Tagged: Appointment
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Microsoft appoints Amy Hood as its first female CFO News
10.05.2013 Microsoft has promoted Amy Hood, the CFO of its US$24.1bn business division, to CFO of the entire company, making her Microsoft’s first female chief financial officer and the... -
Eircom Group announces John Shine as new MD of Network division News
09.05.2013 Eircom Group’s Network division has a new managing director, John Shine, who comes to the telecoms company from electricity utility ESB. He begins his new job on 1 August. -
ESB names Bríd Horan as new deputy chief executive News
09.05.2013 ESB’s chief executive Pat O’Doherty has appointed Bríd Horan as deputy chief executive to replace John Shine, who is leaving the electricity company at the end of the month to... -
Intel’s first Irish female VP helps engineer the future News
30.04.2013 Picture the scene: it is the mid-1980s at University College Cork (UCC) and a lecture hall fills with engineering students. Initially, nothing looks out of the ordinary except...Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Engineering, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment -
Angry Birds maker Rovio hires new EVP to lead game development News
19.04.2013 Angry Birds maker Rovio Entertainment has added a new executive vice-president of games to its flock, Jami Laes. -
Samsung names two new co-CEOs News
15.03.2013 Samsung Electronics now has three people sharing the CEO role, what with the appointment of presidents Yoon Boo-keun and J.K. Shin as co-CEOs. They join vice-chairman and CEO... -
Groupon appoints new senior VP of engineering and operations News
10.04.2013 Daily deals site Groupon has a new senior vice-president of engineering and operations: Sri Viswanath, former vice-president of research and development for mobile computing at...Categories: Web, Leadership & Management, Internet, eCommerce, Consumer Tech, Careers and Employment -
CEO of Electronic Arts John Riccitiello resigns News
19.03.2013 Electronic Arts (EA) CEO John Riccitiello will resign from his position with the video-game manufacturer, as well as step down as a member of its board of directors, on 30... -
VMware appoints Bill Fathers as VP for new hybrid cloud unit News
14.03.2013 Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure player VMware has appointed Bill Fathers as senior vice-president and general manager of VMware’s new Hybrid Cloud Services business unit. -
Former Vodafone exec Michel Combes is Alcatel-Lucent's new CEO News
25.02.2013 The former chief executive officer of Vodafone Europe Michel Combes will take the helm of network equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent as its new CEO on 1 April. -
Alcatel-Lucent names new Bell Labs president News
19.02.2013 Communications giant Alcatel-Lucent has appointed George ‘Gee’ Rittenhouse as president of its R&D subsidiary Bell Labs to replace Jeong Kim, who is returning to his native...Categories: Research, R&D, Leadership & Management, Development, Communications, Careers and Employment -
Former Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn has new CEO job News
15.01.2013 Ross Levinsohn, who served as Yahoo!’s interim CEO between the departure of Scott Thompson and the arrival of Marissa Mayer, has a new CEO role, at new global diversified... -
Garda member to lead operations at new EU cybercrime centre News
15.01.2013 A detective inspector with An Garda Síochána has been appointed head of operations for Europol’s newly established European Cyber Crime Centre in The Hague. -
Apple nabs Xerox’s executive VP and CFO News
11.01.2013 Xerox’s executive vice-president and chief financial officer (CFO) Luca Maestri is leaving the company at the end of February to take on the role of corporate controller at... -
Microsoft names new corporate VP for its Interactive Entertainment Business News
10.01.2013 Tech giant Microsoft has appointed Blake Krikorian as corporate vice-president for its Interactive Entertainment Business (IEB), following the acquisition of his company id8... -
Dell appoints new president of Dell Services News
06.12.2012 Technology giant Dell has appointed former Wipro co-CEO Suresh Vaswani as president of Dell Services, replacing Steve Schuckenbrock, who recently announced he intends to seek... -
HTC appoints Benjamin Ho as chief marketing officer News
28.11.2012 Benjamin Ho is taking the helm of worldwide marketing and branding at smartphone maker HTC in January as the company’s new chief marketing officer. -
Groupon appoints Kal Raman chief operating officer News
15.11.2012 Daily deals website Groupon has appointed its senior vice-president, Global Sales and Operations, Kal Raman, as its new chief operating officer (COO). -
Zynga’s CFO leaves company for senior Facebook role News
14.11.2012 Social games maker Zynga’s chief financial officer David Wehner is leaving the company to take on a senior finance job at social networking giant Facebook. -
Accenture CEO Pierre Nanterme to take on chairman of the board role News
23.10.2012 The board of directors at technology consulting firm Accenture has named CEO Pierre Nanterme as chairman of the board, to replace William D Green, who is stepping down from the...