Pegasystems Inc. announced it has appointed Katherine Parente as chief people officer, effective January 4, 2022. Parente is responsible for driving the company's global people strategy and operations, reporting to Alan Trefler, the company's founder and CEO. Parente joins the company from FactSet Research Systems. As senior vice president of human resources, she was responsible for the global HR strategy across product, content, and technology functions.

Prior to that, she was vice president of people at Axiom. Parente also held HR management positions with increasing responsibility at Investment Technology Group (ITG, now Virtu Financial) for nearly a decade. Parente is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Institute for Applied Management and Law (IAML).