LA Tech ‘Moves’: The Honest Company Taps Amazon Exec
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Consumer products company The Honest Company named former Amazon and General Mills executive Carla Vernón as chief executive officer.
GoGuardian, a hybrid learning management software company welcomed Michael Jonas as co-president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining, Jonas spent 14 years at Microsoft and served as CFO of ThriftBooks.
Electric vehicle company Faraday Future promoted Matthias Aydt from product definition & eco mobile systems and business development to global senior vice president, product execution.
Prime Focus Technologies, a media technology applications company hired Suresh Sugumaran as the new EMEA Business Head. Sugumaran served as Tech Mahindra’s vice president of technology for M&E in Europe.
Visual effects (VFX) and animation studio DNEG appointed Alaric McAusland as managing director. McAusland served as the executive director for the Australian Directors’ Guild.
Sales enablement platform Seismic added Johanna Flower to its board of directors. Most recently, Johanna served as the CMO at CrowdStrike.
Arcturus Therapeutics, an RNA medicines company, appointed pharmaceutical industry veteran John Markels to its board of directors.
Robert S. Negrin joined preclinical-stage biotechnology company Appa Bio’s scientific advisory board. Negrin formerly served as the chief of the division of blood and marrow transplantation at Stanford University.
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Decerry Donato is a reporter at dot.LA. Prior to that, she was an editorial fellow at the company. Decerry received her bachelor's degree in literary journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She continues to write stories to inform the community about issues or events that take place in the L.A. area. On the weekends, she can be found hiking in the Angeles National forest or sifting through racks at your local thrift store.
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