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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. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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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. “We have a really good team at Radical, bringing experience from programs like Amazon.

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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. Terrill was previously CEO of HomeAdvisor for more than seven years and led a reverse merger of Angie’s List in 2017. New York City early-stage investment firm 2048 Ventures has hired Seattle-based Minda Brusse as a venture partner. Puppet raised $40 million in July.

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

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. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. During the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House’s national STEM program.

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

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Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Ali previously served as EA’s vice president of engineering for player and developer experiences, departing the gaming company in 2019 to focus on Freightweb full-time. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7

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