Friday, February 27, 2026

These are the female exec moves you need to know this week, from Xbox to Match Group’s board shakeup

Hi, everyone. It’s been a busy news week, from the uproar over women’s hockey and the State of the Union to Hillary Clinton’s Epstein testimony. And, of course, reading through all your submissions of candidates for the 2026 Most Powerful Women list. Thank you for nominating some stellar execs—we are looking forward to diving in and learning more about who should be a contender this year. Speaking of stellar execs, closing out the week with some job moves you should know. More news below.

Match Group shakes up its board. Former Match CEO Shar Dubey isn’t standing for reelection, and board member Pamela Seymon is stepping down. Raina Moskowitz, CEO of The Knot, is a new board member.

Diem Salmon joined Besxar as chief revenue officer. Besxar is a semiconductor manufacturing company that is building “off-Earth foundries called ‘Fabships'” and is getting ready for the first of 12 missions under an agreement with SpaceX. Salmon comes from Anduril.

Bay FC, the Bay Area women’s soccer team backed by investors including Sheryl Sandberg, has a new CEO. Stacy Johns is joining from Los Angeles Football Club, where she was chief business officer.

Former Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon has a new nonprofit board role after finishing her tenure at Foot Locker—she’ll be board chair for Save the Children.

Spencer Stuart named 20 new partners, including Jenna Bayard in New York, Frances Carley in Amsterdam, Florence Delmas in Paris, Nicki Fleming in Boston, Jennifer Hirshfeld in Toronto, Ine Maessen in Brussels, Ashling O’Connor in London, and Christina Zhu in Beijing.

Freda Lewis-Hall, former chief medical officer for Pfizer, is joining Helus Pharma’s board as chair of its scientific committee.

Alyssa Schaefer joins as CMO of primary care service MDVIP.

Carolynn Johnson will be the new president of CEO Action for Inclusion & Diversity under SHRM.

Rebecca Bentley has been named VP of corporate affairs at Dow. It’s newly created role combining public affairs and government affairs.

Northern Trust named Jessica Donohue head of Asset Servicing, Americas.

Rebecca Szew is now chief client officer at GBK Collective.

Highdive promoted Isabel Long to chief growth and marketing officer.

Uber’s global head of advertising Kristi Argyilan is joining the board of data collaboration network LiveRamp.

Construct Capital, the firm cofounded by Dayna Grayson and another Uber alum, Rachel Holt, promoted Camila Key Saruhashi to partner.

The professional services firm RGP has a new role for CMO Jennifer Jones; she’ll now be chief strategy and experience officer.

Subscription management platform Recurly appointed Suzin Wold CMO.

At lash and brow serum brand Grande Cosmetics, founder Alicia Grande is moving from CEO to “chief vision officer.” Sabeen Mian will be the new brand president. She’s been president of the Lash Division at parent company Performance Beauty Group.

Kindbody has a new chief commercial officer, Angela Barrie.

New York Public Radio has a new CEO—Christy Tanner.

Plus, ICYMI, the big leadership shakeup at Microsoft’s Xbox. Sarah Bond is out as Xbox president and Asha Sharma is the new EVP and CEO of Microsoft Gaming.

Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com

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