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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo).

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The software summarizes and analyzes the contents of phone conversations between customers and representatives. The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI Photo). “It

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. as VP of business development for its marketplace. billion private equity deal.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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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? sv1ambo / Flickr). This is a 1965.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

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Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. There’s a world outside big tech and [a belief] that we can solve interesting problems and build cool software,” Baden says.