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

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Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” ” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. .” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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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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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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

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Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo).

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

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Another heavily-funded Seattle-based startup, sales engagement software provider Outreach, announced plans to open a New York City office led by David Rubinstein. Former Lighthouse CEO David Rostov joined Seattle biotech company CorneaGen as its chief financial officer. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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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. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

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Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.