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Apple hires Tesla’s former Autopilot software director

The Verge

Apple hasn’t been all that vocal about its electric car project, but according to Bloomberg , the iPhone maker is hiring Tesla’s Autopilot software engineer to work on its EVs. We do know, however, that Apple has been hiring EV experts from other companies — especially Tesla. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

GeekWire

LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. Yamamoto previously worked at Adobe, F5, SAP, Microsoft and BlackLine in marketing leadership roles. Seattle cybersecurity startup Zatik Security announced Zack Glick as its third founder and CTO.

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Tech Moves: Portland’s Act-On adds two new execs; Tanium adds public sector SVP; and more

GeekWire

Gregg Ames, left, and Syed Ahmed, two recent hires at Act-On. Ahmed previously was CTO and vice president of engineering at Contiq. . She previously was with Cisco, Ellucian and Adobe. — Act-On Photos). — Act-On , a Portland, Ore.-based Ames previously worked in sales at Marketo, Oracle and Turning.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. When customers enter Adobe’s Creative Cloud, everything on their screen was developed by the Adobe product engineering team. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

GeekWire

.” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based

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Backcountry modernizes for the cloud era

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Undertaking a top-to-bottom modernization of a dusty enterprise stack can feel a bit like scaling a mountain. But tech was in the total doldrums.”.

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Tech Moves: Zillow exec Racquel Russell joins Bird’s board; new gig for startup vet Rebecca Lovell

GeekWire

Thompson was most recently EVP of worldwide field operations at Adobe. Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse hired Curtis Brown as chief product officer. He was previously EVP and global chief technology officer for AOL and CTO for educational service companies Kaplan Test Prep, McGraw-Hill and The Princeton Review.