GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. The company has expanded its product selection over the past few years, including items from larger national brands. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. By 2018, the Trainline platform was hosting more than 80 million customer visits a month, with more than 80% coming through mobile devices.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Since retiring from Seattle-based Tableau in 2018, Fink has joined the board of directors at several startups including Qumulo and Pantheon. Ogisu was most recently EVP and chief people officer for multinational media company Viacom. based SnapAV.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

iMac with Apple Silicon , today’s most interesting speculation says the company is developing its own battery technology — and might introduce its own designs into mobile devices as soon as 2025. We know Apple has spent time on battery technology. While some might mourn news Apple won’t upgrade the 27-in. It makes sense.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. The company’s new CEO is Alex Hart. The company recently acquired CURO Compensation Ltd. Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. Sabrina Wu.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s not clear exactly why Greco, Vlietstra, and Lundmark are leaving the company. But Insider says Greco disagreed with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson — who replaced co-founder Rony Abovitz last year — over a choice to move the software division out of the CTO’s purview.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. D’Ambrosio-Correll joined home fitness startup Mirror in 2018 and led engineering. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s CEO and founder, dropped out of MIT to start the company. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. The company raised $95 million in 2021. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. William Johnson. Mika Yamamoto.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Founded in 2018 and spun out of Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs, Attunely crunches data related to debt records and consumer interaction history, in addition to other information such as macroeconomic trends, to produce a “score” for consumers who owe payment. The company has 16 employees and is hiring.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. .” “Companies that are intentionally designing and optimizing the experiences they provide are pulling ahead.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. “We’re currently hiring. “Seattle’s a great area to be building a company like this.” Radical Photo).

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. 31 was down 5% to $2.23 Elizabeth Solomon.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

Convoy co-founder Grant Goodale accepts the GeekWire Award when the startup was named Next Tech Titan in 2018. They started the company by hanging out at truck stops and getting kicked out of warehouses as they did market research when Convoy was just a kernel of an idea. “It’s practically my third child.”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A former vice president at REI, Garrard joined the Seattle company last year. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. The company is known for its advocacy and message of inclusivity. —

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

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. This category recognizes CEOs of Pacific Northwest technology companies with more than 100 employees. (The He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. “The formation of our Advisory Board marks a new way that we can provide value as a fund: tapping best-in-class industry experts from Microsoft to help inform our investment focus and to advise our portfolio companies,” said M12 General Manager Samir Kumar , in a post announcing the new board.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

His mental and physical health were impacted, and he had less time to spend with his wife and two children. Since launching his company in August 2018, Kumar had faced one challenge after another: the pandemic, an economic slowdown, and eventually his own fatigue. where Kumar was born. “I didn’t quite fit in.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Write to us if you have news to share.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. It focuses on pre-seed companies with capital-efficient business models and early signs of commercialization. agtech startup Verdi.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

None of the companies have female co-founders or CEOs. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. Spoiler alert : Before reading any further, take a moment and see if you can name all 10 startup companies valued at $1 billion or more in the Seattle area?

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

The company originally planned to hold the event in April, but has had to reschedule it until at least late May thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company held a similar event focused on self-driving technology in April 2019. Musk told investors and analysts earlier this year that the information “will blow your mind.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

After selling a startup and traveling around the world with his family, Aaron Bird set out to build the next great Seattle tech company. And thus the creation of Seattle-based Pienza , the latest entry in a growing cadre of startup studios that aim to make the company-building process more efficient. But it was hard picking just one.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The European Court of Justice ruled that the EU-US Data Protection Shield, which allowed companies to transfer data between the US and the EU in compliance with. The CLOUD Act of 2018. ” Both Orange and T-Systems stress their national data services will be part of the Gaia-X ecosystem, which is currently in development.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Krause and some of the other executives who co-founded Canoo — which was then called Evelozcity — were sued by Faraday Future for poaching employees and allegedly stealing trade secrets , though the lawsuit was settled in late 2018. Canoo did not respond to a request for comment.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018. Stahlkopf will replace former Cisco Chief Legal Officer Mark Chandler who retired in May after 25 years with the networking technology company. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

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. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. Aaron Kornblum.

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Cloud Musings

MAY 28, 2018

seconds (as of May 28, 2018) when you search for cloud computing in a Google search. CIOs are stating that cloud skills are a top hiring priority in 2018. Transformation requires a new approach that balances cost and technology choices with company direction and client consumption models. What do we need to stay relevant?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“I was able to see that the breadth of technologies I could use in education was small compared to the tech that could help global private-sector companies,” she says. Koinig is among the rising ranks of women IT leaders making their mark as the first women to hold their executive positions within their companies.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Seattle company raised more than $300 million and went public within a year of its launch, ultimately selling for more than $9 billion in 2018 to Celgene. All these companies are based in the Seattle region or have operations there. company GRAIL, prior to its acquisition for $8 billion. Spawning new companies.

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