— Kevin Dallas, a longtime Seattle-area tech and finance executive, was named CEO and board member of Bedford, Mass.-based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).
Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.
“Kevin’s extensive experience across technology companies and forward-leaning approach to innovation make him the ideal leader to chart EDB’s future,” Great Hill Partners managing director Drew Loucks said in a statement. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019.
Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. EDB has more than 1,500 customers and over 750 employees. In addition to Great Hill, Bain Capital Private Equity is a major shareholder.
Dallas replaces founder Ed Boyajian, who led the company since 2008.
— Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering.
Somal previously worked as an executive vice president at cloud computing infrastructure company Hashicorp, where she led the engineering, security, and IT organizations. She also held vice president roles at Yahoo, VMWare, and Oracle.
“Preeti is an exceptionally talented engineering leader,” Temporal CTO and co-founder Samar Abbas said in a statement. “She brings a unique breadth and depth of enterprise experience and leadership skills to our team.”
Temporal is a cloud application company that achieved unicorn status in 2022, reaching a valuation of $1.5 billion after raising $103 million in funding. It landed an additional $75 million in February. Notable customers include Datadog, Descript, Netflix, Instacart, Snap, and more.
— Nitin Sood, chief commercial officer of the MRD business at Adaptive Biotechnologies, is departing. The company announced the news as part of its second quarter financial results on Wednesday. His position will not be replaced.
— Kari Blanton is the new director of originations for Washington and Oregon at drone reforestation startup Mast Reforestation. She formerly held the role as director of acquisitions and divestitures at lumber giant Weyerhaeuser, and as senior vice president of specialty asset regional timberland manager at Bank of America.
— Amazon Alexa exec Rohit Prasad is in a new role leading a newly created group working on the company’s large language models, Business Insider reported.
— Cybersecurity startup Cyemptive Technologies named Johannes Riedl as vice president of cyber solutions in Europe. He joins from London-based Rainmaker Partners, a financial services company, where he served as an associate partner.
— Former Microsoft vice president and chief data analytics officer John Kahan is now an operating partner at MidOcean Partners, a New York-based alternative asset manager.
— Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center named Aaron Ring as the new Anderson Family Endowed chair for Immunotherapy. A former Yale School of Medicine associate professor, Ring founded cancer drug discovery startup Simcha Therapeutics, which has raised more than $65 million.
— Josh Pan, vice president of corporate development and external affairs at biotech company Athira Pharma, is stepping down from the role. Pan also serves as principal at startup consulting and venture capital firm S-Phase Ventures and as partner at Bellevue Capital Management.
— Frank Burkhartsmeyer was appointed as CFO of Portland, Ore.-based GridStor, a Goldman Sachs-backed startup developing renewable energy battery storage systems. Burkhartsmeyer previously worked as president and CEO of Avangrid Renewables, which operates a fleet of wind and solar facilities.
— Ron Rivera is joining Seattle-based middle-market investment firm Cascadia Capital as a managing director, where he will focus on providing M&A and corporate finance advisory to clients. Rivera most recently served as a partner at Drake Star Partners and as a managing director at Deloitte Corporate finance.
— Business for a Better Portland announced Stephen Green will take the helm as permanent executive director. Green, a longtime small and local business advocate, was previously the interim leader of the non-profit business advocacy organization. A former startup executive and banker, he is the founder of PitchBlackPDX, a showcase event for Black-owned businesses.
