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Four Seasons, the world’s leading luxury hospitality company, announces the appointment of Keisha Smith as Executive Vice President and Chief People and Culture Officer, effective January 6, 2025. Based at the company’s corporate office in Miami, Keisha joins the Executive Leadership Team and reports directly to Four Seasons President and CEO Alejandro Reynal. “Keisha brings extensive expertise from her dynamic

FICO is partnering with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to educate the next generation of data scientists. According to a news release, the global analytic software company is bringing back its FICO® Educational Analytics Challenge for the second year. This will give students the opportunity to engage with real-world challenges in artificial intelligence(AI) and analytics, inspiring them to develop

Consumers have reached a point where they don’t have the incremental spending power: Clarence Otis Clarence Otis, former Darden Restaurants CEO, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss news of French supermarket chain Carrefour dropping some Pepsi products and several brand names to protest what the company considers to be unacceptable price hikes, whether consumers might be approaching a breaking point, the

Fintech company Fiserv‘s Clover brand has named Tabitha Brown as its first chief empowerment officer. The creative visionary, entrepreneur, and Emmy Award-winning TV personality will work with Clover’s small and midsized business customers as an advocate and ambassador. Fiserv said that although the 33 million SMBs in the U.S. account for nearly 48% of private-sector employment, about 1.6 million new

WASHINGTON, D.C. [January 15, 2025] – The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) announced today that Shelley Stewart Jr., Managing Partner of Bottom Line Advisory, LLC, has been elected as the new Chair of The ELC Board of Directors. Stewart, a dedicated member of The ELC since 1997, will assume his new role immediately, succeeding Gale V. King. “Shelley Stewart Jr. is