AI Career Notes: August 2019 Edition
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 August.
Melissa Di Donato
Melissa Di Donato has been named CEO of SUSE. Prior to this role, Di Donato was COO and chief revenue officer at SAP. She has also held senior executive positions at Salesforce. Di Donato is also Technology Group chair of the 30% club, an organization aiming to achieve 30% female directors on S&P 100 boards by 2020.
“There is no greater honor than to lead SUSE into its next chapter of accelerated growth and corporate development,” Di Donato said. “SUSE is at the cusp of a historic shift as open source software is now a critical part of any thriving enterprise’s core business strategy. We are well positioned to emerge as the clear leader of this shift, with our ability to power digital transformation for our customers at their own pace and with agile, enterprise-grade open source solutions, edge to core to cloud.”
Mark Iwanowski
Formulus Black has announced the appointment of Mark Iwanowski as its new CEO. Iwanowski most recently served as CEO and president of Global Vision-SV, Inc. Prior to that role, he was managing director of Trident Capital.
“I have been on both sides of the conference table, as a startup executive and a VC, and from an operational and capital-raising perspective Formulus Black is a unique opportunity,” said Iwanowski. “Today high-performance computing, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications are the rule, not the exception, in industries like finance, automotive, telecom, energy, defense, and bioscience – Formulus Black’s Forsa software is a transformational technology for these environments.”
Per Nyberg
Stradigi AI has announced the appointment of Per Nyberg to the new role of chief commercial officer (CCO). In the new role, Nyberg will be responsible for leading Stradigi AI’s marketing, sales and client success teams. Nyberg has held a number of senior management positions in the technology industry – most recently, vice president at Cray, Inc., where he was responsible for developing Cray’s global AI business.
“I am very excited to be joining the exceptional team at Stradigi AI at this pivotal time following the launch of Kepler,” said Nyberg. “Kepler will revolutionize the way clients can build and execute AI solutions for complex business challenges.”
Mazen Rawashdeh
eBay has announced that Mazen Rawashdeh will be its new chief technology officer. Rawashdeh spent eight years with eBay from 2003 to 2011 before departing for roles at Twitter (where he was vice president of infrastructure operation engineering) and as an angel investor and tech advisor.
Rawashdeh returned to eBay in 2016 to lead platform engineering. In his new role as CTO, Rawashdeh will continue to lead platform engineering, as well as eBay’s infrastructure and platform architecture, AI, research and data science, payment and risk engineering, and more.
Pete Thompson
eBay has also announced that Pete Thompson will be its new chief product officer. Thompson – who has more than 20 years of experience building new products and services across many industries – joins eBay from Amazon, where he was vice president of Alexa Voice Service. Thompson will be focused on simplifying the eBay shopping experience.
Prior to his role at Amazon, Thompson was chief operating officer of TiVo, where he managed the merger of Rovi and TiVo. He also held executive roles at a variety of other companies, including Microsoft, T-Mobile, Ericsson, and Sonos.
Lorne Wilson
Microway has announced the appointment of Lorne Wilson as COO. Wilson’s previous roles include vice president at Boxx Technologies, chief sales officer with BluStor and senior vice president at Fujitsu. He previously served as co-chair of the NVIDIA Partner Network Partner Advisory Council, HPC.
“Microway delivers bleeding-edge performance hardware and software, as well as outstanding service to customers in a wide array of markets,” Wilson said. “I am excited for the opportunity to work with a talented team and accelerate the company’s remarkable growth.”
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.
