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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO Business Intelligence

Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. When customers enter Adobe’s Creative Cloud, everything on their screen was developed by the Adobe product engineering team.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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He previously worked at Microsoft, XOR Data Exchange, and Clarity Services. Truveta aims to aggregate medical records data from its partner institutions to link treatments with outcomes and underlying health. Yamamoto previously worked at Adobe, F5, SAP, Microsoft and BlackLine in marketing leadership roles. Mika Yamamoto.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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Businesses use its experience management platform to collect data on how customers, employees and others experience their products and services, taking action based on the results. Leaders that use employee and customer experience data are running better businesses,” Anderson wrote on LinkedIn, announcing his new role.

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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

CIO Business Intelligence

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Backcountry also lacked many core services critical for an online retailer — no CMS, no analytics, no data platform, and no data lake.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Gen AI has the potential to magnify existing risks around data privacy laws that govern how sensitive data is collected, used, shared, and stored. These complaints, filed by a variety of different copyright holders, allege the companies of training their AIs on copyrighted data—images, code, and text.

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Tech Moves: Zillow exec Racquel Russell joins Bird’s board; new gig for startup vet Rebecca Lovell

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Thompson was most recently EVP of worldwide field operations at Adobe. Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse hired Curtis Brown as chief product officer. Brown was most recently chief content and technology officer for commercial data and analytics company Dun & Bradstreet. Kirkland, Wash.-based Polyverse Photo).

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5