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.
Snowflake is first and foremost a data platform, a place where companies can store, analyze and share data in the cloud. That puts the company in the right place at the right time as data has become central to building meaningful solutions on top of large language models, whether that
When your company is involved in the crypto market, it has a tendency to make you a target. Consider that just last week on February 21st, crypto exchange Bybit dealt with an historic $1.5 billion hack, followed by $4 billion in panic withdrawals. This is the kind of news
Amalgamated Bank is not just any financial institution. The bank was founded in 1923, the vision of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America leaders, to give their union members, mostly immigrant women, access to banking services. Its history and mission don't just drive business strategy, they create a culture
With a remote and distributed workforce of over 8300 employees, Shopify CISO Andrew Dunbar believes it’s imperative to implement a disciplined and controlled approach to technology to help keep the millions of merchants that rely on the company’s platform secure. His core philosophy around security is that a
As chief operating officer for core engineering, head of product management and head of engineering partnerships at Goldman Sachs, Belinda Neal helps define the core engineering strategy at the firm. She’s also responsible for technology business development, bringing innovative tech solutions directly to the lines of business and part
Intuit CTO Alex Balazs has been at the company for over 25 years, and during that time, he’s seen the organization shift from a set of mostly consumer-focused financial tools to one that serves both consumer and business users. He’s also seen his own role change from
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,
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
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
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
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
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