Denver – October 28, 2026 -- EverPeak Insurance has appointed Patrick K. Daley, CPCU, a underwriter with more than 30 years of experience in large, complex and hard-to-place risks, as Chief Underwriting Officer. He will lead underwriting strategy and quality standards across all EverPeak lines of business.

Daley's first mandate targets workers' compensation and BOP

Daley's first priority is a new value proposition for EverPeak's Workers' Compensation Middle Market business, which has long relied on deep data analysis, technology and service. He will also lead the relaunch of Attune's Business Owner's Policy (BOP) product. He will cross-sell BOP and other products to EverPeak's workers' compensation customers.

EverPeak President Kathy Kranz said his expertise in complex and hard-to-place risk is "exactly what we need" as the company expands its offerings.

Rossville, Md. – October 28, 2026 -- LifeLogics, a nonprofit technology company serving the organ and tissue donation and transplantation community, has appointed Ankit Mathur as Chief Executive Officer. Mathur, who has more than two decades of experience in technology, healthcare and organizational leadership, most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).

Mathur's mandate centers on platform modernization and interoperability

Mathur will lead LifeLogics through what the company calls its next phase of growth and modernization. His priorities are strengthening partnerships with organ procurement organizations (OPOs), advancing the company's technology platforms, improving customer experience and expanding interoperability across the donation ecosystem.

CALGARY – October 28, 2026 -- Peloton has launched Peloton Broker, a tract-based pre-leasing management tool that moves energy land teams from prospect to signed lease without re-entering data or switching between separate systems. The product is available now.

Broker extends Peloton's Land Data Management suite to the earliest lease stage

Peloton Broker joins LandView, LandView Map and Peloton Dashboards in the Land Data Management solution of the Peloton Platform. Pre-leasing work carries directly into agreement-based lease management in LandView. The tool serves brokers, consultants, land departments and legal teams at oil and gas operators and renewable energy developers.

James Hatcher, Product Manager for Land Data Management at Peloton, said pre-leasing is where land data is most scattered, with ownership research, negotiation notes and title issues held in different places.

Berlin – October 28, 2026 -- More than 80 percent of domestic workers worldwide labor without a contract or social protection, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). A commentary in the German daily nd.DerTag calls this a structural feature of an economy that devalues female employment, and demands binding rules from governments.

Informal domestic work leaves millions without health or pension cover

The commentary argues that Germany is no exception. It says households delegate cleaning and care work to migrant women while debating work-life balance. The millions of mostly informal workers cannot upskill or pay into health or pension insurance, which the commentary says leads directly to old-age poverty.

It also says constitutional privacy protection has for years served as grounds to refuse workplace inspections behind apartment doors.

DENVER – October 28, 2026 -- Onward Energy, an independent power producer with a 6.6 GW portfolio, has appointed Chief Financial Officer Patrick Welch as CEO and promoted Adam Heath to CFO, both effective October 27, 2026.

Welch moves from interim CEO to the permanent role and joins the board

Welch, CFO since 2023 and currently Interim President and CEO, will also join Onward's board of directors. He has more than 34 years of energy and power experience, including 18 years in CFO roles at Atlantic Power, JP Energy Partners and Jonah Energy.

Onward initially recruited him to build its finance function. He has since led the company through major financing transactions, built an enterprise risk management program and developed talent and organizational structures meant to support scale.

DALLAS – October 28, 2026 -- Hillwood Communities is partnering with Base Power to offer home battery backup to nearly 6,500 North Texas homes, with access growing to approximately 9,500 homes at full buildout of the three initial communities.

Initial rollout covers three CoServ-served Hillwood communities

Eligible new and existing homeowners in Treeline by Hillwood in Justin, Pecan Square by Hillwood in Northlake, and Harvest by Hillwood in Argyle and Northlake can access Base battery systems designed to protect homes during outages.

In areas where homeowners cannot choose their electricity provider, Base offers its service through agreements with local utilities and electric cooperatives. CoServ, one of Base's utility partners, serves all three initial communities.

Santa Ana – October 28, 2026 -- Regional Center of Orange County (RCOC) has honored seven Orange County businesses for employing people with developmental disabilities, as the organization pushes competitive integrated employment for the more than 29,000 county residents it serves.

Seven employers across Orange County receive recognition

The honorees are Discovery Cube (Santa Ana), Grocery Outlet (Anaheim and Long Beach), Lamppost Pizza (Orange), Oakley (Irvine), Heroes Hall at the OC Fairgrounds & Event Center (Costa Mesa), Provider Contract Food Services (Fullerton) and Walgreens (Anaheim).

The offices of Assemblymembers Diane Dixon, Cottie Petrie-Norris and Avelino Valencia issued certificates to the businesses.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Snowflake and Oracle plan to offer Snowflake's AI Data Cloud as a native, first-party service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), with customers buying and being billed directly through Oracle. The companies describe the offering as planned, not committed, and no launch date has been given.

Snowflake on OCI would bring AI, analytics, data engineering, transactions, applications and collaboration workloads closer to enterprise data held in Oracle databases, Oracle applications and OCI services.

Oracle would sell and bill Snowflake directly through OCI

Customers would contract with Oracle, be billed through OCI and could pay with Oracle Universal Credits. Accounts would be provisioned through the OCI control plane. Customers would then manage warehouses, databases, data pipelines and access controls with standard Snowflake tools.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 28, 2026 -- k-ID has launched Kai, a self-serve SDK that makes any app age-adaptive, and is offering it free for the first 10,000 monthly users of each product, every month.

Kai automates age assurance and applies k-ID's permission decisions

The SDK deploys age assurance and then applies k-ID's age, consent and permission decisions to every user. k-ID says most builders can tell users apart only by a self-declared age, which a growing number of markets no longer accept.

Kai targets the gap between fast app development and slow compliance work. According to k-ID, a small team can build a working app in hours but cannot buy the specialist knowledge to serve every age in every market. Larger companies have that knowledge but still build, review and rebuild, because the compliance answer arrives after the code. Kai delivers it inside the coding agents builders already use.

Tulsa – October 28, 2026 -- Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, has been named the 2026 Team Osprey Supplier of the Year after more than 20 years of supplying electrical wire harnesses and cables for the V-22 Osprey.

Team Osprey, a group of industry, government and military leaders supporting the V-22 program, announced the award at its 2026 Annual Team Osprey Working Group Conference. The event gathers leaders and suppliers from across the V-22 industrial base.

Cherokee Federal earns award for on-schedule delivery and production investment

The company was recognized for responsiveness, consistent delivery of quality products on schedule, and proactive investment in production and long-term sustainment. Cherokee Federal employees perform the work in Stilwell, Oklahoma, on the Cherokee Nation reservation.