Acclaimed futurist joins tech firm as senior vice president

TAMPA — Venuetize, a technology platform for smart space solutions, has hired Nick Curcuru as senior vice president of analytics and customer engagement, a newly created role that, according to a press release, will take advantage of his experience in data and security, analytics, payments and customer intelligence.

Curcuru, the release states, previously worked at Mastercard as vice president of global big data consulting. Enterprise Management 360 named him the No. 3 data futurist in the world.