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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

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Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Bumble, which recently hired new CEO Lidiane Jones, announced several new exec hires, including a new chief product officer, chief people officer, and chief marketing officer.

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

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It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty. Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. He previously worked at Nike, Symantec and The Regence Group. At Google Stadia, Swift oversaw development of external second party games. Tony Bacos.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Robert Matthews (Swiftwater Group Photo).

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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. — Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Gopuff, a Philadelphia on-demand delivery service for convenience store items, hired two new executives in the Seattle region: Tim Collins as SVP of operations. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. . He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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Tech Moves: Delivery giant Gopuff adds Seattle-area execs; Wheels Up names president; and more

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Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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