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

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Piskel joined the Seattle-based biotech company in 2015 and was most recently principal accounting officer. Adaptive previously hired Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives” for the businesses. He replaces Tycho Peterson , who is departing to pursue another opportunity.

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Fed Tech Roundup August 20

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GCN names 2015's top tech solutions - Washington Technology. Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. Video: Apps to Train Your Brain - Nextgov. Another lawsuit for OPM, Ashley Madison's government customers and more - FCW.com.

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Tech Moves: GameStop hires more Amazon execs; Twitch COO joins Karat board; CEO of Washington STEM steps down; Big Fish HR chief joins Qumulo

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As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. GameStop hired two other Amazon execs in April, bringing on Chief Growth Officer Elliott Wilke and COO Jenna Owners. Rachael Granby (Karat Photo). The company raised $28 million in 2019.

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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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. — Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Gopuff, a Philadelphia on-demand delivery service for convenience store items, hired two new executives in the Seattle region: Tim Collins as SVP of operations. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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Tech Moves: Bill-Gates backed Kymeta adds new co-CEOs; ex-Zillow exec joins Roofstock board

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. — Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Founded in 2015, Optimize sells an end-to-end monitoring service used by customers including independent practices, hospital systems, and more. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. It raised $15.6