News Corporation's CTO to Serve in Same Capacity at its Proposed Publishing Company

Paul Cheesbrough, currently News Corporation's CTO, will serve in the same capacity for the new proposed publishing company of News Corp. Mr. Cheesbrough was previously the CIO at News International, where he was responsible for the organization's technology strategy, delivery, transformation programs and digital products. Before joining News International, he served as CIO at the Telegraph Media Group, and prior to that was Controller of Digital Media for the BBC.

HP Makes Series of Tech Appointments

HP named Martin Fink as its CTO and head of HP Labs research division. He has until recently run the Business Critical Server business. Fink replaces Prith Banerjee, who left HP earlier this year to take a job as CTO of the Swiss industrial giant ABB. Ric Lewis has been named to run that business unit for now. The interim head of HP labs, Chandrakant Patel, has been named an HP Senior Fellow and Chief Engineer.

American Express Appoints Former Amazon and Apple Exec for Software Product Management

American Express named Erich Ringewald as VP of Software Product Management for the U.S. Consumer Services business. Most recently, Ringewald served as CTO for Boku, a leading global mobile payments network that enables customers to purchase virtual goods using their mobile phone numbers. Prior to joining Boku, Ringewald was a General Manager and VP of Amazon.com. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Accept.com (acquired by Amazon.com), which pioneered person-to-person payments on the internet. He also co-founded Be, a computer company founded by former Apple Computer executives, and served as the CTO and VP of Engineering. Prior to that, he held various senior engineering management positions at Apple, including managing the Operating System Advanced Technology teams, the Macintosh Operating System team and the European Software Research and Development team.

GE Capital Americas Hires IBM Cloud Exec as CIO, Enterprise Architecture

GE Capital Americas named Snehal Antani as CIO, Enterprise Architecture. He joins from IBM where he was Cloud-Centric Platforms Architect, Strategist & Product Manager. Prior to that he served as Private Cloud Strategist at IBM, Senior Product Manager & Business Strategy Lead for WebSphere Cloud & Virtualization Technologies, Senior Managing Consulting & WW Technical Lead for WebSphere XD, Developer for WebSphere XD at IBM.