Brian Pietras has taken a vice-president of corporate strategy role at Workday, having previously been head of technology ventures for Hays.

Brian Pietras, former head of technology ventures at UK-based outsourcing company Hays, has joined US-based enterprise human resources and finance management software provider Workday as vice-president of corporate strategy.

Last month, Workday relaunched Workday Ventures as its $250m corporate venturing fund. It initially established the unit in 2015 under the leadership of Adeyemi Ajao, its vice-president of technology products strategy, to focus on data and machine learning technologies for the enterprise.

Ajao left Workday in 2016 and the unit…