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Amperity: Leadership Change
Amperity co-founders Derek Slager and Kabir Shahani assume co-CEO roles, replacing former Salesforce executive Tony Alika Owens after less than two years. CFO Amy Kelleran Pelly expands to become president while retaining CFO responsibilities.
Source: GeekWire
The leadership read
A change at the top rarely stays at the top. Amperity's move reshapes the layer beneath it in Artificial Intelligence as a new leader sets priorities and the team re-forms. Watch the first two or three appointments that follow; they signal direction more reliably than any statement.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot), down 2.3 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow easing (-2.8pts).
Amperity: 4 signals in the last 90 days — above the Artificial Intelligence median of 1 across 84 tracked companies; 0.3% of MitchelLake's Asia signal flow; 4 tracked across 58 days.
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