by CDO Review Staff | Jan 15, 2019 | People
Specialty reinsurance firm Axis Capital Holdings has hired Govind Balu as its new Chief Data and Analytics Officer. In addition to leading the company’s Analytics Center of Excellence, Balu will be responsible for coordinating with Axis Capital’s teams across the...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Deals
AtScale announced that it had recently secured $50 million in Series D funding led by Morgan Stanley in association with Storm Ventures, Atlantic Bridge, and Wells Fargo. AtScale is one of the leading firms in the $122 billion data warehouse visualization market. It...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Leandro DalleMule, formerly CDO and head of information at American International Group (AIG) for the last five years, has accepted an appointment to become AI data platform Planck Resolution’s general manager for North America. A report on DalleMule’s departure from...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Chief Data Officer
Looking ahead to a new Congress next year, a group of 15 Senate Democrats is cooking up a big new data privacy plan that is meant secure the personal information online. Privacy activists have already signaled their approval with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Jobs and Salaries, People
Los Angeles County is looking for a new Chief Data Officer. L.A. County, which includes the city of Los Angeles, is one of the biggest and most ethnically diverse counties in California and its economy is bigger than that of countries like Norway or Belgium. A report...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Deals
Egress specializes in AI-driven data privacy and compliance software that secures unstructured data, one of the hottest growth areas in an industry faced with growing concerns about the security of online information. Egress recently collared $40 million in a Series C...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Deals
Data science startup AirPR has landed $8 million in Series C Funding bringing is total funds raised to $18 million overall. The funding round was led by Wildcat Ventures, Storm Ventures, Correlation Ventures, along with new investor, Pereg Ventures. The San...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Deals
Machine Metrics, an IoT-focused startup that supplies digital tools to companies in order to increase productivity, has landed $11.3 million in Series A financing led by Tola Capital. Machine Metrics says it will use the funds to accelerate global sales of its data...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, People
Andrea Iorio, the man who grew Tinder’s market in Brazil from zero to the world’s second largest for his company will be the new CDO for L’Oreal Brazil. Angelica Mari filed this report outlining Iorio’s goals in Forbes: Priorities include maximizing e-commerce results...
by CDO Review Staff | Dec 27, 2018 | Chief Data Officer, Issues & Insights
The biggest hurdle to applying machine learning in medicine has been the difficulty in obtaining high-quality data with which to train the algorithm. Simply handing over confidential patient records to a tech company was not acceptable. But AI researchers have found a...
