# Leaders: AI and data leadership moves, full data

> Generated 2026-09-24 from https://leaders.fru.dev. One line per move: date | person | type | role | from company, title | to company, title | source | reason as stated by the source. From public announcements and filings. Roles as reported on the date shown. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

- 2026-08-20 | Lisa Hunter | retired | Chief Data Officer | Simmons Bank, executive vice president and chief data officer | - | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lisa-hunter-to-retire-after-30-years-at-simmons-bank-302856574.html | As CDO she led work to strengthen data governance, improve data literacy and expand data-driven decision-making. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-08-lisa-hunter-simmons-bank
- 2026-08-13 | Nimrod Barak | poached | Chief AI Officer | Citi, Managing Director, Head of AI Center of Excellence and Emerging Technologies | Synchrony, Chief AI Officer | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/synchrony-elevates-ai-strategy-hiring-nimrod-barak-as-chief-ai-officer-to-accelerate-innovation-302851423.html | Leads Synchrony's enterprise-wide AI strategy, governance and execution across customers, partners and employees. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-08-nimrod-barak-synchrony
- 2026-08-11 | Chandhu Nair | poached | Chief AI Officer | Lowe's, SVP of stores, data, AI and innovation | Target, chief AI officer and SVP | https://www.ciodive.com/news/target-taps-chandhu-nair-chief-ai-officer/827613/ | Part of CEO Michael Fiddelke's multiyear turnaround strategy to reverse slowing sales. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-08-chandhu-nair-target
- 2026-08-05 | Demis Hassabis | promoted | Chief Scientist | DeepMind | Alphabet, Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet | https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ | Becomes GDM chair and Alphabet chief scientist while still leading Isomorphic Labs. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-08-demis-hassabis-alphabet
- 2026-08-05 | Jeff Dean | departed | Chief Scientist | Google | - | https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ | Leaving to launch a public benefit corporation with Sanjay Ghemawat to speed ML and science discoveries. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-08-jeff-dean-google
- 2026-08-05 | Koray Kavukcuoglu | promoted | Head of AI | DeepMind, Chief Technology Officer of GDM and our Chief AI Architect | DeepMind, SVP of Google DeepMind | https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ | Steps up to lead Google DeepMind as SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-08-koray-kavukcuoglu-deepmind
- 2026-07-30 | Francis deSouza | poached | Chief Executive | Google Cloud, Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products | Scale AI, Chief Executive Officer | https://scale.com/blog/scale-appoints-new-ceo | Brings Google Cloud operating experience in how enterprises and governments deploy AI at scale. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-07-francis-desouza-scale-ai
- 2026-07-09 | Fidji Simo | departed | Chief Executive | OpenAI | - | https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/fidji-simo-steps-down-from-openais-no-2-role/ | Medical leave ran longer than expected, so she moves to a part-time advisory role. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-07-fidji-simo-openai
- 2026-05-13 | Vipin Gopal | appointed | Chief Data and AI Officer | Eli Lilly, chief data and analytics officer | Ahold Delhaize USA, chief data and artificial intelligence officer | https://www.ciodive.com/news/ahold-delhaize-adusa-vipin-gopal-svp-data-ai-technology/820236/ | Leads data, analytics and AI strategy to build data-driven decisions and AI capabilities into ADUSA's business. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-05-vipin-gopal-ahold-delhaize-usa
- 2026-04-20 | Sameer Gupta | poached | Chief Data and AI Officer | DBS Bank, managing director and chief analytics officer | Lloyds Banking Group, chief data and AI officer | https://www.ciodive.com/news/lloyds-taps-chief-data-ai-officer/817991/ | Leads Lloyds' AI strategy and helps scale the technology across business operations. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-04-sameer-gupta-lloyds-banking-group
- 2026-03-24 | David Rice | promoted | Chief AI Officer | HSBC, chief operating officer for HSBC's corporate and institutional banking business | HSBC, chief AI officer | https://www.ciodive.com/news/hsbc-introduces-ai-role-c-suite/815579/ | Longtime HSBC employee elevated to be the bank's first chief AI officer from April 1. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-03-david-rice-hsbc
- 2026-03-23 | John Lee | appointed | Head of Data | Scout Data Advisors, founder | Charter Communications, Head of Intelligence Ventures | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/charter-communications-names-john-lee-head-of-intelligence-ventures-302722174.html | Leads a new team building products and partnerships on Charter's proprietary data signals and AI capabilities. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-03-john-lee-charter-communications
- 2026-03-10 | Markus Kede | promoted | Chief AI Officer | Lundbeck, Senior Vice President, Finance & Business Planning for Lundbeck US | Lundbeck, Senior Vice President, Chief AI Officer | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lundbeck-appoints-chief-ai-officer-302709211.html | Leads the continued evolution and execution of Lundbeck's global AI strategy. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-03-markus-kede-lundbeck
- 2026-03-06 | Milen Mahadevan | promoted | Chief Data and AI Officer | 84.51°, president and CEO | Kroger, chief data and AI officer | https://www.ciodive.com/news/kroger-names-chief-data-ai-officer/814083/ | New Kroger role created to lead advanced AI efforts across company operations. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-03-milen-mahadevan-kroger
- 2026-03-04 | Kate Stepp | promoted | Chief AI Officer | FactSet, Chief Technology Officer | FactSet, Chief AI Officer | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1013237/000162828026014385/factsetpressrelease.htm | Drives development and deployment of AI across FactSet products and client solutions. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-03-kate-stepp-factset
- 2026-01-26 | Arthur L. Smith | retired | Chief Analytics Officer | Credit Acceptance, Chief Analytics Officer | - | https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885550/000088555026000007/cacc-20260120.htm | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-01-arthur-l-smith-credit-acceptance
- 2026-01-14 | Barret Zoph | departed | Chief Technology Officer | Thinking Machines Lab, co-founder and CTO | OpenAI | https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai/ | Returns to OpenAI. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-01-barret-zoph-openai
- 2026-01-14 | Soumith Chintala | appointed | Chief Technology Officer | - | Thinking Machines Lab, CTO | https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/mira-muratis-startup-thinking-machines-lab-is-losing-two-of-its-co-founders-to-openai/ | Named CTO as a seasoned leader and major contributor to the team. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-01-soumith-chintala-thinking-machines-lab
- 2026-01-13 | Hannah Poferl | poached | Chief Data Officer | The New York Times, Chief Data Officer | Universal Music Group, Chief Data Officer | https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/universal-music-group-appoints-hannah-poferl-as-chief-data-officer-302660077.html | Leads UMG's data and analytics strategy and functions globally. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2026-01-hannah-poferl-universal-music-group
- 2025-12-19 | Yann LeCun | departed | Chief Scientist | Meta, VP and Chief AI Scientist | AMI Labs, Executive Chairman | https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/yann-lecun-confirms-his-new-world-model-startup-reportedly-seeks-5b-valuation/ | Left Meta and is executive chairman of his new startup, AMI Labs. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-12-yann-lecun-ami-labs
- 2025-12-17 | Peter DeSantis | promoted | Head of AI | Amazon | Amazon | https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-ai-chief-rohit-prasad-leaving-infrastructure-exec-peter-desantis-to-lead-unified-ai-group/ | Leads a new org combining Nova and model research with custom silicon and quantum computing. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-12-peter-desantis-amazon
- 2025-12-17 | Rohit Prasad | departed | Head of AI | Amazon, senior vice president and head scientist for artificial general intelligence | - | https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazon-ai-chief-rohit-prasad-leaving-infrastructure-exec-peter-desantis-to-lead-unified-ai-group/ | Leaves at year end after leading Amazon AI initiatives and the Nova models. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-12-rohit-prasad-amazon
- 2025-12-01 | Amar Subramanya | poached | Head of AI | Microsoft, corporate vice president of AI | Apple, vice president of AI | https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/12/john-giannandrea-to-retire-from-apple/ | Will lead Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-12-amar-subramanya-apple
- 2025-12-01 | John Giannandrea | retired | Head of AI | Apple, senior vice president for Machine Learning and AI Strategy | - | https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/12/john-giannandrea-to-retire-from-apple/ | Steps down and stays on as an advisor before retiring in spring 2026. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-12-john-giannandrea-apple
- 2025-11-10 | Sachin Katti | poached | Other data and AI roles | Intel, chief technology and artificial intelligence officer | OpenAI | https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/intel-ai-leader-sachin-katti-decamps-to-openai | Will build out OpenAI compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-11-sachin-katti-openai
- 2025-10-16 | Daniele Magazzeni | poached | Chief AI Officer | JPMorgan Chase, Chief Analytics Officer for both the EMEA region and the Commercial and Investment Bank | UBS, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer | https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-20251016-ai-strategy.html | Leads UBS's AI strategy, reshaping business capabilities to improve client experience and employee productivity. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-10-daniele-magazzeni-ubs
- 2025-10-02 | Rahul Patil | appointed | Chief Technology Officer | Stripe, CTO | Anthropic, chief technical officer | https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/anthropic-hires-new-cto-with-focus-on-ai-infrastructure/ | Will oversee compute, infrastructure, inference and other engineering work. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-10-rahul-patil-anthropic
- 2025-09-11 | Burce Gultekin | appointed | Chief Data Officer | FrieslandCampina, CIO | Ikea Retail, chief data and analytics officer | https://www.ciodive.com/news/Ikea-data-analytics-technology-chief-replacement/759810/ | Named Ikea Retail's chief data and analytics officer, replacing Francesco Marzoni, who left in August. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-09-burce-gultekin-ikea-retail
- 2025-09-11 | Francesco Marzoni | departed | Chief Data Officer | Ikea Retail | Avolta | https://www.ciodive.com/news/Ikea-data-analytics-technology-chief-replacement/759810/ | Left Ikea after five years to join travel retailer Avolta. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-09-francesco-marzoni-avolta
- 2025-09-02 | Vijaye Raji | appointed | Chief Technology Officer | Statsig, founder and CEO | OpenAI, CTO of Applications | https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/openai-acquires-product-testing-startup-statsig-and-shakes-up-its-leadership-team/ | Reports to Fidji Simo and heads product engineering for ChatGPT, Codex and future apps. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-09-vijaye-raji-openai
- 2025-08-26 | Ranju Das | appointed | Chief AI Officer | Swan AI Studios, CEO and founder | lululemon, Chief AI & Technology Officer | https://corporate.lululemon.com/media/press-releases/2025/08-26-2025-113010087 | New role leading lululemon's technology organization and the next phase of its technology and AI strategy. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-08-ranju-das-lululemon
- 2025-08-13 | Igor Babuschkin | departed | Other data and AI roles | xAI, co-founder | Babuschkin Ventures | https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company/ | Leaving to launch a venture firm backing AI safety research and startups. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-08-igor-babuschkin-babuschkin-ventures
- 2025-07-25 | Shengjia Zhao | promoted | Chief Scientist | Meta, lead scientist | Meta, Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs | https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/meta-names-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-of-ai-superintelligence-unit/ | Will set the research agenda for Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-07-shengjia-zhao-meta
- 2025-06-12 | Alexandr Wang | poached | Head of AI | Scale AI, founder | Meta | https://scale.com/blog/scale-ai-announces-next-phase-of-company-evolution | Joins Meta to work on its AI efforts. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-06-alexandr-wang-meta
- 2025-06-12 | Jason Droege | promoted | Chief Executive | Scale AI, Chief Strategy Officer | Scale AI, Interim Chief Executive Officer | https://scale.com/blog/scale-ai-announces-next-phase-of-company-evolution | Board named the chief strategy officer interim CEO. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-06-jason-droege-scale-ai
- 2025-06-11 | Koray Kavukcuoglu | promoted | Head of AI | DeepMind, chief technology officer | Google, chief AI architect | https://www.semafor.com/article/06/11/2025/google-names-new-chief-ai-architect-to-advance-developments | New SVP role reporting directly to Sundar Pichai. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-06-koray-kavukcuoglu-google
- 2025-06-11 | Maja Pantic | appointed | Chief Scientist | Imperial College London, Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing | NatWest, Chief AI Research Officer | https://www.natwestgroup.com/news-and-insights/news-room/press-releases/ai-and-data/2025/jun/natwest-appoints-dr-maja-pantic-as-the-banks-first-chief-ai-rese.html | First Chief AI Research Officer, to advance AI capabilities, drive research and support bank-wide simplification. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-06-maja-pantic-natwest
- 2025-05-07 | Fidji Simo | poached | Chief Executive | Instacart, CEO | OpenAI, CEO of Applications | https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/instacart-ceo-fidji-simo-is-joining-openai/ | Leaves Instacart over several months to join OpenAI full-time later in the year. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-05-fidji-simo-openai
- 2025-04-22 | Brian Franz | poached | Chief Technology Officer | State Street, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Information Officer and Head of Enterprise Resiliency | The Estée Lauder Companies, Chief Technology, Data & Analytics Officer | https://www.elcompanies.com/en/news-and-media/newsroom/press-releases/2025/04-22-2025-151519012 | First combined tech, data and analytics chief, leading transformation of global data and technology capabilities. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-04-brian-franz-the-estee-lauder-companies
- 2025-04-22 | Sachin Katti | promoted | Chief Technology Officer | Intel, head of Intel’s Network and Edge Group | Intel, chief AI and technology officer | https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2025/as-intel-creates-new-ai-group-data-center-division-to-refocus-on-cpus-memos | Takes over data center accelerator chips such as GPUs in a new AI and CTO organization. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-04-sachin-katti-intel
- 2025-03-04 | Barak Turovsky | appointed | Chief AI Officer | Cisco, VP of AI | General Motors, chief AI officer | https://www.ciodive.com/news/GM-chief-AI-officer-barak-turovsky/741575/ | GM's first chief AI officer, overseeing the carmaker's AI strategy. | https://leaders.fru.dev/moves/2025-03-barak-turovsky-general-motors