According to Bloomberg, Cheryan Jacob has been appointed as Nike’s chief information officer (CIO), a position created this month to support the company’s global technical teams.
Jacob has a background in both technology and business, having begun his career in India as a computer architecture and hardware engineer. In 2004, he began working as a research assistant in biostatistics and data modeling at the American University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Jacob has almost eight years of experience at Microsoft, where he worked on the company’s global network, among other things. He previously served as chief technology officer for stealth [a company that has not yet gone public], a private investment firm in Dallas, Texas.