Friday, August 21, 2026

Where Bumble’s ex-CEO is going next and other female exec moves to know

Happy Friday, MPW Daily readers. We’re headed into the final days of summer—usually a slow news time, but you all are still making moves. Here are the latest career moves to have on your radar. See you on Monday!

Ex-Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones has a new role: CEO of Integral Ad Science.

PacSun CEO Brieane Olson is joining the board of Ulta Beauty. Plus Kelly Garcia is Ulta’s new CTO.

eBay brought back an alum, Renee Paradise, to be global GM of fashion. Revolve promoted Raissa Gerona to president, brand and partnerships. Loeffler Randall named Tory Burch alum Mariel O’Brien president and GM.

NextSilicon has added Rupal Hollenbeck as president and chief business officer.

Seattle Foundation appointed Elizabeth Wong as chief philanthropy officer.

New sports social media platform BZZR named Amy Elkins chief impact officer. Ashley Mady will be CEO of Zigazoo, a social media platform for kids and teens.

Joan Campion of Pfizer has joined Ashley McEvoy’s Insulet as VP, external communications, corporate affairs.

The J. Paul Getty Trust appointed Kimberly Uyttewaal as VP of development and institutional advancement.

L’Oréal USA named a new chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer: Rahquel Purcell. She’ll report to the CEO of L’Oréal USA.

Revance appointed Janelle Wichmann CMO, skincare. m.ph beauty has a new CMO, Kira Jackson. Prequel Skin tapped Nathalie Kristo as CEO and Toral Patel as CMO. Clearstem Skincare tapped Diana Dennett as president.

Twitch has a new CMO, Christine Cassis.

AI infrastructure company Zeta Global promoted Candace Dean to chief communications officer and hired Salesforce alum Leah Pope as CMO. Gravyty , which does AI engagement solutions for higher ed, has appointed Margaret Onisick Lawless as chief product and technology officer. ZipRecruiter has named Carmen Chan as its new CFO. Pooja Brown is joining Tribe AI as CTO. Klaviyo, the CRM platform, hired Erica Smith as CFO. WEKA, the AI data and memory infrastructure company, named Shanta Kohli CMO.

The former Allbirds, now Smartbird, added Elizabeth Mora to its board; she’s an ex-CFO who has recently led the audit committee at the semiconductor company MKS Instruments. Ex-SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan joined the board of Halo. Litigation AI platform Theo AI added ex-Bristol Meyers Squibb exec Sandra Leung to its board. Sherrod DeGrippo, formerly GM of Global Threat Intelligence at Microsoft, will be joining Palo Alto Networks as the new VP of threat intelligence of Unit 42.

Jennifer Weiss joined Vantage Leadership Consulting as a partner. WME Group promoted Marie Sheehy to EVP, head of corporate communications. The Professional Fighters League hired Suzy Berkowitz as chief communications officer.

Krispy Kreme (by the way, Nasdaq ticker: DNUT) added Suk Nicholas as chief commercial officer and Lori Suess as chief people officer. Mars named Coca-Cola alum Christina Ruggiero regional president of Mars Pet Nutrition North America.

Textile industry waste-reducer Bluesign named Hanane Taidi its CEO.

And Livia Chanes, No. 95 on the 2026 Most Powerful Women list, got a promotion at Nubank. She had been CEO of Nubank, Brazil and is now running all of Latin America, a new role.

And, ICYMI, Denise Dresser is out as chief revenue officer at OpenAI.

Keep sending in your updates – any we missed, we’ll share next time!

Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com

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