the boards of Arista Networks, Forrester Research, JFrog, and Rubrik.
“As a leading data intelligence company, Alation helps businesses build trusted data sources to win in the AI era,” Wassenaar said in a press release. “The importance of building trustworthy AI will only increase over time, and I look forward to working with the board and management team on the next phase of growth for Alation.” ”
Mike Haas and Leo Jen
Leo Jen
Astronomer, the commercial entity behind Apache Airflow, in March announced two additions to its leadership team, including Mike Haas, currently chief revenue officer, and Leo Zheng, the company’s new chief marketing officer. Announced.
mike haas
Zheng, who joined Astronomer from MongoDB, is Astronomer’s first CMO and brings 15 years of marketing experience to the position. Mr. Haas has approximately 15 years of sales leadership experience and joins Astronomer from Clumio.
“We are thrilled to welcome Mike and Leo to Astronomer,” Astronomer CEO Andy Byron said in a press release. “At a critical time when the number of technologies in the data and application environment is increasing and Airflow is becoming critical to orchestrating the data and complex workflows behind business decisions and user-facing applications, Our executives bring unique and proven experience to Astronomer.”
julie eilish
julie eilish
Couchbase has appointed Julie Irish as the company’s first Chief Information Officer (CIO). Irish joins her NoSQL database company from New Relic, where she served as vice president of business applications and IT.
“Strategic use of technology is essential to extend all capabilities and enable growth. As more customers move to Couchbase Capella’s delivery and consumption model, joining Couchbase It’s an exciting time. Couchbase is building a strong technology foundation, and I’m honored to join the company to provide insight, set strategic priorities, and collaborate with our world-class team.” he added.
Ali Tierney, Matthew Kelly, Zach Johnson, Abby Strong, Lisa Nielsen
Matthew Kelly
Data observability vendor Cribl makes several executive appointments
Ali Tierney
Recently hired. Ali Tierney was Senior Vice President of Sales at Snowflake and has joined Cribl as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Other new hires include Matthew Kelly, who joined Cribble last summer as chief legal officer. Zach Johnson was promoted to chief financial officer in November. Abby Strong was promoted to chief market officer in November. and Lisa Nielsen, who was hired as chief human resources officer in February.
Lisa Nielsen
“This week, we celebrate our continued success.
abby strong
As we bring together the entire Cribl team to start the next year, our primary focus will continue to be on our customers and how we continue to provide them with best-in-class solutions that adapt to their evolving data needs. I will guess. ” Clint Sharp is co-founder and CEO of Cribl. “We look forward to launching new and innovative products that will enable even more customers to transform their telemetry data strategies in the year ahead.”
zach johnson
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