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Walleye Capital’s Chief Strategy Officer Jonathan Brenner is leaving the firm, the latest in a string of senior exits at the $9.4 billion hedge fund.Brenner, who joined in 2018 in a marketing and investor relations role and was promoted to partner in 2022, will exit the firm after a transition that will last through the first quarter of 2026, according to a quarterly investor update sent last month. A copy of the letter was seen by Business Insider.The departure follows Brenner’s move to Texas earlier this year. The New York-based fund, which for years was based in Minnesota and has…

Big Four firm Deloitte announced an expansion of its ongoing strategic alliance with Snowflake, an AI data cloud company, to transform its tax data management solutions. Through the expanded alliance, Deloitte Tax and Snowflake will work together on developing tax data management accelerators to assist tax across all domains, including designing and implementing unified tax data models, introducing standard reporting outputs based on the data models, and creating structured datasets aligned with the firm’s tax processes. … Cloud-based document management solutions provider SmartVault announced the launch of a fully integrated DMS, client portal and compliance solution for Intuit ProConnect. The…

What do a bunch of high schoolers, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and I have in common? We’re all using Airbuds, a social app that connects friends over music.I’ve been on Airbuds, which launched in 2022, to keep tabs on what my friends are listening to for a little over a year now. The app syncs with my Apple Music — you can also connect it to Spotify, Amazon Music, SoundCloud, and other streamers — and updates a live feed of every song I’ve been playing.Ohanian is more than a user: His venture capital firm Seven Seven Six led Airbuds’ latest…

About once a month, Cody Aughney delivers for DoorDash. It’s not his usual job at the delivery company.Most of the time, he’s the vice president of dasher and logistics for DoorDash. However, sometimes Aughney delivers coffees, salads, and other food through the company’s WeDash program, which requires DoorDash corporate employees to make deliveries at least four times a year.WeDash has been a formal DoorDash program since 2015. It gives employees like Aughney on-the-ground insight into what gig workers, whom the company calls “Dashers,” face on a daily basis. Last year, about 8 million people made deliveries for DoorDash, the company…

The U.S. Treasury Department has opened an investigation into $9 billion in “preference-based contracting,” including the awarding of Small Business Administration funds.Among the targets is a business development program designed to serve socially or economically disadvantaged individuals, which it said may have been abused by large companies using pass-through arrangements with smaller firms. “President Trump has directed his administration to eliminate fraud and waste wherever it occurs, ensuring that each taxpayer dollar is spent as intended,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a statement Thursday. “Treasury will not tolerate fraudulent misuse of federal contracting programs. These initiatives must benefit legitimate small…

Most of our family’s income comes from federal funds. My husband and I both have military retirement checks, and he’s a federal civilian. Our retirement pensions are not affected by the government shutdown, but my husband’s paycheck is. We’re on day 37 without his income, and honestly, it’s surreal.While our retirements and my job will get us through, the loss of a paycheck has prompted some adjustments in our spending. I pared down our grocery spending earlier this year when DOGE and cutting government jobs were the hot items in the news.Here’s what else I’ve done to reduce spending and…

“Where is home?”If someone had asked me that question five years ago, I would have paused.I was born in Florida, but spent my adolescent years in Singapore. Then, I returned to the US for college before moving to Mozambique, Venezuela, Australia, Sudan, Thailand, the US again, Poland, and Ukraine.The first time I moved to a new place was when I was 13 years old. I remember feeling uncertain: All I’d known was Florida’s climate, American cuisine, and weekends spent waterskiing at the lake.Singapore was a massive adjustment. Suddenly, I was living on an island with high-rise buildings, a modern public…

Grant Thornton Advisors agreed to add Grant Thornton Poland to its multinational platform, expanding its presence in Europe. The deal, backed by an investor group led by private equity firm New Mountain Capital, would add GT Poland’s more than 1,200 employees and $70 million in revenue to the platform. The transaction remains subject to “finalization of definitive documentation and regulatory approval,” according to a statement from the firm. “Poland is one of Europe’s most resilient and rapidly evolving economies, with a range of thriving industries and an appetite for sophisticated services,” Grant Thornton Advisors CEO Jim Peko said in a statement…

Travelers wait in line at a security checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois on November 7 2025. Kamil Krzaczynski | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. airlines started cancelling hundreds of flights on Friday, hours after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the cuts amid the more-than-monthlong government shutdown.The cuts were ordered as air traffic controllers have missed their paychecks due to the government shutdown, now the longest in U.S. history. Air traffic control staffing shortages have been disrupting flights at several major U.S. airports, vexing travelers and airline executives alike.The sudden flight cuts this week forced airlines to scramble with…

Most early-career professionals worry about mastering the right skills or perfecting their résumés. Shannon Hennessy thinks they’re missing the real recipe for success.As CEO of Habit Burger & Grill, a rapidly expanding chain under the Yum! Brands umbrella, Hennessy has cooked up plenty of wins — from a new partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers to spearheading a swath of ambitious remodels. But it wasn’t until she got out of her own way that she says she flourished professionally.”I felt like, early on in my career, I held myself back more than anybody else,” Hennessy told Business Insider.She consistently second-guessed herself,…