Left: Ascend Marketing Founder and Managing Partner Rich Herbst; Right: Ascend Marketing VP of Strategy and Optimization Laura Stevenson. Both are now EVPs at Mod Op. [Photos: LinkedIn/Ascend]
Mod Op—which has a Dallas office and locations across North America—said the deal completes its end-to-end B2B marketing framework. Ascend founder Rich Herbst is now EVP, Client Solutions at the Florida-based firm.
Voice plays an "increasingly vital role" in digital transformation, says John Cooper. The new managing director–voice transformation will help clients capitalize on the opportunities.
The California-based provider of AI-powered global enterprise cloud communications has opened an office with over 35,000 square feet at 14675 Dallas Parkway in Addison. How Texan is it? Besides the Texas maps and cowboy hat-wearing longhorn steers painted on the walls, their copy machines are even named "Ribs" and "Brisket."
Defense tech firm Shield AI said it completed a live drone swarm exercise in Taiwan in which three Taiwanese-built drones flew a coordinated search mission under its Hivemind AI software instead of human pilots....
Dallas-based Stream Data Centers has named Nikki Kresse its chief human resources officer. She is joining an executive bench that has been evolving since Apollo funds took majority control of the hyperscale developer in August 2025....
Richardson-based Mavenir has hired a longtime Nokia executive to lead its expansion into a fast-growing corner of the cloud computing market known as neocloud. Neocloud is industry shorthand for providers that sell access to graphics processing units, or GPUs, built for AI and other high-performance workloads as a service....
Defense tech firm Shield AI said it completed a live drone swarm exercise in Taiwan in which three Taiwanese-built drones flew a coordinated search mission under its Hivemind AI software instead of human pilots....
Dallas-based Stream Data Centers has named Nikki Kresse its chief human resources officer. She is joining an executive bench that has been evolving since Apollo funds took majority control of the hyperscale developer in August 2025....
Richardson-based Mavenir has hired a longtime Nokia executive to lead its expansion into a fast-growing corner of the cloud computing market known as neocloud. Neocloud is industry shorthand for providers that sell access to graphics processing units, or GPUs, built for AI and other high-performance workloads as a service....