The Org

With Rippling’s firestorm ☄️ lawsuit against HR task management platform Deel, the once 12.6 billion company’s future is murky at best. Ex-Rippling employee Keith O’Brien confessed to being hired by Deel to commit corporate espionage and was offered relocation to Dubai 🕌 for safety after getting caught. Elisabeth Diana, Head of Communications at Deel disappeared amid the drama by swiftly exiting the company as more court details reveal a movie-like account with James Bond analogies 📽️. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/e5dG_85D

After a 7-year tenure tainted with missteps and redeemed by one-hit wonders, Jennifer Salke steps down as Head of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios. Salke pioneered successful projects like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Reacher, and Fallout, but takes a bench with expensive flops such as the TV reboot The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power 🧝♂️. She also takes the heat for the mismanagement of iconic movie franchise James Bond 🚁 🛳️. Salke closes this chapter only to score a first-look film and TV deal with Amazon as she starts her production company 🎬. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eHc9W7jP

Once the darling of Silicon Valley, valued at $6 billion, the genetic and biotechnology company 23andMe 🧬 files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki steps down after almost 20 years but remains on the board. The sale of the company is met with several failed bid attempts by Wojcicki as the proof is in the pudding. Since its IPO in 2021, the company has not been profitable 📉. Its market cap has fallen 99%, and the massive cyberattack that left the genetic data of millions compromised in 2023 took $30 million to settle. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/e3PhC7Td

With the recent partnership with Cineverse 🎞️, the streaming and entertainment company, The Trade Desk will integrate its OpenPath technology to solve Cineverse’s ambiguous ad impression problem and streamline its advertising supply chain ⛓️💥. The omnichannel platform benefits as its advertisers can access Cineverse’s digital content library and brands . As this partnership opens up a through-line between premium content and advertisers searching for the right audience fit, The Trade Desk strategically gets a new COO. Vivek Kundra has served as the CIO of the U.S. Federal Government 🇺🇸, managing $80 billion in investments and later the EVP of Industries at Salesforce. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eJhkvpRk

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Following Chris Degnan’s retirement, Mike Gannon is appointed as the new CRO of the AI Data Cloud company, Snowflake ❄️. Gannon joins from VMware by Broadcom, where he served as the President of the Americas and integrated sales functions in a highly competitive market. At the cloud-based storage, computing, and data analytics platform, Gannon will lead go-to-market and overall revenue strategy 💵 🚀. The cloud platform continues to improve its data with its recent partnership with JPX Market Innovation & Research. Later this month, Snowflake’s product offerings will expand to J-Quants Pro datasets, JPX’s first set of rich and varied data services. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eVqDHnbM

☁️ Cloud storage giant Dropbox gets a new CTO. Ali Dasdan joins the global, leading file-sharing and collaboration platform from ZoomInfo. Under Dasdan’s 2+ year guidance, he led the business intelligence/contact information 🪪 company as CTO, growing the engineering team and managing data and security 🔒. Before his role at ZoomInfo, Dasdan had a 3+ year stint at Atlassian, the Australian-based software development company geared towards project management. He led engineering for work management products such as Confluence, Trello, and Jira Work Management. As of March 2025, the estimated $7.71 billion 💰 market cap company will utilize Dasdan’s experience to scale products like Dropbox Dash and spearhead company-wide technical strategy. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eRXk32eu

Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s stealth start-up is no longer a secret 🤫. With fellow OpenAI colleagues John Schulman as the Chief Scientist and Barret Zoph as CTO, Thinking Machines Lab💡🥼 is determined to make AI work for the average layperson’s objectives and ambitions. Murati, who served for six and a half years at OpenAI and also had a brief stint as CEO, has put together a rag-tag group of the most creative and intellectual scientists, engineers, and builders whose work spans across popular products such as ChatGPT, Character.AI (acquired by Google), PyTorch, and Fairseq 🦾. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eFiiP3ZH

Google Cloud ☁️, the third largest cloud provider in the world, bested by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, hires Hayete Gallot as President of Customer Experience. Gallot joins from a 16-year career at Microsoft and completed her tenure as the VP of Commercial Solutions. This move aims to bring a renewed value perspective to customers and aid them in implementing emerging AI technologies 🤖. No jobs will be lost even as Gallot’s hire shakes up the internal reporting structure. The 13% global market share hyperscaler has remained among the big three for the last 7 years, and analysts forecast that the behemoth could hit $38 billion in annual revenue this year 💸. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eAveKkpt

With Valentine’s Day 💘 💌 right around the corner, online dating services company Match Group breaks up with its CEO, Kim Bernard, in a cutthroat “it’s you, not me” move. Kim, unable to turn around the consistent decline 📉 in Tinder subscribers, Match Group’s flagship app, coupled with the threat of Starboard Value, an activist investor potentially selling shares due to low performance, was fired. With a drop in quarterly earnings and a sales forecast below market value, Match Group rushed to “save face” by swapping out its leadership to emphasize a new direction of growth for the future 🚀. Internal promotions seem to be having a field day right now as the new CEO of Match Group, Spencer Rascoff, comes directly from the board 🤝. Interested in knowing more? Check out our Top 10 Picks for the Latest Executive Changes 🧳 here https://lnkd.in/eZHfjr7k