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

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.” — 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. He left in 2017 to launch San Francisco, Calif.-based based Behavox as its first chief product officer.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

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: Facebook engineering lead joins gaming unicorn Playco; Bright.md names new CEO

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. — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Instant Games provides mobile friendly games that users can play via Facebook’s news feed or Messenger.

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

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She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Ries was most recently general manager of demand generation at contract management startup Icertis. He was most recently head of technology at the company.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

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

GeekWire

Allard has been leading a Seattle-based startup called Project 529 , a mobile registration database system that works to curb bicycle theft. billion merger with T-Mobile closed. billion merger with T-Mobile closed. Seattle HR consultancy firm Reverb announced Vanessa Brewster Laughlin as an advisor. Reverb Photo).

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5 lessons that CIOs learned in 2017

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

What are the most important lessons that IT leaders and CIOs learned (or should have learned) in 2017? In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. The 2017 Ponemon “ Cost of Data Breach Study ” found that the average cost of a data breach is $3.62

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