CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. By 2018, the Trainline platform was hosting more than 80 million customer visits a month, with more than 80% coming through mobile devices.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. Lexion announced this week that it will be acquired by Docusign in a $165 million deal, marking a successful exit for the Seattle startup co-founded by Oberoi in 2018. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. Weld succeeds Doug Raymond , a former Amazon Alexa product lead, the project’s general manager since 2018. She also co-founded Molly Jones, a female-focused cannabis consultation service. Bhawna Singh.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. March 2022. March 2022.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. billion in 2018. Nelson will scout new startups and work with portfolio companies, Madrona said. Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That’s a significant jump over the figures laid out in the first assessment of the state’s space economy , published in 2018. based company had a workforce of more than 1,500 employees — but the updated report uses a figure of 3,000, and the employment level is said to be even higher now. billion annually.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2021

“This is the first satellite LeoStella has delivered to a customer other than BlackSky,” Brian Rider, LeoStella’s chief technology officer, told GeekWire in an email. All of the satellites previously shipped out from LeoStella’s factory in Tukwila, Wash., for satellite design and assembly. .

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company, which had received millions of dollars from the venture arms of Boeing and JetBlue, said it would be ready to fly by 2022. In 2018, Zunum ran out of cash, forcing it to lay off nearly all of its employees and vacate its headquarters. Boeing stole Zunum’s technology and intentionally hobbled the upstart entrant”.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. The company currently has 114 employees, up from 80 two months ago.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. It focuses on pre-seed companies with capital-efficient business models and early signs of commercialization. agtech startup Verdi.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. “The formation of our Advisory Board marks a new way that we can provide value as a fund: tapping best-in-class industry experts from Microsoft to help inform our investment focus and to advise our portfolio companies,” said M12 General Manager Samir Kumar , in a post announcing the new board.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

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. This category recognizes CEOs of Pacific Northwest technology companies with more than 100 employees. (The He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

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.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Telecommunications companies’ transformation initiatives are bearing fruit. an annual gathering of network and communications service providers, technology suppliers, consultancies, and systems integrators hosted by TM Forum. Digital Transformation World Series. , The conference runs through October 14.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

None of the companies have female co-founders or CEOs. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. Spoiler alert : Before reading any further, take a moment and see if you can name all 10 startup companies valued at $1 billion or more in the Seattle area?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. — Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. She was previously vice president of research at Juno Therapeutics, which was acquired by Celgene in 2018.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

A survey of venture capital firms found that 4% of employees were Black and 5% were Hispanic or Latinx, according to 2018 research by the National Venture Capital Association and Deloitte. million, targeting companies from underserved communities. Only 1% of U.S. startup founders are Black and 1.8% Techstars Seattle Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2021

” Relativity says the newly announced funding round will help the company scale up production of the Terran R rocket at its 3D-printing facility in Long Beach, Calif. billion, and the company’s valuation is said to be higher than $4 billion. Today we are one step closer to this goal.”

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The European Court of Justice ruled that the EU-US Data Protection Shield, which allowed companies to transfer data between the US and the EU in compliance with. The CLOUD Act of 2018. Indeed, earlier this year, T-Systems CTO Maximilian Ahrens was named Chairman of the Gaia-X board of directors.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

. — After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal officer. She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018. Tallapragada is currently president and chief engineering officer at Salesforce. Avalara Photos).

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

But some Pacific Northwest companies whose customers initially vanished in the blink of a gubernatorial stay-at-home order have been able to turn potentially dire situations into long-lasting opportunities. When the pandemic eventually recedes, these companies could find themselves with improved immunity to weather future economic turmoil.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. for Seattle startup that helps companies save on cloud costs. Avi Schiffmann.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. and has an engineering office in Bellevue, Wash. . • Cassio Sampaio as VP of product. Aaron Kornblum.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I I was able to see that the breadth of technologies I could use in education was small compared to the tech that could help global private-sector companies,” she says.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

On the contrary, experts say it could actually help home-workout companies like Peloton take on their shared adversary: the gym. +. A 2018 survey found that the average monthly cost of a gym membership is $58 nationwide — but that’s higher in some major cities like New York. But that doesn’t make Fitness Plus the downfall of Peloton.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

The Board also struggled with “get it started urgently” versus “consult with public safety” to design the network. FirstNet made mistakes in hiring professional staff – Bill D’Agostino as Executive Director and Ali Afrashteh as Chief Technology Officer. State Plans finished and sent to Governors – late 2017 and 2018.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Tech companies around the country continue to recruit executives from Amazon: Rene Villegas , the former head of marketing for Amazon Subscription Boxes, is now chief marketing officer at Boston-based wireless broadband provider Starry. based workflow automation company late last year. Merida Merger Corp. Dustin Grosse.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

After spending more than a decade at Boeing, he became vice president for space systems at Seattle-based Andrews Space in 2002, and then co-founded a Renton-based consulting firm called Holder Aerospace in 2004. After Allen’s death in 2018, Stratolaunch went through a round of layoffs and spent months in limbo.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Roofstock is a fintech company that allows individuals to invest in single family rental homes. The company recently acquired property management platform Great Jones and has raised $133 million in total funding to date. He was most recently VP and CTO at Genesis Engineering Solutions and previously spent 13 years at NASA.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion efforts inside important institutions, like Washington state’s governor’s office, but she’d never worked at an influential global business leader like Amazon. And some stuck it out at the company by transferring roles, and even taking demotions, to escape toxic bosses.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

She had nearly two decades of experience leading diversity and inclusion efforts inside important institutions, like Washington state’s governor’s office, but she’d never worked at an influential global business leader like Amazon. And some stuck it out at the company by transferring roles, and even taking demotions, to escape toxic bosses.

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Vox

JANUARY 11, 2023

At the opening of Meta’s last company-wide Q&A of 2022, Mark Zuckerberg sounded disappointed but determined. “We I’m quite optimistic about all of this,” he said at the recent company-wide Q&A meeting. said one employee who has worked at the company for several years. Amanda Northrop/Vox.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You can sort of imagine them as island nations — they’re networks that are controlled by a single entity, which could be an ISP, like Comcast, a company, like Facebook, or some other big organization like a government or major university. When it comes to BGP, the internet is broken up into big networks, known as autonomous systems.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. Roberts: All the research we have done -- both myself and fellow security consult all science and research In this area from retired retired pilots and Engineers and other individuals indicates otherwise.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As we’re still in the early days of 2018, let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year. In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. The problem is, most companies are woefully underprepared. New tools and technologies are constantly emerging.

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