AI Career Notes: July 2019 Edition 

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In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments fin the enterprise AI community -- promotions, new hires and accolades. We'll update the listing each month. Here's the AI career news for early July:

Tom Ellery

DataDirect Networks has announced that Tom Ellery has been appointed to general manager and senior vice president of field operations for the Tintri by DDN division. “Tom has a very impressive track record as a senior executive in the field of technology,” said Paul Bloch, president and co-founder at DDN. “The Tintri by DDN division is in high growth mode, and we are putting in place a pair of experienced hands to take the business to the next level of success and execute on our vision.”

“I am very excited for the amazing opportunity of ‘re-joining’ the Tintri family under the DDN product family and expanding Tintri’s market leadership position in virtualized environments for the enterprise market,” said Ellery. “Tintri’s product portfolio continues to deliver market leading levels of simplicity, predictability and resource analytics that has garnered incredible customer feedback with almost a ‘cult-like’ following over the last several years. I look forward to the opportunity to lead the organization as we build on top of the impressive foundation that the team has laid out.”

Stuart Fisher

Kinetica has announced the appointment of Stuart Fisher of as President, Asia Pacific. Previously, Fisher was Senior Vice President at Deep Instinct. He also held roles as Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific at Sophos, Regional Vice President at Sybase, and Senior Director of Asia Pacific at SAP.

“Kinetica continues to accelerate, with yet another year of triple-digit growth across the business reflected in the APAC region,” said Paul Appleby, CEO at Kinetica. “Governments and enterprises across Asia have been leading the way in active analytics adoption and leveraging NVIDIA GPUs to fast-track business growth and efficiency. We are deeply fortunate to have the opportunity to bring on a high-caliber leader like Stuart to guide the massive, transformative journeys of our customers, with broad experience and skills to expand the business in the Asia-Pacific region.”

Elizabeth McGlauflin

Kinetica has announced the appointment of Elizabeth McGlauflin as Chief Customer Success Officer. McGlauflin most recently served as Vice President of Customer Success at Robin.io. Prior to Robin.io, she was COO and Vice President of Customer Success at Bluescape.

“Kinetica has a bold and unique way of channeling data into smart analytical applications that are central to enterprise transformation,” said McGlauflin. “I am excited to be at the center of global transformation working in deep collaboration with Kinetica customers at such a pivotal time.”

IBM Women Leaders in AI Honorees

IBM has announced the first recipients and list of global women leaders and pioneers in AI for business. The list celebrates women across a variety of areas and industries for pioneering AI use to advance their companies. The honorees are:

1. Christine Gabbard, Project Manager, Machine Assistance, Autodesk, USA
2. Claudia Ignacio, Executive Director Client Experience, Banco Mercantil del Norte (Banorte), Mexico
3. Fernanda Gonzalez, Digital Channels Manager, Banco Santander Rio, Argentina
4. Tanuja Singeetham, Vice President, Marketing, BEHR Paint, USA
5. Rupinder Dhillon, Director, AI and Machine Learning, Bell Canada, Canada
6. Harmeen Mehta, Chief Information Officer & Head Cloud and Security Business, Bharti Airtel, India
7. Lorna Russell, Senior Manager, Product Management, BMC Software, USA
8. Walkiria Schirrmeister Marchetti, CIO, Bradesco, Brazil
9. Keiko Konno, General Manager, Service Planning & Development Division, BRIDGE International Corp., Japan
10. Sabine Scheunert, Vice President Digital & IT Sales/Marketing, Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler AG, Germany
11. Ona Juodkiene, Co-Head of IT Operations, Danske Bank, Denmark
12. Maren Reinsch, Head of Sales & Services, DB Dialog, Germany
13. Siewchoo Soh, Managing Director, DBS Bank, Singapore
14. Claudia Pohlink, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Deutsche Telekom/ T-Labs, Germany
15. Dr. Xiaojun Huang, Senior Advisor Upstream Digital Transformation, ExxonMobil, USA
16. Donna Hill, Assistant Director, Service, Configuration & Continuity Management, The George Washington University, USA
17. Jaki Lynn Van Valin, Director Data Management & Analytics, Harley-Davidson, USA
18. Victoria Stasiewicz, Global Information Systems –Manager Information Management, Harley-Davidson, USA
19. Kyoka Nakagawa, Chief Engineer, Digital Solution Center, Digital Transformation Division, Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Japan
20. Sara Hines, Director of Provider Experience & Connectivity, Humana, USA
21. Seema Gaur, Executive VP & Head IT, IFFCO Tokio General Insurance Company, India
22. Elenita Elinon, Executive Director Quantitative Research, JP Morgan Chase & Company, USA
23. Kelly Combs, Director, Emerging Technology Risk, KPMG LLP, USA
24. Hye-young Kim, Director of Artificial Intelligence, LOTTE Shopping, South Korea
25. Carmen Suarez, Assistant Director, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
26. Yimei Guo, Managing Director, Global Head of Research Technology, Morgan Stanley, USA
27. Gail Blum, Manager, Talent Acquisition Operations, NBCUniversal, USA
28. Sandra Cascadden, Associate Deputy Minister/CIO, Government of Nova Scotia, Canada
29. Pat Maqetuka, Chief Data Architecture & Operations Officer, Nedbank, South Africa
30. Severine Marquay, AI experience, digital support & innovation, Orange France, France
31. Rachel Cordrey, Pharmacy Supervisor, Peninsula Regional Medical Center, USA
32. MaryAnn Fleming, Head of Services, Home Buying and Ownership, RBS, UK
33. Erin Oles, Senior Director, R+F Virtual Live, Rodan + Fields, USA
34. Carolyn Staats, Director of Innovation, Information Systems Department, Sonoma County, USA
35. Jennifer Edgin, CTO, Deputy Commandant Information, U.S. Marine Corps, USA
36. Lee Hatton, CEO, UBank, Australia
37. Tanja Richter, Director, Consumer Products and Services, Vodafone, UK
38. Laura Bellamy, Director, Information Experience, VMWare, USA
39. Yu Ching Lan, Department Manager, Walsin Lihwa Corp., Taiwan
40. Shelley Kalms, Chief Digital Officer, Woodside Energy, Australia

"Artificial Intelligence is poised to drive dramatic advances in every industry," said Michelle Peluso, SVP, Digital Sales & CMO, IBM, who also serves as Leader of IBM's Women's Initiative. "Today, we are sharing the stories of 40 incredible women, who are paving the way forward in how AI is advancing businesses and changing how people work and live. At IBM, we know gender equality is critical and nowhere is this more important than in AI. We hope the stories shared today will encourage many more women to take a leadership role in shaping the future of this important technology."

Do you know someone that should be included in next month’s list? If so, send us an email at oliver@taborcommunications.com. We look forward to hearing from you.