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Share When Catherine Cook LaCour first joined Blackbaud’s executive leadership team in 2014 as vice president of corporate marketing, she was the only woman on a team of all men to directly report to the CEO. It wouldn’t be until about a year later when she would be joined by a female chief technology officer.  Fast forward seven years, she has now been named one of the 2021 Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology, representing a female leader who champions diversity in the technology industry. The award comes from DiversityFirst and the National Diversity Council. “It’s wonderful a...

Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo) When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.” 1     Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for — Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to understand, and it’s easy to fit on shelves. Retailers like it. The platform owners like it. This...

TVN Tech | Devoncroft Assesses A Disrupted Tech Market This month’s virtual Devoncroft Executive Summit took the measure of a media technology market radically altered by COVID-19, from a 10% hit to its overall market size, a reassessment of how of it does business and a big potential shift in its sales and marketing efforts. Above, Devoncroft’s Josh Stinehour emphasized that technology investment by broadcasters is an opportunity to drive increased revenues, not simply a cost center. By Glen Dickson | December 17, 2020 | 10:09 a.m. ET. The broadcast technology and finance worlds conver...