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Hamilton Spectator
22-07-2025
- Business
- Hamilton Spectator
MX Welcomes Mark Nelson as New Chief Technology Officer to Accelerate Platform Innovation
LEHI, UTAH, July 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MX Technologies, Inc., today announced an important change in technology leadership with the appointment of Mark Nelson as its new Chief Technology Officer. He brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling engineering and product teams in high-growth environments. 'Mark Nelson is the perfect addition to our MX leadership team. He brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise and proven leadership at scale,' said Ryan Caldwell, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MX. 'He has built and led some of the world's most demanding engineering organizations, and his passion for building product-minded teams with a strong bias for execution makes him the ideal leader for our next chapter. I'm confident Mark will continue to accelerate our platform innovation, strengthen our client partnerships, and help us deliver even greater value as we work to empower the world to be financially strong.' Previously, Mark was Senior Vice President of Technology at Marqeta, where he led card issuing and payment processing, banking, risk, and data teams. Before Marqeta, he led engineering efforts at Tableau (a Salesforce company), focusing on integrating Tableau's technologies into Salesforce and Slack, and building out its marketplace. He also helped scale Twilio's data and billing platforms, as well as spent 12 years at Salesforce building hyperscale data infrastructure and shaping the early Salesforce Platform and CRM products. 'MX is a company known for its mission, taking ownership, and caring deeply about serving its clients, partners, and the industry at large. I'm thrilled to join MX at such a pivotal time. I see tremendous potential to unlock new value for our clients through data-driven innovation, platform extensibility, and a relentless focus on execution,' said Mark Nelson. Mark succeeds Chief Product and Technology Officer Wes Hummel, who played a key role in continuing to elevate MX's engineering culture to new heights — building on a legacy as a place where top engineers choose to build leading technology in one of the most impactful industries at a company with a powerful mission. Wes will remain a close partner during this transition. About MX MX Technologies, Inc. enables financial providers and consumers to do more with financial data. MX provides end-to-end solutions for financial institutions and fintechs to connect to, understand, and act on customers' financial data. To learn more, follow us on X and LinkedIn @MX or visit .
Business Wire
15-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Scott Holden Joins Vanta as Chief Marketing Officer
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vanta, the first and only AI-powered trust management platform, today announced that Scott Holden has joined the company as its Chief Marketing Officer. As CMO, Holden will oversee the entire Marketing department including brand, product marketing, demand generation, growth, communications and field marketing. Holden will report to Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo. With 20 years of marketing leadership at high-growth SaaS companies including Brex, ThoughtSpot and Salesforce, Holden has built and scaled world-class teams and driven category creation in competitive, fast-evolving markets. As CMO, Holden will lead Vanta's efforts to expand global awareness of its market-leading trust management platform, deepen customer engagement and drive business growth across industries and segments. 'Scott has a unique talent for transforming breakthrough products into generational category leaders,' said Cacioppo. 'What's most remarkable isn't just what he's built over two decades of marketing leadership, it's how he's done it: with a relentless focus on customers and collaboration. Scott's blend of deep storytelling and analytical rigor will be critical for Vanta as we enter our next chapter of growth.' Holden most recently served as CMO at Brex, where he evolved the company's brand into the leading AI-powered spend platform, growing Brex's enterprise business by over 90% in the past year alone. With his expertise in product-led growth marketing, Brex's startups business had a 70% increase in sign-ups and a 2x increase in spend efficiency last year under Holden's leadership. In addition, Holden led a variety of Brex's high-impact brand campaigns including the Enterprise focused 'Concurghhh' and customer brand campaign featuring leading companies like DoorDash, Robinhood and the Boston Celtics. Prior to Brex, Holden spent over eight years at ThoughtSpot, serving as CMO and Head of Go-to-Market (GTM) Operations leading a 100+ person organization encompassing marketing, sales development and GTM operations, while spearheading brand campaigns and implementing a successful account-based marketing strategy targeting Global 2000 enterprises. Earlier in his career, Holden spent seven years at Salesforce, where he held multiple marketing leadership roles, including Vice President of Marketing for the Salesforce Platform, Sales Cloud, and Chatter, and oversaw teams across customer marketing, industry marketing and community. 'I first discovered Vanta after experiencing just how painful and complex the SOC 2 process can be at a previous company,' said Holden. 'What stood out immediately—beyond the clear product-market fit—was the truly special way Vanta is reimagining critical, complicated security work as approachable and scalable, especially in the age of AI. Whether serving fast-growing startups or Fortune 50 leaders, Vanta's vision for AI-powered trust has never been more relevant—or essential—than it is today.' Holden joins Vanta as the company continues to accelerate its product innovation and industry recognition. In June 2025, Vanta introduced the Vanta AI Agent to autonomously handle time-consuming and error-prone GRC workflows. Earlier this year, Vanta released its AI Security Assessment to guide customers on the responsible use of AI and became one of the first companies to achieve ISO 42001 certification, reinforcing its commitment to building trust in AI systems. Last week, Vanta was named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Governance, Risk, and Compliance Software, reflecting the company's leadership in automating and simplifying security and compliance. Vanta's additional recent accolades include the Forbes Cloud 100, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces for 2025 and Forbes' 2025 list of Best Startup Employers. About Vanta Vanta is the leading AI powered trust management platform that helps simplify and centralize security for organizations of all sizes. Over 11,000 companies including Atlassian, Duolingo, Icelandair, Ramp and Synthesia rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust—all in a way that's real-time and transparent. Founded in 2018, Vanta has customers in 58 countries with offices in Dublin, London, New York, San Francisco and Sydney. For more information, visit
Business Wire
24-06-2025
- Health
- Business Wire
Salesforce Collaborates With UChicago Medicine to Enhance Patient Support
SAN FRANCISCO & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world's #1 AI CRM, today announced that UChicago Medicine is implementing Agentforce for Health to enhance the patient experience. Agentforce, Salesforce's digital labor platform, is being integrated into the academic health system's non-clinical, operational workflows to provide patients with 24/7 access to tailored, self-service information and support. UChicago Medicine identified opportunities to improve the efficiency of non-clinical support provided to patients, particularly for routine inquiries received outside of regular business hours. The addition of agentic, AI-powered tools is intended to alleviate pressure on staff by assisting with high-volume, non-urgent tasks and providing patients with timely responses to frequently asked questions. With the integration of Agentforce and Health Cloud, digital, AI -powered agents will help UChicago Medicine patients with a variety of information, from finding specialty care at convenient locations to answers about parking or directions. 'As part of our broader efforts to enhance the patient experience and streamline access to information, we're implementing new digital tools to support our teams and patients,' said Andrew Chang, Chief Marketing Officer, UChicago Medicine. 'These tools are expected to help automate routine inquiries so that staff can focus on more complex needs that benefit from personalized attention.' UChicago Medicine is also exploring how to use this agentic, AI-powered technology to guide patients through care via phone and web chat. Patients will be able to refill prescriptions, schedule and modify appointments, and verify insurance ahead of time through a user-friendly chat interface. Patients also could receive real-time logistical support when traveling to appointments, such as notifying them if a parking garage is full and suggesting an alternative location. 'UChicago Medicine is setting a new standard for how healthcare providers can strategically leverage agentic AI to deliver tailored and effective care to its patients," said Adam Evans, EVP and GM, Salesforce AI. "By leveraging Agentforce for Health on the deeply unified Salesforce Platform, UChicago Medicine is not just boosting operational efficiency, it is empowering its staff to dedicate more time to meaningful patient interactions and elevate health outcomes.' More information: About Salesforce Salesforce helps organizations of any size reimagine their business with AI. Agentforce — the digital labor solution for enterprises — seamlessly integrates with Customer 360 applications, Data Cloud, and Einstein AI to create a limitless workforce, bringing humans and agents together to deliver customer success on a single, trusted platform. Visit for more information.
Business Wire
19-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Salesforce Extends Relationship With National Broadcasting Leader Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), the world's #1 AI CRM, today announced it is extending its relationship with Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), one of the nation's leading diversified media companies and the country's largest owner of local television stations. Salesforce also announced that Nexstar has selected Salesforce Media Cloud to enhance and streamline its local advertising sales operations, and Agentforce to assist Nexstar in building and deploying AI agents that automate tasks, reason, decide, act, and drive outcomes 24/7 without human intervention. As advertisers increasingly prioritize digital platforms for their reach and targeting capabilities, Nexstar turned to the Salesforce Platform to help support digital growth and transformation across its national broadcast and cable networks, more than 200 owned and/or partner local television stations, and 1,600+ advertising sales personnel. Nexstar will deploy Media Cloud to help manage day-to-day sales operations and activities, providing sellers with near real-time visibility into campaign delivery, enabling them to understand ad fulfillment and accurately forecast against committed and booked ad spending. 'Nexstar is a leading force in the media industry, committed to delivering engaging content across its linear and digital platforms for millions of viewers,' said Jeff Amann, EVP and GM, Industries at Salesforce. "With Agentforce for Media, we're helping Nexstar enhance operational efficiency, streamline sales processes, and unlock new market opportunities to fuel company growth.' Nexstar will also implement Agentforce for Media, which will enable the company to quickly deploy AI agents that will augment its sales team with agentic AI that can independently execute manual, time-consuming tasks. Agentforce for Media provides a growing library of pre-built agent skills and actions, including Advertising Proposal. Data Cloud will bring structured and unstructured data together to ground Agentforce's responses in accurate and timely information. This agentic AI solution will help Nexstar streamline the advertising sales process by automating proposal creation, enhancing product discovery and enabling ad sales representatives to more efficiently find the right products and generate new opportunities or create customized pitch decks. This will reduce the time spent on manual tasks, allowing advertising staff to focus on building stronger relationships and closing sales. 'AI and intelligent agents are reshaping the future of ad sales and operations — empowering us to move beyond incremental gains toward transformative change,' said Brett Jenkins, CTO at Nexstar. 'By uniting our deep local expertise with aggregated data, insights, and workflows on the Agentforce platform, we unlock unprecedented scale and intelligence to deliver smarter, faster, and more impactful solutions for our advertisers and our business.' Nexstar also is expanding its deployment of Salesforce's CRM Analytics, Revenue Cloud, all built into the Salesforce Platform. By consolidating onto a single, deeply unified platform, Nexstar will eliminate siloed applications and data, giving its sales team a unified view along with near real-time, AI-powered insights to help close deals faster and more efficiently. Learn more: About Salesforce Salesforce helps organizations of any size reimagine their business with AI. Agentforce — the digital labor solution for enterprises — seamlessly integrates with Customer 360 applications, Data Cloud, and Einstein AI to create a limitless workforce, bringing humans and agents together to deliver customer success on a single, trusted platform. Visit for more information. About Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST) is a leading diversified media company that produces and distributes engaging local and national news, sports and entertainment content across its television and digital platforms, including more than 316,000 hours of programming produced annually by its business units. Nexstar owns America's largest local television broadcasting group comprised of top network affiliates, with more than 200 owned or partner stations in 116 U.S. markets reaching 220 million people. Nexstar's national television properties include The CW, America's fifth major broadcast network, NewsNation, our national news network providing 'News for All Americans,' popular entertainment multicast networks Antenna TV and Rewind TV, and a 31.3% ownership stake in TV Food Network. The Company's portfolio of digital assets, including its local TV station websites, The Hill and are collectively a Top 10 U.S. digital news and information property. For more information, please visit
Techday NZ
09-06-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
AI agents to play key role in ANZ IT security, report finds
The latest Salesforce State of IT report indicates that IT security leaders in Australia and New Zealand anticipate AI agents will address at least one of their organisation's digital security issues. The survey reveals that all respondents see a role for AI agents in assisting with IT security, with 36 per cent of IT security teams in the region currently using such agents in their daily operations. The proportion of security teams using AI agents is expected to grow rapidly, with predictions it will reach 68 per cent within the next two years. According to the findings, 71 per cent of organisations in Australia and New Zealand are planning to increase their security budgets during the year ahead, just below the global average of 75 per cent. AI agents were highlighted as being capable of supporting various tasks, including faster threat detection, more efficient investigations, and comprehensive auditing of AI model performance. The global survey, which included more than 2,000 enterprise IT security leaders—with 100 respondents from Australia and New Zealand—also pointed to several challenges associated with adopting AI in security practices. Despite widespread recognition that practices need to evolve, with 75 per cent of respondents acknowledging the need for transformation, 58 per cent expressed concern that their organisations' data infrastructure was not yet ready to maximise the potential of AI agents. "Trusted AI agents are built on trusted data," said Alice Steinglass, EVP & GM, Salesforce Platform, Integration, and Automation. "IT security teams that prioritise data governance will be able to augment their security capabilities with agents while protecting data and staying compliant." The report noted that while both IT professionals and malicious actors are integrating AI into their operations, autonomous AI agents offer an opportunity for security teams to reduce manual workloads and focus on more complex challenges. However, deploying agentic AI successfully requires a strong foundation in data infrastructure and governance. In addition to familiar threats such as cloud security vulnerabilities, malware, and phishing, the report found that IT leaders now also rank data poisoning within their top three concerns. Data poisoning involves the manipulation of AI training data sets by malicious actors. This concern is cited alongside cloud security threats and insider or internal threats. Follow us on: Share on:
