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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. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” He will continue to support the program as a co-founder.

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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Her pitch laid the groundwork for a pilot program in which Gusto covered the cost of a seven-month, full-time bootcamp while continuing to pay McGrath a salary and maintain her benefits and vesting. I had seen others leave to learn software engineering and not come back, which is why we advocated for this program.”.

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As mental health needs surge, this Seattle startup offers AI-powered analysis of therapy sessions

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In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. The startup has a dozen customers, primarily university programs that train counselors and therapists. Evergreen Treatment Services , a Puget Sound-area opioid treatment program, is one of Lyssn’s customers.

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. A global health organization, PATH has more than 1,600 employees and offices across 20 countries. He was most recently head of technology at the company.

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

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. — Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based based patent holding and technology company’s Invention Investment Fund. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders.

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

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Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. During the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House’s national STEM program. He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Icertis is valued at $2.8

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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Stephanie Strong is the founder and CEO of Boulder Care, an app-based addiction treatment program for those suffering from opioid use disorder. Auth0 was co-founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace , who formerly ran the patterns and practices group at Microsoft, and Matias Woloski , a software engineer who remains the company’s CTO.

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