May 29, 2024 – Global executive search and private equity advisory firm Renovata & Company has appointed James Cameron Williams as Chief Technology Officer at OAG Aviation Worldwide Ltd (OAG). “James is a dynamic CTO with an impressive 13-year technology journey to his name,” said Lisa Morgan, Principal at Renovata. “His experience will be a great asset as OAG enters its next phase of growth and we wish James all the best in his new role.”
“Cameron Williams' years of experience driving transformation of some of the world's leading information services companies will be invaluable in accelerating OAG's next phase of growth,” the company said.
Cameron Williams has spent the past decade at global information services company Experian, where he was most recently CTO. “Renovata offered me a compelling opportunity in a company that enables seamless travel through the use of data,” said Cameron Williams. “I am fascinated by travel, technology and data, so helping such a large and vibrant industry recover from major macro-geopolitical disruption and of course the pandemic is an exciting and rewarding challenge.”
Founded in 1929 and backed by leading technology investor Vitruvian, OAG works with the most influential datasets on the planet, making it a key driver of the travel ecosystem by curating the richest real-time datasets and sharing them with companies operating in the space. Headquartered in Luton, UK, with offices around the world including Copenhagen and Lithuania, OAG serves over 1,000 diverse clients and deploys over 5 million updates every day, with feeds covering 98% of flights worldwide.
Renovata & Company partners with financial sponsors, their portfolio companies, and public companies to provide leadership and investment insights. The search firm's executive recruiting efforts focus on search assignments covering board-level roles including directors, CEOs, CFOs, other C-suite executives, investment professionals, and operating partners. The firm provides strategic advice to clients across the technology, digital, business services, industrial, consumer, and retail sectors.
Renovata & Company has relationships with over 50 of the top 100 private equity and growth equity firms in the world. Private equity advisory services include due diligence support, available executive introductions and deal sourcing through its affiliate, L Capital Advisors. The firm also works with private equity clients to make equity investments through its investment affiliate, L Capital. The search firm is privately held and operates from five offices across two continents: Boston, Hamburg, London, New York and San Francisco.
Morgan is responsible for building management teams for venture, growth and private equity backed digital and technology companies and also serves as Head of Delivery at Renovata & Company.
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Chicago-based executive search firm Lantern Partners has assisted in the hiring of Greg Tracy as chief technology officer for WonderHealth in Dallas, Texas.“We are pleased that digital health industry veteran Greg Tracy will be joining Wondr Health to lead the company's product development and engineering efforts,” Lantern Partners said in a LinkedIn post. “We are excited to have an established healthcare technology and innovation leader join our team at a time of great momentum and market expansion for the organization,” said Scott Paddock, CEO of Wondr Health. “Greg has extensive experience leading technology and innovation teams delivering innovative solutions to large employers and health plans.”
SPMB Executive Search, which helps find transformational executives across Silicon Valley, has hired Samir Kapoor as the new chief technology officer for New York Stock Exchange-listed Arlo Technologies, Inc.The San Jose, California-based smart home security brand has made the hire. The search was led by SPMB's Sean Lucq and Lea Hagglund from Engineering and Product. Arlo CEO Matthew McRae said, “We are excited to welcome Samir to Arlo's executive leadership as our new Chief Technology Officer as we prepare for our next phase of growth. Samir's proven track record of leading complex engineering organizations that integrate hardware, software, and services to deliver holistic solutions uniquely positions him to take on and excel in this challenging role.”
ON Partners' Matt Mooney and Jake Espenlaub helped Victory Live appoint Satish Gadipati as chief technology officer.a technology platform backed by Clearlake Capital Group. Victory Live Founder Sam Soni said, “We are honored to have Sathish join Victory Live as CTO. Sathish is a seasoned executive who will help propel our engineering and product teams, and the company as a whole, to new levels of growth and sophistication.” Gaddipati brings to Victory Live over 20 years of technical leadership experience designing and building distributed platforms, SaaS products, and data & analytics platforms across various sectors including media & entertainment, financial technology, and transportation.
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