Every week we feature conversations with the CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and technology leaders shaping enterprise technology, along with founders and executives at startups building the tools they rely on.
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When you think about a startup, you probably imagine a small company with a handful of daring employees, but Databricks, a company that has been around since 2013 doesn’t really fit that vision, at least not anymore. In its most recent funding round at the end of last year,
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When Elevance Health head of security Sekhar Nagasundaram went to visit his son’s classroom in 2011, he struggled to describe what he did to a group of young school children. His kid kindly bailed him out when he said, “Dad, you help catch sketchy guys.” When it comes to
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At FastForward, we like to interview CISOs, CIOs and other technology strategists inside large organizations, but with Rinki Sethi, CISO at BILL, a financial operations platform aimed at SMBs, we found someone who is in charge of both IT and security. It’s a lot of responsibility, but in some
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Martin Brodbeck joined PayPal this past summer to lead the engineering group in charge of consumer-facing applications. The job comes with a whole set of unique challenges as the organization navigates an increasingly complex and competitive landscape, and new technologies like generative AI keep coming at them fast and furiously.
Sharon Mandell is CIO at Juniper Networks, the networking company that HPE agreed to acquire last year for $14 billion. Juniper is working with some of the largest organizations in the world including the top 10 companies on the Forbes 2000 list. Like most CIOs nowadays, she is looking at
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Blackstone is responsible for over $1.1 trillion in assets, making it the largest alternative investment firm in the world, one that has to deal with acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture investment and more. CISO Adam Fletcher is charged with keeping the company safe in an increasingly aggressive threat environment. His
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Juan Perez was hired as CIO at Salesforce in 2022 after over 30 years at UPS in various roles, most recently as chief information and engineering officer. It had to be quite a change moving from a logistics company to the largest pure SaaS company in the world. Yet in