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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. He also previously spent 12 years at Microsoft in roles including principal software engineering manager and senior director. Remitly went public in September.

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AWS vets lead new startup that aims to connect workers with nonprofits through ‘volunteerism’

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The Field Day team, left to right: co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jason LaPier, engineer Garrett Sparks, engineer Trevor Smith, marketing and community lead Catalin Wong, and co-founder and CEO Eli Blackman. Employers and nonprofits will be able to share feedback with each other on the experience.

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

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Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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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. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Chicago, Ill.

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Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

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He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts.

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Tech Moves: Pathable founder joins vanlife app; Opanga Networks taps Seattle telecom vet as CEO

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Pathable Photo) — Veteran Seattle-area software entrepreneur Jordan Schwartz joined Sēkr , a San Diego startup that aims to help “vanlife” travelers find campsites and community, as its chief product officer. Brodman previously spent more than a decade at T-Mobile, holding positions as CMO and CTO.

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