NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in flight research and operations, has served as the center’s acting director since March. “Troy has spent his career pushing the boundaries of flight,
Some were born to lead. But many are just “accidental managers.” Take Dustin Moskovitz. The millennial cofounded Facebook with his Harvard roommate, Mark Zuckerberg, and went on to become the company’s first CTO before leaving to found Asana, a project management platform, in 2008. Again, Moskovitz led the startup (this time as CEO), taking the
Skydance has announced new leadership for its combined advertising business following the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, according to a memo viewed by Business Insider. Jay Askinasi, Skydance’s chief revenue officer for advertising, outlined the new leadership structure for the “unified Skydance Advertising organization.” Following the completion of the $110 billion merger this month, Skydance’s portfolio
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Stephen Cash director of the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, effective Monday, Oct. 19. Cash, a veteran NASA engineer and aerospace executive, returns to lead the center where he began his career more than four decades ago. “Marshall contributions to NASA’s missions are historic and it’s
Academy CEO Bill Kramer is set to make his first trip to Asia later this month. He will collect a leadership award at the Tokyo International Film Festival and also sit down with Toho president and CEO Matsuoka Hiro for a public conversation. The festival’s 39th edition runs Oct. 26–Nov. 4 and has built a
Sam’s Club CEO Latriece Watkins has a career resume that most workers would gawk at, working her way up from an intern at Walmart all the way to leader of one of America’s biggest grocery retailers. But it isn’t the executive titles or career milestones that makes her feel powerful: The greatest source of power
