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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. “This is a pivotal moment for Talkdesk as the market for conversational AI and virtual agents is expected to grow rapidly.” Founded in 2011, Talkdesk sells software built for customer service contact centers.

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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: DocuSign hired Marcello Majonchi , previously a general manager at Amazon, as vice president of product design.

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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 startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. Seattle virtual primary care startup 98point6 appointed Fukiko Ogisu as its chief operating officer. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. Fukiko Ogisu.

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. billion as of November 2019.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Walmart to hire nearly 200 in Seattle as part of expansion of its Global Tech team

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Walmart currently has about 160 tech associates in the area and relies on a hybrid work model that is primarily virtual. Walmart is hiring right in the backyard of rival Amazon, which is based in Seattle and last year surpassed Walmart as the largest retail seller outside China. Its total headcount is 2.3

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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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In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. 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.

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