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17.12.25 - 18:06
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Vercel Appoints Susan St. Ledger, former President of Worldwide Field Operations at HashiCorp, to Board of Directors (Business Wire)
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Infrastructure and go-to-market leader joins following the company's Series F at $9.3 billion valuation, amid rapid momentum with its AI offerings
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vercel, the AI Cloud platform, today announced the appointment of Susan St. Ledger, former President of Worldwide Field Operations at HashiCorp, to its board of directors.
Susan brings more than two decades of enterprise go-to-market leadership across the world's most innovative technology companies, including HashiCorp, Okta, Splunk, Salesforce, and Sun Microsystems. A computer scientist by training, she began her career as a software engineer at the National Security Agency.
At HashiCorp, Susan oversaw all aspects of the customer journey, from sales to initial deployment and into expansion, maximizing customer value across the company's infrastructure automation and security products. Before joining HashiCorp, she served as President of Worldwide Field Operations at Okta and at Splunk, where she helped the company more than ...
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15.12.25 - 22:54
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Hercules Pharmaceuticals Appoints Ali Ahmed as Chief Commercial Officer (Business Wire)
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hercules Pharmaceuticals today announced the appointment of Ali Ahmed as Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer. Ahmed will lead commercial strategy, enterprise growth, and strategic partnerships as Hercules scales its national platform and expands its role as a strategic partner within the U.S. pharmaceutical distribution ecosystem.
Ahmed brings deep experience across healthcare and enterprise technology, including leadership roles at Fresenius Kabi and Salesforce. He previously served on the executive team at Fresenius Kabi as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the BioPharma Business Unit, where he led commercialization of biosimilars to expand access to high-quality care. Ahmed also served as Global Head of Life Sciences Innovation at Salesforce, partnering with pharmaceutical companies to modernize commercial execution, launch strategy, and patient engagement through data, analytics, and digital platforms. His background combines pharmaceut...
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11.12.25 - 12:06
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Square, AWS, Salesforce & Workday on AI for Business (Bloomberg)
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Willem Avé, Global Head, Product, Square, Nilesh Dusane, Global Head, Institutional Payments, Amazon Web Services, Madhav Thattai, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Agentforce Product, Salesforce, and Julie Gonzalez, Senior Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis, Workday, join Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary for a discussion on how AI tools are transforming everyday business operations at the Empowering Business Growth in the Digital Economy event in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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10.12.25 - 03:48
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OpenAI names first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit (SCMP)
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OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology.
OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy and “help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations”.
Dresser had already spent more than a decade at Salesforce when the software pioneer announced in 2020 it was buying work-chatting service Slack for......
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09.12.25 - 18:39
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fal Raises $140M in Series D Led by Sequoia, with Major Participation from Kleiner Perkins and New Investment from Alkeon Capital and NVentures (NVIDIA′s venture capital arm) to Accelerate the Future of Real-Time Generative Media (Business Wire)
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Existing investors a16z, Kindred Ventures, Meritech, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Shopify Ventures and Salesforce Ventures also participated, reinforcing fal's position as the foundational infrastructure layer for AI-generated content across developer, enterprise, and creative ecosystems.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--fal, the real-time generative-media platform powering the next decade of AI-driven content, today announced a $140 million Series D financing. The round is led by Sequoia, with significant participation from Kleiner Perkins and new investment from NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, and Alkeon Capital. The round also includes continued support from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Kindred Ventures, Meritech, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notable Capital, Shopify Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and others.
This is fal's third fundraise in 2025—following its Series B and Series C—each driven by surging, usage-based demand rather than runway needs. It...
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