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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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7 traits of indispensable IT leaders

CIO Business Intelligence

Humility is non-negotiable,” says Jon Waldon, CTO of robotic process automation software developer Blue Prism. “A CIOs today have a seat at the table because business and technology strategy are forever entwined,” says Jay Upchurch, CIO at analytics software developer SAS.

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We asked 24 startups in the new Techstars Seattle class about how AI is impacting their business

GeekWire

Founders: Chuka Okoye was a co-founder of Lyft’s Level 5 infrastructure team, which developed autonomous vehicle tech. AI’s impact on robotics development: “To help reduce the need to hire more senior developers,” Okoye said. Yarik Rozum served as senior software developer at Truebase.

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7 key questions CIOs need to answer before committing to generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Then, when that didn’t work, it hired it’s own team to build the proprietary models it needed. According to a recent poll of senior executives conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Insight Enterprises, 39% of companies have already established policies or strategies around generative AI and 42% are in the process of developing them.