Workday named Sarah Kennedy Ellis chief marketing officer, effective October 5, 2026, succeeding Emma Chalwin, who left in July to become Accenture’s chief marketing officer. Kennedy Ellis most recently served as vice president of global marketing for Google Cloud and Google Workspace and previously held senior marketing roles at Adobe, including leadership positions at Adobe Experience Cloud and Marketo. She will lead Workday’s global marketing and communications organization and help advance its AI-era growth strategy. Workday says more than 11,500 organizations worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, use its enterprise AI platform for HR, finance, and IT. The appointment was one of several C-suite changes announced by Fortune 500 companies between September 5 and 11, 2026; Equinix appointed DD Dasgupta chief marketing officer, while Sirius XM Holdings named Sean Gibbons senior vice president and chief product and technology officer.