GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Lexion announced this week that it will be acquired by Docusign in a $165 million deal, marking a successful exit for the Seattle startup co-founded by Oberoi in 2018. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen.

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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. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said.

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GeekWire

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. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. . Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. The Seattle startup closed a $3 million Series A round in 2018.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark — are reportedly leaving in the coming months. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. He will help identify founders and technologies for the firm in the space, cloud computing and cybersecurity industries. Meyerson spent 15 years leading Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin, leaving the company in 2018. He is currently the founder and CEO of consultancy Delalune Space.

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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. David Zager is now a partner and chief design officer for PSL Studio. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. com CEO Jay Westerdal is a senior venture partner.

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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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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. Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Industry : Hiring and recruiting .

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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

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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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The CLOUD Act of 2018. Indeed, a raft of legal questions around the use of public cloud are presenting obstacles to telcos, according to Mattias Fridström, Chief Evangelist, Telia Carrier, speaking during Telecom TV’s. was invalid because of concerns around surveillance by US state and law enforcement agencies.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

. — After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal officer. She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018. Neil Amrhein as vice president of value consulting. He left Microsoft this month after four years.

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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. Reverb Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She retired from that position in 2020.

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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

. — Nintex Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Dustin Grosse stepped down from the Bellevue, Wash.-based A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One group getting owned can also cause problems — in 2018, hackers were able to hijack requests to Amazon’s DNS and steal thousands of dollars in Ethereum by compromising a separate ISP’s BGP servers. Sure was fishy timing on that outage given all the bad Facebook news, huh? BGP is sometimes called the duct tape of the internet.

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Vox

JANUARY 11, 2023

The survey results came around the time that rumors of layoffs started to swirl and the company had instituted a hiring freeze. After the tech giant aggressively hired more than 27,000 employees in 2020 and 2021 combined, it had over 80,000 employees before its November layoffs. You are down 71.1%

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios speaks at the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Tech Prom in 2018. White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios ?— has himself been enlisted for another role as the Defense Department’s top official for technology.

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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? Now, this doesn’t mean you need a physical structure or need to hire a bunch of new people.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Parler, which has been around since 2018, looks at first glance a lot like Twitter and Facebook. Based in Nevada, the company behind Parler is run primarily by two people: Matze and Jared Thomson, who serves as CTO. Jeffrey Wernick, a bitcoin enthusiast and early Airbnb investor , serves as the company’s chief operating officer.

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Vox

JANUARY 7, 2021

Parler, an app and website that promises free speech online, has been around since 2018. Based in Nevada, the company behind Parler is run primarily by two people: Matze and Jared Thomson, who serves as CTO. Jeffrey Wernick, a bitcoin enthusiast and early Airbnb investor , serves as the company’s chief operating officer.

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In one email, Zuckerberg told Facebook’s former CTO that “ that he had “been thinking about. The report cites a slew of internal emails, memos, and testimony from senior-level Facebook employees, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which support the argument that Facebook crushed Instagram by exerting monopoly power.

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