Enterprise IT
Shell is appointing former CISO Robbert Van Rutten as its new group CIO, effective July 1, 2023 The appointment comes after veteran CIO Jay Crotts announced that he was stepping down after a 37-year career at the energy supermajor, which has involved responsibility for the IT Function globally since 2015.
Synthetic data specialist Hazy has raised $9 million in a Series A round that will be used to scale the British startup. Funding was led by Conviction VC, with strategic investors including Nationwide and Wells Fargo. Originally a UCL AI spin out, London-based Hazy uses AI-generated synthetic data that preserves
Data, says Mohammed ‘Khal’ Khalid, “behaves a bit like sugar.” It’s an unusual simile, but the DXC Technology advisory director says his team’s conversations with Chief Information Officers and Chief Data Officers show that organisations are “experiencing a crisis in decision making exacerbated by an inability to metabolise
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Gil Shwed is an anachronism: A startup founder who has stayed CEO for three decades, carefully growing his brainchild from nothing into a $2 billion-by-annual-revenue powerhouse, whilst reporting a profit every single quarter along the way. (“Every quarter?” The Stack asks. “Every month,” Check Point’s CEO says softly.) Check