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Ingenia.ai Appoints Anita Sharma as Chief Data & AI Officer and Member of the Board of Directors

Sharma brings enterprise data, AI, and digital transformation expertise to support Ingenia.ai’s portfolio growth and strategic expansion.

Ingenia.ai, an AI platform and venture studio dedicated to building and scaling AI-powered businesses across fintech, martech, and cleantech, today announced the appointment of Anita Sharma as Chief Data and AI Officer. She will also join the Company’s Board of Directors and work closely with executive leadership in leading the Company’s next phase of growth and strategic expansion.

As a platform-driven incubator, Ingenia.ai provides capital, AI infrastructure and expertise, as well as strategic partnerships to help build and scale portfolio companies across industry sectors where its technology and operational insight can unlock growth and create substantial enterprise value. The company currently maintains a portfolio of approximately a dozen operating and investment positions spanning payments, analytics, operational systems, enterprise workflow tools, customer engagement technologies, and related software platforms.

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“Anita brings a rare combination of deep enterprise data expertise, AI leadership, and practical experience building scalable technology solutions,” said Abnesh Raina, Co-founder & Board Chair of Ingenia.ai. “Her experience across global technology organizations and high-growth environments will be invaluable as Ingenia.ai continues to build and scale AI-enabled businesses with real operational impact.”

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Anita is a seasoned data and technology leader who brings more than 20 years of experience in data and AI across global enterprises, including Salesforce, Oracle, and DHL, as well as in startup environments. Her expertise spans data engineering, AI/ML, data security, scalable solution design, and digital transformation. Anita holds a master’s degree in computer science and has completed executive leadership programs in technology at Wharton and business excellence at Berkeley Haas.

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Hexaview Technologies is AWS Advanced tier Partner on AI for Regulated Industry

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Hexaview joins an elite tier of AWS partners globally, cementing its leadership in delivering enterprise-grade solutions across North America.

Hexaview Technologies, a fast-growing AI implementation and IT services firm specializing in regulated industries, today announced it has attained the AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner designation from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This recognition places Hexaview among a select group of technology partners globally who have demonstrated deep AWS technical expertise, a proven track record of client success, and an unwavering commitment to cloud innovation. The milestone is not a milestone — it is a statement of intent.

What This Means: Credentialed to Compete at the Highest Level

Achieving AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner status is not an automatic upgrade — it requires rigorous validation of technical capabilities, certified professionals, demonstrated customer outcomes, and adherence to AWS best practices. For Hexaview, earning this badge reflects years of disciplined investment in cloud architecture, data engineering, and AI-native delivery models that genuinely solve the complexity facing enterprise clients in banking, financial services, insurance, and healthcare.

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We did not pursue this designation to add a logo to our website. We pursued it because our clients deserve a partner who is held accountable to the highest standards — and AWS Advanced Tier is that standard.

“This achievement reflects the collective grit, expertise, and client obsession of every person at Hexaview. We are humbled by the trust our clients place in us, and energized by the responsibility that comes with operating at this level. AWS Advanced Tier is not our destination — it is our launchpad.”

— Ankit [CTO], Hexaview Technologies

Why It Matters: A Structural Shift in How Regulated Industries Adopt Cloud & AI

Regulated industries — particularly BFSI and Healthcare — face a paradox: the urgency to modernize is high, but the cost of getting it wrong is existential. Compliance mandates, data sovereignty concerns, and legacy infrastructure create friction that most IT vendors are ill-equipped to navigate. Hexaview was built precisely for this intersection.

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As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, Hexaview now brings added validation to every engagement — from agentic AI implementations and cloud migrations to data platform builds and compliance-ready infrastructure deployments. Clients can move faster, knowing their cloud partner has been assessed and endorsed by AWS itself.

What Sets Hexaview Apart: Not Just a Partner, a Force Multiplier

In a market crowded with AWS partners, Hexaview differentiates itself through a focused, outcomes-first approach:

■ Industry-First Design: Every solution is architected with the compliance and risk models of BFSI and Healthcare at its core — not bolted on after the fact.

■ AI-Native Delivery: Hexaview’s ‘Legacy Insights’ agentic AI service suite brings intelligent automation to workflows that previously required heavy manual effort.

■ US Market Depth: With growing operations serving North American enterprise clients, Hexaview combines global delivery efficiency with local market insight.

■ Speed Without Sacrifice: The team’s ability to move fast without cutting compliance corners is what keeps clients like wealth managers, FinTech firms, and health systems coming back.

“We are deeply grateful to our clients, our teams, and our AWS partnership team for getting us here. This is as much their achievement as ours. What we promise in return is simple: we will keep raising the bar, keep investing, and keep delivering outcomes that matter.”

— Abhishek Talwar, CEO, Hexaview Technologies

“Our early adoption of OpenClaw and NemoClaw positions us at the forefront of the agentic enterprise, giving us firsthand experience that helps AWS customers accelerate their own AI transformation”

— Kashi KS, CAIO, Hexaview Technologies

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Mago and AVer Partner to Deliver Smarter, More Flexible Meeting Room Experiences

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Mago’s platform-agnostic software pairs with AVer’s Android-powered VB370A to bring flexible, multi-platform collaboration to any meeting room.

Mago (mago.io), the unified meeting room software platform built around Meet, Present, and Collaborate, today announced a strategic partnership with AVer Information Inc., a global leader in enterprise video collaboration technology. Together, the companies are delivering flexible, intelligent, platform-agnostic meeting room experiences powered by the AVer VB370A Android™-powered dual-lens 4K PTZ video collaboration bar — available standalone or as the VB370A + CP10 G2 Controller Bundle.

Mago’s hardware- and platform-agnostic software supports Windows 11 and Android across more than 20 UC platforms, including Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and Cisco Webex, now paired with AVer’s award-winning collaboration hardware, giving organizations the freedom to choose their hardware, UC platform, and workflow without compromise.

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A New Standard for Flexible Meeting Rooms

The AVer VB370A brings AI-powered video to mid-to-large rooms with a dual-lens design combining an 18X zoom PTZ camera and a 120° wide-angle fixed lens, plus Smart Composition, Auto Framing, voice tracking, and a 14-microphone array with beamforming, echo cancellation, and audio fencing for voices up to 10 meters away. The optional CP10 G2 Controller adds a 10.1-inch touch display, one-touch meeting access, room scheduling, and an antimicrobial coating ideal for enterprise, healthcare, education, and government environments. Paired with Mago, organizations gain a unified software layer managing video conferencing, wireless screen sharing, whiteboarding, and advanced display modes, all centrally administered through the Mago Admin Center.

“At Mago, our mission has always been to give IT leaders and end users the freedom to choose the best hardware for their space without being locked into a single UC ecosystem. AVer’s VB370A is exactly the kind of intelligent, high-quality Android-powered device that exemplifies that flexibility. Together, we’re giving customers a complete, future-ready meeting room solution.”
— Danny Hayasaka, Managing Director, Americas & SVP, Global Marketing, Mago

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“AVer is excited to partner with Mago. Mago delivers a seamless, one-touch meeting experience across multiple video platforms, while AVer’s range of USB cameras and speaker tracking accessories integrates with the industry’s leading collaboration solutions. Together, we’re extending this powerful experience to the VB370A Android video bar and CP10G2 controller, making every meeting simple, flexible, and ready to join.”
— Marc Happes, Sr. Product Manager, AVer Information Inc.

Experience Mago + AVer Live at InfoComm 2026

Mago and AVer will showcase their joint solution at InfoComm 2026, June 13–19, 2026, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Attendees are invited to visit the AVer booth (C9078) for a live demo or one-on-one meeting with solution experts. InfoComm also marks the launch of Mago’s June 2026 Feature Pack, featuring Advanced Multi-Screen Display Modes, Mago Apps, Authenticated Users on Shared Room Systems, a redesigned Whiteboard, and a new Room Scheduler App, all complementary to the AVer VB370A platform.

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Jumpmind AX Insights Study Reveals the Daily Challenges of Retail Store Associates

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The insights have implications for retail technology in the store: it must help mind information gaps, overcome cognitive overwhelm, and avoid ancillary AI annoyance

Jumpmind, a leading provider of innovative retail technology solutions, announced the findings of its 2026 AX Insights study.

The study is based on insights from a focus group conducted to understand the voice of the store associate, supervisor and manager, to uncover the challenges faced when interacting with shoppers in the store, and how new tools and technologies such as AI are reshaping their respective roles.

Understanding the work environment and the challenges of retail associates is important. Especially as research by Retail Systems Research (RSR), sponsored by Jumpmind, shows that 85% of retailers view physical stores as their primary target for growth. Standing at the front lines of the retail enterprise, associates are important brand ambassadors, but they can struggle due to frustration and overwhelm, and a lack of empowerment and well-being.

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One study showed 72% of frontline workers have been exposed to incidents of customer incivility. Another showed 55% of retail workers report experiencing burnout due to repetitive tasks, understaffing, and rising customer demands.

An understanding of the associate experience is crucial to guide design considerations and capabilities for Point of Service (POS), which in recent years have evolved from a checkout tool to a full-store service hub, and the quintessential operating system for associates.

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An Information Gap Has Set Up Shop on the Sales Floor. Associates are expected to deliver expert, personalized and consultative service but often lack the data to do that. This is a technology issue, not a training problem.

Associate Cognitive Overwhelm Becomes a Customer Experience Problem. When technology adds complexity instead of reducing it, it becomes a distraction that takes the associate focus away from serving shoppers. The best associate tools feel invisible; the worst ones become one more thing to manage.

AI Should Work for Associates, Not the Other Way Around. AI is being put to work in the store, but AI that requires an associate to stop and interact with it during a live customer conversation isn’t helpful. Pre-generated, contextual insight that helps associates do their jobs better is the difference between AI that empowers and AI that interrupts.

“Our most recent research delves into a ‘day in the life’ of a store associate,” said Lauren Cevallos, Director of Strategy and Customer Success at Jumpmind. “Most retail technology vendors design their offerings with input from IT and Operations professionals as well as C-suite stakeholders. They rarely include retail associates who use the product every single day, standing on a sales floor in the midst of a customer interaction.

“We strongly believe the best retail technology is developed with the input of the associates it serves. This research uncover the psychological dimensions of the associate role. Associates want to feel confident, competent and credible in front of a customer; modernizing Point of Service can elevate the associate experience in myriad ways.”

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DecisionPoint Technologies Appoints Brian Bukowski as Chief Executive Officer and President

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DecisionPoint Technologies (“DecisionPoint”), a leading provider of enterprise mobility and supply chain solutions, announced the appointment of Brian Bukowski as Chief Executive Officer and President.

“His leadership, customer focus, and deep industry expertise make him the ideal leader to guide DecisionPoint Technologies into its next chapter.”

Bukowski, who previously served as President and Chief Revenue Officer, has played a central role in driving the company’s growth and innovation. In his expanded role, he will lead DecisionPoint Technologies through its next phase of strategic expansion and operational scale.

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Bukowski brings more than 30 years of industry experience, including senior leadership roles at Motorola, Stratix, and Riverbed. His deep expertise across enterprise mobility, networking, and supply chain technology positions him to build on the company’s strong foundation and accelerate growth.

Ross Young, who has served as Chief Executive Officer, will continue supporting the business in an advisory capacity with Graham Partners. Under Young’s leadership, the organization successfully integrated Barcoding, Inc. and DecisionPoint Systems, forming DecisionPoint Technologies in January 2025 and establishing a unified platform for continued growth.

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“We are pleased to appoint Brian as CEO and President,” said Mike Stewart, Principal at Graham Partners, LLC. “Brian has been instrumental in shaping our growth strategy and strengthening our market position. His leadership, customer focus, and deep industry expertise make him the ideal leader to guide DecisionPoint Technologies into its next chapter.”

“I’m honored to step into this role and build on the strong foundation established by Ross and the broader team,” said Brian Bukowski. “We have a tremendous opportunity ahead to continue delivering meaningful outcomes for our customers and partners while scaling our platform for long-term growth.”

DecisionPoint Technologies remains focused on delivering integrated, end-to-end solutions across enterprise mobility, supply chain automation, and managed services—helping customers modernize operations and drive efficiency across their organizations.

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Quantified Launches New AI Sales Coaching Platform to Transform How Life Sciences Teams Prepare, Coach, and Win

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Groundbreaking platform builds on Quantified’s market-leading AI Roleplay solution with Adaptive AI, agentic coaching, compliance, authoring, and insights capabilities to drive better business outcomes across the full rep lifecycle

Quantified, the AI sales coaching platform for life sciences commercial teams, announced the launch of its new AI Sales Coaching Platform, expanding the company’s market-leading AI Roleplay solution into a broader platform designed to help organizations improve rep readiness, strengthen compliance, scale coaching, and drive commercial performance.

Built for high-stakes commercial teams, Quantified’s new platform helps both training and commercial leaders drive measurable improvements in rep readiness, message adherence, time to proficiency, and field execution. Adaptive AI-powered agents and coaches personalize the experience for each rep based on role, experience, tenure, demonstrated proficiency, and business context. The platform supports the full rep lifecycle, from onboarding and development to preparation, field execution, debriefing, and continuous improvement.

“Commercial teams do not win by simply completing training. They win when reps are truly ready for the conversations that matter and build ever greater proficiency,” said Noah Zandan, CEO and Co-founder of Quantified. “With this launch, Quantified is moving beyond one-time training moments and giving life sciences organizations a continuous AI coaching platform that helps every rep practice, prepare, stay compliant, and improve their performance over time. Our new platform is unique in its ability to personalize coaching based on dynamic assessments of rep proficiency and uses Adaptive AI to meet each rep where they are, giving them the most relevant and helpful guidance possible.”

Unlike narrow point solutions for AI roleplay or call analytics, Quantified is a continuous AI coaching platform built specifically for the demands of regulated commercial environments. The combination of a fine-tuned private model, an MLR-aware governance layer, and six integrated AI agents working across the rep lifecycle is what separates a true platform from a feature — and what allows Quantified to scale from a single training use case to becoming the system of record for commercial readiness.

The new Quantified platform is designed to bridge the gap between traditional training, manager coaching, compliance oversight, and commercial performance. The platform helps teams move from isolated practice sessions to continuous coaching workflows that are connected to real commercial moments and measurable performance improvement.

“We chose to partner with Quantified on the design of this platform because the next phase of commercial readiness requires AI that is purpose-built for the realities of regulated environments — not adapted from a general-purpose tool,” said Lisa Sims, Executive Director, Learning Strategy & Operations, at Novartis. “The continuous, personalized coaching model that Quantified is bringing to market is the right architecture for our reps, our managers, and our compliance teams to work from a shared foundation, before, during, and after the conversations that matter most.”

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Quantified’s AI Sales Coaching Platform includes six AI agents working in concert across the rep lifecycle.

Practice and Preparation:

  • AI Roleplay — Gives reps a safe, realistic environment to practice messaging, methodology, and communication skills before they are in front of customers. Designed for high-stakes life sciences conversations, AI Roleplay helps teams build confidence, reinforce approved messaging, and drive behavioral lift.
  • AI Readiness Coach — Personalizes launch preparation, including live drills of approved collateral, onboarding, certification readiness, and field preparation based on each rep’s strengths, tenure, role, and proficiency.
  • AI Authoring Agent — Empowers customers to self-author realistic, contextualized training and coaching experiences informed by their strategy, CRM pipeline, approved content, and commercial goals. Training and enablement teams can create and scale relevant simulations, scenarios, rubrics, and coaching content faster, without depending on services or content production cycles.

In-the-Field Performance:

  • AI Field Coach — Provides pre- and post-call guidance with personalized simulations and feedback loops, helping reps prepare for critical customer interactions, reflect on performance based on live-call analysis and summary, and continuously improve execution in the field to deliver better outcomes.

Governance:

  • AI Compliance Agent — Ingests regulatory knowledge and organization-specific guidelines to set guardrails, support OPDP adherence, and help teams maintain compliant messaging. The AI Compliance Agent gives trainers, managers, and compliance teams better visibility into risk, message quality, and adherence to approved guidance.

Insight and Measurement:

  • AI Insights Agent — Delivers custom coaching insights, team metrics, new hire readiness tracking, and interactive visibility for managers, trainers, and commercial leaders. The AI Insights Agent helps teams identify skill gaps, track time to proficiency, understand content challenges, monitor message adherence at the territory and brand level, and connect coaching activity to commercial performance.

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The Power and Impact of Adaptive AI:

At the core of Quantified’s platform is Adaptive AI, powered by a fine-tuned private model purpose-built for life sciences commercial conversations. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Quantified’s model is trained on regulated industry datasets that horizontal platforms do not have access to, and is hosted in a private environment that meets the security and compliance requirements of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

Adaptive AI personalizes coaching for every commercial rep based on their role, experience, tenure, demonstrated proficiency, and business context. Instead of putting every rep through the same training path, Adaptive AI continuously adjusts each user’s development journey based on what they know, where they need support, how they perform, and what they need to be ready for next.

For reps, Adaptive AI creates a guided coaching experience across roleplays, knowledge checks, videos, documents, feedback, and 1:1 coaching interactions where users can ask questions throughout their development journey. For managers, trainers, compliance teams, and commercial leaders, it turns rep activity and performance data into actionable insight, helping identify skill gaps, readiness risks, coaching opportunities, compliance needs, and proficiency trends so organizations can focus coaching where it matters most and ensure teams are prepared for critical customer conversations.

“Life sciences organizations operate in an environment where every conversation matters,” said Zandan. “Teams need reps who can deliver the right message, in the right way, within the right guardrails. Quantified’s new AI Sales Coaching Platform powered by Adaptive AI gives organizations a more scalable, personalized, and measurable way to build those capabilities across the commercial team.”

Quantified’s platform is widely deployed across 30+ enterprise customers, including 10 of the world’s largest life sciences and pharmaceutical companies — Astellas, Johnson & Johnson, Takeda, Novartis, Sanofi, Bayer, Otsuka, Regeneron, UCB, Vantive, and many more. Customers report a 6x increase in rep practice and preparation, a 40% reduction in time to readiness, and a 19% increase in good selling outcomes.

This launch marks a major expansion of Quantified’s role in the commercial technology stack. By combining AI roleplay, Adaptive AI coaching, compliance support, content authoring, field coaching, and performance insights, Quantified helps life sciences organizations move beyond training events and toward continuous improvement across the commercial lifecycle.

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Consensus Acquires Saleo, Creating the Industry’s First Agentic Product Experience Platform

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Combined platform unites interactive tours and video demos, AI demo agents, conversational AI, and live demos to eliminate friction across the buying journey and deliver continuous buyer intelligence to revenue teams.

Consensus, the agentic Product Experience Platform redefining how B2B buyers research, evaluate, and make critical purchasing decisions, announced the acquisition of Saleo, the AI-native live-demo experience platform, and the closing of its previously announced acquisition of Peel. Together, the companies create the only end-to-end agentic AI platform that runs fully autonomous, personalized demos with unified buyer intelligence across all steps of the modern revenue motion.

Saleo brings flawless, data-rich live product demos to the Consensus platform. Built on proprietary technology that injects tailored demo data directly into the native product, Saleo enables revenue teams to run live demos that reflect the buyer’s actual reality. No more generic walkthroughs. No more hours of demo environment setup. Every live demo becomes indistinguishable from the prospect’s real-world deployment, configured automatically through AI.

From self-guided product exploration to agent-led conversations and live product experiences, the Consensus Product Experience Platform now covers every moment of the modern buying journey. Consensus enables buyers to explore on their own terms. Saleo’s AI Demo Agent and Live experience deliver context-rich demos 24/7. And Peel captures and contextualizes buyer engagement signals across the buying journey through conversations, helping revenue teams identify their most qualified opportunities and tailor engagement based on real buyer intent. Together, the combined platform provides one of the most comprehensive views of B2B buying behavior in the industry.

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The shift is happening at a critical moment. According to Gartner, B2B buyers are 83% through their decision process before ever engaging sales, and spend just 17% of their total purchase journey meeting with potential suppliers. The traditional sales playbook, built around live human interaction at every stage, no longer matches how buying actually works. Revenue teams need visibility into what buyers do before sales are involved, and the precision to deliver decisive product experiences the moment buyers engage. The gap between those two needs is where friction compounds across the modern buying journey, and what Consensus, Peel, and Saleo together eliminate.

“Revenue teams don’t lose because they lack activity. They lose because buyers experience friction and don’t tell us,” said Doug Johnson, CEO of Consensus. “Every layer of this platform was built to remove that friction and surface the signals that tell us what buyers actually want next. Consensus lets buyers explore products on their own terms. Peel’s conversational AI agents turn every piece of collateral into a real-time conversation that captures buyer intent. And Saleo brings precision to the moment that matters most: the live demo. This combined Product Experience Platform is what modern revenue teams need: agentic, buyer-centric, and built to turn every buyer interaction into intelligence, insights, and next-best actions that help teams anticipate buyer needs and engage with greater precision.”

Saleo eliminates one of the most persistent failure points in B2B sales. Demos historically break down because demo environments are outdated, presales teams spend hours preparing every demo, and the data inside the demo is generic and doesn’t reflect the prospect’s reality. Saleo solves all three by creating a dynamic proof layer on top of the prospect’s native application, enabling personalized, relevant demos without the prep work or risk.

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Saleo’s AI Demo Agent delivers fully autonomous, personalized product demos 24/7, responding to buyer questions, navigating the product in real time, and surfacing the most relevant features without a sales rep ever entering the room.

For Consensus, this is a powerful addition to the buyer-led journey, giving self-directed buyers an intelligent, interactive experience the moment they raise their hand, before they ever engage with a human. Together, Consensus’s Product Experience Platform and Saleo’s AI Demo Agent create a seamless path from first curiosity to informed conversation, compressing the evaluation cycle.

“Live demos have always been where deals are decided, but they’ve also been where deals fall apart,” said Justin McDonald, CEO and Co-Founder of Saleo. “We built Saleo to eliminate that risk completely. Now, combined with Consensus, we’re turning the most unpredictable moment in the sales cycle into the most controlled. Every demo is real because it’s your real product. Every experience is personal and built to win.”

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Factory Appoints Marcello Gallo as Chief Revenue Officer

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Factory, the company behind enterprise AI coding agents known as Droids, announced that Marcello Gallo has joined as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Gallo joins Factory after serving as CRO at Sigma, where he helped lead the company through 300% growth in annual recurring revenue. Previously, he was CRO at Moveworks, now a ServiceNow company, where he helped grow one of the earliest enterprise AI platforms adopted by the Fortune 500, growing the business 400% in revenue before its acquisition. Earlier in his career, he held senior sales leadership roles at MongoDB, helping scale the company into a category leader in modern database infrastructure.

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“Marcello is a legend in the enterprise software industry. He’s scaled multiple of the leading enterprise software companies of the last decade,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. “He built world-class go-to-market teams selling AI to enterprises at Moveworks, and he scaled Sigma into one of the most important data companies in the market. At Factory, we’re building for the next generational shift of enterprise software. Marcello is an industry leader in scaling high-growth startups, and we are humbled to have him steer the next chapter of hyper-growth for Factory.”

His appointment comes as enterprises move beyond experimentation and begin to make long-term decisions about how agents are moving into production. Factory already enables teams at global enterprises like NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, EY, Palo Alto Networks, RBC, and Revolut to deploy agents across the software development lifecycle, and the company has grown rapidly as enterprises rapidly transform their organizations to be agent-native.

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Earlier this year, the company announced a $150 million Series C financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company also introduced Factory Router, a revolutionary new product that automatically selects the right model for each coding task, cutting costs 20-25% while maintaining frontier model performance.

“Throughout my career, I’ve looked for companies that are revolutionizing enterprise technology and decision making,” said Gallo. “That’s what drew me to Factory. Every company is focused on building their internal agentic platform and Factory is approaching this by enabling enterprises to own their software factory, which is model agnostic and embedded where engineers work. The team has built a solution that enables enterprises to truly modernize enterprise code while retaining flexibility, control and production-grade agents at scale.”

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NIQ (NYSE: NIQ) Unveils Six New AI-Powered Capabilities at C360, Executing on Its Vision for Agentic Commerce

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New capabilities help organizations operationalize trusted market intelligence across enterprise AI environments and workflows, while preparing for the future of agentic commerce

NielsenIQ unveiled six new AI-powered capabilities at C360, the company’s flagship client and industry event, marking a major milestone in the execution of NIQ’s AI strategy. The new capabilities help brands, retailers, and other organizations operationalize trusted market intelligence across enterprise workflows, AI environments, and the emerging world of agentic commerce.

NIQ’s AI value creation strategy is built on two foundational principles:

  • Delivering The Full View™: Combining the industry’s broadest and deepest datasets, advanced AI models, and rich content to help organizations unlock actionable insights and drive AI innovation at scale.
  • Enabling AI-Powered Capabilities: Delivering trusted intelligence and proprietary IP through NIQ’s advanced AI applications, assistants, and agents embedded within client workflows and enterprise environments.

Together, these principles reinforce NIQ’s position as the trusted intelligence infrastructure powering the future of commerce.

“Clients are looking for access to trusted, granular intelligence in whatever way works best for them,” said Troy Treangen, Chief Product Officer at NIQ. “Whether through NIQ applications, AI assistants such as NIQ Optiq, connected enterprise workflows, or governed integrations with leading AI technologies such as ChatGPT, Claude, and future frontier models, our new capabilities are designed to meet clients where they are and help them access NIQ’s trusted, proprietary market intelligence seamlessly and securely wherever decisions are made.”

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Accelerating AI Innovation to Serve Clients

The following capabilities, announced at C360, are the first wave of AI innovations enabled by NIQ’s trusted data and intelligence:

  • NIQ Connected Content: Helping clients manage, activate, and optimize product, availability, and preference intelligence across commerce ecosystems.
  • NIQ Optiq: Our next-generation insights assistant and agent experience, bringing trusted market intelligence directly into decision-making.
  • NIQ Optiq Mobile: Extending trusted intelligence directly into mobile decision-making environments.
  • NIQ Optiq Bridge: Connecting trusted NIQ intelligence directly into market-leading applications, AI-powered workflows, and enterprise environments.
  • NIQ Cadence: A GenAI-native Marketing Effectiveness operating system that helps marketers continuously measure, optimize, and activate performance.
  • ConnectAI Suite: The foundation powering a suite of AI data engineering and integration services that help organizations access trusted NIQ intelligence within enterprise workflows and AI-enabled business processes.

Enabling the Future of Agentic Commerce

While these new capabilities address how clients unlock value from AI today, NIQ’s Commerce Intelligence pillar focuses on helping clients prepare for a future where AI increasingly influences product discovery, recommendations, purchasing decisions, and measurement.

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This innovation is being advanced through our AI Commerce Lab, NIQ’s public innovation venue focused on developing the intelligence, measurement, standards, and ecosystem capabilities required for the future of agentic commerce.

“Across our client conversations, we consistently hear the same challenge: organizations are investing heavily in AI but often struggle to operationalize it at scale,” said Liz Buchanan, President of North America at NIQ. “The innovations announced at C360 are designed to help close that gap by providing trusted intelligence, practical AI solutions, and the capabilities organizations need to turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes.”

Built on NIQ’s Global Data Advantage

NIQ’s AI strategy builds on the company’s unmatched global data footprint, including:

  • Relationships with more than 8,900 retailers globally
  • Coverage across approximately $7.4 trillion in consumer spend
  • More than 253 million product items
  • More than 10 billion structured product attributes
  • 160+ petabytes of managed data assets
  • 28,000 AI models running daily

Additional information about the ConnectAI Suite, NIQ Optiq, NIQ Optiq Mobile, NIQ Optiq Bridge, NIQ Connected Content, NIQ Cadence, Commerce Intelligence, and the Commerce Lab will be shared throughout C360.

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RSTN Communications Expands Enterprise Communications Platform with Acquisition of Easton Telecom Solutions

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Acquisition Strengthens RSTN’s Fiber, Voice, and Cloud Communications Capabilities

RSTN Communications LLC, a rapidly expanding telecommunications and fiber infrastructure provider, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Easton Telecom Services, an Ohio-based business communications and cloud voice provider. The transaction has entered FCC regulatory review and approval.

Easton Telecom Services adds a highly respected voice and UCaaS operation that strengthens our long-term vision and expands the capabilities we can deliver to customers.”

— Kevin Alward, CEO of RSTN Communications

The transaction positions RSTN Communications as an emerging regional communications platform combining fiber infrastructure, enterprise voice, UCaaS, CCaaS, and advanced business communications solutions under a unified organization focused on next-generation connectivity.

The acquisition represents a significant step in the development of RSTN Communications. Easton Telecom Services will strengthen the organization by adding an established voice and UCaaS brand to complement RSTN’s growing fiber infrastructure and enterprise communications platform.

RSTN Communications has developed more than 150 miles of fiber network infrastructure and continues to expand its fiber and telecommunications footprint through ongoing investment in fiber broadband and enterprise communications solutions. As fiber expansion continues across the region, RSTN is investing in scalable communications infrastructure designed to support the growing demands of businesses, municipalities, and enterprise organizations. The organization includes MegaWatt Fiber and is focused on delivering scalable, high-performance connectivity solutions for residential, business, and enterprise customers.

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Following the transaction, customers will benefit from an expanded portfolio of services including UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service), enterprise voice solutions, managed communications, and advanced data and network services. RSTN also maintains a Premier Platinum relationship with AT&T, reinforcing the organization’s enterprise-grade communications capabilities and underlying carrier network resources.

“We’re building a modern communications platform designed around fiber, cloud communications, and enterprise connectivity,” said Kevin Alward, CEO of RSTN Communications. “Easton Telecom Services adds a highly respected voice and UCaaS operation that strengthens our long-term vision and expands the capabilities we can deliver to customers.”

Rob Mocas, President of Easton Telecom Services, will continue supporting Easton operations and assisting with the transition process as the organizations move through regulatory approval and integration.

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“We’re excited about the opportunities this agreement creates for our customers, agents, and employees,” said Mocas. “RSTN’s investment in enterprise communications and next-generation technology creates a strong foundation for future growth and expanded service capabilities.”

The combined organization will continue expanding its portfolio of fiber, enterprise voice, cloud communications, and managed connectivity solutions throughout existing and future markets. The acquisition further positions RSTN as a growing regional provider of integrated fiber and cloud communications solutions.

The transaction remains subject to customary regulatory approvals, including review by the Federal Communications Commission.

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