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. “I’ve spent my career supporting game developers, first on the creative side, then with backend services at PlayFab, and most recently at Microsoft,” Gwertzman wrote on LinkedIn.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. The company launched in 2018 and earlier this year closed a $50 million Series C round.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Hill most recently led business development and strategy for Microsoft News in North America and Asia.

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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). Chicago, Ill.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ketelsen joined in July 2022 and was a principal developer advocate. 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. William Johnson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. He led corporate development at Twilio for the past five years. Chris Emerson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

which Orange will develop with Cap Gemini and run on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The CLOUD Act of 2018. ” In Germany, Google and T-Systems will jointly develop sovereign cloud solutions and infrastructure. T-Systems will provide all sovereignty dimensions around data and operational software.”

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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. He was previously a senior software engineer at EMC. —

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2018.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Another heavily-funded Seattle-based startup, sales engagement software provider Outreach, announced plans to open a New York City office led by David Rubinstein. O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development.

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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. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Gilbert is a co-founder of PSL Studio.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018. He is currently SVP of strategic development, growth and sales at technical services firm Jacobs. Seattle sales software startup Outreach, now valued at $4.4 Vlad Melnik as vice president of global business development and partnerships.

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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. I wanted my work to be meaningful.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2023

. “What’s interesting is that Groopit is in a position to combine the power of automated intelligence, with real-time human intelligence, in ways that have not yet been done,” Savage said. The players: Savage founded the startup in 2018 after spending more than two decades at Microsoft in various management roles.

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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But so far, CSPs have mainly used internally developed and/or proprietary APIs in their NaaS implementations, which limits their ability to partner. The operator was instrumental in the development of. released in October 2018 and the NaaS Open API Component Suite released in 2019. What is NaaS?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CEO Nathan Kundtaz previously served as Kymeta’s CEO, however the role remained vacant after his departure in 2018. Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Rendered.AI Todd Haedrich. Optimize Health Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Oregon Venture Fund Partner Scott Sandler left his full-time role at the Oregon and southwest Washington-focused investment firm. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. He is also a Hootsuite alum and was director of software development for the social media management tool after it acquired Brightkit, which McGuire co-founded. Downs left the Seattle startup in 2018. Chris McGuire. Thinkific Photo). Tony Small.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The most obvious answer is pay a premium for the best talent, or hire consultants with modern skills. How can you address the skills gap if you can’t afford to hire a bunch of new employees? Don’t assume you’re safe because you have the best cybersecurity software. How can you address this challenge?

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia , a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. Jay Inslee in July 2018.

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In one email, Zuckerberg told Facebook’s former CTO that “ that he had “been thinking about. Americans simply don’t want Congress to break Google’s products or harm the free services they use every day,” read a statement in part from Julie McAlister, a spokesperson for Google. It’s unclear to me why this should not be illegal.”.

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