GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. Since retiring from Seattle-based Tableau in 2018, Fink has joined the board of directors at several startups including Qumulo and Pantheon. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. Kindel joined Control4 in 2018 as SVP of products and services.

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JUNE 29, 2023

The longtime Seattle tech vet was part of the leadership teams during the acquisitions of Tableau by Salesforce for $15.7 billion in 2018. Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month.

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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. “The

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

million, five-year contract from NASA to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies for aircraft, and has branched out to build hydrogen fuel cells as well as electric motors. ” Riona Armesmith discusses Rolls-Royce’s role in the E-Fan X project in a 2018 video. By mid-2020, the project was canceled. I like electronics.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We know Apple has spent time on battery technology. In 2018, it hired Soonho Ahn , Samsung’s senior vice president, next generation batteries and materials innovation. Ahn stayed on as the Global Head of Battery Developments for three years before taking a new post as CTO of Volkswagen’s battery division. It makes sense.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. The company is now remote-first and hiring in the Seattle region.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. 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. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Founded in Seattle in 2012, Actively Learn was acquired in 2018 by New Jersey educational technology company Achieve3000. He will start in September. Procurify Photos).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. “As we grow our team, we will do so without being limited by location.”

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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. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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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

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. Radical Photo). Seattle-based Radical says it has raised $4.5

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Acquired by SAP for $8 billion in 2018, Qualtrics filed to go public in December at a valuation up to $14.4 Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based Chris Emerson.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. Seattle cybersecurity startup Zatik Security announced Zack Glick as its third founder and CTO.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. . He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tech leader and Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov to lead Cervest Board of Directors. Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant.

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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. “I leave for work before my family wakes up, so I’m very protective of what little time I get with them when I get home.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Greco and Vlietstra have both been at the company since 2013; Greco was the company’s VP of hardware before being named CTO in 2020 , and Vlietstra was named COO in 2018. Most of Vlietstra and Lundmark’s responsibilities are reportedly shifting to other executives at Magic Leap.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. Meyerson spent 15 years leading Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin, leaving the company in 2018. based startup Legwork, which creates software for the dental industry, hired Alex Cuevas as its chief operation officer and newest member of the executive team. million in September.

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CTOvision

JUNE 4, 2014

Defense Information Systems Agency Strategic Plan 2013-2018 (ctovision.com). DISA Awards MDM/MAS Contract to Team DMI (fedcyber.com). CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Mobile Android Apple Application Store BlackBerry DISA iOS samsung' Security a Priority in DOD Move to Mobile Devices (defense.gov).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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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. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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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. GEEKWIRE AWARDS: Meet the five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Mehta joined PSL in 2018 from ExtraHop Networks, where she was CFO. F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer. F5 Networks Photos). —

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The CLOUD Act of 2018. “The set-up and management of the Sovereign Cloud will be familiar to our cloud customers, with T-Systems remaining the contract partner,” according to the spokesperson. Indeed, earlier this year, T-Systems CTO Maximilian Ahrens was named Chairman of the Gaia-X board of directors.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Qualtrics, which has been adding to its executive ranks through a series of hires , is expected to split Larson-Green’s role as chief experience officer among other leaders for now. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Information about Tesla’s next-generation batteries has steadily trickled out over the last year or so thanks to the experts Musk hired and their public works, like patents, academic papers, and university presentations. The group has been funded by Tesla since 2016 , according to Reuters.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2018.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

To put that number in perspective, that compares to a grand total of $2 billion that every Washington startup — 175 in total — raised in all of 2018. Icertis CEO Samir Bodas on stage after winning “Deal of the Year” honors at the GeekWire Awards 2018. Industry : Sales contract management software. Founded: 2012.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

He was lured back to gaming to work on the Intellivision Amico, a new game console with a retro look and feel first announced in 2018 and intended to make gaming a family friendly affair again. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Bird, who sold Bizible to Marketo in April 2018 , is founding partner of Pienza, which just raised $5.1 Other members of the Pienza team include Vivek Venugopalan , CTO-in-residence who previously co-founded Fantain and was an exec at Wipro Limited, and Mark Sugarman , founding partner at MHS Capital who sits on the Pienza board.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there. Prior to working for the Redmond tech giant, Ollmann was CTO at NCC Group, IOActive and Damballa. He left Microsoft this month after four years.

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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. Scott Goessling is the COO/CTO for Burstorm , and he helped create the world’s first automated Cloud Solution Design platform. 240 million results are returned in 1.06

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“I like thinking about how to stabilize, secure, and scale the organization at a foundational level, to really implement innovation,” she says, noting that her perspective made her a better fit for the CIO position rather than a CTO role with its focus on products.

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