CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CTOvision

APRIL 21, 2014

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Too often, however, change management is treated as an afterthought, observes Munir Hafez, senior vice president and CIO at consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. Bilow recommends creating a small OCM budget for a current project and then hiring a boutique OCM consulting firm to manage the effort.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The tools are used to extract information from large documents, to help create presentations, and to summarize lengthy reports and compared documents to find discrepancies. In the Google Cloud and National Research Group survey, 33% of leaders report positive ROI for gen AI in sales and marketing, with another 30% expecting ROI within a year.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to a new IDC report , 98% of business leaders view AI as a priority for their organization and the research firm expects AI to add $20 trillion to the global economy through 2030. These technologies can produce more content that everyone needs to consume and be aware of,” says Anita Woolley, professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. Today this happens with meetings and reports, says Malhotra.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. That’s why Roger Smith puts the focus of the CTO on programming for the earliest stage.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Plus, smaller companies want to access high-quality carbon credits, but calculate their impact at a product, services and transactional level, and be able to purchase a fraction of a carbon credit rather than a very inaccurate “scheme.”. There is very little transparency around carbon offsets. It’s now raised a $4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

So it’s no surprise that in recent years, a flurry of startups have emerged that aim to give more people access to real estate ownership in the form of fractional shares. CEO Yishai Cohen and CTO Amit Assaraf started Landa in 2020 in an effort to make real estate ownership more inclusive. 83North and NFX co-led its seed round.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Forrester, in their Predictions 2025: Artificial Intelligence report, predicted that three-quarters of companies that try to build AI agents in-house will fail. Even at fractions of a penny per token, this ends up being tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Don’t let that scare you off.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Avarni automates much of the process and says it can cut down the amount of time spent on carbon reporting from months to minutes. Avarni’s platform aggregates supply chain and spending data into one comprehensive dataset, and it uses that and AI to help clients report and forecast their carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

More recently, he served as the chief technology officer of Fenix International, an off-grid solar home system company acquired by the French multinational electric utility company ENGIE in 2018. BasiGo’s COO, Alex Mwaura, said they will tap the country’s renewable energy resource to fuel public transportation. .

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I even got this particular section framed and hung up at our office: Your mission Let's say you were employed as a CTO behind the front lines and you wanted to destroy productivity for as long as you can without getting caught. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Blame the previous CTO.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

SnapAttack , a threat hunting startup that was this week spun out from IT consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton , has secured $8 million in Series A funding. While many of our competitors focus on a single stage of the workflow and most often from a specific offensive or a defensive lens; SnapAttack provides a space to merge both.”.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We had operational teams at clients resist doing the effort for regular Chargeback/Showback reporting to development teams, only to end up with a scramble to determine the cause of spiking bills. This siloed approach leads to suboptimal decision-making and fractured strategies. Short-term focus.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

New data from Kruze Consulting’s salary data from more than 200 startups show that CTOs, on average, are on higher salaries than their CEO counterparts. With a dataset of more than 200 startups, startup accountants Kruze Consulting found the balance leans toward the technical co-founder of a startup. Differences by stage.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

After securing $16 million in Series A funding last April, Databook , an AI-powered consultative sales intelligence company, is back, this time with $50 million in Series B funding. Reimagine inside sales to ramp up B2B customer acquisition.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As reported by the Stanford Daily earlier this month, Fizz had a serious security vulnerability in November 2021. “As soon as we became aware of the vulnerability, we worked with a security consultant who helped us to resolve that specific issue in 24 hours which ended the risk for our users.

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a result, most IT functions have seen budget increases, support for more staff, and higher involvement in shaping enterprise strategy , according to multiple reports. Consider the findings of a report from professional services firm Accenture. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

The announcement wasn’t a complete shock considering there were hints of trouble, as reported by The Information, the week prior. On a positive (and somewhat unusual) note, BNPL giant Affirm said it would be giving job offers to “the vast majority” of Fast engineers, as reported by the brilliant Natasha Mascarenhas.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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TechEmpower CTO

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What about reporting and moderation? Reporting What needs to be reported? Reporting can be endless! Are they dismissable?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

CEO Alok Goel, who co-founded Drivetrain with CTO Tarkeshwar Thakur and CPO Saurav Bhagat, was formerly a partner at Elevation Capital, which has $670 million assets under management. Drivetrain’s software showing revenue and customer buildup report with line items for analysis and insights. Image Credits: Drivetrain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

As for the name change, he reported that there was some confusion in the market that Luther was an AI assistant like Alexa or a chatbot, and the founders wanted the name to better reflect the personalized nature of the product. GPT-3 is built on the memories of the public internet, while Luther is built on the memories of your private self.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. You can sign up here.).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

To give us a perspective on this question, we had the opportunity to speak with Roger Hockenberry , CEO and founding partner of Cognitio , a strategic consulting and engineering firm established and managed by a team of former senior technology executives from the U.S. Intelligence Community.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The State of the CIO 2024 survey published by CIO, states that 85% of CIOs are becoming a changemaker, increasingly leading business and technology initiatives. With CIOs now often reporting directly to the CEO instead of the CFO, the emphasis has shifted from technical proficiency to business acumen.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2022

But one important detail was left out, as Fortune reported last week. Apparently, more workers put their hands up — a reported 90% of 2,100 — than the company expected and it had to put a cap on how many workers could leave. I reached out to Better.com for comment but had not heard back at the time of writing. Weekly News.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

And it features and expo floor of the hottest technologies in the nation. I can’t wait to hit the expo floor and learn the latest and will be reporting more here for our CTOvision Pro readers. Office of Management and Budget. Independent Consultant. Defense Intelligence Officer for Cyber. Mr. Michael Bruni.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 16, 2020

I should be able to generate a report on that. There is ethical conduct related to wearable technology, and being sneaky in the background is not going to benefit the user or the company in the long run.”. ”—Stephen Ridley, founder and chief technology officer, Senrio. That’s not ethical,” Boyadgis says. “If

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

According to the payments-focused Nilson Report , commercial card purchase volume in the U.S. Recent recruits include its new Europe-based CTO, Sebastjan Trepca, who will free up time for Rho’s co-founder Alex Wheldon to “focus more exclusively on product strategy,” Cook said. was close to $1.4 trillion this year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

While the tranche is a fraction of the startup’s previous raise ($70 million), Mythic claims that the tranche will enable it to bring its “next-generation” product — an improved energy-efficient AI processor — to market. billion, reflecting increased scrutiny for the capital-intensive firms.

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CIO

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As Increasingly, new C-suite roles with a tech bent are permeating companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Bola Bardet founded the company with Laurent Leconte (CTO) and Sandrine Egron (COO) after losing her father to complications from a chronic health condition due to poor management. “My Having worked in a luxury firm, as an investment banker at JP Morgan and her own consulting firm, Bardet decided to start Susu in 2019. Susu founders.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 11, 2015

Technology that has been used to hunt terrorists is now gaining traction with Wall Street to enhance customer outcomes, make better decisions and even track down fraud. They reported on a wave of companies with ties to the intelligence community "winning over" the world of finance. For us at Cognitio this comes as no surprise.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2024

Data centers are running at near capacity in many areas of the world, according to the Global Data Center Trends 2024 report from CBRE, a real estate services firm. The 2023 CBRE report found that 83% of the data center capacity under construction at the time was presold. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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