City Moves for 15 September 2016 Who's switching jobs

Benevolent.ai, a British artificial intelligence company, has appointed IBM Watson's vce president of Watson platform; Jerome Pesenti as CEO of its technology division, benevolent technology. Jerome will also join the main board of the company. Jerome has been focused on big data and machine learning for the past 16 years. At IBM he also held the role of chief scientist for the core IBM big data product portfolio. Prior to joining IBM, Jerome co-founded search and text analytics company Vivisimo that was acquired by IBM in 2012.