Tech Moves: Nordstrom names chief information security officer; Meta research scientist joins AI2
Summary
Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity programs.A two-time recipient of the Top 100 CISO Award who garnered a CSO50 recognition, Ford will oversee Nordstroms security team and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) team.Ford is also an active member of various cybersecurity and technology advisory boards, such as the Cybersecurity Collective and Evanta CISO Governing Body.Ford will relocate to Seattle for the new role with Nordstrom. Heather DeJong, a longtime Seattle-based Amazon leader and former director at Target, joined San Francisco e-commerce startup CommerceIQ as senior vice president of people and culture. Vancouver, Wash.-based biotech company Absci announced that longtime AstraZeneca exec Sir Menelas Pangalos will join its board, effective Jan. 1. Seattle-based commercial real estate firm JLL hired Matt Betterman as senior vice president. Seattle climate startup Muir AI hired former Meta engineer Ethan Cassel-Mace as senior software engineer and former Microsoft data scientist Erika Odmark as senior data scientist.Editors note: This story was updated to reflect that Minesh Shah will report to Mark Liffmann at Omnidian.