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

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. He left in 2017 to launch San Francisco, Calif.-based

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. Amazon veteran Stephen Curial joined Jungle Scout as CTO.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Puppet CEO Yvonne Wassenaar joined the board of data security startup Rubrik. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7

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DoD gives $1.1M to Seattle startup that will help find new antibodies against COVID-19 variants

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million sub-contract awarded to the biotech company by the U.S. The data will be used to refine models for predicting which antibody sequences are likely to stick tightly to current variants and ones that may arise in the future. The partnership is powered by a $1.1 Department of Defense.

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

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Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. contract management startup Icertis.