JoAnn Yamani

Multi-Disciplined Communications Executive with two decades of experience.

United States

Proven communications leader with two decades of communications experience encompassing Adeia, NIO, Western Digital, ICR/Lumina, Microsoft, XBOX, Apple, HP, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, Former US Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta, the Canadian Consulate of San Francisco, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

Earned coverage in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, CSO, MotorTrend, and other traditional publications. Proven experience in social media growth and building influencer relationships for global brands. Past speechwriter for technology executives at HP, Western Digital, Adeia (TiVo). Former professor and lecturer.

Calmed employee and investor community concerns about earnings, product liability, recalls, mergers and acquisitions, and other financial incidents, leading to less attrition and stabilized share prices.

Captured executive opportunities to speak at Reuters, The Economist, TechCrunch, Davos, NBC, CBS, 60 Minutes, CNBC, and others.

Some of my key expertise are:
Innovative Communications Campaigns
Cross-functional Collaboration
Team Leadership & Direction
Continuous Process Improvement
Strategic Planning & Execution
Market Research & Analysis
Reporting & Documentation

I possess a strong background in developing and executing innovative communications campaigns, partnering with senior executives, and strengthening relations with influential media outlets.

Portfolio

Crisis and Reputation Management in Higher Ed

Times-Standard
09/11/2025
Cal Poly Humboldt is not experiencing explosion of sexual violence

Among the statistical anomalies present in this year's report, the university saw a massive uptick in reported rapes, jumping from seven incidents reported in 2023 to 27 in total in 2024. That statistical outlier was so dramatic that the reporters felt compelled to clarify that the uptick "is due to a single report of multiple instances over a period between two people."

Executing on Strategy and Brand

WSJ
03/03/2023
Tesla Rival BYD Leads Push to Sell Chinese EV Brands Around the World

HONG KONG-China's electric-vehicle makers, buoyed by their success in eclipsing foreign rivals at home, are increasingly venturing abroad as the country's car exports surge. Led by the Warren Buffett-backed auto giant BYD Co., Chinese EV makers have launched a dozen own-branded models across at least 16 countries over the past two years, including in most major economies in Northern and Western Europe.

Wired
06/29/2022
China Is Racing to Electrify Its Future

A couple of years ago, simple electric vehicle charging points popped up seemingly overnight around a village near the Ming Tombs, a collection of imperial resting places dating back half a millennium.

Avants
08/24/2023
A Once-in-a-Lifetime Art Car - Avants

What do you get when you take an exclusive automobile-an ultra-rare, track-focused hypercar-and give it a bespoke paint job by a sought-after artist, auction it off to benefit one of the world's premier automotive museums, and then have an innovative engineer build it into a street-legal driver's dr

Nio
Blog | NIO

NIO Blog, read the latest updates from various NIO resources.

The Economist
11/14/2022
The race to reinvent the car industry

A fter a day's work, you are not quite ready to go home. Perhaps you fancy catching a film. You could head to the cinema. Instead, you retreat into your car. A few taps on the touchscreen dashboard and the vehicle turns into a multimedia cocoon.

Bonhams
2022 NIO EP9 Ornamental Conifer Art Car For Sale by Auction

Designed and hand built in England using knowledge and componentry from parent company NextEV's Formula E racing program, the NIO EP9 is an all carbon fiber, all wheel drive, all electric supercar with 1,360 hp and a scalding fast Nürburgring lap record to its name.

Nytimes
02/08/2022
Why This Could Be a Critical Year for Electric Cars

Booming in a depressed market, battery-powered vehicles are a plus for the climate but pose a big threat to carmakers and parts suppliers that are slow to change. A Ford 2022 F-150 Lightning pickup truck, a battery-powered version of the popular F-150, in production at the company's plant in Dearborn, Mich.

WSJ
12/04/2021
Elon Musk Needs China. China Needs Him. The Relationship Is Complicated.

With the U.S. tightening technology exports to China in 2018, President Xi Jinping defiantly pledged to make China the world's future innovation and industrial center. Key to his plan was Elon Musk. Mr. Xi viewed the South African-born entrepreneur as a technology utopian with no political allegiance to any country, according to officials involved in policy-making, and saw his Tesla Inc.

Harvard Business Review
05/28/2021
3 Strategies to Convince People That Your Startup Is Legit

To start and grow their firms, entrepreneurs need a lot of things from other people. They need funding from investors, skills and commitment from a founding team, approvals from regulators, collaboration from suppliers, and attention and demand from customers, among other things.

CNBC
01/07/2021
How Nio became one of the most valuable carmakers

Nio may not be a recognizable name in the US, but it is becoming a leading player in China's EV market. Despite a brush with death at the start of 2020, it has managed to turn things around and become one of the world's most valuable automakers.

InvestorPlace
01/08/2021
NIO Stock Puts Delisting Scare in the Rearview Mirror

China's electric-vehicle (EV) maker Nio (NYSE:) had an extraordinary 2020. Nio shares started the year near all-time lows but exploded in the summer. Record-high closes were hit regularly for months. By the end of November, NIO stock topped $55, a whopping 1,389% gain since the start of the year.

The Verge
12/10/2019
NIO lays off 141 employees in Silicon Valley following Intel deal

The Chinese EV startup has made more cuts to its autonomous driving division after a recent deal with Intel-owned Mobileye. NIO has spent much of 2019 looking for ways to cut costs to stem its massive losses, and this is the third round of US layoffs this year.

The Verge
09/12/2019
NIO laying off dozens more employees in Silicon Valley

The Tencent-backed EV startup is making a second round of cuts in the US, laying off 62 employees from its North American headquarters in Santa Clara, California. NIO has struggled in 2019, in part because sales of its ES8 electric SUV have declined thanks to vanishing government subsidies and the trade war with the US.

CCN.com
02/14/2020
Coronavirus Outbreak is Threatening to Bankrupt China's Tesla Rival

The coronavirus outbreak is having a sizable impact on the Chinese economy. Car sales have slumped and will probably stay subdued for the entire year. Chinese electric car-maker-Nio-was already cash strapped, and the coronavirus outbreak will likely push it into bankruptcy. The growing number of coronavirus cases has crippled the Chinese economy.

TheStreet
07/02/2020
Nio Vehicle Deliveries Almost Triple in June and Second Quarter

Nio shares on Thursday jumped after the Chinese electric-car maker reported that its vehicle deliveries nearly tripled in June and in the second quarter from the year-earlier periods. Nio delivered 3,740 vehicles in June and 10,331 in the second quarter. The second-quarter figure was more than double the first-quarter figure.

Businesswire
07/01/2020
Guidehouse Insights Names Rivian, NIO, and Nikola the Leading Electric Vehicle Upstarts

BOULDER, Colo.--()--A new Leaderboard Report from Guidehouse Insights evaluates the strategy and execution of 21 electric vehicle (EV) upstarts, with Rivian, NIO, and Nikola ranked as the leading market players. Interest in and adoption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) continues to grow globally, driven by declining costs from battery innovations and supportive government policies.

Market Realist
07/01/2020
Will NIO's June Deliveries Help the Stock's Wild Ride? - Market Realist

NIO ( NYSE:NIO) will likely report its June deliveries in a few days. Usually, monthly delivery data is a strong catalyst for the stock's short-term movement. We'll see if the June delivery data could help NIO stock reach greater heights. So far, NIO has reported strong deliveries in the second quarter.

Quartz
09/24/2019
Tesla's Chinese rival NIO desperately needs a recharge

China's electric vehicle maker NIO landed on the New York Stock Exchange a year ago when investors were pouring billions of dollars into China's electric car industry. But it's since become obvious that China's EV startups are money pits, not quick profit generators. The carmaker today (Sept.

Barrons
08/20/2020
Buy an Electric Car With No Battery? NIO Wants to Rent It to You.

Electric-vehicle maker NIO announced on Thursday the formation of a battery-asset company. The Chinese manufacturer wants to separate the ownership of the car from the ownership of the battery. It is a novel idea. Providing batteries as a service, as NIO (ticker: NIO) puts it, has two main advantages.

Investor's Business Daily
08/21/2020
Nio's New Service Slashes EV Price Tag But Here's The Catch

Nio ( NIO) announced a new service allowing its electric car buyers to rent car batteries for a monthly subscription. Nio stock fell. The new battery-as-a-service (BaaS) program gives buyers the option to buy the car and subscribe separately to use the batteries, lowering the price tag.

Barrons
05/28/2020
NIO Earnings Show China's EV Market Is Rebounding. That's Good for Tesla.

Chinese electric-vehicle maker and Tesla peer NIO reported quarterly earnings Thursday morning, and results were pretty good considering the damage the Covid-19 pandemic wrought on the Chinese economy in the first quarter. That news is good for NIO shareholders-and for Tesla shareholders as well.

Crisis Communications

U.S.
03/18/2020
Chinese EV maker Nio raises doubts about its future

(Reuters) - Cash-strapped Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Nio Inc () said on Wednesday there was substantial doubt in its ability to continue as a going concern, sending its shares down 12% in premarket U.S. trading.

The Verge
06/27/2019
NIO recalls nearly 5,000 electric SUVs after battery fires in China

Leading Chinese EV startup NIO has recalled nearly 5,000 of its ES8 electric SUVs after multiple reports of battery fires surfaced over the last few months in China. SUVs built between April 2nd, 2018, and October 19th, 2018, are included in the recall and will need to have their battery packs replaced.

The Verge
09/24/2019
NIO's having a bad year that might get even worse

One year after becoming a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange, Chinese EV startup NIO appears to be in dire straits. The company lost $479 million during the second quarter of 2019, and only generated $220 million in revenue, thanks to a major dip in sales of its flagship ES8 electric SUV.

Motorsport
Former Audi racer Abt gets second FE chance with NIO

Two-time E-Prix winner Abt was suspended by Audi last month after he used a sim racer to take his place in the FE Race at Home Challenge Esports competition. He confirmed his permanent departure in an apology video uploaded to his YouTube channel before Audi then promoted double DTM champion Rene Rast to its FE team.

Investor's Business Daily
07/09/2020
These 9 Stocks Just Cleared Buy Points; Futures Rise

Dow Jones futures were little changed late Wednesday, along with S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq futures. The coronavirus stock market rally rebounded from Tuesday's sell-off, with growth names leading and tech titans Apple ( AAPL), Microsoft ( MSFT) and Amazon.com ( AMZN) running to all-time or closing highs.

Nytimes
07/06/2020
Lobbyists, Law Firms and Trade Groups Took Small-Business Loans

The Trump administration began releasing details of which businesses received Paycheck Protection Program aid. WASHINGTON - The Trump administration, under pressure to reveal which companies received loans from a $660 billion program intended to keep small businesses afloat, on Monday released data showing that restaurants, medical offices and car dealerships ranked high among the top loan recipients.

Barrons
12/13/2020
EV Regulatory Credits are Complicated. Why They Matter for Tesla and NIO Investors.

has earned billions in regulatory credits over time by selling more than its fair share of zero-emission cars. It has notched additional profits by selling those credits to auto makers who fall short of zero-emission mandates. More sales of regulatory credits could be on the way in the near term, as China is ramping up its own zero-emission regulatory credit program.

CarBuzz
03/27/2020
China's Nio Has No Intention Of Letting Tesla Win

"Nio has secured $435 million in the form of short term convertible notes, which positions us to continue our operations." This funding should secure continued operations for 2020. In addition, Nio reiterates its "US R&D operations will remain in Silicon Valley, California and our design operations will remain in Munich, Germany."

Motley Fool
12/09/2020
Could NIO Stock Really Get Delisted?

Electric vehicles have captured the imagination of people around the world. Investors want their piece of the fast-growing EV industry, and China's NIO has been a popular pick among those interested in its electric SUVs. Dan Caplinger has no position in any of the stocks mentioned.

WSJ
07/06/2020
PPP Loans: What You Need to Know About the Latest Changes

Small-business owners who haven't yet applied for forgivable loans designed to ease the economic pain of the Covid-19 pandemic now have another chance. Congress passed legislation extending the deadline for submitting applications for the federal Paycheck Protection Program, and President Trump signed the bill on July 4.

Awards, Accolades, and Winning Over Some of the Harshest Critics

Linkedin
Artificial Intelligence Awards | Business Intelligence Group | Adeia

Adeia was named a 2025 finalist in the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for pioneering AI solutions that empower media and entertainment platforms to deliver smarter, more immersive experiences to users worldwide. Learn more about the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards: https://shorturl.at/cAhBX #AIExcellenceAwards #AI #Innovation #Adeia

Autoconnectedcar
02/16/2021
AUTO Connected Car News Announces Tech CARS Awards Winners: NIO, Ford, GHSP, CoMotion LA,...

AUTO Connected Car News announces the 2020-21 Tech CARS Awards winners for the heroes and zeros of the most "unprecedented year" in automotive tech ever. While many shows that went all digital had glitches, voices that sounded like they were garbage cans and embarrassing eye-rolling, CoMotion LA Live had no mishaps and was full of well executed discussions and panels.

Globee® Business Awards
05/26/2023
2022 Winners | Cybersecurity

18th Annual 2022 Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards winners Grand Trophy Winners (Alphabetically) Attivo Networks, Inc.DeepfenceEndacei-Sprint Innovations Pte LtdInfosec InstituteLexisNexis Risk SolutionsSBERSecurity CompassVNPT VinaPhoneVTB Bank 2022 Cyber Security Winners Company of [...]

Barrons
NIO Deliveries Were Super Strong. Now What Will The Stock Do?

had a very strong finish to the year. The Chinese electric vehicle maker delivered 7,007 vehicles in December. That up from 5,291 in November and up 121% compared with December 2019, according to the company. It can be a little hard to get a consensus delivery number for (ticker: NIO) and other Chinese EV producers.

Internal Communications

Cbsnews
03/21/2020
How to donate personal protective equipment like masks and gloves to health care workers

As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States exponentially increased this week, health care workers sounded the alarm about shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). Around the country, hospitals and medical centers are facing of N95 masks, surgical gowns, medical face shields, disinfectant wipes, hand sanitizer, infrared thermometers and nitrile exam gloves, among other things.

NPR.org
Can The U.S. Crowdsource Its Way Out Of A Mask Shortage? No, But It Still Helps

subscribe to Coronavirus Daily podcast Across much of the nation, health care workers report ongoing, dire shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) including hospital gowns, face shields and especially respiratory N95 face masks. President Trump says key help is on the way from the strategic reserve and from private industry ramping up production, including big shipments from 3M.

Executive Branding and Communications

Girl Geek X - Connecting Forward-Looking Women in Tech For Over A Decade!
Janet George

Janet is a Fellow and Chief Data Scientist at Western Digital. She is a technical leader with more than 15 years of experience in Big Data Platform, machine learning, distributed computing, compilers, and Artificial Intelligence. Previously, she served as managing director, chief scientist, and Big

Esperanto Technologies
03/19/2020
Martin Fink Joins Esperanto Technologies Board of Directors

Technology Veteran Brings Deep Computing Knowledge to Esperanto's Board of Directors Esperanto Technologies Inc., developer of high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture, has appointed Martin Fink to its Board of Directors.

Economist
Leveraging digital to transform the automotive experience

Ganesh is Global Chief Innovation Officer of NIO. With 30+ years of experience, he has been Vice President and CIO at Tesla Motors and held senior I.T. leadership roles at VMWare, Juniper Networks, WebEx, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Western Digital Corporate Blog
04/26/2018
Western Digital CTO Talks Big Data, Fast Data, RISC-V

How organizations will deal with the ongoing growth of data and which architecture will be necessary to scale resources for tomorrow's data-centric applications is a critically important ongoing discussion in tech. Martin Fink, Western Digital's Chief Technology Officer, delivered the opening keynote at the recent Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) Silicon Summit in San Jose, CA.

Hp
HP Carly Fiorina Speech: Digital Renaissance, Medieval Policy

Business and technology are in a digital Renaissance, while policymaking remains rooted in the industrial medieval world. Carly Fiorina addresses the need for a new kind of leadership for the digital age and urges business and government to work together to foster the development of the digital Renaissance.

Replicon
04/29/2016
17 Reasons Women Make Great Leaders - Replicon

Gender shouldn't be a factor in whether or not a person can be a great leader - a person's leadership abilities should depend on their individual strengths and personality traits. However, in many cases, women aren't encouraged to take on leadership roles as often as their male counterparts, contributing to an imbalance of who's in ...

Network Computing
01/11/2016
Joan Wrabetz

Chief Technology Officer, QualiSystems

Medium
Joan Wrabetz - Medium

Read writing from Joan Wrabetz on Medium. Every day, Joan Wrabetz and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.

App Developer Magazine
Joan Wrabetz | App Developer Magazine

Joan Wrabetz is the Chief Technology Officer for Quali. Prior to her current role, she was the Vice President and ChiefTechnology Officer for the Emerging Product Divisio

Network World
Joan Wrabetz

Joan is an experienced CEO and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of executive management experience at both public and privately held technology companies. Joan has started and run two software companies, she has been the CEO of a small public company and the VP/GM and VP/CTO for several large public technology companies.

Western Digital Corporate Blog
08/20/2018
Western Digital CTO Martin Fink's RISC-V Strategy (Video)

Explore the RISC-V strategy at Western Digital in a short video of Martin Fink, Western Digital CTO, discussing RISC-V and our plan to support and build the ecosystem (software and software tools required to develop and use the cores). Also, how to innovate with RISC-V, helping our customers get more value from data.

Media, Analyst, and Influencer Relations Case Study: Artificial Intelligence

Prnewswire
Armorway Is Now 'Avata Intelligence'

PRNewswire/ -- Avata Intelligence, a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, today announced that the company has officially changed its name from...

Autonomousvehicletech
04/10/2020
Nio explains the strategy behind its dashboard robot

For centuries, travelers from around the world have placed small figurines on and about their vehicles. Good-luck charms, saints, and imaginary friends put passengers at ease-helping to ensure safe passage. For Americans, that might be the bobble-head of a favorite athlete. Chinese automaker Nio brought the same concept into the 21st Century with its Nomi dashboard robot.

Nio
Artificial Intelligence with Warmth, Empathy, Sympathy and Human Elements

As mentioned in a previous post, our NIO Day on December 28, 2019 was produced entirely by our users, which are NIO vehicle owners. In addition to a resounding performance by the Blue Sky Chorus some interesting and insightful stories about NIO and NOMI (the first-ever in-vehicle artificial intelligence) were shared.

Vimeo
01/14/2020
NIO Day 2019 - A Cat Named Jin

On NIO Day 2019, one of the stories included a NIO owner, his wife, and their beloved cat, Jin. Watch as the story unfolds and how NOMI played a part in their lives.

Media, Analyst, and Influencer Relations Case Study: Highly Technical to Why Consumers Should Care

Wired
'Computing's Nobel Prize' Winners Paved the Way to Smartphone Chips

As a young computer-science professor at Stanford in the early 1980s, John Hennessy helped pioneer a new computing concept called RISC, for "reduced instruction set computer." He expected others to see the value of the idea and commercialize it. When no one did, Hennessy started a company called MIPS.

Theregister
03/31/2020
Chips that pass in the night: How risky is RISC-V to Arm, Intel and the others? Very

Column How well does Intel sleep? It's just rounded off a record year with a record quarter, turning silicon into greenbacks more efficiently than ever, redeeming recent wobbles in the data centre market and missteps in fabrication with double-digit growth. The company should be slumbering with all the unworried ease of Scrooge McDuck on a mattress stuffed with thousand-dollar bills.

A presentation from Richard New, VP of Research, on RISC-V and how hardware and software coalesce
Open Core Summit: Room 3 - Changing The Landscape of Compu...

Speakers Vice President of Research, Western Digital Richard New has served as the vice president of research at Western Digital since 2016 where he oversees the company's advanced research across a range of topics relating to storage, memory and compute. In this role, he manages the Western Digital Research Lab, focusing on exploratory...

Theregister
08/31/2019
IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too

IBM is planning to allow chip designers around the world to freely create OpenPower-compatible processors. The aim is obvious: to encourage the implementation of OpenPower CPUs, and get more Power-based systems out into data centers and the wider world. It also means engineers can customize their own OpenPower chips to run particular AI or analytical workloads, for example.

EETimes
12/04/2018
EETimes - RISC-V Takes a Leap Forward -

SAN JOSE, Calif. - RISC-V is open for business, proponents will claim at the first annual summit for the open-source instruction set architecture today. The Silicon Valley event comes at a time when backers say that China is rallying around the architecture with perhaps hundreds of RISC-V SoCs and dozens of cores in the works.

Wired
Using Open Source Designs to Create More Specialized Chips

The open source movement changed how companies build software. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo employees pitched in during the early days of the data-crunching software Hadoop. Even after the relationship between Apple and Google soured, the companies' coders kept working together on an obscure but important piece of software called LLVM.

VentureBeat
12/11/2019
RISC-V grows globally as an alternative to Arm and its license fees

ARM is the most successful microprocessor architecture on the planet, with its licensees shipping billions of chips a year. But a rival has emerged in the past few years called RISC-V, a new kind of royalty-free architecture started by academics. Its proponents are holding an event in the heart of Silicon Valley to tout its growth.

Techxplore
Intel and Softbank beware. Open source is coming to the chip business

After revolutionizing software, the open-source movement is threatening to do same to the chip industry. Big technology companies have begun dabbling with RISC-V, which replaces proprietary know-how in a key part of the chip design process with a free standard that anyone can use.

Webflow
Revolutionizing Live Streaming: Real-Time Object Replacement for Interactive Experiences

Invention and innovation are at the heart of Adeia's technologies. We're honored to be recognized as one of the "Most Innovative Companies to Watch 2025" by The CEO Vision, a testament to our pioneering advancements in semiconductor and entertainment technology. Backed by a legacy of research and innovation, Adeia aims to pioneer the future of technology.

IT Pro
01/08/2020
Are Open Source RISC-V CPUs Destined for the Server Market?

One thing that was evident at the December 2019 RISC-V Summit in San Jose, Calif., is that the RISC-V open source instruction set architecture, meant for designing and manufacturing silicon chips, is a rising star in the hardware world.

Digital Marketing, Content Creation, Social Media

WIRED
Making the Leap in Understanding Big Data

"Leapfrogging" is a commonplace economic growth theory. It goes something like this: Those that hold monopolies on current technologies have less incentive to innovate than potential rivals. They eventually lose their technological leadership role when new radical innovations are adopted. When the radical becomes the here and now, the newcomer leapfrogs ahead of former leader....

Nio
Blog | NIO

NIO Blog, read the latest updates from various NIO resources.

Wired
02/04/2014
The Privacy Paradox: Must We Keep All Data Sacred?

Earlier this week, the notable Churchill Club hosted its 2014 Data Privacy Trends event in San Francisco beckoned those with an ilk about staying mum. With all the wearable technology in the room, from fitbits to Google Glass, you'd think that it was more of a convention for exhibitionists, rather than those deeply concerned with privacy.

Wired
04/08/2014
Technology and Collaboration Fuse With Video Conferencing: The Race is On

There's a lot of talk about how we connect and communicate. Cell phones, laptops, tablets-clearly mobility is the key ingredient in our communication with one another and at the workplace. Even more has been written about employee engagement, empowering action, collaboration and flexibility. It's no wonder that a big bet for venture capitalists has been videoconferencing.

GlobeNewswire News Room
07/02/2020
NIO Inc. Provides June and Second Quarter 2020 Delivery Update

NIO delivered 10,331 vehicles in the three months ended June 2020, exceeding quarterly guidance NIO delivered 3,740 vehicles in June 2020 setting a new monthly record Cumulative deliveries of ES8 and ES6 reached 46,082 SHANGHAI, China, July 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NIO Inc.

Forbes
Council Post: 15 Essential Tips For New CIOs

The role of chief information officer (CIO) brings with it a lot of power and responsibility. However, under the shiny new door plaque and business cards, there are a few things that no one tells the new CIO about the position. Sadly, many new CIOs may have to spend their first few months figuring out how the office works.

NBC Bay Area
02/17/2021
Green Wave: Many, Many More Electric Cars Are Coming

If you think you've been seeing a lot of electric cars on the roads lately, just wait. There's a hum of activity in the main garage inside Lucid Motors' headquarters. The Newark building has cars rolling around, cars up on jacks, cars everywhere. But unlike a typical giant garage, this one is nearly silent.

Businesswire
11/08/2017
Western Digital to Present on the Power and Promise of Data at Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead" Summit

SAN JOSE, Calif.--()--Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) president and chief operating officer Mike Cordano will be a featured speaker at Bloomberg's signature multi-platform event, The Year Ahead, taking place today in New York City. Cordano will address how data is being used to disrupt and transform industries, drive insights that lead to breakthrough discoveries and shape a brighter future in ways not yet imagined.

HotCars
01/12/2022
EXCLUSIVE: Up Close And Personal With China's Record-Setting Nio EP9 Electric Hypercar

At the official unveiling of the Petersen Automotive Museum's new hypercar exhibit, the only car I didn't immediately recognize was the Nio EP9. Low and wide, with a decidedly futuristic exterior featuring plenty of carbon fiber and a massive rear diffuser, the EP9 looked like a brand-new hypercar from a new brand that I figured simply made an announcement I missed somewhere along the way.

Media, Analyst, and Influencer Relations

Navigantresearch
NIO Outmaneuvers Tesla

For better or worse, Tesla is well-known for implementing automotive industry innovations faster than the competition. The innovations cut across multiple technology trends, like vehicle connectivity, automation, online sales, and electrification. Considering the latter, Tesla's development of the Supercharger network, which started in 2012, was way ahead of the competition.

Jdpower
2019 China New Energy Vehicle Experience Index (NEVXI) Study | J.D. POWER

SHANGHAI: 31 July 2019 - Addressing both new and traditional vehicle quality problems is crucial for New Energy Vehicle (NEV) manufacturers to improve product competitiveness and win consumers' favor, according to the J.D. Power Inaugural China New Energy Vehicle Experience Index (NEVXI) Study, SM released today.

Network World
Zingbox launches IoT protection for business

Zingbox, a cloud-based, internet-of-things security startup, is coming out with its first product that it says can tell good IoT behavior from bad and sends alerts when it finds activity outside the norm. Called Guardian, the solution consists of a virtual appliance that gathers and processes network traffic data and sends it to the Zingbox cloud, where it is analyzed for anomalies.

MIT Technology Review
How 5-minute battery swaps could get more EVs on the road

Skip to Content Battery-swap companies claim the technology could match the speed of a gas station, but experts say charging might stick around for most of us. Charging has emerged as the primary way people keep their EV batteries full of juice while on the go, but some companies have an alternative in mind that they think could be even quicker than the fastest chargers today: battery swapping.

CSO Online
Cloud Cruiser Aims to Ease Cloud Chargeback Issue

As more companies shift more work to the cloud, they are struggling with a new financial problem, namely how to accurately charge business units for use of the cloud services. Cloud Cruiser hopes to help solve that problem.

Washington Post
The next China trade battle could be over electric cars

SHANGHAI - As Tesla inaugurates a $2 billion electric-car factory in China this month, a brief stroll around an upscale shopping district here shows the company already has plenty of local competition. Electric taxis with green license plates cruise past the luxury boutiques of West Nanjing Road, fresh off the assembly line of state-owned SAIC Motor Corp.

WIRED
Using Open Source Designs to Create More Specialized Chips

The open source movement changed how companies build software. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo employees pitched in during the early days of the data-crunching software Hadoop. Even after the relationship between Apple and Google soured, the companies' coders kept working together on an obscure but important piece of software called LLVM.

The Christian Science Monitor
09/27/2010
Stephen Colbert congressional testimony: Why was he invited?

Comedian Stephen Colbert's star turn before a congressional committee Friday did not leave all House Democrats in stitches. Instead, it tied some of them in knots. On Sunday, House majority leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland gave vent to the unhappiness with the Colbert incident that many in his party caucus feel.

NBC Chicago
Weekend Web: New Tech Protects Devices From Malware

Charlie Wojciechowski introduces us to some new technology from Arxan that can help protect your mobile devices and tablets from being invaded by malware attached to seemingly unsuspicious apps.

ZDNet
04/03/2017
DevOps: What is it, and how can it help your business? | ZDNet

IT is undergoing a period of rapid change, as traditional on-premises data centres move from hosting siloed client/server applications on often-underutilised physical hardware to running cloud-native apps on highly virtualised infrastructure -- be it on-premises, in the public cloud or a hybrid combination of both.

Let's Talk Payments
01/27/2016
Exclusive Interview With Sam Rehman, CTO of Arxan Technologies: In-Depth Insights on HCE...

January 27, 2016 &nbsp &nbspBy : Aboli With the launch of Android Pay in September 2015, Google to Apple Pay after a full long year. However, unlike Apple, not all Android devices are NFC-enabled. HCE, or host card emulation, is a cloud-based protocol that promises to simplify mobile contactless payment implementations and has successfully been acting as a replacement for NFC for Android phones.

Smallbiztechnology
08/04/2014
Real Estate Agents Must Evolve In 3 Ways: Efficiency, Millennials and Mobile -...

Small businesses need to be on top of their game to stay ahead of the competition - no one knows this better than those in the real estate world. Real estate agents are small businesses. From meeting with clients to managing an office to showing homes and units, brokers and property managers never have a shortage of things to do.

Indystar
Developer gives Cortana digital assistant a dash of Hoosier

Pitched and placed. When Susan Hendrich was helping to develop the digital assistant for Windows Phone 8.1 - the virtual "person" who can answer your every need - the southern Indiana native thought of her grandmother's reaction to getting a vacuum cleaning robot. "When you turn it on, it flashed all these bright lights and made some cute little sounds," Hendrich said.

SC Magazine
04/01/2015
Mobile interfacing with IoT

Mobile interfacing with IoT The security community is abuzz about the risks of reverse engineering code. The overall belief is that it's a bad thing that can lead to cloning, repackaging, IP theft, and as a springboard for other types of attacks against organizations.

FierceDevOps
03/24/2016
Sandboxes are the key to ensuring app security in a DevOps world

When criticisms of DevOps rear up, they're frequently focused on the perceived security risks the methodologies and technologies involved could create. The solution to ensuring DevOps maintains security of applications is using sandboxes to experiment, according to Joan Wrabetz, CTO of QualiSystems. QualiSystems is a proponent of cyber-ranges, which are essentially isolated areas that mimic the real-world network but are isolated so full attacks and hacks can be replicated and used against...

CSO Online
Cloud Cruiser Aims to Ease Cloud Chargeback Issue

As more companies shift more work to the cloud, they are struggling with a new financial problem, namely how to accurately charge business units for use of the cloud services. Cloud Cruiser hopes to help solve that problem.

Cioinsight
Managing Cloud Costs (and Expectations)

Today, cloud computing growth outpaces all other IT spending, according to IDC. The forecast for worldwide total cloud spend for 2015 is $32 billon, up 21 percent from last year's $26.4 billion spent. Not long ago, however, the cloud was a small percentage of the IT budget, nearly lost among other contracted services.

Car and Driver
08/21/2020
China's Nio Lets EV Drivers Swap Batteries in 5 Minutes, Hit the Road

Chinese automaker Nio has introduced a battery-swapping plan that makes the price of an electric car $10,000 cheaper. To make the plan a reality in the United States, it would require building out an infrastructure of expensive battery-swapping stations. As charging rates on vehicles increase, battery-swapping technology becomes more of an extravagance than a need.

Healthcare IT News
08/25/2017
ZingBox, VMware partnership hopes to enhance healthcare IoT cybersecurity

ZingBox, a vendor of Internet of Things security systems, will collaborate with VMware, which markets an IoT infrastructure management system, to deliver enhanced security to enterprise Internet of Things implementations. According to Gartner, by 2020, more than 25 percent of identified attacks in enterprises will involve the IoT.

eWEEK
12/15/2014
Arxan Enhances Mobile Runtime App Self Protection Capabilities

Application protection solutions specialist Arxan Technologies announced it has enhanced Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) capabilities as part of its application protection technology to further protect the integrity and confidentiality of mobile, embedded, desktop and server applications.Building on other runtime application self-protection capabilities, Arxan now offers additional protections, which provide

Network World
Zingbox launches IoT protection for business

Zingbox, a cloud-based, internet-of-things security startup, is coming out with its first product that it says can tell good IoT behavior from bad and sends alerts when it finds activity outside the norm. Called Guardian, the solution consists of a virtual appliance that gathers and processes network traffic data and sends it to the Zingbox cloud, where it is analyzed for anomalies.

SaaS

Funding and Financial News

Ceo
ZingBox Enters Strategic Partnership with SoftBank C&S to Expand Global Reach, by @newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- ZingBox, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) security solution provider, today announced it has entered a strategic partnership with SoftBank C&S to expand the company's global presence. SoftBank C&S will serve as a global channel partner introducing the ZingBox IoT Guardian solution to the Japanese market and beyond.

The Verge
12/10/2019
NIO lays off 141 employees in Silicon Valley following Intel deal

The Chinese EV startup has made more cuts to its autonomous driving division after a recent deal with Intel-owned Mobileye. NIO has spent much of 2019 looking for ways to cut costs to stem its massive losses, and this is the third round of US layoffs this year.

CarBuzz
03/27/2020
China's Nio Has No Intention Of Letting Tesla Win

A few days ago, it was reported that China's most direct threat to Tesla, Nio, was on the verge of financial collapse. Even prior to the coronavirus outbreak, the electric vehicle automaker behind the ES8 SUV and EP9 supercar had financial difficulties. A very troublesome Q4 of 2019 only made matter worse.

The Verge
09/12/2019
NIO laying off dozens more employees in Silicon Valley

The Tencent-backed EV startup is making a second round of cuts in the US, laying off 62 employees from its North American headquarters in Santa Clara, California. NIO has struggled in 2019, in part because sales of its ES8 electric SUV have declined thanks to vanishing government subsidies and the trade war with the US.

Eastwestbank
China's Global EV Revolution

How, with the rise of EV technology, infrastructure and governmental support, China became the world's largest EV market, closing the gap with the West.

FinSMEs
06/07/2016
Security Advanced Data Analytics Platform Armorway Closes $2.5M Seed Funding - FinSMEs

Armorway, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of advanced data analytics solutions, completed a $2.5m seed financing. Backers included Aristos Ventures, private angel investors and serial entrepreneurs, founders and executives from several high tech companies. The company intends to use the funds to expand its customer base, continue product development in the cyber-physical enterprise space and [...]

Infosecurity Magazine
06/07/2016
AI Platform Attracts $2.5M Seed Round

The company was running on USC grants from the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department and the US Army Research Office.

Templeville
About - Templeville

Deirdre Mahon I grew up in Dublin, Ireland on a street named Templeville and have fond memories of living close to the city, biking distance to the Dublin mountains and a short drive to the world's most beautiful beaches. And yes, I'm biased. Fiercely independent with a wanderlust to explore, I migrated to London after ...

Ventureradar
Avata Intelligence (fka Armorway)

Avata is the creator of the Artificial Intelligence Management (AIM) system, combines machine learning, natural language processing, decision theory,... ... Find out more about Avata Intelligence (fka Armorway), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Core AI, Software and Machine Learning and .

On Camera Work

Professional Transformation: IT Director to CEO in 3 years

Forbes
Council Post: How Autonomous IT Can Help Your Business

By enabling seamless automation in near real-time, your company can turn database queries and IT provisioning into self-service processes without any need for human engineers to provision the resources up or down.

Nio
Ganesh V. Iyer accepted into Forbes Technology Council

We are excited to share that Ganesh V. Iyer, Managing Director, NIO U.S.A. and Global CIO has been accepted into the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives.

JoAnn's Publications

Forbes
In The Age Of AI, Strategic Communicators Must Stay Human

We're in the hype cycle. There will be five years of overreliance. It will seem like AI can write better, move faster and think smarter than we can. But then the mistakes will come-and we'll spend the next 10 to 15 years cleaning it up.