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

GeekWire

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. 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: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo).

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. A Microsoft alum, Grant has worked as a consultant and is a former Zillow director of product marketing. Sajo Jacob.

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

GeekWire

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. . Rubenstein spent more than five years as regional vice president of marketing cloud sales for Salesforce.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global head of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Let me add: Amazon appeared to be taking steps backward instead of forward.”.