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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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Long served as the director of the NGA from 2010 until her retirement in 2014. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. The former head of engineering and science at Amazon Web Services Health Jean-Olivier Racine joined Outset Medical as its chief technology officer.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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6, 2014 – In the future, when an earthquake or tsunami strikes a populated area or a terrorist attack decimates a city, teams of disaster experts partnered with robots — whose skills are being honed in rigorous competitions funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — may be the first responders. By Cheryl Pellerin.

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Why The Singapore Stock Exchange Problem Is The CIO’s Fault

The Accidental Successful CIO

On Wednesday, December 3, 2014, the Singapore Stock Exchange delayed its opening by more than three hours. Just to make things even worse, trading in the derivatives market was halted for two and a half hours in April because of IT hardware problems. Joel Manfredo was the CTO of Orange County, California a while ago.

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The 10 biggest funding rounds for Pacific Northwest startups in 2022

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Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash. It has offices in Tualatin, Ore. and SK Innovation, along with other unnamed investors.