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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams exec lands at Google; LeoStella names CEO; and more

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He spent 15 years at Boeing, starting as a chief engineer and program manager and serving the last seven years as a director. — Armughan Ahmad is now CEO of Appen , an Australian artificial intelligence company with its U.S. headquarters in Kirkland, Wash.

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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet joins insurance tech startup; Cyemptive Technologies adds exec

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Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. She then led product and engineering at Amazon’s Alexa team.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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— Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Graham Sheldon. LinkedIn Photo).

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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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. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. August 2021.

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Aizen acquires Kurvv, a Seattle startup that helps predict equipment failure

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Lee left his post as a data science program manager at Microsoft in 2019 to start Kurvv, drawing upon more than 15 years of experience in product management. He was joined at the time by Vince Roche , who served as the startup’s CTO for nearly two years before departing in March 2021. SEMA also led a $4.2

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

CIO Business Intelligence

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. And, based on your current program management practices, provide the same level of rigor — or more — for your AI adoption initiatives.”

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Why CIOs back API governance to avoid tech sprawl

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So API ubiquity presents numerous IT management challenges due to inconsistent design patterns, communication silos, access control, documentation hurdles, and monitoring, performance and scalability concerns, says Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, who oversees API governance and security as CTO and VP at Pure Storage.