UKG Names Suresh Vittal as Chief Product Officer

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UKG Names Suresh Vittal as Chief Product Officer

2024-12-05 02:01 Last Updated At：02:11

LOWELL, Mass. & WESTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 4, 2024--

UKG, a leading provider of HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solutions, today announced that Suresh Vittal will join as chief product officer (CPO) beginning on January 20, 2025. Vittal will lead the company’s global product strategy and development, including user experience and cloud operations, for the more than 80,000 organizations that use UKG products across 150 countries worldwide.

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Vittal will serve on the UKG executive leadership team and report directly to CEO Jennifer Morgan. Vittal’s appointment will further elevate and accelerate the UKG product roadmap with a continued focus on embedding artificial intelligence (AI) and leveraging the company’s differentiated workforce intelligence across all of its world-class products.

Vittal has spent more than 20 years in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry, including most recently as CPO of Alteryx, Inc., a leader in automated and AI analytics, where he led the product, engineering, design, and development teams to deliver innovative and scalable solutions for data science and analytics. Under his leadership, Alteryx helped make machine learning and AI accessible to all. Before Alteryx, Vittal spent nearly a decade at Adobe, rising to senior vice president of Platform and Products for Adobe Experience Cloud, one of the largest and most comprehensive digital marketing platforms in the world.

“Suresh brings strong product and team leadership and a customer centric approach that will propel UKG’s next chapter of growth as we continue to bring industry-specific capabilities, differentiation, and workforce intelligence to enterprises of all sizes,” said UKG CEO Jen Morgan. “Suresh’s prior leadership roles, his strong focus on customer experience, and his passion for data and AI make him a perfect addition to my leadership team.”

“I am thrilled to lead the exceptional product team at UKG whose work positively impacts tens of millions of people using their HCM, workforce management, payroll, and culture solutions around the world,” said Vittal. “It’s rare to have the opportunity to join a well-established, global market leader who also has tremendous future growth potential and the tools to reshape how we work. The commitment and passion that Jen and the UKG leadership team have for UKG’s incredible customer base, combined with UKG’s workforce solutions and intelligence, make this the perfect place for my next chapter.”

The company also announced that Hugo Sarrazin, president, chief product and technology officer, will be departing at the end of January. Over the last three years, Sarrazin has been instrumental in defining a common UKG product vision, building a unified suite experience for customers, and identifying differentiations to meet the needs of the tens of millions of frontline workers who use the company’s industry-leading workforce management products. Sarrazin was also the architect of the company’s acquisition of Immedis and subsequent launch of UKG One View TM, which led to UKG being named Global Payroll Supplier of the Year by the Global Payroll Association in 2024.

“I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to UKG’s outgoing president, chief product and technology officer, Hugo Sarrazin, for his tremendous leadership and contributions to UKG and our customers,” Morgan added.

About UKG

At UKG, our purpose is people. We are on a mission to inspire every organization to become a great place to work through HCM technology built for all. More than 80,000 organizations across all sizes, industries, and geographies trust UKG HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture cloud solutions to drive great workplace experiences and make better, more confident people and business decisions. With the world’s largest collection of people data, work data, and culture data combined with rich experience using artificial intelligence in the service of people, we connect culture insights with business outcomes to show what’s possible when organizations invest in their people. To learn more, visit ukg.com.

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Video captures Minneapolis immigration arrest in a city on edge after shooting of Renee Good

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.

In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily-armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.

Video of the clash showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.

Immigrant advocacy groups have done extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.

But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away and soon gone.

More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer Wednesday.

“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”

Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.

People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.

More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .

“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.

The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.

Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.

While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.

“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."

The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.

Todd Lyons, acting director of ICE, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”

"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.

Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”

The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests across the country over the weekend.

Thousands of people marched Saturday in Minneapolis, where Homeland Security called its deployment of immigration officers in the Twin Cities its biggest ever immigration enforcement operation.

Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis, Thomas Strong in Washington, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.