Marcus, the consumer bank operated by Goldman Sachs, has seen its head of product Michael Cerda quit his job. According to a report in The Financial Times, Cerda was at the company for a little over two years but decided to quit his job after growing...
Pushed? Jumped ? The speculation begins and runs rampant as Timothy Sloan steps down from Wells Fargo’s helm – and yes, shares popped. In the meantime, the bank still will have to contend with a spate of scandals that linger no matter whose name is...
Walmart CTO Jeremy King is moving to Pinterest. According to CNBC, King will be the new head of engineering at social media company Pinterest, where he’ll be in charge of the site’s “visual discovery engine” that recommends posts and images to users. King comes to...
Harvey Schwartz, the former president and co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, is reportedly in talks to become the next CEO of Wells Fargo. The New York Post reported that members of Wells Fargo’s board have been meeting with Schwartz, who was beat out by David Solomon...
Direct Lending Investments’ founder and CEO Brendan Ross has resigned while his company is the focus of an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Bloomberg reported that the company revealed in a letter to investors that Ross stepped down from the role of...
Walmart‘s Chief Technology Officer Jeremy King is stepping down. According to an internal memo obtained by CNBC, King will be starting “a new adventure soon,” although no specifics were given about where he is headed to next. Fiona Tan, Walmart’s current senior vice president of...
Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, announced Tuesday (March 19) its appointment of Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the U.S. According to a Fintech Finance report, Gottschalk will be based in San Francisco and...
In surprise announcements, two senior Facebook executives said they are leaving the company just days after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he was shifting the direction of the social media giant, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The two executives are Chris Cox,...
Tristan O’Tierney, who helped found payments firm Square before leaving the company in 2013, died on Feb. 23. O’Tierney was 35, and held positions at other tech firms prior to arriving at Square, CNBC reported. A spokesperson for the company told CNBC, “Tristan was part...
