In today’s edition: the biggest reveals from Kamala Harris’s new book, Oracle stock soars, and this week’s movers and shakers.
This week, some big exec moves round out our usual Movers and Shakers report…
Lidiane Jones, the former CEO of Bumble and Slack, is joining the board of Validity, a marketing and customer data intelligence company. Jones left Bumble in January after the return of founder Whitney Wolfe Herd.
eMed, the GLP-1 employer platform that Linda Yaccarino just took over as CEO, hired Amy Elkins as COO. Elkins worked at X with Yaccarino as global head of strategic partnerships.
Pindrop has appointed Adriana Gil Miner as its new chief marketing officer. She joins Pindrop from Iterable, where she was chief marketing and strategy officer.
Kara Gustafson is now president of RBC Foundation USA, the U.S. nonprofit arm of Canada’s RBC. She’s a Goldman Sachs alum who was on the firm’s corporate engagement team.
DSG Global hired Jenny Sade as chief people officer.
Open-source enterprise business SUSE hired Margaret Dawson as CMO.
Outpost24, a cyber risk management business, promoted Olivia Brännlund to chief information security officer.
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ALSO IN THE HEADLINES
Kamala Harris's book is almost here. In the first excerpt, she says that Joe Biden's decision to run for reelection "wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision." The Atlantic
Oracle shares climbed 30% in off-hours trading. CEO Safra Catz called it an "astonishing quarter" for the tech company, which signed four multibillion-dollar contracts and revealed a stronger position in the AI race. Wall Street Journal
The future of Serena Williams' makeup brand is uncertain. Strategic partner Good Glamm Group shut down in July, and several Wyn Beauty execs have departed. The not yet 2-year-old brand has .04% makeup market share at Ulta Beauty. Beauty Independent
Ursula von der Leyen wants EVs to be made in Europe. China has gained a strong edge in the region, and the EU president is earmarking $2.11 billion for battery technology for European companies. Wall Street Journal
ON MY RADAR
The marriage effect The Atlantic
Launching my brand in a storm I never saw coming The Cut
Boston mayor Wu beats Kraft challenge by almost 50 points Bloomberg
PARTING WORDS
"This is the third-oldest Congress in history. We can’t make good policy if my colleagues don’t understand how these things work."
— Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Ca.) on her recent experience freezing her eggs. Afterward, she introduced legislation that would make fertility treatments more accessible to military dependents.
