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Cengage Group CTO Jim Chilton on the P&L difference

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After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO. Jim Chilton: When I was at the enterprise software company Coda Financial in the ’90s, I was asked to be the professional services leader. It was an incredible learning opportunity.

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

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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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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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Sorensen’s speech actually came out of Ancestry.com’s policies and procedures for sharing its data with students. ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics. "Also, we've had great success hiring social scientists as our data scientists."

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.,

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Many CIOs are better equipped to combat rising IT costs. Are you?

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McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive board member resigns; Tagboard exec steps down; and more

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The company said his departure was voluntary and not a result of any disagreement with its operations, policies or practices. Lex Schoner announced he was hired as design lead at Seattle-area enterprise software startup Magnify. Seattle-area aerospace company magniX announced it hired Tim Allen as VP of sales and marketing.