Hiring is slowly rebounding in Greater Washington and the tech community was busy in July filling top positions to gear up for the fall. We rounded up some of the biggest names that switched companies, stepped down or got promoted and ordered new business cards in July.
Vienna IT services company 10Pearls has named serial entrepreneur Joshua Konowe as vice president of digital innovation practice, to lead and scale the company’s fast-growing digital innovation and new product development group. Konowe’s resume includes GoCanvas, Silent Circle, eAgent and Uppidy. Here’s more on the appointment.
Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States is innovating the health care delivery model, making it clear that it’s more than an insurance plan provider — and positioning the local network as an integrated system, as it’s already well-recognized in California. The regional group now charges forward with that plan, which involves its aggressive physical expansion and new initiatives, under new leadership: Kim Horn, its president since 2012, has been promoted; and Ruth Williams-Brinkley, another KP exec and a nurse by training, now runs the health care giant’s local affiliate. Here’s more about her vision for the organization. [subscriber content]
The Washington Business Journal, DC Inno’s sister pub, has a new leader — and he’s coming home. Alex Orfinger reassumed the position today after serving in the role for nearly two decades, then in 2014 moving to a corporate role with parent American City Business Journals. He succeeds Peter Abrahams, WBJ’s publisher since November 2018.
The Maryland Technology Development Corp., which we know as TEDCO, has a new chief. Troy LeMaile-Stovall, the University of the District of Columbia’s chief operating officer, steps into the role Sept. 7 in a critical moment for the state-backed funding and economic development organization, which has lacked a permanent exec for more than a year. That’s because TEDCO’s former CEO, George Davis resigned in the face of a damaging state audit report and a subsequent reform effort led by state legislators. Linda Singh, a retired Maryland National Guard general, has led TEDCO since January on an interim basis. Here’s more on the appointment. In a separate move, TEDCO named Michael Hauser managing director of investments and Terry Rauh vice president and chief administrative officer.
Data intelligence firm Morning Consult has added former Kantar CEO Eric Salama and former Omnicom Public Relations Group CEO Karen van Bergen to its board of directors, appointments that follow a $31 million Series A round in May led by James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and Advance Venture Partners. The goal, it said in a press release, is to “further accelerate its transformation of the market research industry.” It’s also starting a small business resilience fund for the Washington Area Community Investment Fund to help provide money and technical resources to small businesses in Greater Washington’s underserved communities. The firm, founded with $20,000 in a D.C. row house, has offices in the District, as well as New York and San Francisco.
