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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. He left in 2017 to launch San Francisco, Calif.-based based Behavox as its first chief product officer.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Tech Moves: OfferUp adds diversity chief; Convoy engineering VP departs; ex-Twitter VP joins Kraken

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Mobile marketplace OfferUp announced Melinda Starbird as the company’s first chief people and diversity officer. Prouty joined Convoy in 2017 and previously led Uber’s Seattle engineering center. and plans to add an office in Seattle. Melinda Starbird. OfferUp Photo). Cheq Photos). Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Tech Moves: Facebook engineering lead joins gaming unicorn Playco; Bright.md names new CEO

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. — 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. . Instant Games provides mobile friendly games that users can play via Facebook’s news feed or Messenger.

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Ries was most recently general manager of demand generation at contract management startup Icertis. He was most recently head of technology at the company.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. She was previously senior director of technology and product at T-Mobile and a consultant at Slalom Consulting.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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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. Wang helped launch Boundless in 2017. Impinj went public in 2016. As of March, there were 388,908 cases in the U.S.

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