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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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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

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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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Athira Pharma extends Alzheimer’s clinical trial, adds new execs after CEO placed on leave

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Romano has a background in commercial buildings and aerospace and is founder and CEO of BlueRipple Capital, LLC, a consultancy firm for global technology companies. Other recent appointments include Rachel Lenington , formerly at Seagen and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as CTO and head of product development strategy.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

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Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.) Last year saw a 1.2%

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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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billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

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Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Founders: Nick Chua (CEO) and Kevin Arifin (CTO).

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Airship AI, a Seattle-area edge computing company that never raised investment, set to go public

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million in revenue through the first nine months of 2023, down nearly 40% from the year-ago period, with a net loss of $6.5 There were 613 SPAC deals in 2021; just 29 have been completed this year, according to SPAC Insider. Army Special Forces, and CTO Yanda Ma , who joined Airship in 2005. Airship AI reported $8.1

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