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SucceedSmart Wins Gold in the Most Innovative Company of the Year Category at the 14th Annual Best in Biz Awards

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Recognition from the Best in Biz Awards marks SucceedSmart’s 20th award win of the year to close out 2024

LOS ALTOS, Calif., Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — SucceedSmart, the award-winning, AI-led leadership hiring platform, won Gold in the Most Innovative Company of the Year – Small (1-99 employees) category at the Best in Biz Awards 2024.

Recognition from the Best in Biz Awards marks SucceedSmart’s 20th award win of the year to close out 2024

Closing out the year, this recognition marked the 20th award win for SucceedSmart in 2024. SucceedSmart also received awards in prestigious programs including the Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards, Globee Awards for American Business, Globee Awards for Disruptors, HR Tech Awards, Stevie Awards, and inclusion on the TiE50 list by TiE Silicon Valley.

The Best in Biz Awards is the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America. This year’s judges were particularly impressed with the winning companies’ continued innovation and vast employment of such cutting-edge technologies as AI and their comprehensive approach to workplace benefits and employee wellbeing programs, among other differentiators.

Winners were announced on December 30, 2024 and the full list is published on the Best in Biz Awards website.

SucceedSmart’s powerful blend of AI precision and human insight is disrupting the $8 billion U.S./$22 billion global executive recruitment industry. Utilizing an innovative­ SaaS and subscription-based model, SucceedSmart stre­amlines leadership hiring while e­liminating traditional placement fee­s. SucceedSmart uses a proprietary, patented accomplishment-based (rather than skills) algorithm to quickly match best-fit candidates with open positions based on both current and future business needs, leveraging the approach of dating platforms—essentially “Bumble” for leadership hiring.

“Leadership roles are increasingly challenging to fill in today’s competitive and dynamic labor market,” said Sanjay Sathé, founder and CEO of SucceedSmart. “Traditional executive search firms and mass-market hiring platforms are no longer effective at navigating the complexities of leadership hiring. Recognition by the Best in Biz Awards in the Most Innovative Company of the Year category validates our ongoing commitment to disrupt leadership hiring and deliver diverse, future-ready, visionary leaders for the modern workforce.”

SucceedSmart is redefining leadership hiring for the 21st century. Starting with Taylor, our generative AI job description generator, we create unbiased job descriptions in minutes through an interactive process. Our patented accomplishment-based matching algorithm matches millions of executive profiles in seconds and presents the “best fit” candidates. And as part of this process, our large language models (LLMs) surface qualified candidates who otherwise may have been overlooked by traditional executive search and mass-market hiring solutions. Expert human talent advisors then oversee the last mile, reviewing top candidates and only presenting “qualified, interested, and immediately available” talent for consideration.

“Each year, our judges face the challenge of determining winners among equally compelling entries with varying strengths, poring over details and analyzing minute differences to find out who has had the edge,” said Best in Biz Awards staff. “Yet, as in years past, what sets our winning companies apart, is not just their growth numbers, patents, or outside validation of their strength. A true sign of a Best in Biz Awards winner is the positive impact they have in the world – the benefits they bring start with their employees, impact their clients, and fill the local and global communities they operate in.”

About SucceedSmart
SucceedSmart blends AI-led precision with human empathy to transform leadership hiring, providing companies with diverse, future-ready talent that embraces change and drives innovation. Our award-winning leadership hiring platform challenges outdated recruiting models, delivering faster, smarter connections between leaders and organizations in today’s modern, evolving workforce. Fortune 500 companies, mid-market high growth companies, and VC backed startups trust SucceedSmart to help quickly hire qualified leadership candidates. To learn more, visit www.succeedsmart.com.

About Best in Biz Awards
Since 2011, Best in Biz Awards has been the only independent business awards program judged by a who’s who of prominent reporters and editors from top-tier publications from North America and around the world. Over the years, judges in the prestigious awards program have ranged from Associated Press to the Wall Street Journal and winners have spanned the spectrum, from blue-chip companies that form the bedrock of the global economy to some of the world’s most innovative start-ups and nimble local companies. Each year, Best in Biz Awards honors are conferred in two separate programs: North America and International, and in 100 categories, including company, team, executive, product, and CSR, media, PR and other categories. For more information, visit: http://www.bestinbizawards.com.

Contact: Beth Kempton, bkempton@succeedsmart.com, 617-640-4743

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Howard Hughes Holdings Set to Join S&P SmallCap 600

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) will replace Arcosa Inc. (NYSE: ACA) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, October 28. S&P 500 constituent CRH plc (NYSE: CRH) has acquired Arcosa in a deal that closed today, October 23.

Following is a summary of the changes that will take place prior to the open of trading on the effective date:

Effective Date

Index Name  

Action

Company Name

Ticker

GICS Sector

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Addition

Howard Hughes Holdings

HHH

Real Estate

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Deletion

Arcosa

ACA

Industrials

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S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/. 

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Chelsea FC announces multi-year sleeve partnership with Sokin, the business payments and FX platform

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Chelsea FC name fast-growing fintech platform as Principal Partner

LONDON, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chelsea Football Club has today announced a multi-year partnership with Sokin, the embedded finance and payments company used by businesses worldwide. Sokin will be named a Principal Partner and Official Business Payments and FX Partner of Chelsea FC and Chelsea FC Women.

As a Principal Partner, Sokin will be represented on the sleeves of the Chelsea FC men’s, women’s and academy home, away, and third kits from the 2026/27 season.

The partnership brings together two ambitious London-headquartered organisations with worldwide reach – a club with millions of fans across the world and a fintech platform through which businesses move more than $11 billion a year. A club of Chelsea’s scale works in many currencies every day, with partners, competitions and supporters around the world, and needs a financial partner built to handle that.

Sokin gives finance teams business payments, multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, checkout and treasury in one place, so they spend less time juggling banks and providers and keep more of what they move.

As Official Business Payments and FX Partner, Sokin will simplify how Chelsea FC sends, receives and manages money in the currencies the club operates in.

The Sokin logo will feature on the sleeve of the Chelsea shirt for the first time [when the men’s team host Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 24th October.]

Jason Gannon, President at Chelsea FC said:

“At Chelsea, we seek to partner with organisations that share our ambition and innovative mindset. Sokin’s expertise in business payments, and their focus on making both simpler for the businesses they serve, makes them a natural fit for the Club. We are pleased to welcome Sokin to the Chelsea family and look forward to working together in the years ahead.”

Vroon Modgill, CEO and founder at Sokin said:

“Chelsea plays on the biggest stage in world football, and its business runs in dozens of currencies. Sokin was built for that with regulated, multi-currency payments and foreign exchange for organisations that operate internationally. We’re proud to be the platform behind the business payments and FX of one of the most iconic teams in football. Sokin’s platform serves businesses in more than 170 countries. We’re thrilled to be partners for the season ahead. An organisation as sophisticated as Chelsea doesn’t leave its finances to chance.”

About Sokin

Sokin is the financial layer global business runs on. Businesses can transact, convert and hold money in 70+ currencies across 170+ countries. Some businesses use Sokin to manage global finance in-house. Others build it into their products to power financial experiences for their customers. Businesses move more than $9 billion a year on licenses Sokin holds in 36+ countries and infrastructure Sokin owns. Founded in 2019, Sokin has raised over $100 million from investors including Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Prysm Capital.

About Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea Football Club is one of the biggest, most successful football clubs globally and our men’s team are reigning world champions, having won the four-yearly FIFA Club World Cup in 2025. Our women’s team, Chelsea Women, are also multiple trophy winners.

Founded in 1905, Chelsea is London’s most central football club, based at the iconic 40,000-capacity Stamford Bridge stadium. Nicknamed the Blues, the club lifted the Champions League for the first time in 2012 and domestically has won the Premier League five times, the FA Cup eight times, the Football League Cup five times and the Football League Championship once, in 1955.

The Chelsea Women’s team have enjoyed a huge amount of success and in 2025 won the FA Women’s Super League for a sixth consecutive year and the eighth time overall. The Women’s FA Cup has been won on six occasions. We have also captured the FA Women’s League Cup four times as well as reaching the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in 2021. In two seasons, 2020/21 and 2024/25, a domestic treble of trophies was secured.

The Chelsea Foundation boasts one of the most extensive community initiatives in sport, helping to improve the lives of children and young people all over the world.

Media Contacts:

Taina Biggs
taina.biggs@sokin.com 

Nerissa Chesterfield
nerissa.chesterfield@chelseafc.com 

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Amy Johnson Appointed President of GDIT

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RESTON, Va., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) announced today that Amy Johnson has been appointed as president of GDIT, effective November 3.

Johnson is a 27-year veteran of General Dynamics Mission Systems, where she held increasingly senior roles in engineering, engineering management and business leadership across cybersecurity, defense electronics, space and intelligence systems, most recently as vice president and general manager for Space, Cyber and Intelligence. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and computer systems engineering. 

“Amy has a proven track record of leading teams to solve complex and highly technical challenges for our customers,” said Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics. “I am confident that her dynamic leadership, operational rigor and deep commitment to our values and culture will deliver value to our customers, employees and shareholders.”

GDIT delivers digital modernization, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and software development solutions to the U.S. federal government, defense, intelligence agencies and other customers. It is a business unit of General Dynamics, a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 120,000 people worldwide and generated $52.6 billion in revenue in 2025. More information is available at gd.com.

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