Happy almost holidays, MPW Daily readers! We still have a few editions of MPW Daily to come next week before we break for the holiday season. Stay tuned for a recap of this wild, sometimes-depressing, often unbelievable year for women and a look back at some of the bright spots within it. In the meantime, sending you into the weekend with our last 2025 roundup of exec moves to know.
Esi Eggleston Bracey is leaving her role as Unilever’s chief growth and marketing officer. She led initiatives like Dove’s support of the CROWN Act. Unilever is moving its marketing and business groups closer together.
At the shoe brand Rothy’s, CEO Jenny Ming is stepping down and returning to the board of directors. President Dayna Quanbeck is being promoted to become Rothy’s next CEO.
Cristal Downing, a Merck alum, was appointed chief corporate affairs officer at Insulet, the insulin pump technology business led by Ashley McEvoy.
Lambda, the cloud infrastructure company, named Heather Planishek CFO. She’d been the company’s audit chair, and is stepping down from the board.
PolyPid, a late-stage biopharma company aiming to improve surgical outcomes, named Brooke Story chair of its board.
Lisa Khoury was promoted to CMO of insurtech startup Federato.
Aviation software company Jeppesen ForeFlight hired Toya Del Valle as chief customer officer.
The SHRM company Linkage named Tracey Walker its new CEO.
Marketing agency Incubeta promoted Amy Crowther to president of the Americas, with a plan to elevate her to Americas CEO next year.
MarketCast named Lana Busignani CEO.
Angela Stark is now CMO of workforce management startup Legion Technologies.
Higher ed tech startup Gravyty named Lisa Haubenstock chief customer officer.
CityPickle, which runs pickleball courts in New York, hired Kim Russen of TAO as COO.
Multicultural marketing company MyCode (behind Remezcla and HipLATINA) named Amani Duncan as its new CEO.
Vantage Leadership Consulting promoted Jacqueline Ackerman to managing partner.
And, ICYMI, the first female CEO in Big Oil: Woodside Energy leader Meg O’Neill is taking over BP.
Emma Hinchliffe
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PARTING WORDS
"I refuse to stop working, and I don’t know how I’m going to convince people to keep me as I get older and older. But I did it when I was a sweet, soft, chubby, very unlikely movie star. I did what, when I look back, was the absolute impossible. So I need to carry on believing that I can do the impossible."
— Minnie Driver on her career
