Thursday, July 2, 2026

From Dow to JPMorgan, these are the most important female exec moves to know

Happy almost Fourth of July, MPW Daily readers! The newsletter will be off tomorrow while we mark America’s 250th (and Taylor Swift’s wedding). Sending you into the long weekend with some long-overdue movers and shakers from the past few weeks. Stay cool this weekend… more news below.

The Economic Club of New York named Dambisa Moyo its new chair, and added Bank of America’s Hayley Boesky to its board of trustees.

The cruise business Viking promoted president and CFO Leah Talactac to CEO; Linh Banh is the company’s new CFO.

Ocean Spray Cranberries, the agricultural cooperative behind the cranberry brand, named Abigail Buckwalter president and CEO; she came from Nestlé.

Jennifer Tejada stepped down as CEO of PagerDuty.

Alison Bergen, an alum of Michael Kors, Diane von Furstenberg, and Louis Vuitton, is the new president of Jonathan Adler.

The auction house Julien’s Auctions promoted Gabriela Schwartz to chief brand officer. IPSY hired Audacy’s Moira Curran as its first head of brand. Microbiome brand Seed Health hired Anisha Raghavan, previously of Heyday Skincare, as CMO. Monika Shah, former CMO of ZipRecruiter, joined Faire as CMO.

Chainalysis named Mary Elizabeth Taylor chief policy officer; she’s a former assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs and ex-Robinhood policy exec. Another Robinhood alum, Rochelle Nadhiri, is now head of public engagement for the Center for AI Safety.

Lots happening in health care: Mary Lantin is the new president and CEO of Azara Healthcare, joining from Centene. Kidney health startup Strive Health named Dr. Jamie Sharp chief medical officer; she held the same role at the dementia care company Rippl. CCRM Fertility named Dr. Shefali Shastri VP of clinical innovation and education and Dr. Jaime Knopman national director of fertility preservation. AI platform for health systems Caregentic named Becky James COO. Wondr Health, which provides GLP-1s via employers, named Patti Rittling head of broker and consultant relations. CJ Bhalla is now CFO for Blue Shield of California. QuantHealth, which does AI-driven clinical trial simulation, hired Agya Garg as VP of product; she came from Loris.AI. Precision for Medicine named Paz Vellanki VP, clinical development, oncology. She was an associate director of the Division of Oncology 2 at the FDA.

AI agent companies are getting their people plans in order. The AI agent management platform Guild hired Jen Rettig as its chief people officer. Sonatype, which “accelerates agentic software development,” named Sherri Manning chief human resources officer.

Alexa von Tobel’s Inspired Capital promoted VP of platform Annie Shapiro to partner. Genius, the music lyrics platform, promoted Jackie Vignone to chief revenue officer. Hyve Group, which runs the conference Possible, named Gabrielle Perez VP, Possible Europe. Kroll appointed Karen Higgins-Carter as chief information and technology officer. Kimberly Kalb Baumgarten is now CMO for the edtech company Acely. The Financial Data and Technology Association named Christine Day chair and Kat Cloud vice chair.

Lauryn Turner, an alum of the Dallas Wings and USA Gymnastics, is now CEO of the dance events business DanceOne. Software product engineering company Wizeline has a new CEO: Inés Casares, who was its chief services officer.

And some ICYMI…

Allbirds became the AI company Smartbirds and has a new CEO, Nadia Carlsten, who says she never even wore the shoes.

Linda Rendle is stepping down as CEO of Clorox for health reasons; the company is looking for a new CEO.

Amy Howe stepped down as CEO of FanDuel amid changes at parent Flutter Entertainment.

Lynne Fitzpatrick is taking over as CEO of the derivatives exchange CME, making her one of the top women in finance.

Jenn Hyman announced (via me!) her plan to step down from Rent the Runway after 18 years.

Marianne Lake announced her retirement from JPMorgan after 25 years, most recently as CEO of consumer and community banking. Catch up here…

And Karen S. Carter officially started as CEO of Dow on July 1, making her one of three Black female CEOs in the Fortune 500.

Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com

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