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Wayfair has announced that Sean Halligan has joined the company as its new Chief Global Supply Chain Officer. 

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Wayfair Recruits a New Supply Chain Chief to Protect its Global Supply Lines

How companies can better retain their employees through the Great Resignation.

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What Companies Can Do To Retain Through the Great Resignation

Discover some of the biggest buyouts Uber has made as it looks to build out its super app.

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Fabric, a headless commerce startup, has recruited yet another former Amazon executive to its leadership team. Late last week, the five-year-old company announced that it had hired Stacy Saal as the company’s first-ever COO, starting March 1.

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Fabric Lands Another Ex-Amazon Exec, This Time as COO

Samsung has named Mark Benson to lead the U.S. operations of its internet of things (IoT) and smart home unit, a newly created role.

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Samsung Appoints New U.S. Smart Home Leader

Gopuff has secured a new leader to help it grow abroad by hiring former Booking.com executive Bryan Batista as its SVP of International. 

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Gopuff Hires an Exec to Fulfill International Ambitions

The Africa Free Trade Area (AFTA) was launched in January 2021 and is set to create a single market on the continent, similar to the European Union.  While there are many obstacles that need to be overcome for the AFTA to reach its full potential, logistics startups are positioning themselves to play a key role in it. 


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What We’ve Learned From Two African Startups Blazing a Trail in E-Logistics

Marqeta, the buzzy card issuing and payments processing platform, has revealed that it has a new CFO, Visa veteran Mike Milotich, who will take the reins on February 22. 

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Marqeta Scoops Up Visa Veteran as Finance Chief

Check out our roundup of ten of Salesforce's largest and most impactful acquisitions in the past decade.

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These are the most notable hires, promotions, and departures within the US tech community in the last week. For executive news updated daily, check out The Org's News tab.

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The Biggest Moves in Tech This Week

The Org spoke with Tyler Trerotola, the U.S. CEO of Jokr to understand how instant delivery will influence our relationship with the sharing economy.

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How the Rise of Instant Delivery Will Influence the Sharing Economy

Stripe’s longtime chief operating officer Claire Hughes Johnson is stepping back into an advisory role right as the company is rumored to go public. 

Claire Hughes Johnson, the former COO of Stripe, stepped into an advisory role in 2022. 

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Stripe's COO Steps Into an Advisory Role

Peloton has refreshed its leadership structure by naming former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as its new President and CEO ahead of cost-cutting measures

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Peloton Picks a New CEO as It Prepares for Layoffs

On Monday, Bluesky, a Twitter-backed venture creating a decentralized social media standard, established itself as a public benefit LLC (PBLLC) and named its first three board members: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Jabber/XMPP creator Jeremie Miller and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

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Jack Dorsey Joins the Board of Twitter’s Decentralized Social Media Bet

On April 1, Red Hat will have a new CFO, Carolyn Nash. Currently, Nash serves as the enterprise open-source software company’s VP of Global Finance, Transformations and Operations.

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Red Hat Announces CFO Transition

On Thursday, news broke that the online mortgage originator's EVP of Customer Experience, Sales and Operations Sarah Pierce and SVP of Capital Markets and Growth Emanuel Santa-Donato had left the company.

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Two Top Better Execs Exit After Controversial CEO’s Return

Tina first dabbled in Web3 at the beginning of the pandemic. What really drew her attention to it was the hype and conversations that were happening in chat rooms, Twitter DMs and Clubhouse rooms, which reminded her of the internet culture that she had grown up with.

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Women in Web3: Designing the Future of DeFi

Workday has revealed that Patrick Blair has taken on a new role as its President for the Americas. Blair is now the enterprise finance and HR cloud applications company's new top sales exec for the region and will report directly to Co-President Doug Robinson.

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Workday Names a New President to Drive Further Fortune 500 Adoption

The Org looks into the up-and-coming startups to keep an eye out for in 2022.

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What’s Coming in 2022 for Latin America’s Startup Ecosystem

Seven executives across the corporate development and creator marketing teams have exited the online scrapbooking app in the past several months. 