March 2024: Top 25 headlines

In this month’s top headlines, Bill Brown is named CEO of 3M; Isabelle Loc is named Head of Commercial and Personal Banking, France at BNP Paribas; Stuart Munro is promoted to Group Executive, Group Strategy at Commonwealth Bank; Stephan Leithner is named CEO of Deutsche Börse; Ioana Parsons is named General Manager, UK and Ireland at Ipsen; and more.
3 alumnae named to list of Europe's 100 most influential women in the startup and VC space: Charlotte Baumhauer (HAMB, BERL 18-20), Aude Guo (PARI 10-10, 12-16), and Mette Lykke (COPE 06-07) (read more)

Ravi Ahuja (LAN, NYWT 97-99) named President and COO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (read more)

Lucas Arruda (SAOP 11-12) named CFO of It'sSeg Acrisure (read more— in Portuguese)

Marla Beck (Malcolm) (BOST, SANF 93-98) named CEO of The Beauty Health Company (BeautyHealth) (read more)

Paola Bonomo (MILA 91-05) named by EBAN (European Business Angel Network) as one of top 25 women in angel investing (read more)

Bill Brown (NYWT, SUMM 89-89, 90-97) named CEO of 3M, effective May 1 (read more)

Grégor Chapelle (BRUS 04-06) named CEO of Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels (read more)

Olga Chashchina (PARI 14-15)s medtech startup Metyos raises €2.3 million in a pre-seed funding round (read more)

Caecilia Chu (HONG 05-08), co-founder and CEO of YouTrip, named to list of 10 women leading the fintech revolution in APAC (read more)

Fuencisla Clemares Sempere (MADR 00-07) named VP, Go-to-Market Operations for EMEA at Google (read more— in Spanish)

David Court (LOND, DALL, MELB, NYWT, TORO, CHGO 83-16, 16-) named Chair of the Board of Trustees of Queen's University Canada, effective June 1 (read more)

Antti Jääskeläinen (HELS 02-04) named CEO of Posti Group Oyj, effective at end of summer (read more— in Finnish)

Sonia Jain (0CBL 03-07) elected to Board of AMC Entertainment (read more)

Jinwook Kim (SEOU 07-13) and Yongwoo Kim's (SEOU 07-10, 15-19) AI chatbot startup Mindlogic recieves $5.2 million in Series B funding round (read more)

Ankita Kumari (BENG 18-21)s cybersecurity startup SydeLabs raises $2.5 million in funding (read more)

Dale LeFebvre (CLEV 93-99) named by the nonprofit Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans as a recipient of the 2024 Horatio Alger Award (read more)

Stephan Leithner (NYWT, MUNI, FRAN 92-99) named CEO of Deutsche Börse, effective October 1 (read more)

Isabelle Loc (PARI 05-05, 06-06, 07-11) named Head of Commercial and Personal Banking, France at BNP Paribas (read more)

Stuart Munro (SYDN, LOND 08-11) promoted to Group Executive, Group Strategy at Commonwealth Bank (CommBank) (read more)

Ioana Parsons (LOX, LOND 06-16) named General Manager, UK and Ireland at Ipsen (read more)

Brendan Pat (BNKK 20-22) promoted to Chief Privacy Officer at Agoda

Leo Puri (MUME, LOND 94-07) named Chairman of India and an Advisor at Apax (read more)

Zainab Raji (DOHA, LAGO 16-19) selected as an International Strategy Forum Fellow, sponsored by U.S. think tank Special Competitive Studies Project (read more)

Jason Schenker (FRAN, HOUS 07-09) named an Adjunct Fellow at The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (read more)

Elane Stock (DUBL, ATLP 92-01, 05-07) elected to Board of FEMSA (Fomento Económico Mexicano) (read more)

Kurt Summers (CHGO 00-02, 03-05) appointed by President Biden to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (read more)

Alexander von Fritsch (HAMB, MUNI 07-13) named CEO of think-cell (read more)

 

Obituaries

John Cheetham (LOX, LOND 05-20)