GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2023

Last year’s winner was Highspot, a startup that sells enterprise software to help make salespeople more efficient. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. He was nominated as a Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2017 GeekWire Awards. The company ranks No.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 25, 2014

As enterprises work to rapidly embrace the mobile revolution, both for their workforce and to engage more deeply with their customers, the pressure is on for IT to support the tools needed by their application developers. billion at the end of 2012 (and forecasts a nearly 30% CAGR through 2017). The Operational Perspective.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. and opened a Seattle office in 2017. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. Amy Sterner Nelson , who founded the company in Seattle in 2017, will again be the sole CEO of the 5-person startup. based cloud software company Acumatica appointed Jeff Smits as chief information officer.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital. New Athira execs Mark Worthington, general counsel, and Rachel Lenington, chief technology officer and head of product development strategy. Athira Photos). The Bothell, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Dutchie also announced several additional hires: Chief Financial Officer Nick DeLeonardis , previously an executive at Toast; General Counsel John Kelleher , previously general counsel for HubSpot; Vice President of Engineering Michael Lee , previously chief technology officer at Notarize and vice president of engineering at Toast.

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GeekWire

JUNE 3, 2021

Founded in 2008, Unify Square helps companies manage collaboration and communication software such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and Zoom. Publicly traded IT services company Unisys announced that it will acquire Bellevue, Wash.-based based startup Unify Square for $152.5 million in cash.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Clockwise from upper left: Sci-fi author Ted Chiang, Redfin CTO Bridget Frey, Screenwriter Eric Heisserer, GitHub CPO Inbal Shani, Read AI CEO David Shim, Factory managing partner Diego Oppenheimer, Pollen Systems CEO Keith McCall, author and entrepreneur Juliette Powell, Overland AI CEO Byron Boots, and Microsoft President Charlotte Yarkoni.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Nat Levy) — Sanjay Parthasarathy , a longtime Seattle tech executive who was most recently chief product officer at Avalara, has stepped down from the tax software giant. Puri joined Avalara in 2017 as a vice president in marketing. Lavu was previously CTO at Redbox and Kohl’s.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

With an undergraduate degree in political science and time spent as a Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteer, Lain McGrath hardly envisioned a career in software engineering. I didn’t just want to be a software engineer — I wanted to be a software engineer at Gusto,” McGrath explains. “I Toyota Financial Services.

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GeekWire

APRIL 8, 2024

The five finalists for the Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards highlight the multitude of ways that technology is changing healthcare, from treatment in the hospital to the development of new therapeutics. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Zhang co-founded Loftium in 2017. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering. Flyhomes acquired Loftium earlier this year. .

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software using AI and machine learning. Sajo Jacob. Jeremy Ung.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

What: Operations automation initiative to automate and streamline OSS/BSS stacks, developed automation ecosystem to enrich 5G supply chain. That’s easy to type but difficult to execute, says Dr. Rong-Shy Lin, SEVP and CTO, CHT. to transform its OSS/BSS stacks and develop an automation ecosystem to enrich its 5G supply chain.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2023

For grasping artificial intelligence Sherry Comes, former CTO at IBM Watson and current managing director of conversational AI at PwC, thinks you need to read Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers (Wiley, 2022) by Robb Wilson. CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation. Valuation : $3.96

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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. Chris Garvey.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The gist: BattGenie is a University of Washington spinoff that has developed software to goose the performance of lithium batteries that power electrical vehicles, consumer devices and other electronics. The software helps optimizes fast recharging while extending the life of batteries. The total won equals $1.6

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CTOvision

MARCH 24, 2017

The O’Reilly AI Conference is coming to San Francisco September 17-20, 2017 to explore the most essential and intriguing topics in intelligence engineering and applied AI. Strata Data Conference in New York 2017 . Strata Data Conference returns to New York September 25-28, 2017. The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2017.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The 300-person company offers software, APIs, and other behind-the-scenes technology used by retailers and business-to-business brands for many aspects of online commerce, including pricing/promotion, inventory management, digital storefronts, and payments/checkout. ” Fabric CEO Faisal Masud.

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

. — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Previously, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft. Rosalyn Curato, left, and Preethi Pragash.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

The Reperio Health team, including co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Matt Wallington (third from left) and co-founder and CEO Travis Rush (fifth from left). Rush started Sightbox in 2015 and Johnson & Johnson acquired it in September 2017 for an undisclosed sum. Reperio Photo). A Portland, Ore.-based

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ComputerWorld IT Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Class of 2017 Yearbook: The Honorees. Agrafiotis Chief data officer and head of technology products Covance. Sami Ben Jamaa Senior executive officer and CIO Coca-Cola East Japan. Birdsall Senior vice president of information services and chief medical information officer Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

. — Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. Young will be responsible for developing Microsoft’s global business development strategies, including assessing partnerships, alliances, venture investments, and joint ventures.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote/general session at DockerCon EU 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. This allows him to return to the idea of Docker as a platform—a platform upon which you can build the software supply chain that will support the technology-led disruptions that are affecting every industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 29, 2024

“We have multiple generative AI cases in production today and have for about one year,” says Woodring, noting that the company has one genAI chatbot under development, for example, designed to listen and comprehend as well as it speaks. Today, 60% to 70% of Rocket’s workloads run on the cloud, with more than 95% of those workloads in AWS.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. In 2017, Oberoi joined Pioneer Square Labs. And companies weren’t investing in legal-related software — not yet, at least. That’s fun.”

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

Over many years, the researchers developed measures for evaluating mental health sessions, and using thousands of hours of recordings of treatments, they trained their AI-powered system to perform the otherwise laborious, time consuming evaluation of the interactions. In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. Lyssn Image).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

During his time at Blue Origin, Andrew Lapsa won the AIAA Liquid Propulsion Young Professional Award in 2017. Here are three notable Seattle-area ventures with Blue Origin connections: Stoke Space Technologies. Now he’s the CEO of his own startup, called Stoke Space. Blue Origin Photo via Twitter). ” Starfish Space.

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GeekWire

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. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. . to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Founded in Provo, Utah, Qualtrics employs more than 3,300 people and established a co-headquarters in Seattle in 2017. Julia Anas as chief people officer. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. Gina Sheibley as chief communications officer.

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GeekWire

JULY 31, 2020

Bay Area subscription software company Zuora appointed Microsoft Corporate VPs Sarah Bond and Omar Abbosh to its board. . Riegelsberger retired from Avalara in 2016, but returned to the Seattle company in December 2017 as interim head of engineering and development as he brought on a full-time replacement.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Tribute team, from left to right: Sarah Moore, product design; Scott Faverty, customer success; Sarah Haggard, founder and CEO; and Ian Ma, chief technology officer. million over a two-part seed round, allowing the mentoring app to hire former Amazon AWS architect Ian Ma as its chief technical officer. .

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash. . Arvin Patel.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2020

Nick Pearson-Franks, the co-founder and CTO of Seattle-area startup Pebblebee, passed away June 24 at age 40. Nick Pearson-Franks was working at Boeing around 2012 as a lead software engineer when his friend and colleague Daniel Daoura showed up late to work, explaining that he hadn’t been able to find his keys that morning.

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