Role of chief innovation officer expands.
A host of companies have hired chief innovation officers (CIO) in the past week to help integrate their internal and external development programmes.
Barry Callebaut, a Switzerland-based manufacturer of cocoa and chocolate products, has appointed Peter Boone from Anglo-Dutch-listed consumer goods company Unilever as its first CIO.
Persistent Systems, a US-based technology company, said Sridhar Jagannathan had joined as its CIO after being vice-president of of technology strategy and partnerships at software group Intuit.
Arthur Orduña has taken up the…
