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Tech Moves: Hootsuite hires CTO; Cascadia Capital CEO moves to Austin; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite hired Antonis Papatsaras as its new chief technology officer. Papatsaras was previously chief technology officer of the contract lifecycle management product suite at Docusign. . — Vancouver, B.C.-based

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Facebook CTO says hiring matters for mitigating AI bias, but the company lacks AI research diversity stats

Venture Beast

Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer emphasized the importance of diversity and hiring to address algorithmic bias, despite little evident diversity at Facebook. Read More.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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Scott Sorensen , the Chief Technology Officer with Ancestry.com , delivered a keynote that examined issues relevant to analysts from throughout the community. ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics.

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

GeekWire

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. X4Impact is an AI-driven market intelligence platform for nonprofits, universities and other organizations focused on social impact. Tony Bacos.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

GeekWire

Everson most recently was VP of Facebook’s global marketing solutions which works with the social networks top agencies and advertisers. Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information.

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