GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. That’s the premise behind Wokelo , a Seattle-area startup co-founded by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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JUNE 29, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photos) — Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced it added three new venture partners: Loren Alhadeff , Mark Nelson , and Ted Kummert. He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said.

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JUNE 14, 2023

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. headquarters in Seattle, appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO of North America and global chief marketing officer. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Read the story. Lisa Nelson. Microsoft Photo). Athira Photos).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. He was an executive at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle in 2005.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Cera Group appoints Manish Chandegara as group CIO. Manish Chandegara has joined Cera Group as group CIO. Prior to that, he worked at Maahi Milk Producer, KSP solutions, Magna Seatings, and Adani Group. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. February 2022.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

A 12-ton military-style vehicle powered by self-driving technology from Seattle startup Overland AI. Overland Photo) A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. The company’s CTO, Jonathan Fink , worked as a researcher for the U.S.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. He previously worked at Nike, Symantec and The Regence Group.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce. Read the story. Gopuff Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs. CEO Alessya Visnjic spent eight years at the company helping develop its machine learning infrastructure.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. Zillow Group Photo). Zillow Group appointed Claire Cormier Thielke to its board of directors. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Parkey succeeds former head of product Emily Kruger, who is now VP of operations and product at software consultancy Loka. Mishra was most recently CTO at Steve Ballmer’s USA Facts. Economic development group OneRedmond announced Shawn Palmer as an advisor for its East King County Small Business Development Center.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The company announced a $41 million Series C round led by Madrona Venture Group as it looks to boost its leadership position in the infrastructure as code market and invest in new AI-fueled products. Soma” Somasegar.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Seattle-based Denali Financial Consulting appointed former Create33 executive director Rebecca Lovell as its new CEO. Madrona Venture Group recently put the Seattle-based “founder center” on pause due to changes caused by the pandemic. based private equity firm TA Group Holdings earlier this month. Read the story.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

Previously, Bettenhausen served as director of the California Office of Homeland Security and Homeland Security Advisor to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a statewide strategy to prevent terrorism and prepare for all potential hazards facing California.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs must redirect resources when technologies as revolutionary as generative AI come to market or risk falling behind or becoming obsolete — in which case, hitting other strategic goals won’t matter much. Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer. How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement. It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO?

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Group B Labs Photo). Illi Eisner has more than 10 years of hardware development experience at Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, where he worked on such things as the Kindle, Fire TV, Fire Phone, Windows Phone, and iPod Nano. Group B Labs Photo). Group B Labs Photo). Group B Labs Images).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The challenge for IT leaders is clear : With employees quitting faster than they can be replaced, the rush to hire the right talent is on — so too is the need to retain existing IT talent. As the company had legacy systems, it became tough to hire resources that could manage them. This gave us the time to groom the freshers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. Organizations must create a thorough plan and focus on developing a governance framework and AI policy before implementing and exposing the technology. We intend to implement it in Q1 2024.”

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Eddie Garcia.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

If and when workers return to offices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Seattle startup called Worksphere is looking to make the process safer and more manageable with a software platform that tracks everything from seating arrangements to contract tracing. and other seed funds and angel investors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

Ralph Loura, former SVP and CIO, Lumentum Lumentum That move soon led to a job running a data center and increasingly more senior roles, including stints as CIO at Symbol Technologies, Clorox, and HP’s Enterprise Group. For example, he took on the CTO role at Rodan + Fields because he “liked the appeal of being part of the product.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

“As the new solution would cut down the time taken from several days to less than one day, I showed them how it could increase their efficiency, enable them to go home early, and make the entire process transparent.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring. He also leveraged Heineken’s global contracts. “We

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Eddie Garcia.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A few things stand out about this group of 10 (full list below): Six of the startups have at least one immigrant founder. 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. Valuation : $1.9

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. contract management startup Icertis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Moreover, four out of every five IT executives plan to leverage gen AI to augment and enhance developers’ productivity, with more than 40% of those IT leaders expecting to do so within the next year. based online insurer, is developing an LLM-based platform to handle customer requests with far more intelligent and enhanced chatbots.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Before we learn more about the current crop of Seattle area unicorns, a few interesting facts about this group of 15: None of the Seattle area unicorns boast a female or Black CEO, a disappointing statistic that signals how the venture and startup community has a long way to go to diversify. Industry : Sales contract management software.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Co-founder and former CEO Jeff LeBrun will become chief strategy officer and retain his position as executive chairman. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Todd Haedrich. Optimize Health Photo). It raised $15.6

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Onder Photo) A group of travel and real estate tech vets recently launched a startup to help new homeowners stay up-to-date on maintenance issues by providing regular inspections. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance. Onder CEO and founder David Krieger.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. The number of use cases and utility values are limited, impacting the potential.

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