Avast Plc announced three new strategic appointments strengthening the threat research, AI, and innovation departments, reporting to Avast's CTO, Michal Pechoucek. Joining the company are Daria Loi as Head of Innovation, Siggi Stefnisson as Head of Threat Labs, and Andrew B. Gardner as Vice President of Research & AI earlier this year. Daria Loi has extensive experience spanning over two decades in UX research & design, product design & strategy and innovation processes and is driven by mixing design strategy with user experience research and innovation to enrich people's life and humanize technology. Before joining Avast, Daria Loi worked at Intel, where she led UX Innovation and drove product vision agenda into Intel's client computing, AI and smart spaces programs for over 12 years. She also worked as Head of Product Design for Emerging Technologies and Head of Design & People Experiences at Mozilla for almost two years. She is a well-known keynote speaker and was recognized as one of Italy's 50 most inspiring women in tech.