OrchidProduct LaunchVancouver-based AI startup Orchid launched a free World Cup…Paramount Skydance Corp / Warner Bros. DiscoveryMa ActivityUS Justice Department approved Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition…ConocophillipsStrategic HiringConocoPhillips secured a new 30-year Alaska LNG supply agreement,…Fluence EnergyProduct LaunchFluence Energy securing major data center deals, signaling expansion…Royal Caribbean GroupStrategic HiringRoyal Caribbean Group opened the Dale R. and Carol…Huawei TechnologiesLeadership ChangeHe Tingbo, head of Huawei's semiconductor business (the 'chip…LUNYEEProduct LaunchLUNYEE launched the 3020 Nova CNC Router, a desktop…Moonshot AI (Kimi)Product LaunchMoonshot AI launched the Kimi Credit Card, the world's…Tianyi Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, JD Cloud, Lenovo, StepFun, Kingsoft Office, Qingcheng JizhiPartnershipChina Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) launched…HansaeProduct LaunchHansae announced a new business mission to develop clothing…Prime Drink Group Corp.Capital RaisingPrime Drink Group (CSE: PRME) announced non-brokered private placement…Groupe Prime Drink Corp.Capital RaisingGroupe Prime Drink (CSE: PRME) announced non-brokered private placement…Leaf AgricultureCapital RaisingLeaf Agriculture raised $13M Series B led by Leaps…Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.Capital RaisingArcadia Biosciences closed a $4 million private placement at…
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AI leadership is our fastest-growing client request. Every industry — people analytics, fintech, enterprise SaaS, IoT — is being remade by machine intelligence, and success depends on leaders who have built with it. We identify and hire the executives driving AI, machine learning and data-driven transformation, for companies from venture stage to enterprise.

76%

of 2,000 large-enterprise CEOs surveyed by IBM report a Chief AI Officer — up from 26% a year earlier

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directors across 56 countries told Deloitte's Global Boardroom Program AI is now a board-level agenda item

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C-suite, specialist and board placements since 2001 — increasingly at the intersection of AI and scale

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We partnered with Culture Amp as it scaled AI-driven people analytics, placed AI product leadership at MYOB, and supported Xero through its AI-enabled platform evolution — alongside AI strategy, product and engineering mandates across four regions. Real intelligence about artificial intelligence: our reads come from live market signals, not conference decks.

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