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Tech Moves: NanoString CEO and CFO depart; Temporal founders swap roles; Gradial adds exec

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LinkedIn Photo) Brad Gray is stepping down from NanoString after 14 years leading the Seattle biotech company as CEO. NanoString this week completed its acquisition to life sciences research and diagnostic giant Bruker, which bought the company’s assets for approximately $392.6 Samar Abbas , who was previously CTO, is now CEO.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Ogisu was most recently EVP and chief people officer for multinational media company Viacom. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. billion valuation earlier this year after raising $125 million. Hillsboro, Ore.

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

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Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. The longtime Seattle tech executive served as CTO of BuddyTV and Cozi Group, spent more than a decade on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association, and co-founded Bsquare. — portfolio company.

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Former Amazon Prime Air employees raise $4.5M for stealthy solar airplane startup

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Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. “We’re currently hiring. “Seattle’s a great area to be building a company like this.” Radical Photo).

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Tech Moves: Accolade’s new board member; Adaptive Biotechnologies names a COO; and more

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The Seattle and Philadelphia-based company also announced that OMERS Ventures Managing Partner Michael Yang and Carrick Capital Partners Managing Director Jim Madden have stepped down from the board. Ames has served on the board since 2004 and is the former president and CEO of telecommunications company MediaOne International.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. This category recognizes CEOs of Pacific Northwest technology companies with more than 100 employees. (The He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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CIOs press ahead for gen AI edge — despite misgivings

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CarMax CITO Shamim Mohammed confirms his company was using OpenAI’s GPT-3.x Tom Richer, head of Google Business Group at technology services company Wipro, is also seeing rapid traction among CIOs eager to explore gen AI’s transformative potential. “To We can also use Claude 2, primarily if the OpenAI API is unresponsive.”

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