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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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In his most recent role, McCay focused on multi-cloud strategy at a private firm that worked with various U.S. Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation disclosed in a SEC filing that Leslie Trigg is voluntarily resigning from the company’s board. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).

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Tech Moves: Adaptive board member resigns; Tagboard exec steps down; and more

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Adaptive Biotech Photo) — Seattle biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. Lex Schoner announced he was hired as design lead at Seattle-area enterprise software startup Magnify. Seattle-area aerospace company magniX announced it hired Tim Allen as VP of sales and marketing. Kevin Conroy.

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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

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” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Donio also sits on the board of cloud communications platform Twilio. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based She was most recently a VP at VMware. Chris Emerson.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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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. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Nautilus Biotechnology Photo). Amazon Photo).

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s new executive VP; Puppet preps for IPO; Vacasa adds tech vets to board

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based vacation rental platform Vacasa added two new independent directors to its board : former HomeAdvisor CEO Chris Terrill , and Adaptive Biotechnologies CFO Chad Cohen. based cloud automation company Puppet named two new board appointments as it preps for an IPO next year. (Vacasa Photos). Portland, Ore.-based Portland, Ore.-based

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

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The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. 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. Sana Biotechnology. That’s a remarkable change of fortune.

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