Boston's business elite has been busy this past week. Catch up on who's going where below:
NextView Ventures just welcomed Jay Acunzo aboard as the director of platform and community. Acunzo has made the rounds in Boston’s tech scene. Most recently, Acunzo worked at HubSpot as the senior manager of the marketing team. Prior, he was at online contest startup Dailybreak and Google. In his new role at NextView, Acunzo will help run the events, content and other initiatives for the firm, which is rumored to be out raising a $45 million round. (Their last round, closed in early 2012, was $21 million.)
The Kendall Square Association, which brings together and connects over 100 businesses located in the famed “Tech Square," tapped a new president this week, according to BetaBoston. Alan Fein, the VP of the Broad Institute, will take over the role of president at the Cambridge association. The outgoing president and Cambridge Innovation Center CEO, Tim Rowe, founded the Kendall Square Association six years ago. Rowe passed the torch to Fein on Wednesday.
Kinvey added Margaret Rimmler to its team on Thursday as the startup’s VP of marketing. Rimmler has spent the last four years building up enterprise cloud company Red Hat's business. The new leader published a post on Kinvey’s blog, sharing her excitement for joining the team. Wrote Rimmler:
I’m excited to be a member of the Kinvey team. They have awesome energy and work ethic and everyone’s committed to making each customer successful. It’s all embodied in our tag line: “We got your Backend.”
Former Vistaprint executive Wendy Cebula joined the team at edX, the nonprofit online learning platform jointly founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. Cebula will move into the COO, formerly held by Anant Agarwal, who will become edX’s chief executive.
Matrix Partners’ Entrepreneur in Residence Karen Rubin stealthily made the switch to Cambridge health-focused wearable maker and Matrix portfolio company Quanttus this week. Prior to moving into Matrix’s office, Rubin spent nearly five years at HubSpot as the director of product. She will serve in that same role at Quanttus, which just raised $19 million in Series A from Matrix as well as Silicon Valley-based Kholsa Ventures before even releasing a prototype of its health-monitoring device.
