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New US CIO appointments, August 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Jason Strle joins Discover as CIO Jason Strle, Discover Discover Discover Financial Services is a digital banking and payment services company that issues the Discover card and operates Discover Global Network, PULSE, and Diners Club International. Strle joins Discover from Wells Fargo and he held previous roles at JP Morgan Chase.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO Business Intelligence

Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging. While organizations know they need to mitigate environmental risks more effectively across the supply chain, often they struggle to translate that ambition into results.

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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

Clean tech startups can be slower moving as their innovations often include hardware and their prototype process can take longer, particularly if it involves biological or chemical processes. It can be more expensive to build and test the technology, compared to software-based enterprises.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

Amazon’s transportation investments include electric van and truck manufacturer Rivian, as well as electric and hydrogen powered planes — all key transit modes for pulling carbon out of Amazon’s giant delivery network. For Microsoft, 20% of the companies in its portfolio are in carbon tech.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. The Asian Pacific Environmental Network, which received $5 million from BEF, echoed the sentiment that it was important to proactively try to shift money to climate justice groups.

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Albemarle supercharges employee experience with federated automation

CIO Business Intelligence

One of the first things Patrick Thompson (pictured) did on becoming chief information and digital transformation officer of specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle in 2017 was to introduce an annual survey to gauge employee attitudes toward services IT staff provides. Albemarle is growing fast. Then tackle the business side of things.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. That's where you know, your water plants come in, that's where your chemicals, your oil and gas, your big manufacturing facilities.

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