Nike has appointed Cheryan Jacob as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO), a position recently created to support the company's global engineering team, Bloomberg reports.
According to his Linkedin profile, Jacob is trained in both technology and business, beginning his career in India as a computer architecture and hardware engineer. In 2004, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research assistant in biostatistics and data modeling.
Jacob brings over eight years of experience from the American technology giant Microsoft, where he played a key role in supporting the company's global network. Prior to that, he served as Chief Technology Officer at a 'stealth' private investment company in Dallas.
In his new role as CIO, Jacob will focus on "simplifying, standardizing, and modernizing Nike's platforms, developer experience, cloud, information security, and technology operations," according to his LinkedIn page.
According to his Linkedin profile, Jacob is trained in both technology and business, beginning his career in India as a computer architecture and hardware engineer. In 2004, he joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a research assistant in biostatistics and data modeling.
Jacob brings over eight years of experience from the American technology giant Microsoft, where he played a key role in supporting the company's global network. Prior to that, he served as Chief Technology Officer at a 'stealth' private investment company in Dallas.
In his new role as CIO, Jacob will focus on "simplifying, standardizing, and modernizing Nike's platforms, developer experience, cloud, information security, and technology operations," according to his LinkedIn page.