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JIM WHITEHURST

FROM : RED HAT TO : IBM
WAS : PRESIDENT & CEO NOW : PRESIDENT

SENDI YOUNG

FROM : MASTERCARD TO : RIPPLE
WAS : DIGITAL & FINTECH SEGMENT GLOBAL LEAD NOW : MANAGING DIRECTOR , EUROPE
Young joins Ripple following five years at Mastercard , where she held leadership roles driving strategy , commercialisation , partnerships and business development . Young previously led the Fintech and Digital Segment globally for Mastercard ’ s Data and Services business , growing services that helped banks adopt real-time payments , open banking and AI .
James ( Jim ) Moon Whitehurst was President at IBM and chair of the board at Red Hat , previously Chief Executive Officer there and before that Chief Operating Officer at Delta Airlines . Prior to Delta in 2001 he served as Vice President and Director of the Boston Consulting Group and held various management roles at its Chicago , Hong Kong , Shanghai and Atlanta offices . While at Delta he oversaw the company ’ s recovery from bankruptcy , as well as its struggles against US Airways in 2006 regarding repeated merger moves . He graduated from Rice University in Houston in Computer Science and Economics , attended the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg in Germany and spent a year at the London School of Economics . He received an MBA from Harvard Business School .
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