On the Move: HPL President Birkhahn Moves to Vested

Ted Birkhahn

Vested hires Hot Paper Lantern president Ted Birkhahn as a managing director, based in New York. Birkhahn was president and partner at Peppercomm before it spun off HPL in 2018. As managing director at Vested, Birkhahn takes on a newly created role, overseeing the development of a tech-enabled platform focused on transforming client engagement and service delivery for middle-market financial services companies. “Ted is an industry leader, a consummate entrepreneur and now, a welcome colleague. His POV in leading this offering is invaluable,” said Group Vested CEO Binna Kim.

Murali Nemani

Dataminr, a real-time AI platform that detects events, risks and critical information from public data signals, appoints Murali Nemani as CMO. Nemani previously served as CMO at generative AI platform Aisera and AIOps company Science Logic. He was also senior director of mobility marketing at Cisco. In his new post, Nemani will play a critical role in generating customer outcomes across government and corporate sectors and driving broad market adoption of the Dataminr platform. “With his demonstrated success in category-creation efforts for multi-billion dollar AI enterprises, ability to deliver and execute global go-to-market initiatives, and experience scaling global organizations from start-ups to public companies, we are fortunate to have him on board," said Dataminr CEO Ted Bailey.

Madeline Mordarski

The Keyes Company, a South Florida real estate company, brings on Madeline Mordarski as CMO. Mordarski joins the company from COMPASS, where she held a variety of marketing and operations roles, most recently serving as senior manager, business operations. Earlier in her career, she founded Salus Strategies, a consulting agency that specialized in branding, PR, partnerships and digital media within the health, wellness and fitness industry. At The Keyes Company, Mordarski will oversee marketing operations and work with executive leaders on growth strategies. “Madeline’s vast experience executing large-scale marketing initiatives and strategy to drive growth was incredibly attractive to our executive leadership team,” said Keyes president Christina Pappas.