Leadership moves

Simmons Bankexecutive vice president and chief data officerRetiring

As CDO she led work to strengthen data governance, improve data literacy and expand data-driven decision-making.

CitiManaging Director, Head of AI Center of Excellence and Emerging TechnologiesSynchronyChief AI Officer

Leads Synchrony's enterprise-wide AI strategy, governance and execution across customers, partners and employees.

Lowe'sSVP of stores, data, AI and innovationTargetchief AI officer and SVP

Part of CEO Michael Fiddelke's multiyear turnaround strategy to reverse slowing sales.

DeepMindAlphabetChair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet

Becomes GDM chair and Alphabet chief scientist while still leading Isomorphic Labs.

GoogleNext role not stated

Leaving to launch a public benefit corporation with Sanjay Ghemawat to speed ML and science discoveries.

DeepMindChief Technology Officer of GDM and our Chief AI ArchitectDeepMindSVP of Google DeepMind

Steps up to lead Google DeepMind as SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai.

Google CloudChief Operating Officer and President of Security ProductsScale AIChief Executive Officer

Brings Google Cloud operating experience in how enterprises and governments deploy AI at scale.

OpenAINext role not stated

Medical leave ran longer than expected, so she moves to a part-time advisory role.

Eli Lillychief data and analytics officerAhold Delhaize USAchief data and artificial intelligence officer

Leads data, analytics and AI strategy to build data-driven decisions and AI capabilities into ADUSA's business.

DBS Bankmanaging director and chief analytics officerLloyds Banking Groupchief data and AI officer

Leads Lloyds' AI strategy and helps scale the technology across business operations.

HSBCchief operating officer for HSBC's corporate and institutional banking businessHSBCchief AI officer

Longtime HSBC employee elevated to be the bank's first chief AI officer from April 1.

SDScout Data AdvisorsfounderCharter CommunicationsHead of Intelligence Ventures

Leads a new team building products and partnerships on Charter's proprietary data signals and AI capabilities.

LundbeckSenior Vice President, Finance & Business Planning for Lundbeck USLundbeckSenior Vice President, Chief AI Officer

Leads the continued evolution and execution of Lundbeck's global AI strategy.

84.51°president and CEOKrogerchief data and AI officer

New Kroger role created to lead advanced AI efforts across company operations.

FactSetChief Technology OfficerFactSetChief AI Officer

Drives development and deployment of AI across FactSet products and client solutions.

Thinking Machines Labco-founder and CTOOpenAI

Returns to OpenAI.

Not statedThinking Machines LabCTO

Named CTO as a seasoned leader and major contributor to the team.

The New York TimesChief Data OfficerUniversal Music GroupChief Data Officer

Leads UMG's data and analytics strategy and functions globally.

MetaVP and Chief AI ScientistALAMI LabsExecutive Chairman

Left Meta and is executive chairman of his new startup, AMI Labs.

AmazonNot stated

Leads a new org combining Nova and model research with custom silicon and quantum computing.

Amazonsenior vice president and head scientist for artificial general intelligenceNext role not stated

Leaves at year end after leading Amazon AI initiatives and the Nova models.

Microsoftcorporate vice president of AIApplevice president of AI

Will lead Apple Foundation Models, ML research, and AI Safety and Evaluation.

Applesenior vice president for Machine Learning and AI StrategyRetiring

Steps down and stays on as an advisor before retiring in spring 2026.

Intelchief technology and artificial intelligence officerOpenAI

Will build out OpenAI compute infrastructure for artificial general intelligence.

JPMorgan ChaseChief Analytics Officer for both the EMEA region and the Commercial and Investment BankUBSChief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Leads UBS's AI strategy, reshaping business capabilities to improve client experience and employee productivity.

StripeCTOAnthropicchief technical officer

Will oversee compute, infrastructure, inference and other engineering work.

FrieslandCampinaCIOIkea Retailchief data and analytics officer

Named Ikea Retail's chief data and analytics officer, replacing Francesco Marzoni, who left in August.

Ikea RetailAvolta

Left Ikea after five years to join travel retailer Avolta.

Statsigfounder and CEOOpenAICTO of Applications

Reports to Fidji Simo and heads product engineering for ChatGPT, Codex and future apps.

SASwan AI StudiosCEO and founderlululemonChief AI & Technology Officer

New role leading lululemon's technology organization and the next phase of its technology and AI strategy.

xAIco-founderBVBabuschkin Ventures

Leaving to launch a venture firm backing AI safety research and startups.

Metalead scientistMetaChief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs

Will set the research agenda for Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang.

Scale AIfounderMeta

Joins Meta to work on its AI efforts.

Scale AIChief Strategy OfficerScale AIInterim Chief Executive Officer

Board named the chief strategy officer interim CEO.

DeepMindchief technology officerGooglechief AI architect

New SVP role reporting directly to Sundar Pichai.

Imperial College LondonProfessor of Affective & Behavioural ComputingNatWestChief AI Research Officer

First Chief AI Research Officer, to advance AI capabilities, drive research and support bank-wide simplification.

InstacartCEOOpenAICEO of Applications

Leaves Instacart over several months to join OpenAI full-time later in the year.

State StreetExecutive Vice President, Global Chief Information Officer and Head of Enterprise ResiliencyThe Estée Lauder CompaniesChief Technology, Data & Analytics Officer

First combined tech, data and analytics chief, leading transformation of global data and technology capabilities.

Intelhead of Intel’s Network and Edge GroupIntelchief AI and technology officer

Takes over data center accelerator chips such as GPUs in a new AI and CTO organization.

CiscoVP of AIGeneral Motorschief AI officer

GM's first chief AI officer, overseeing the carmaker's AI strategy.