The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder.

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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. based Mobile Technologies, Inc. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Hillsboro, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Yifan Zhang speaks at the 2018 State of Technology Luncheon on June 1, 2018 in Seattle. 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.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Based in Bothell, Wash.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. D’Ambrosio-Correll joined home fitness startup Mirror in 2018 and led engineering. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

The longtime Seattle tech vet was part of the leadership teams during the acquisitions of Tableau by Salesforce for $15.7 billion in 2018. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. . Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We know Apple has spent time on battery technology. In 2018, it hired Soonho Ahn , Samsung’s senior vice president, next generation batteries and materials innovation. Ahn stayed on as the Global Head of Battery Developments for three years before taking a new post as CTO of Volkswagen’s battery division.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

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. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

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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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

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. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen.

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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 Seattle startup closed a $3 million Series A round in 2018.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Reagan Attle , previously VP of marketing at Clio, as chief marketing officer. Sabrina Wu. Madrona Photo).

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark — are reportedly leaving in the coming months. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Founded in Seattle in 2012, Actively Learn was acquired in 2018 by New Jersey educational technology company Achieve3000. He will start in September. Procurify Photos).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Founded in 2018 and spun out of Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs, Attunely crunches data related to debt records and consumer interaction history, in addition to other information such as macroeconomic trends, to produce a “score” for consumers who owe payment. The company has 16 employees and is hiring.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. William Johnson. The company raised $95 million in 2021. Mika Yamamoto.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Julia Anas as chief people officer. Gina Sheibley as chief communications officer. Acquired by SAP for $8 billion in 2018, Qualtrics filed to go public in December at a valuation up to $14.4

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tretikov joined Microsoft in 2018 as CVP of AI, perception and mixed reality.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

Convoy co-founder Grant Goodale accepts the GeekWire Award when the startup was named Next Tech Titan in 2018. “I leave for work before my family wakes up, so I’m very protective of what little time I get with them when I get home.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. He will help identify founders and technologies for the firm in the space, cloud computing and cybersecurity industries. Meyerson spent 15 years leading Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin, leaving the company in 2018. . • VP and Distinguished Engineer Saurabh Tiwary. million in September.

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CTOvision

JUNE 4, 2014

Defense Information Systems Agency Strategic Plan 2013-2018 (ctovision.com). DISA Awards MDM/MAS Contract to Team DMI (fedcyber.com). CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Mobile Android Apple Application Store BlackBerry DISA iOS samsung' Security a Priority in DOD Move to Mobile Devices (defense.gov).

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JANUARY 13, 2022

To put that number in perspective, that compares to a grand total of $2 billion that every Washington startup — 175 in total — raised in all of 2018. Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Industry : Hiring and recruiting .

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. . He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Mehta joined PSL in 2018 from ExtraHop Networks, where she was CFO. David Zager is now a partner and chief design officer for PSL Studio. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. com CEO Jay Westerdal is a senior venture partner.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Qualtrics, which has been adding to its executive ranks through a series of hires , is expected to split Larson-Green’s role as chief experience officer among other leaders for now. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO.

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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. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The CLOUD Act of 2018. Indeed, a raft of legal questions around the use of public cloud are presenting obstacles to telcos, according to Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist, Telia Carrier, speaking during Telecom TV’s. was invalid because of concerns around surveillance by US state and law enforcement agencies.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Information about Tesla’s next-generation batteries has steadily trickled out over the last year or so thanks to the experts Musk hired and their public works, like patents, academic papers, and university presentations. The group has been funded by Tesla since 2016 , according to Reuters.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

His mental and physical health were impacted, and he had less time to spend with his wife and two children. Since launching his company in August 2018, Kumar had faced one challenge after another: the pandemic, an economic slowdown, and eventually his own fatigue. GEEKWIRE AWARDS: Meet the five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2018.

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MAY 15, 2020

He was lured back to gaming to work on the Intellivision Amico, a new game console with a retro look and feel first announced in 2018 and intended to make gaming a family friendly affair again. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development.

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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. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there. Damon Corey.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Bird, who sold Bizible to Marketo in April 2018 , is founding partner of Pienza, which just raised $5.1 Other members of the Pienza team include Vivek Venugopalan , CTO-in-residence who previously co-founded Fantain and was an exec at Wipro Limited, and Mark Sugarman , founding partner at MHS Capital who sits on the Pienza board.

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