Notable C-Suite Moves (September)
- Daniel Dubowski→ Global Chief Information Security Officer, Marriott International. He will oversee the company’s information security program as Marriott continues maturing its security capabilities. He previously served as SVP and CISO at Hertz, with earlier cybersecurity leadership roles at Equifax and InterContinental Hotels & Resorts.
- Dr. Sayee Bellamkonda→ Chief AI & Technology Officer, Osaic. He will strengthen the company’s technology, data, and AI infrastructure while improving advisor productivity, client outcomes, and enterprise scalability. He previously held senior technology roles at Vialto Partners, CBRE, Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, and American Express.
- Vivek Jetley → Chief Executive Officer, Hexaware Technologies. He will lead the company through its next phase of AI-led growth across enterprise technology services. He joins after two decades at EXL, where he most recently served as President and Head of Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences.
- Jonathan Lofthouse→ Chief Information Officer, Data & Analytics, LSEG. He will help shape how the company uses AI, modern engineering, and data assets to build next-generation products and capabilities. He joins after nearly three decades at Citi, where he most recently served as Group CIO.
- Anand Birje→ CEO, Hitachi Digital. He will lead growth across AI-native software engineering, physical AI, data and intelligence, and managed services. He was also CEO of Encora Inc.
What’s New in Tech
- Agentic AI needs more than written policies. Gartner notes that AI agents can execute multistep workflows, modify system states, and act autonomously at machine speed. The real issue is the gap between written policies and the runtime controls needed to enforce them.
- Governance is moving into the operating environment. Traditional governance relies on approvals, static policies, and after-the-fact oversight. Agentic AI needs controls embedded directly into the operational environment so agents can work safely within clear boundaries.
- AI security is becoming more practical and more urgent. Gartner’s First Takes send a clear message to cybersecurity leaders: strengthen the basics, apply effective mitigations, and prepare for AI-augmented attacks.
C-Suite Trends for Leaders
1. Agents need identities: Organizations cannot govern autonomous systems they cannot see. Gartner recommends treating every internal and third-party agent as a distinct identity with ownership and access rights.
2. Runtime guardrails are becoming essential: As agents move from generating answers to taking action, leaders need active controls. Gartner highlights circuit breakers, separation between reasoning and execution, and control layers that evaluate actions before execution.
3. AI costs need real-time control: Agentic workloads can consume resources unpredictably. Leaders will need dynamic budgets, automated financial controls, and escalation rules based on risk.
4. Cybersecurity basics still matter: Even as AI changes the threat zone, the immediate leadership move is to strengthen the foundations, test assets, refine incident response, and prepare for faster AI-augmented attacks.
From The Podcast
Autonomous IT and the Future of Endpoint Management
In this CXO Spotlight Podcast episode, host Chirag Khanijau speaks with Dennis Kozak, CEO of Ivanti, about why endpoint management may become autonomous before other parts of enterprise IT.
Dennis explains why visibility across devices is now central to both CIO and CISO priorities. The shift is about rethinking how IT operations should work when autonomous systems can take on more of the load.
Why this matters: Autonomous IT changes how enterprises manage risk, cost, service delivery, and IT's operating model.
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