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

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F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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AWS vets lead new startup that aims to connect workers with nonprofits through ‘volunteerism’

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The Field Day team, left to right: co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jason LaPier, engineer Garrett Sparks, engineer Trevor Smith, marketing and community lead Catalin Wong, and co-founder and CEO Eli Blackman. Employers and nonprofits will be able to share feedback with each other on the experience.

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Salesforce chief Marc Benioff and Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke invest in reforestation startup DroneSeed

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DroneSeed CEO Grant Canary, left, and Chief Technology Officer Ben Reilly holding drones used for reseeding land damaged by wildfire. timber companies, nonprofits, government agencies and family-owned forests. Ben Reilly is DroneSeed’s chief technology officer. DroneSeed Photo).

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Tech Moves: Pathable founder joins vanlife app; Opanga Networks taps Seattle telecom vet as CEO

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Brodman previously spent more than a decade at T-Mobile, holding positions as CMO and CTO. Brodman has been on Opanga’s board since 2015. Dr. Sunita Mishra , chief medical officer of Amazon Health Services , joined the board of URAC , a healthcare accreditation nonprofit. Aylin Caliskan.

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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. Video: Apps to Train Your Brain - Nextgov. Another lawsuit for OPM, Ashley Madison's government customers and more - FCW.com. Here Are the Best TSA Yelp Reviews - Nextgov.

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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. In 2015, he briefly left the e-commerce giant for a stint at Uber where he was VP of global community operations. Cartwright was most recently VP of technology at AMMEX Corporation, a PPE manufacturer. Read the story.

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OpenAI taps Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear as interim CEO

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OpenAI shocked the tech industry Friday when its board announced that Altman was out as CEO of the company he helped start in 2015. Reports indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove Brockman as chairman.

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