• Trade tension. Wei Sun Christianson, Morgan Stanley's co-CEO, Asia Pacific, and CEO, China, says that talking about a "trade war" between the U.S. and China doesn't convey the full story. It's really more like "trade tension." Fortune • Face your fears. More on trade wars, this time from consumer company executives. They're not as worried about an economic slowdown as chief economists and central bankers. "Fear is a bad advisor," says Melanie Kreis, CFO of Deutsche Post, the post office for Germany and the largest logistics company in the world. Fortune • Met tech. London's top Metropolitan Police official and its first female commissioner, Cressida Dick, defended the use of facial recognition technology despite concerns over its potential for racial bias. "Properly overseen, properly thought about, properly circumscribed, [it's] something that our public would expect us to be doing," she says. Fortune • ITV streaming. According to ITV chief Carolyn McCall, consumers are finally ready to pay for their media again. It's why ITV is moving into streaming with BritBox—and the broadcaster's shareholders want even more resources behind the push. Fortune • This AI'nt it chief. Scarier than robots taking over is AI's real threat: the lack of diversity in the field. "All the algorithms are programmed by white males—that's not a good idea," says TomTom co-founder Corinne Vigreux on a panel with Booking.com's Gillian Tans. Fortune MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Autodesk's Debbie Clifford joins SurveyMonkey as CFO, making the company's leadership team majority-women. Instagram promoted Tamar Shapiro to head of analytics. Ida Liu has been named head of Citi's Private Bank for North America. McKesson CIO and CTO Kathy McElligott and Schneider Electric CIO Elizabeth Hackenson join Forescout Technologies' board of directors; Theresia Gouw takes over the board as chair. Sarlina See joins Penske Media Corporation as chief accounting officer. |