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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Tech Moves: Docker and Qualtrics leaders join Seattle startup Mason; Beyond adds Zulily director

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From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Gao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. Mason Photo) Mason , a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.

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Tech Moves: Madrona adds three new venture partners; DexCare hires exec; and more

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Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month. The company was acquired in 2016 by biotech giant AbbVie for $6.2 Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Based in Bothell, Wash.,

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Tech Moves: Amazon names new workplace safety leader; Zscaler hires Salesforce EVP; and more

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Raoul Sreenivasan , who joined Amazon in 2016 and is director of Amazon Global Air, will take over most of Rhoads’ Amazon Air responsibilities, Felton said. Other key personnel changes in the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Cloud security giant Zscaler hired longtime Seattle tech vet Syam Nair as its new CTO.

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Former Amazon Prime Air employees raise $4.5M for stealthy solar airplane startup

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Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo).

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.