GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. Founded in 2016, ShelfEngine offers grocers a tech platform to reduce oversupplying and waste. Digital trucking platform Convoy moved up one spot to No. With strong Amazon DNA and $668 million in funding, Convoy had a valuation of $2.75 billion as of November 2019.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

Exponential growth in software (while Army is still a hardware based organization). Source selection (contracting) methodologies: Government needs to figure out what they are willing to pay more for; it’s not just about lowest price technically acceptable. Skillset balancing: 80% of the Army’s Software Development is contracted out.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

(Amperity Photo) Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months. The company said at the time it had 375 employees and planned to hire. He is a veteran of Concur Technologies and former chief revenue officer at Stripe.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. In 2016, she co-founded Integris, a data privacy startup, which was acquired by privacy software giant OneTrust in June. based startup Legwork, which creates software for the dental industry, hired Alex Cuevas as its chief operation officer and newest member of the executive team.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Additionally, the leadership team expanded: CFO Ryan Letson is now also COO.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. Ossia Photos).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Julia Anas as chief people officer. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based based Zuora as chief product and engineering officer. Chris Emerson.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. Impinj went public in 2016. Ceze sold his last startup Corensic, a debugging software platform, to F5 in 2012.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. He left to join Tableau as CEO in 2016, Read the full story. . Gilbert is a co-founder of PSL Studio.

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MAY 19, 2021

DevHub co-founders Mark Michael, left, and Daniel Rust hold the purchase agreement for Brickwork outside DevHub’s offices in Seattle. Why it matters: Brickwork was founded in 2013 and its software is used by such global companies as Nike, Chanel, Williams Sonoma, Saks Fifth Avenue and more. DevHub Photo).

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MAY 20, 2020

During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365. Bumpus was most recently CRO at New York-based software robot startup UiPath. Electricity marketplace WattBuy hired Mason Hollis as director of engineering.

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MAY 6, 2022

Chief Digital and Information Officer Florian Roth was among the first to try out the new program, introducing it to the company’s IT organization last year, Younosi told CIO.com. Initial reaction to Younosi’s announcement on LinkedIn was positive, with one new hire particularly keen to see it in action.

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MAY 15, 2020

Another heavily-funded Seattle-based startup, sales engagement software provider Outreach, announced plans to open a New York City office led by David Rubinstein. Former Lighthouse CEO David Rostov joined Seattle biotech company CorneaGen as its chief financial officer. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014, two years before the company went public in 2016. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $65 million in the third quarter, down slightly from the year-ago period but ahead of analyst estimates.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. He left to join Tableau as CEO in 2016. Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Seattle-based Hiya, a caller ID startup that spun out of Whitepages in 2016, named Hillery Nye as general counsel and John Novak as SVP of marketing. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. Reilly most recently served as SVP and chief marketing officer for footwear brand Crocs.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Seattle sales software startup Outreach, now valued at $4.4 billion , added three new executives and announced the opening of a new office in Atlanta. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there. This will be the company’s fifth office outside of its Seattle headquarters.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Lustig and Sabett put it this way: Historically, M&A due diligence focused on “traditional” risk areas such as tax, employment and benefits, intellectual property protection, and contracts (inbound and outbound).

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JANUARY 23, 2023

CEO Satya Nadella, in a memo last week to employees about the job cuts , said the company “will continue to hire in key strategic areas. Microsoft said last week it will soon make ChatGPT available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft is one of many tech companies that have made layoffs in recent weeks and months.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Venugopal was most recently president at Mphasis, a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore. He previously lead engineering and R&D at Houston, Texas-based BMC Software. Seattle cryptocurrency ATM startup Coinme added three new executives: • Eddie Ponce as chief compliance officer.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. Before launching Karat in 2014, he was chief of staff for Melinda Gates at the Gates Foundation. Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

But rather than continue to retrofit existing Navistar trucks, Lu said TuSimple wants to build a driverless truck from the ground up so it can ensure its sensors and self-driving software can withstand the heavy conditions associated with long-haul trucking. It’s going through a lot of wear and tear,” Lu said. The roads are bumpy.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Co-founder and former CEO Jeff LeBrun will become chief strategy officer and retain his position as executive chairman. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Todd Haedrich. Optimize Health Photo). It raised $15.6

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

. — Nintex Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Dustin Grosse stepped down from the Bellevue, Wash.-based A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The company also promoted Chris McGuire to chief technology officer, taking over from Thinkific co-founder Matt Payne who will now be SVP of innovation. He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. Chris McGuire. Thinkific Photo). Downs left the Seattle startup in 2018. Netlify Photos). —

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. “I don’t think we were viable at the time, but we had an MP … and we just kept working.”

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Mason’s solution provides clients with custom-built hardware and software for single-purpose Android devices. The company originally launched in Detroit, participated in YCombinator in 2016 and relocated to Seattle. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. DEI #BeCOME [link]. Reddit Photo).

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. Facebook designs its mobile app software to run on Apple’s and Google’s operating systems.

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MARCH 3, 2022

It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”). He touted the time he hired a chief blockchain architect, Thaddeus Batt, for the state. Masks weren’t required indoors in Denver, and few people wore them. Thank you, GM.” “GM”

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JANUARY 23, 2015

But don’t worry, the company just hired a novelist as its Chief Futurist.). Mark Zuckerberg at the time indicated patience and the long-view in his strategy, but industry watchers don’t expect a device release until late 2015 or 2016. Let me know your ideas. He also writes at www.ShepherdsPi.com.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Check out Odava's point-of-sale system: Cannabis software startup Odava, founded by former Urban Airship execs, raises cash to fuel growth. Free network software might radically change how routing works. MOSA Technology Solutions wins FBI contracts - Planet Biometrics. Federal Technology News.

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