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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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14 essential book recommendations by and for IT leaders

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For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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2022 CIO75 ASEAN Awards: Nominations are now open

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The role of technology leaders — whether CIO, CTO, or CDO — continues to change at pace postpandemic, driven by the emergence of new technologies, business models, and market dynamics. Culture can include increasing cultural diversity, celebrating team wins, and/or mentoring staff, among others. New CIO75 ASEAN Team of the Year awards.

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2022 CIO75 ASEAN Awards: Nominations are now open

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The role of technology leaders — whether CIO, CTO, or CDO — continues to change at pace postpandemic, driven by the emergence of new technologies, business models, and market dynamics. Culture can include increasing cultural diversity, celebrating team wins, and/or mentoring staff, among others. New CIO75 ASEAN Team of the Year awards.

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Ceiling breakers: Women IT execs shake up the status quo

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Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I Yvonne Scott is another female IT leadership pioneer who early in her career saw technology as a way to feed her career ambitions. Plotting a path forward S.

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Space startup Wyvern raises $4.5M and joins YC’s latest cohort

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I’ve covered Wyvern in the past, including when the startup participated in incubator Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)’s academic conference-like demo day back in 2019. Robson told me about how that key leadership team member came onboard. Wyvern is also set to launch its first satellites to orbit this year.

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Commit raises $6M seed round to match senior engineers to startups they want to work for

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The company, which focuses on working with remote-first startups, launched in 2019, with co-founders Greg Gunn (CEO) and Beier Cai (CTO), who met as early employees at Hootsuite, bootstrapping the company while they worked out the details of how they wanted Commit to work.