UKG announced that Traci Tsuchiguchi has joined the company as Head of Investor Relations and Strategic Finance.
Reporting to UKG President, Chief Financial Officer Arlen Shenkman, Tsuchiguchi will oversee the company’s financial reporting strategy and engagement with investors, financial analysts, and other stakeholders. Tsuchiguchi will also partner with senior leaders across UKG to drive financial planning, investment evaluation, and company performance monitoring.
With more than two decades of experience in strategic finance, investor relations, and corporate affairs, Tsuchiguchi brings a deep understanding of capital markets, SaaS business models, and stakeholder engagement both from the buy-side and sell-side perspective. Her prior leadership roles at Citrix, CA Technologies, AppliedMicro, and Teradyne, where she most recently served as Vice President of Corporate Affairs, have equipped Tsuchiguchi with an extensive track record of driving investor engagement, shaping financial narratives, and leading long-range planning initiatives.
G-P (Globalization Partners), recognized as the undisputed leader in global employment by industry analysts, today announced its chief product and strategy officer Nat Natarajan has expanded his role and is now the company’s chief operating officer (COO). In his new role, Natarajan will unify G-P’s go-to-market strategy, leading the company’s product, technology, revenue and marketing organizations.
“This is truly the most exciting time in G-P’s history,” said Nicole Sahin, founder and CEO, G-P. “G-P has always pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in global employment, and now, with Nat as our COO and our incredibly talented team behind him, we welcome the beginning of an exciting new chapter. With Nat at the helm of our go-to-market engine, we are poised to deliver the full potential of our AI HR products and continue our growth trajectory.”
LumApps, the leading connected employee hub, today announced key leadership appointments following its merger with Beekeeper, positioning the company to create the industry’s first employee experience solution designed for both desk-based and frontline employees.
Kees de Vos, Chief Product Officer
Kees is the driving force behind product innovation, dedicated to creating an intuitive and impactful platform. He brings twenty years of leadership experience across the digital technology landscape, spanning product strategy and management, professional services, and customer success.
Nancy Louisnord, Chief Marketing Officer
Nancy shapes the brand’s growth and market reach, championing the platform as an essential solution for frontline success. Nancy brings 17 years of go-to-market leadership experience in the SaaS industry, driving transformative growth through data-driven strategies and execution excellence. She has held GTM leadership roles at Manta, TOPdesk, and EasyVista.
Louise Willoughby, Chief People Officer
Louise fosters a culture that values growth, diversity, and employee well-being. She is passionate about leveraging people strategy as a business driver and brings 25 years of experience driving people-centric strategies within the technology and hospitality sectors. She has experience scaling technology companies and held prior leadership roles at Pivotal Software and Dell.
Éléonore Depardon, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer Éléonore drives change at scale, ensuring the organization is aligned to deliver lasting value. She is passionate about turning strategies into tangible impact, coordinating stakeholders to accelerate transformation and long-term growth. Her career spans over a decade of leadership in strategy and transformation, including seven years at McKinsey & Company.
Arcoro, a provider of human resources management (HR) software for construction and field-based industries, today announced that it has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Austin Merritt as the company’s chief product officer (CPO). Merritt will lead Arcoro’s product vision and drive the development of new solutions and enhancements that will help our customers achieve their business goals.
Merritt has more than 20 years of experience building products at high growth, B2B SaaS companies. Most recently, he was director of product management for Aha!, a SaaS platform for product development, where he was responsible for launching multiple new products and enhancing the core platform used by over 1 million product managers. Merritt has also held product leadership positions at Focus Ortho, Daxko and Influence Health. He has a BS in management information systems from Auburn University, as well as being a Pragmatic Marketing Certified Product Manager.
Appcast announced the appointment of Matt Plummer as chief product officer, marking an exciting new chapter in the company’s journey to deliver transformative solutions that help employers attract and hire the right talent.
Plummer brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling products that have shaped the future of online recruiting and advertising technology. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of product strategy & enterprise solutions at ZipRecruiter, where he spent nearly 12 years driving product innovation and growth. Prior to that, he held product and engineering leadership roles at Yahoo! and OpenX. With this depth of expertise, Plummer will guide Appcast as it expands its vision to serve employers across the entire recruitment funnel.
As Appcast embarks on this next stage, the company celebrates the contributions of Tom Chevalier, former general manager of AppcastLabs, as he concludes his decade-long tenure.
Sapia.ai, the ethical AI hiring platform used by Woolworths, Qantas, Suncorp, and 23% of the ASX 100, today announced the appointment of Kim Macdonald as Head of Growth.
Kim brings over two decades of global leadership experience at the intersection of people, technology, and growth. He’s successfully scaled enterprise HR technology businesses globally, holding senior commercial roles in scientific talent acquisition based software firms like Modern Hire, Valtera Corporation, PreVisor and ePredix. He has also founded and led startups, including swipejobs, and most recently, Vero AI.
