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Jacobs Solutions Inc. (NYSE: J) has appointed its former Chief Financial Officer, Kevin Berryman, who most recently served as special advisor to the CEO, as interim CFO effective March 29, 2024. The current CFO is departing the company to pursue other opportunities.

Both projects were competed recently by Adolfson & Peterson Construction—improving the acoustics for the seven-time Grammy-nominated One O'Clock Lab Band and eight other jazz lab bands while giving drones and ground autonomous vehicles room to fly and roam.

This year, Fortune's second annual ranking of America's Most Innovative Companies honors 200 businesses that are "transforming industries from the inside out." Check out the innovative North Texas companies that made the list—along with others across the Lone Star State.

The Panda Hemp Gin is Panda Biotech's landmark industrial hemp processing facility in Wichita Falls—a 500,000-square-foot building with three miles of overhead pneumatic duct lines and a 600-yard-long processing line. The gin is the first of its kind and the largest industrial hemp facility in the Western Hemisphere.

The University of Texas at Dallas' largest startup pitch event, now in its 17th year, isn't sitting on its laurels. Here's what's new this year, and who made the finals. With dual events, a fireside chat, and judge-powered prize allocations, it's set to unfold on April 5 and 17.

Carleton Companies, a Dallas-based owner, developer, and manager of multifamily properties across the South and Southwest United States, has appointed Tasha Krawiec as president and CEO of the company's property management division, Carleton Management Services....

Recognized for its pioneering mental health and wellbeing solutions tailored for athletes, ZAMA Health has been acquired by Seattle-based Volt, which offers "hyper-personalized" strength training that "dynamically adapts" to individual athletes.

Techstars' "most popular" accelerator has a new leader at the top. Trey Bowles took the reins to steer the March initiative and oversee the application/selection process for the September program. The deadline to apply is May 22.

McMahon, recognized as a powerhouse in the real estate sector, currently serves as president and CEO of The Real Estate Council (TREC), where she has spearheaded transformative initiatives to enhance commercial real estate and economic growth in Dallas. With her impending departure on June 30, TREC CFO/COO Summer Loveland will step in as interim CEO, while the organization actively searches for a successor.

Alkira's founders are in Dallas this week for the ONUG networking conference. Investors, including Dallas Venture Capital Founder Dayakar Puskoor, are bullish on the startup reinventing cloud networking and network infrastructure for the cloud era.