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

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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. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

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Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Nitin Sood as its first-ever chief commercial officer. Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information. As part of the Zepel.io

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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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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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. “The opportunity to see what you’re doing fly in such a short amount of time — that opportunity is so rare in this industry.” where scores of employees design, develop and manufacture electric powertrains. … You don’t become a CTO without being a bit of a nerd,” she says with a laugh.

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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. David Meininger confirmed to GeekWire he stepped down from his role as CEO of Link Immunotherapeutics , a Seattle-based company that focuses on developing new immuno-oncology drugs. 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. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. He led corporate development at Twilio for the past five years. 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. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5