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

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F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer. Adaptive previously hired Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives” for the businesses.

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Tech Moves: AI2 Incubator hires new managing director; Goldman Sachs director joins Dropbox; Marchex adds CFO

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Yifan Zhang speaks at the 2018 State of Technology Luncheon on June 1, 2018 in Seattle. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering.

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Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

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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. Jeff Yurcisin , a former Amazon executive and Shopbop CEO, took over as CEO in 2018 after Cavens stepped down from the role. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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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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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

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

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He was most recently CFO at RSA Security. 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.

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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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.