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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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Lighter Capital was co-founded by Andy Sack, Randall Lucas and Erik Benson in 2009. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire.

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This energy startup wants to make utility data more accessible — and spur creation of new companies

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Accessing utility data today is exactly where banking data and payments was in 2009 — extremely painful, bottlenecked by a long sales process, poor developer and user experience, and slow data access times,” said Ben Eidelson, a general partner at Stepchange. Climate felt like the only thing I could and wanted to work on,” Gordey said.

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Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

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After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo).

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Tech Moves: Apptentive co-founder joins Magnify; Amazon CEO picks new technical advisor

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(Magnify Photo) — Enterprise software startup Magnify hired Mike Saffitz as its new vice president of engineering. Saffitz replaced former Magnify CTO and co-founder Jacob Sajo , who left for personal reasons and currently works as the vice president of engineering at Flexport. He also served as head of engineering at Stripe.

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Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009.

Social, Agile and Transformation

Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. Looking back to 2008, I shifted this blog from covering startups and issues for CTOs (re: Startup CTO ) and covered a lot about the agile software development life cycle. So on to 2009. agile software development. (56).

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The Software Mainframe

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had IBM’s CTO Jeffrey Frey on theCube during IBM’s InterConnect2015 conference. Host John Furrier referenced a comment by former VMware CEO Paul Moritz from 2009. Moritz stated the goal of VMware was to create a software mainframe. SiliconANGLE.TV Cloud Computing Virtualization'

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?