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Checkout Names Revenue Operations Head as New COO
June 12, 2024

British payments company Checkout.com has a new chief operating officer. Jenny Hadlow, who had been heading the company’s revenue operations team, will be promoted to the COO position, chief executive Guillaume Pousaz‍ said in an announcement published Wednesday (June 12). “Jenny has a unique perspective...

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MoneyGram Appoints Driven Brands Veteran Gary W. Ferrera as CFO
June 10, 2024

MoneyGram International has appointed former Driven Brands chief financial officer (CFO) Gary W. Ferrera as its CFO. Ferrera succeeds Larry Angelilli, who has retired after more than 12 years with MoneyGram, the company said in a Monday (June 10) press release. In his new role,...

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OpenAI Names Ex-Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as CFO, Kevin Weil as CPO
June 10, 2024

OpenAI has named a new chief financial officer (CFO) and a new chief product officer (CPO) as it prepares for its “next phase of growth.” Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, has joined OpenAI as CFO, and Kevin Weil, former president, product and business at Planet Labs, has joined...

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JPMorgan Names PayPal Vet Shivananda as New Tech Chief
June 10, 2024

JPMorgan Chase has reportedly named former PayPal executive Sri Shivananda as its chief technology officer. Shivananda will take up the CTO post later this month and succeed A.J. Lang, who announced his retirement earlier this year, Reuters reported Monday (June 10), citing an internal memo. The new CTO — who...

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Digital Wallet Provider Curve Appoints CEO to Drive US Growth
June 07, 2024

Digital wallet provider Curve has appointed Nancy Yaffa as its USA CEO and Reeta K. Holmes as its new board member. These appointments come at a time when Curve, which is active in 31 markets across the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA),...

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Report: JPMorgan Global Head of Payments Georgakopoulos to Step Down
June 03, 2024

Takis Georgakopoulos, JPMorgan Chase’s global head of payments, is reportedly leaving the banking giant. Georgakopoulos, who has headed that division since 2017, will step down to pursue other ventures, Reuters reported Monday (June 3), citing an internal memo. According to the report, Max Neukirchen and...

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Cleveland Fed Names Goldman’s Beth Hammack as President
May 30, 2024

A longtime Goldman Sachs executive is the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s new leader. Beth Hammack, co-head of global finance at Goldman, has been named the Cleveland Fed’s new president and CEO, the central bank announced Wednesday (May 29). In addition to leading the Cleveland...

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Former OpenAI Safety Head Jan Leike Joins Anthropic
May 28, 2024

Jan Leike, who resigned from artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI earlier in May, has joined rival AI firm Anthropic. Leike announced the move in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (May 28), noting that he will work on “scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and...

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Definitive Healthcare Names DailyPay’s Kevin Coop as CEO
May 28, 2024

Healthcare commercial intelligence provider Definitive Healthcare has a new chief executive. Kevin Coop, most recently the CEO of earned wage access company DailyPay, was announced as Definitive’s new CEO Tuesday (May 28) in a news release. He is due to take the job June 24,...