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K4Connect Announces the Appointment of Mike Weller as CEO

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- K4Connect, the leading provider of enterprise technologies for the senior living industry, today announced the appointment of Mike Weller as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Weller assumes this role after serving as Chief Operating Officer of K4Connect, and will oversee the Company's growth strategy and continued development of its FusionOS integration and data platform. K4Connect's Co-Founder and former CEO, Scott Moody, will continue to work closely with Weller through the transition and will continue to serve on the Company's Board of Directors.

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  • RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- K4Connect , the leading provider of enterprise technologies for the senior living industry, today announced the appointment of Mike Weller as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
  • Weller assumes this role after serving as Chief Operating Officer of K4Connect, and will oversee the Company's growth strategy and continued development of its FusionOS integration and data platform.
  • K4Connect's Co-Founder and former CEO, Scott Moody, will continue to work closely with Weller through the transition and will continue to serve on the Company's Board of Directors.
  • Before joining K4Connect in 2022, Weller held pivotal roles as the Chief Revenue Officer at Go Global Retail and as the Chief Operating Officer at Softonic.

RingCentral Appoints Bobbie Grafeld as Chief Human Resources Officer

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023
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RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a leading provider of AI-powered global enterprise cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, and contact center solutions, today announced that Bobbie Grafeld has been appointed as Chief Human Resources Officer.

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  • RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a leading provider of AI-powered global enterprise cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, and contact center solutions, today announced that Bobbie Grafeld has been appointed as Chief Human Resources Officer.
  • Reporting to Mo Katibeh, President and Chief Operating Officer, Grafeld will be responsible for developing and executing human resources strategy in support of the company’s overall strategic priorities.
  • Most recently, Grafeld served as Chief People Officer for video game publisher, 2K.
  • “RingCentral is recognized as having a great workplace culture ,” said Bobbie Grafeld, Chief Human Resources Officer.

Vestigo Ventures and Ridge Ventures Invest in Aeqium as Pay Transparency, Stock-Based Compensation Challenges Accelerate

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Thursday, March 9, 2023
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230309005563/en/

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230309005563/en/
    Aeqium simplifies compensation planning and flags pay equity issues with its automated total compensation management platform.
  • Vestigo Ventures led the seed round with participation from Ridge Ventures.
  • Photo: Peter McKee, co-founder & CEO of Aeqium
    Aeqium is addressing these problems with its automated total compensation management platform.
  • Vestigo Ventures coinvested with Ridge Ventures in the seed round, citing Aeqium’s management team, the market opportunity, and Aeqium’s capabilities as the new standard of compensation management.

Pod Foods Brings On Ex-KeHE SVP of Growth, Bolsters Leadership Team with Industry Leaders

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pod Foods, the leading grocery B2B marketplace platform, today announced the hire of three new executives to the team. Leading the new additions is Peter Gialantzis who previously led the growth team at KeHE, one of the nation's top wholesale food distributors. Timothy Wee and Ankit Patel also join the leadership team with a  breadth of relevant industry experience coming from companies like Amazon and Boxed. As Pod Foods continues to expand its national presence, the team has grown significantly from just 33 employees in December 2020, to over 70 employees today. These new hires are bringing renowned grocery industry and technology experience to Pod Foods to to promote  innovation in the space and execute faster on the company vision.

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  • Timothy Wee and Ankit Patel also join the leadership team with a breadth of relevant industry experience coming from companies like Amazon and Boxed.
  • As Pod Foods continues to expand its national presence, the team has grown significantly from just 33 employees in December 2020, to over 70 employees today.
  • These new hires are bringing renowned grocery industry and technology experience to Pod Foods to to promote innovation in the space and execute faster on the company vision.
  • Peter Gialantzis is the newest member of the Pod Foods team and joins as their VP of Business Development.

Zum Expands Executive Team, Appoints Chief Financial Officer, Chief Product Officer and Vice President of Engineering

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Thursday, July 14, 2022
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zūm, the leader in modern student transportation, today announced the appointment of three key executive hires: the company's first Chief Product Officer, Rohit Jain, along with Jay Kim, who joins as Chief Financial Officer, and Shiva Nagabushanaswamy, who joins as Vice President of Engineering. Jain will oversee product strategy, development, design and innovation, utilizing his expertise in logistics and tech to usher in a new chapter of transformation as Zum continues to work toward its vision to reimagine student transportation. Kim will be responsible for overall financial management of the company, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, corporate development and capital formation. Nagabushanaswamy will be responsible for building and scaling the engineering organization at Zum, bringing in his years of technical expertise, best engineering practices, and experience in building and leading teams to deliver mission-critical large scale complex technology platforms.

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  • Kim will be responsible for overall financial management of the company, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, corporate development and capital formation.
  • Nagabushanaswamy brings 20 years of engineering experience to his new role of Vice President of Engineering at Zum.
  • He most recently served as Head of Engineering - Ads at Uber and Director of Engineering - Personalization at Netflix.
  • Nagabushanaswamy brings to Zum his years of experience building and scaling engineering teams to deliver highly complex and scalable technology platforms.

Nikhil Raj, Partner at Bain & Co. and Founding Executive of Walmart Labs, Joins Kevel’s Board

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Tuesday, July 12, 2022
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Kevel ( www.kevel.com ), the leading API solution for building custom ad platforms, is happy to announce that Nikhil Raj is joining its Board of Directors.

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  • Kevel ( www.kevel.com ), the leading API solution for building custom ad platforms, is happy to announce that Nikhil Raj is joining its Board of Directors.
  • He previously held the position of Vice President of Advertising and Marketing Products for Walmart.
  • He was also the founding executive of Walmart Labs, via the acquisition of Kosmix, where he helped grow the team from approximately seven employees to over 150 in four years.
  • I couldnt be more honored to welcome Nikhil to our board, says James Avery, Founder and CEO of Kevel.

SynergisticIT makes its Highly Coveted IT Skill enhancement Programs more affordable!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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The new programs start as low as $3000 in upfront investment compared to $10000 earlier.

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  • The new programs start as low as $3000 in upfront investment compared to $10000 earlier.
  • The Balance is payable only after candidates start earning $75,000.00 or higher; otherwise, payments are waived until the minimum threshold is achieved.
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Ad Tech Veteran Chris Bolte Joins Yieldmo as SVP Revenue Strategy & Business Development

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
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Yieldmo, a leading advertising technology company, today announced the addition of Chris Bolte to its global leadership team as SVP Revenue Strategy & Business Development.

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  • Yieldmo, a leading advertising technology company, today announced the addition of Chris Bolte to its global leadership team as SVP Revenue Strategy & Business Development.
  • Bolte will oversee partnership development for the company's suite of products and help drive the business strategy across all revenue lines.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220330005097/en/
    Chris Bolte, SVP Revenue Strategy & Business Development (Photo: Business Wire)
    "Digital advertising is on the brink of a seismic shift, and Yieldmo is leading the way and embracing a 'Privacy-First' economy with our cookieless solution," said Mike Yavonditte, Founder & CEO, Yieldmo.
  • Bolte joins Yieldmo from Paysa, a company he co-founded that enabled employees to optimize the value of their careers.

Pod Foods Announces $13M in New Funding, Reinvents the Grocery Supply Chain as Consumer Demand Soars

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Thursday, December 9, 2021
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Pod Foods streamlines the procurement process for retailers while enabling data-driven discovery for the emerging brands that consumers want.

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  • Pod Foods streamlines the procurement process for retailers while enabling data-driven discovery for the emerging brands that consumers want.
  • "Pod Foods is the first to provide the logistics infrastructure needed to completely overhaul the grocery supply chain for the better, creating a true end-to-end system that enables both retailers and brands to thrive."
  • "Pod Foods has excelled at supporting emerging brands on a national scale," said Michael Berl, Head of Regional Partnerships at Gopuff.
  • To learn more about Pod Foods and how they're impacting procurement and distribution for retailers and brands please visit: https://podfoods.co/ .

Alteryx Acquires Lore IO to Dramatically Enhance Enterprise Analytics for Cloud Data

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Friday, October 22, 2021
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"Lore IObrings a talented and tenured team that has decades of combined experience building mission-critical, cloud and analytics applications to increase big data fluency that enables customers to rapidly deploy analytics," said Mark Anderson, chief executive officer at Alteryx.

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  • "Lore IObrings a talented and tenured team that has decades of combined experience building mission-critical, cloud and analytics applications to increase big data fluency that enables customers to rapidly deploy analytics," said Mark Anderson, chief executive officer at Alteryx.
  • "Alteryx makes analytics and data science easy, which is why customers love it so much.
  • The Lore IO team and I are excited by the possibilities of what we can do together with Alteryx."
  • "The acquisition of Lore IO provides our team the IP and assets to enhance Designer Cloud and Alteryx Machine Learning offerings through cloud-based data modeling and smart query pushdown into cloud data sources."