Leadership Change

Pleasanton, Calif. – September 16, 2026 -- Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY) has appointed Sarah Kennedy Ellis as chief marketing officer, effective September 16, 2026, tasking her with driving the enterprise software vendor's brand strategy for the AI era.

Kennedy Ellis arrives from Google Cloud with two decades of enterprise marketing experience

Kennedy Ellis will report directly to co-founder, CEO, and chair Aneel Bhusri and take charge of Workday's global marketing and communications organization. She joins from Google, where she led global marketing for Google Cloud and Google Workspace, contributing to what the company describes as one of enterprise technology's fastest-growing businesses.

Toronto – September 16, 2026 -- Manulife has appointed Sarah Chapman as Global Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer, effective September 16, 2026, giving her oversight of brand, marketing and customer experience strategy for a company serving more than 37 million customers worldwide.

Chapman joins Manulife's Executive Leadership Team, reporting directly to CEO Phil Witherington

Chapman will lead Manulife's Global Marketing organization and report to President and Chief Executive Officer Phil Witherington. Witherington said the appointment reflects internal succession planning and cited Chapman's track record leading transformation as key to advancing Manulife's goal of becoming the top choice for customers.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center has named Sean L. Berry, PhD, vice chair of physics and dosimetry in its Department of Radiation Oncology, recruiting a 20-year veteran of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to lead treatment-planning quality and safety programs.

Berry moves from a regional physicist role overseeing multi-site radiation oncology operations

Before joining NYU Langone, Berry served as regional lead physicist and associate attending physicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, managing clinical physics operations across outpatient sites in Westchester County, New York, and Bergen County, New Jersey. His duties included supervising faculty physicists, staff physicists and dosimetrists, regulatory readiness, accreditation activities, budget oversight, linear accelerator commissioning and standardizing radiation oncology practice across multiple locations.

Lexington, Mass. – September 16, 2026 -- Relate, an AI relationship intelligence platform, has named Kristy McCann Flynn as Co-Founder, adding a 25-year HR technology operator to its leadership team as the company scales its customer base and product roadmap.

McCann Flynn brings a $15 million fundraising track record from prior venture

McCann Flynn previously co-founded and served as CEO of SkillCycle, where she raised more than $15 million and guided the company to multiple years of Inc 5000 growth recognition. Her prior senior HR and transformation roles span Pearson, Constant Contact, MoneyLion, Richemont, and Western Asset Management.

Fairfax, Va. – September 16, 2026 -- Aircom has promoted Khurram Chaudhry from Vice President of Product & Engineering to General Manager & CTO, giving him full operational control of the RAN planning and optimization firm as it accelerates AI-driven network automation.

Chaudhry gains authority over Aircom's technology, customers and growth strategy

The move expands Chaudhry's mandate beyond product and engineering to encompass overall business direction and performance at Aircom, a wholly owned subsidiary of TEOCO serving more than 100 customers across 100-plus countries.

Redwood City, Calif. – September 16, 2026 -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) has appointed DD Dasgupta as Chief Marketing Officer, elevating a 25-year infrastructure veteran to steer marketing strategy as enterprises shift from AI pilots to full-scale deployment.

Dasgupta moves up from product marketing role he held since 2024

Dasgupta joined Equinix in 2024 as Vice President, Product and Solution Marketing, where he built out the company's customer-focused solutions portfolio. In his new role, he will report to Equinix Chief Customer and Revenue Officer Shane Paladin.

Newark, N.J. – September 16, 2026 -- HarbourView Equity Partners, a music and entertainment-focused investment firm managing approximately $3.88 billion in regulatory assets, has appointed Patrick Morin as Managing Director of Business Development, tasking him with leading capital formation and investor partnerships.

Morin brings 25 years of institutional investment experience to the role

Morin previously served as Managing Director at Cambridge Associates, where he oversaw Healthcare and Regional Endowments & Foundations Client Solutions. He held prior roles in investment banking, wealth advisory, and alternative investments at Citi, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley.

His background includes managing alternative investments for high-net-worth and family office clients, overseeing commission-based sales and trading operations, and leading investor relations at firms focused on credit, merger arbitrage, and event-driven strategies.

Hollywood, Fla. – September 16, 2026 -- Memorial Healthcare System has appointed Atif M. Hussein, M.D., as chief of Memorial Cancer Institute, capping more than 25 years of physician leadership at the South Florida cancer program.

Hussein built the institute from a handful of oncologists into a comprehensive cancer network

Recruited from Duke University more than two decades ago, Dr. Hussein joined Memorial when its oncology staff was minimal. He since expanded multidisciplinary care, clinical research and graduate medical education, while recruiting nationally recognized physicians to the program.

Singapore – September 16, 2026 -- YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) has appointed Andrew Davison as Chief Strategic Officer, effective September 16, 2026, tasking him with corporate strategy, portfolio governance and operational scaling as the AI-enabled workforce management and integrated facility management (IFM) provider expands beyond Asia.

Davison brings 20 years of cross-market leadership to YYForce's expansion push

Davison most recently served as Director and Head of Transformational Delivery (APAC) at Lancia Consult in Singapore, where he built the firm's Jakarta presence and led regional delivery operating models across multiple markets. He also conducted executive-level operational due diligence and investment evaluation for private equity and corporate clients during that tenure.

Lake Oswego, Ore. – – September 16, 2026 -- LeadVenture, the digital technology partner serving roughly 40,000 dealerships and service centers, has appointed Nasi Jazayeri as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 16, 2026.

Jazayeri succeeds Tim MacDonald, who moves to an advisory board role

Tim MacDonald transitions out of the CEO seat but will remain on LeadVenture's Board of Directors in an advisory capacity. MacDonald described Jazayeri as "one of the most impressive technology executives you will meet, a builder who connects product and go-to-market."