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Digital Wallet Provider Curve Appoints CEO to Drive US Growth
June 07, 2024

Digital wallet provider Curve has appointed Nancy Yaffa as its USA CEO and Reeta K. Holmes as its new board member. These appointments come at a time when Curve, which is active in 31 markets across the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA),...

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Report: JPMorgan Global Head of Payments Georgakopoulos to Step Down
June 03, 2024

Takis Georgakopoulos, JPMorgan Chase’s global head of payments, is reportedly leaving the banking giant. Georgakopoulos, who has headed that division since 2017, will step down to pursue other ventures, Reuters reported Monday (June 3), citing an internal memo. According to the report, Max Neukirchen and...

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Cleveland Fed Names Goldman’s Beth Hammack as President
May 30, 2024

A longtime Goldman Sachs executive is the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s new leader. Beth Hammack, co-head of global finance at Goldman, has been named the Cleveland Fed’s new president and CEO, the central bank announced Wednesday (May 29). In addition to leading the Cleveland...

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Former OpenAI Safety Head Jan Leike Joins Anthropic
May 28, 2024

Jan Leike, who resigned from artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI earlier in May, has joined rival AI firm Anthropic. Leike announced the move in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (May 28), noting that he will work on “scalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, and...

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Definitive Healthcare Names DailyPay’s Kevin Coop as CEO
May 28, 2024

Healthcare commercial intelligence provider Definitive Healthcare has a new chief executive. Kevin Coop, most recently the CEO of earned wage access company DailyPay, was announced as Definitive’s new CEO Tuesday (May 28) in a news release. He is due to take the job June 24,...

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DailyPay COO Stacy Greiner to Serve as Interim CEO
May 28, 2024

DailyPay CEO Kevin Coop will step down from that position to pursue other endeavors and serve as a board advisor for the company. The WorkTech firm’s chief operating officer (COO), Stacy Greiner, will succeed Coop and serve as interim CEO, effective June 1, DailyPay said...

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Care.com Debuts Employer-Based Spending Accounts
May 22, 2024

Care.com has introduced a spending account to help workers cover the cost of care. The new accounts, announced Wednesday (May 22), are designed to give employers a solution to support employees who need to pay for care for children, seniors, pets or themselves. “Conversations about the cost of...

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AI Startup Perplexity Adds Ex-Uber and Bing Execs as Advisers
May 16, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity has added three new advisers. They include Emil Michael, former chief business officer at Uber; Rich Miner, co-founder of Android and adviser to Google; and Mikhail Parakhin, former CEO of Bing, according to a Thursday (May 16) post on LinkedIn by Perplexity Co-founder and CEO...

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Anthropic Adds Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger as Chief Product Officer
May 15, 2024

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger has joined artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic as its chief product officer. In his new role, Krieger will oversee the company’s product engineering, product management and product design efforts, Anthropic said in a Wednesday (May 15) press release. He joins the company at a time when it...