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Tech Moves: Workday CIO joins Tanium board; Madrona investor departs; City of Seattle hires CTO

GeekWire

Johnson is the chief information officer at HR giant Workday. She previously held IT leadership roles at Cloud Software Group, TIBCO, and SolarWinds. Millikin is a partner at TPG, leading its investment activity in software and enterprise tech. TPG is an investor in Tanium.

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Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) — Baskar Sridharan , a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team. Daniel was most recently a CTO at DataRobot, which acquired Algorithmia in 2021. —

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. He also previously spent 12 years at Microsoft in roles including principal software engineering manager and senior director. Remitly went public in September.

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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

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Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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The New York CTO Connection/Nasdaq Startup CTO Summit is back! Use CTOvision discount code

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On Tuesday November 1st at Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square CTO Connection is hosting the New York Startup CTO Summit (15th event globally in the last 2 years). Much more info available at https://www.ticketbase.com/ events/2016-new-york-nasdaq- cto-summit - use discount code of ctovision to get 40% off any tickets!

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

GeekWire

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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Amperity CEO Barry Padgett stepping down from Seattle startup

GeekWire

Padgett joined Amperity as president and chief operating officer in 2020 and became CEO in 2022. ” Padgett spent 20 years at SAP Concur, beginning as a software engineer and moving up the ladder to chief product and strategy officer. ” Avante raised $10 million earlier this year.

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