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‘Boomerang’ CIOs: IT leaders level up by coming back

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When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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Planck, the insurance data analytics platform, raises $20M growth round

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Planck co-founders (from left to right): David Schapiro, CEO Elad Tsur and CTO Amir Cohen. Planck , the AI-based data platform for commercial insurance underwriting, announced today it has raised a $20 million growth round. Planck said it currently works with “dozens of commercial insurance companies in the U.S.,”

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The rise of the chief transformation officer

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Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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Transforming IT culture for business success

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Phil Dundas, CTO for Fixed Income, Prudential Global Investment Management Prudential Global Investment Management Making culture stick One of the most important rules of making culture stick is breaking down silos and creating a more holistic community of IT.

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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

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Conscious of the recent history of disruption to financial services, the sector’s technology leaders are already looking for opportunities in AI. Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re.

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The CIO as chief integration (and influence) officer

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“We are seeing a significant expansion in the CIO role and specifically in a handful of responsibilities that weren’t there pre-COVID,” including monetizing data and technology for the organization, re-imagining how work is done through automation , and more focus on emerging technology to drive business solutions, Kark says.