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Mike ScarpellitoClickHouseas Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair· Sep 22Steve ChasetoRetirementas Retired· Sep 22Todd LohrtoKPMG USas Vice Chair, Client Technology and Innovation· Sep 22Karandeep AnandtoDisneyas Chief Technology Officer· Sep 18Bill SteintoCrusoeas Independent Director· Sep 17Thomas SeiferttoCrusoeas Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair· Sep 17JB StraubeltoCrusoeas Independent Director· Sep 17Brian McCarthytoOpenAIas Vice President of Worldwide Sales· Sep 17

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Charlie Dai

Mentioned in 3 pieces; the desk has recorded zero standalone moves so far.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

In the archive

  • Hiring & Talent

    Google DeepMind's Retention Playbook

    A $2.4 billion Windsurf acquihire, Koray Kavukcuoglu's promotion and Demis Hassabis's step-back from chief executive trace how Google answered an exodus that sent Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer toward rivals.

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Compensation Revolution

    Meta's nine-figure packages and a run of license-and-hire deals worth billions, from Microsoft's Inflection buyout to Google's Windsurf pickup, show incumbents paying for entire research teams while structuring around the merger review a straight acquisition would trigger.

  • Capital & Markets

    The Year of the Acqui-Hire

    OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and Cognition spent a combined tens of billions in 2025 and 2026 buying companies mainly to secure the specific people running them, a pattern regulators are only beginning to name.

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