GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Seattle recruiting startup Candidate hired Sean B House as VP of engineering and Krista Place as head of marketing. Kesterson joined Neo in August 2020 and has quietly been working for the company since then.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2020 he wrote a guest post for GeekWire on lessons learned from two decades in the logistics tech industry, titled “Robots aren’t taking over.” Glick said he will take January off and will share his next move after that.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. The advisory council currently has 14 members including Microsoft Tech for Social Impact CTO Erik Arnold ; Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf; and King County CIO Tanya Hannah.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In December 2020, I joined Colorado 4×4 Rescue and Recovery, a non-profit search and rescue organization focused on rescuing and recovering people that get stuck / lost in the Colorado mountains. After seven years of helping to build Sundial, its time to start something new. What’s been going on in my life?

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Founded in 2013, Flexe closed out 2020 with a $70 million Series C round and has raised $134 million in total funding. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. (Flexe Photo). Sajo Jacob.

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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. The company, which sold a wall-mounted mirror that streams workout classes, was acquired by Lululemon for $500 million in 2020.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. It tripled the size of its enterprise client based in 2020. GameStop hired two other Amazon execs in April, bringing on Chief Growth Officer Elliott Wilke and COO Jenna Owners.

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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. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Chicago, Ill.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo. Sun’s team will include two VPs of AI technology, Sebastian Wieczorek and Ulf Brackmann; a CTO, Johannes Hoffart, and a global AI product manager, Nadine Hoffmann. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Fateev and his co-founder, CTO Samar Abbas , worked together at Uber and helped build an internal open-source orchestration engine called Cadence. “They have abstracted away an entire class of problems that currently costs developers time and companies money.”

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GeekWire

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 2020 : Salesforce Ventures leads $120M round in Auth0 as pandemic fuels Seattle-area startup’s identity tech.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Kevin Miller, CTO of the Americas, IFS IFS A little over a year later, however, Miller returned to IFS as an associate vice president and is now CTO of the Americas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. She continued to serve on Axiom’s board through 2020 but stepped down this month. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Kimchi left Amazon in September 2020 after eight years. Ali was previously CTO at Freightweb, a transportation logistics startup that raised $3 million last year. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

tallied $388 billion in 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO. The value of its contracts with hospitals and health systems grew by 450% in 2021. The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S. million.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. million to acquire Las Vegas-based rival RapidVisa in 2020, which nearly doubled its headcount at the time. This is Boundless’ second acquisition.

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APRIL 26, 2022

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Backcountry’s Personalization At Scale program, which is already under way, will take time to pay off, the CTO says. But tech was in the total doldrums.”.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

What Valve’s top Steam titles of 2020 say about the state of video games. Tech Moves: Crowd Cow adds ex-Amazon leaders; former Expedia CTO joins Snap! Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Goodale transitioned from the CTO role to chief experience officer in 2021. Convoy hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO in 2020. They are battling for a share of a $800 billion U.S. trucking industry. Lewis and Grant Goodale both worked at Amazon before launching Convoy. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.;

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles. She helped start MajorBoost last September.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Greco and Vlietstra have both been at the company since 2013; Greco was the company’s VP of hardware before being named CTO in 2020 , and Vlietstra was named COO in 2018. Meanwhile, Diez is apparently returning to Magic Leap this month after departing in 2020, a year that saw Magic Leap downsize a huge portion of its workforce.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2015

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

That’s up by 69% over 2020 levels, meaning 517 new unicorns joined the club last year, CB Insights reported. 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. Industry : Sales contract management software. billion (as of July 2020).

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The company also announced $10 million in seed capital.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Prior to joining Kaskada in 2020, Parkey spent five years at augmenting writing startup Textio. Mishra was most recently CTO at Steve Ballmer’s USA Facts. Seattle HR firm Reverb hired Reggie Malli as head of leadership development. She has her Ph.D. in electrical engineering.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu. Both Terrell and Liu joined AI2 in 2020 as entrepreneurs in residence, where they hatched the idea for BirchAI. The new funds will enable BirchAI to expand and increase hiring.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Krause left Canoo in June 2020 before it merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and became listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder. Canoo did not respond to a request for comment.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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Phil Windley

MAY 16, 2022

Last month was the first in-person CTO Breakfast since early 2020. CTO Breakfast is a monthly gathering of technologists in the Provo-Salt Lake City area that I've convened for almost 20 years. Like IIW, CTO Breakfast has no pre-planned agenda. We have just two rules: (1) no politics and (2) one conversation at a time.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance.

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APRIL 13, 2023

In 1989, the family relocated to Seattle after Kumar’s father was hired as an engineer at Boeing. ” Microsoft, then startups The Humanly team at Y Combinator, from left, CTO Bryan Leptich, CEO Prem Kumar and COO Andrew Gardner. As interest rates rose, many large tech companies started hiring freezes.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

The Guardian reported that from March 19, 2020, to Feb. ” The information, considered a fraction of hate incidents that actually occur, was in a report released on Tuesday by Stop AAPI Hate , a not-for-profit coalition tracking incidents of violence, discrimination and harassment. This is horrendous.

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