Anne Toth. (Amazon Photo)

— Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform.

Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. She founded Privacyworks, which focused on incorporating privacy processes into early stage technology products, and also held privacy and policy leadership roles at Yahoo for more than a decade starting in 1998.

Privacy was front-and-center at Amazon’s big devices and services event in September including a noteworthy new feature for Alexa that lets users automatically and immediately delete their voice recordings.

Claire Cormier Thielke. (Zillow Group Photo)

— Zillow Group appointed Claire Cormier Thielke to its board of directors. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. She is currently adjunct faculty at her alma mater, Stanford University.

“Claire’s board appointment will be instrumental in guiding and propelling the company through its evolution to Zillow 2.0,” said Lloyd Frink, Zillow co-founder, executive chairman and president.

Lockstep, a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. The founding team includes:

• CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara.

• Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan, previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products.

• Chief Technology Officer Bill Henslee, an entrepreneur and founder of e2b Teknologies.

• VP of Product Scot Madill, who previously held product roles at Globys and SAP data management solutions provider Winshuttle.

“Over the last decade we’ve seen all externally-facing departments – sales, support, customer success, marketing – use advanced email automation as part of digital transformation,” said Shanahan, “but AR and AP have been left behind in the cash traps of personal inboxes and spreadsheets.”

Lockstep currently has 32 employees.

Faisal Masud. (Fabric Photo)

— Fabric, a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup helping companies with their e-commerce systems, also came out of stealth mode. It just brought on Faisal Masud as CEO. Masud has two decades of experience in the e-commerce world at companies including Amazon, eBay, Groupon, and Staples, where he was chief technology officer. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5 million seed round.

— Former Avvo CTO Kevin Goldsmith has joined Austin, Texas-based data science platform Anaconda as its chief technology officer. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido.

Prior to Avvo, he was VP of consumer engineering at Spotify and director of engineering at Adobe. He has also served as an advisor for Seattle-area startups Dolly and AstrumU.

— Identity authentication startup Auth0 announced Carolyn Moore as senior vice president of people. Moore previously held senior human resources roles at Mercedes-Benz’s research and development subsidiary, Apple and Samsung Electronics. The Seattle-area company raised a $120 million Series F round led by Salesforce Ventures in July that increased its valuation to $1.9 billion.

Sally Moore (Strike Graph Photo).

— Cybersecurity compliance startup Strike Graph named Sally Moore as its new chief technology officer. The Seattle-based company is developing a platform that helps customers prepare for the cybersecurity certification process.

Moore was most recently a senior software engineer at Seattle-based augmented writing startup Textio. She previously held engineering roles at other Seattle startups Koru and EnergySavvy. Moore has a Ph.D and practiced clinical psychology until switching to software engineering in 2015.

Strike Graph spun out of Madrona Venture Labs earlier this year and announced a $3.9 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group earlier this month. Strike Graph CEO and co-founder Justin Beals is also a Koru alum.

Fumbi Chima. (BECU Photo)

— BECU announced Fumbi Chima as the credit union’s new chief information officer and member of the executive team. She replaced former CIO Tom Morgan, who retired in July.

Chima was most recently global CIO for Adidas in Germany and previously led technology teams at Fox Network Group, Burberry and Walmart. She currently serves on the boards for Africa Prudential and technology and design company Work & Co.

Founded in 1935, BECU traces its roots to The Boeing Company and is the largest nonprofit credit union in Washington state with 50 locations. It also has financial centers in South Carolina, where Boeing also has a major manufacturing site.

Andris Zoltners stepped down from the board of publicly traded Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies after 11 years. 

Nick Nelson. (Nautilus Biotechnology Photo)

— Nautilus Biotechnology, a Seattle and Silicon Valley startup led by Isilon co-founder Suja Patel, hired Nick Nelson as chief business officer. Nelson was most recently chief business officer at Caris Life Sciences and previously led business development teams at biotech companies Cardiff Oncology and Illumina.

The company came out of stealth mode and announced a $76 million Series B investment earlier this year. The team is building a combination of hardware and software to study the human proteome, the body’s full set of proteins.

— Vancouver, Wash.-based software company ZoomInfo Technologies, which went public earlier this year, appointed Prasadh Cadambi as its chief accounting officer and senior vice president of finance and strategy effective March 1, 2021.

Cadambi is currently a partner specializing in software and the cloud industry at global tax and audit firm KPMG. He has been at KPMG for more than 23 years.

— Spokane, Wash.-based Rebirth Analytics appointed five new members to its advisory team. The two-year old startup founded by Chonchol Gupta, a recent Working Geek, provides AI-driven risk assessment services for businesses.

The new appointees are:

Stacey Kobayashi, a global logistics consultant and former director of international transportation for Nike.

• University of Washington professor of applied math Tim Leung, who is also director of the computational finance and risk management program.

Tony Catalfano, the former CEO of Worldpay and a financial services industry executive.

Pablo Ramirez, former director of procurement for Chipotle and previously an ethical sourcing manager for Starbucks.

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Director Joseph Williams, who previously served as an advisor to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee for the information and communication technology sector.

John Suk. (WTIA Photo)

— Former Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) board member John Suk has joined the trade association as its senior director of business development on the health benefits team. Suk was most recently managing director of national accounts and professional services at Vimly Benefit Solutions.

Suk joined the WTIA board in 2014 and resigned upon starting his new role. He has held executive-level roles at Windstream Communications, Verizon Wireless and Brightstar Corp.

— Bellevue, Wash.-based medical device startup CurvaFix hired Bart Balkman as chief commercial officer. Balkman was most recently chief commercial officer at Shape Memory Medical, also in the medical device industry. He was previously vice president of sales at NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics and Ellipse Technologies and is based in Texas. The 7-year old company raised $10.7 million in July and is preparing to commercialize its technology that helps repair fractures in curved bones.

— The Russell Family Foundation (TRFF), a philanthropy based in Gig Harbor, Wash., announced Kathleen Simpson as its new CEO. Simpson served as CFO since 2015 and as interim CEO after longtime CEO Richard Woo retired in January of this year.

Focused on the Puget Sound region, in particular Pierce County, Wash., TRFF makes community investments in grassroots leaders, environmental sustainability initiatives and global peace.

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