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Tech Moves: AI2 Incubator hires new managing director; Goldman Sachs director joins Dropbox; Marchex adds CFO

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Zhang co-founded Loftium in 2017. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture. based Cyan.

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

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Widner, a board member at Lighter, most recently served as managing partner at the venture capital arm of the National Australia Bank. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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Founded in Provo, Utah, Qualtrics employs more than 3,300 people and established a co-headquarters in Seattle in 2017. ” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based

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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: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Shahar Ronen has joined Remitly as principal product manager for the Seattle startup’s new banking service called Passbook. He will be based in Seattle. Eric Emans.

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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. Wang helped launch Boundless in 2017. Impinj went public in 2016. As of March, there were 388,908 cases in the U.S.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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She has worked for Qualtrics, which has dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, since 2017. “The technology changes all the time. .” GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. “I’m not done,” she said.

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