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Tech Moves: AI2 Incubator hires new managing director; Goldman Sachs director joins Dropbox; Marchex adds CFO

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Zhang co-founded Loftium in 2017. The Seattle startup offered discounts to renters and prospective homebuyers in exchange for renting out a room in a house, among other real estate programs. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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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. In 2017, he became VP of Amazon Robotics, managing the company’s robotic technology operations in its warehouses and with other high-tech projects. “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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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. “We’re currently hiring. “Seattle’s a great area to be building a company like this.” Radical Photo).

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s new executive VP; Puppet preps for IPO; Vacasa adds tech vets to board

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He helped spin out McAfee from Intel in 2017. His experience and skills are an invaluable addition to our company and the senior leadership team,” Nadella said in a statement. Terrill was previously CEO of HomeAdvisor for more than seven years and led a reverse merger of Angie’s List in 2017. Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. 31 was down 5% to $2.23 Elizabeth Solomon.