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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. Saty Bahadur.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” ” Wang, who is in his early 20s, dropped out of MIT to found Scale AI in 2016. Scale AI Photo).

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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” (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is making a big new investment in OpenAI , the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, extending a partnership that has the potential to reshape some of its biggest products. Microsoft is one of many tech companies that have made layoffs in recent weeks and months.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

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office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees. Gauthey most recently was the global field lead for Amazon Web Services artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. He is currently on an extended leave from Starbucks which began in 2019, according to the Seattle Times. (Sweetgreen Photo). Michael Morgan (left) and Preston Woo.

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