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KKR: Leadership Change
KKR appoints former Manulife CEO Roy Gori as senior advisor
The leadership read
A change at the top rarely stays at the top. KKR's move reshapes the layer beneath it in Technology as a new leader sets priorities and the team re-forms. Watch the first two or three appointments that follow; they signal direction more reliably than any statement.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot) (down 2.3 month-on-month), Americas is at rising (+2.4pts) on signal share.
KKR: 9 signals in the last 90 days — above the Technology median of 1 across 214 tracked companies; 0.6% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 10 tracked across 110 days.
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Our work · 2019
VP Sales (US) / CEO
Multiple (Longtail UX, Genbook)
Americas · Technology/SaaS · founder-transition · international-expansion
Our work · 2020
Chief Technology Officer
Splitit
Americas · Fintech · payments · fintech
Our work · 2019
CEO
Everguard
Americas · Computer Vision Technology · computer vision · bcg digital ventures
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Leadership Change · Americas
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Leadership Change · Americas
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Leadership Change · Americas
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Leadership Change · Americas
Thoughtworks →Thoughtworks appointed John Elliott to its Global Management Team as Global Managing Director, coinciding with expansion of its Technology Advisory practice globally.
Leadership Change · Americas
Ubisoft →Ubisoft hired Christoph Hartmann, ex-Amazon Games VP, as General Manager of Creative House 2 (Tom Clancy division controlling The Division, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell)
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