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Executive moves, new appointments, and honors across Dallas-Fort Worth.
Dr. Lucy Gildea [Photo: Mary Kay]
Mary Kay Promotes Executive to Chief Brand and Scientific Officer
by Lance Murray | Feb 18, 2025
Lucy Gildea and her new cross-functional team will pioneer a new operating model to power up Mary Kay's global brand and science, aiming for growth and customer loyalty in more than 40 markets, the company said.
by Lance Murray |
Feb 18, 2025
Jim Breuer has held the role of COO at Fluor since 2024. Current Chairman and CEO David E. Constable will transition into the role of executive chairman when Breuer takes up his new post.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 18, 2025
John Stankey—who's been AT&T's president and CEO since 2020—is the Dallas-based telecom giant's new board chair, replacing William E. Kennard, who becomes the board's lead independent director.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 18, 2025
Frisco's VCiR program—part of FEDC's four-pillar innovation strategy—aims to help connect a broader network of investors to Frisco and expand the city's footprint as a hub for linking high value tech startups with funding sources.
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Cedars Union Executive Director Emma Vernon [Photo: Cedars Union]
The Cedars Union Gets $500K Grant, Names Former Dallas Zoo and DMA Exec as Executive Director
by Lance Murray | Feb 13, 2025
The Cedars Union, a hub for emerging and mid-career artists in North Texas, is setting its sights on the next level of growth with the appointment of Emma Vernon as executive director. The North Texas nonprofit artist incubator’s upcoming cohort, launching this month, will be its largest ever, chosen from the most competitive applicant pool since its founding in 2015.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 13, 2025
American said that Heather Garboden's experience in revenue management and finance give her an understanding of what will be good for the health of the airline, as she oversees its newly created Customer Experience organization.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 13, 2025
In 2019, Tim Heis left the high-end luxe world of Neiman Marcus for a scattered collection of North Texas Goodwill thrift stores. He tells Dallas Innovates about his "humbling and fulfilling" journey, shares his plan to double local stores by 2030, and reveals how Goodwill Dallas led North America with record-shattering sales growth in 2024.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 11, 2025
Yum! Chief Digital & Technology Officer Joe Park will serve as president of Byte by Yum!, a tech platform enabling easy-to-manage operations across the company's Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Habit Burger & Grill brands.
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Tom Doxey [Photo: Southwest Airlines]
Southwest Airlines Names Former Breeze Airways President as EVP and CFO
by Lance Murray | Feb 11, 2025
Most recently, Tom Doxey was president of Breeze Airways, where he led the airline through a successful transformation from a startup to profitability in under two years, Southwest said.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 10, 2025
Mandy Price, who will be based in the foundation’s Dallas office, will play a lead role in sourcing new investments for the foundation’s portfolio organizations and will work as an operating partner and board member for those organizations. DRK is one of the largest global venture philanthropy firms dedicated to supporting early-stage, high impact social enterprises.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 6, 2025
Plano-based Aligned is a leading technology infrastructure company offering innovative, sustainable and adaptive scale data centers and build-to-scale solutions for global hyperscale and enterprise customers.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 6, 2025
Bestow said its hiring of CPO David Malenoir-Evans and VPs Doug Brewster and Pete Schiller reinforces its ability to "unlock digital transformation and growth across the life insurance industry."
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David Brickman, D2 Asset Management's President of Residential Real Estate [Photo: LinkedIn]
Dallas’ D2 Asset Management Appoints Former Freddie Mac CEO as President of Residential Real Estate
by Lance Murray | Feb 6, 2025
D2—which launched last July with $1 billion in assets under management—said David Brickman's appointment significantly advances its expansion in the residential real estate sector — a key part of the firm's broader investment strategy.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Dr. Kirk Calhoun was named interim president following the resignation in January of UNTHSC President Sylvia Trent-Adams.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Crayton Webb, the 2025 president of The Texas Lyceum—the state’s premier nonprofit, non-partisan, statewide leadership organization—called on all elected officials at the local, state, and federal levels "to adopt core values and principles which have stood the test of time."
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Spencer Rascoff, who has served as a member of Match Group's board since March 2024, succeeds Bernard Kim, who's stepping down as CEO and as a member of the board.
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