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Meanwhile, sending you into the weekend with recent female exec moves to know:
Melis del Rey is the new CEO of Supergoop, coming from Amazon, where she was GM of Amazon U.S. health and beauty.
Chief, the women’s network, has a new CFO, Amanda Allen.
At JP Morgan Wealth Management, Andrea Finan is now head of product and experience and Mollie Colavita is now CEO of JP Morgan Advisors.
Tamera Ferro joined Dr. Idriss Skincare as the brand’s CMO and growth officer.
AI tax company April hired Pinwheel’s Nicole Murphy as VP of Marketing.
Workforce agility company Cornerstone named Mini Peiris chief marketing officer.
Michele Kang’s Washington Spirit named Haley Carter president of soccer operations. She came from fellow NWSL team the Orlando Pride.
Curiosity Lab appointed Emily Heintz as the organization’s executive director.
Toms, the shoe brand, hired Katie Wagner as chief commercial officer.
IRIS Software Group hired Shemin Nurmohamed as president & GM, Americas.
Kemi Giwa, who has been communications director for the House Financial Services Committee under Ranking Member Maxine Waters, is transitioning out of Congress to serve as senior manger of policy communications at Chime.
Midlife women’s health company Alloy Health hired Raquel Alexander as CMO.
Another midlife women’s health company, Midi, brought on Tamsen Fadal as chief women’s health ambassador.
Redpanda hired Jennifer Lawrence, a sales alum of Cisco, as chief revenue officer.
J.Jill hired Viv Rettke, previously of Cole Haan and Reebok, as its first chief growth officer.
Silicon Valley Bank named 28-year SVB veteran Megan Scheffel head of life science and health care banking.
Wrike, an intelligent workflow management platform, named Michelle MacCarthy chief customer officer.
Natalie Wolf has been appointed the first chief customer officer at People.ai.
AlphaSense named Nilka Thomas as its new chief people officer.
And, ICYMI: Binance has a new co-CEO. Yi He, who cofounded Binance with Changpeng Zhao and shares children with him, is taking on the role alongside Richard Teng.
Emma Hinchliffe
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