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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. Nothing clicked until she spoke to Trainline, the international digital rail and coach technology platform, headquartered in London.

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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

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Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. Trillions are at stake in the retirement wars, and Vise nets $14.5M You can check out the video of their demo here.

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Farther, a wealth tech firm, banks $15M Series A as valuation hits $50M

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Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

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We have to cast a wider net. As a field CTO, I have always been conscious of providing new members of my team with both a mentor and a clearly articulated career pathway, with specific goals and targets. One of my mantras is this: recruit for attitude, train for competence, coach for performance.

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Money Minx aims to build a ‘Personal Finance’ OS for the everyday investor

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We built Money Minx to help people cover all their bases, better understand their personal balance sheet and grow their net worth,” Hussein said. “No No financial advisor needed.”. I didn’t want to hire a financial advisor and spend 1% of my portfolio every year for them to tell me what to do.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.) The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% Last year saw a 1.2% 1 challenge listed.

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Employee engagement: 10 best practices for improving your culture

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Instead of focusing on administrative tasks, spend time coaching, goal setting, and leading, he says. “I I do AMAs [ask me anything conversations] every six weeks,” says Pedro Canahuati, CTO at 1Password. “I Getting a quick Net Promoter Score [ NPS ] is great for this.” Do a pulse check,” she says.

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