HealthTech firm Doctorlink has appointed Rupert Spiegelberg as its new CEO. Speigelberg, a technology industry veteran, was most recently CEO of the Munich-based AI-powered digital identity company IDNow. Read More
Cloud software company SeviceNow has appointed new CEO Bill McDermott. Bill is the former CEO of SAP.
Neon River’s Peter Franks has recently written an article on executive search in the internet sector.
Netflix has appointed Jackie Lee-Joe as its new CMO. Previously Lee-Joe served as CMO of BBC Studios since 2015. Read More
Real estate company Purplebricks has appointed Vic Darvey as Group Chief Operating Officer. Vic is the former Managing Director at MoneySuperMarket.
Based in London and New York, Octopus Ventures is one of the Europe’s largest Venture Capital firms with £1bn under management. Its portfolio includes a number of exciting online and technology brands such as Zoopla, Graze and Secret Escapes. Venture capital firms are increasingly looking to advice their portfolio companies on how to identify, attract and retain talent. With this in mind, Octopus Ventures hosted a masterclass for its portfolio company CEOs to examine the importance and differences between three different recruitment approaches. The three discussed approaches were – executive search, in-house recruitment, and an embedded 3rd party recruiter.
eBay has hired Jan Pedersen as its Vice President and Chief Scientist for Artificial Intelligence. Prior to eBay, Pedersen served as VP of Data Science at Twitter leading investment in data analytics and machine learning infrastructure.
UK’s digital banking unicorn Revolut has been making headlines since raising its first funding. For a company that is just four years old, the success of the digital challenger bank is astonishing. To date the company has raised $344 million, with a $1.7 billion post-money valuation. Co-founded by CEO Nikolay Storonsky, the company operates in 28 European countries and handles $4 billion in monthly payment transactions. Read More