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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Zendesk rejects $17B offer, sidewalk robots, recruiting survey

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Fast-forward to today: the automotive cybersecurity industry has a compound annual growth rate around 20%. In short order, this shift has created tangible benefits for the cybersecurity industry: In 2021, investors poured $29.5 Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote. TechCrunch Experts is recruiting recruiters.

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Top IT exec recuiters weigh in on talent trends today

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Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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5 steps we can take to address the cyber skills shortage

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But we are not the only industry with a talent gap. The medical industry, for example, is facing a shortage of more than 10 million physicians worldwide 3. Industry associations provide another mechanism that can help us connect and assess the skills of individuals, as do community colleges. million or 3.5

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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. How can I actually take that knowledge and leverage it in a way that helps others in the industry or my peers at Vise?

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

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Since then, the startup has made some significant moves beyond just the funding, including growing to a total of 18 employees and bringing on aerospace industry veteran and former Airbus CTO Christine Tovee. “Christine had been on our technical board of advisors for quite some time,” he said.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board

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Will that stellar engineer become a great CTO? Miranda Halpern spoke to Amsterdam-based coach Ward van Gasteren for our latest growth marketing interview , which is free to read. Should your product person be opinionated or a team player? Are you even the best choice for CEO? Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.