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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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He previously co-founded Prevoty, which was acquired by Imperva in 2018, and led technology efforts at BBC and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Adaptive previously hired Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives” for the businesses. Both new execs will hold executive vice president titles.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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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. Mónica Guzmán.

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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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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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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. — 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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Tech Moves: Bill-Gates backed Kymeta adds new co-CEOs; ex-Zillow exec joins Roofstock board

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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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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO. Merida Merger Corp.