The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Oculus Go, originally released in 2018. The move was announced by Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack , who stepped down from his full-time role as CTO in 2019 to focus on his work as an independent AI researcher. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) September 24, 2021. “We

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2021

“This is the first satellite LeoStella has delivered to a customer other than BlackSky,” Brian Rider, LeoStella’s chief technology officer, told GeekWire in an email. Inside the satellite factory: How LeoStella uses software to track spacecraft hardware. for satellite design and assembly. .”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software using AI and machine learning. Sajo Jacob. Jeremy Ung.

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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. Valuation : $3.96

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. In 2016, she co-founded Integris, a data privacy startup, which was acquired by privacy software giant OneTrust in June. He will help identify founders and technologies for the firm in the space, cloud computing and cybersecurity industries. . • VP and Distinguished Engineer Saurabh Tiwary.

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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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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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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. . T-Systems will provide all sovereignty dimensions around data and operational software.”

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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. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., Icertis is valued at $2.8

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Over the past year and a half, many have found a way not only to continue providing critical connectivity and other services to customers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, but also sharpen their purpose and make headway on major overhauls of their businesses, technology, and operations.That was one of the main takeaways from the first week of the.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. — Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. She was previously vice president of research at Juno Therapeutics, which was acquired by Celgene in 2018.

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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. Seattle sales software startup Outreach, now valued at $4.4 Outreach Photos). Damon Corey.

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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. Former Lighthouse CEO David Rostov joined Seattle biotech company CorneaGen as its chief financial officer. . • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

The right response will vary between software companies and those in retail or consumer sales. In the wake of the pandemic, Gillis’ workforce contracted from 380 employees to 115. Neu CEO Kwame Boler during his GeekWire Elevator Pitch at the Space Needle in Seattle in 2018. Catering was hardest hit.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael Petrochuk.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

They may be tapping different people,” said Ben Williams, global CXO of the innovation consulting agency R/GA, who has worked with brands including Nike, Equinox, and SoulCycle on designing connected fitness products and services. create a bigger market for mass in-home fitness tools,” says R/GA EVP and global CTO Nick Coronges.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. She was previously senior director of technology and product at T-Mobile and a consultant at Slalom Consulting. Seattle and Herndon, Va.

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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. Founded in 2016, CityBldr makes software that analyzes zoning and land data to assess properties redevelopment potential. Rendered.AI Todd Haedrich. Optimize Health Photo). based startup CityBldr. Aylin Caliskan. (UW

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Kelly-Rae left Amazon in September after just 10 months; she is now focused exclusively on a consulting business she founded 20 years ago, Chanin Kelly-Rae Consulting. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle. She told me when I was at Amazon longer, then I could talk to her,” Kelly-Rae told Recode.

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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. The recent news cycle has been flooded with organizations from airlines to banks and hospitals, even entire local governments, falling victim to ransomware attacks,” says Alan Conboy, office of the CTO at Scale Computing.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Kelly-Rae left Amazon in September after just 10 months; she is now focused exclusively on a consulting business she founded 20 years ago, Chanin Kelly-Rae Consulting. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle. She told me when I was at Amazon longer, then I could talk to her,” Kelly-Rae told Recode.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As we’re still in the early days of 2018, let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year. In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. Going into 2018, it’s now a necessity to devote a larger portion of IT budgets to network security expenses,” explains Douglas.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. Roberts: All the research we have done -- both myself and fellow security consult all science and research In this area from retired retired pilots and Engineers and other individuals indicates otherwise.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

and plans to add an office in Seattle. The four-year old company provides software to connect patients, therapists and insurance companies. Davidson was most recently an executive at digital product design platform InVision, which he joined in 2018. He spent almost a decade at Isilon Systems as director of engineering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

During keynotes and discussions with CIOs, I remind everyone how strategic priorities evolve significantly every two years or less, from growth in 2018, to pandemic and remote work in 2020, to hybrid work and financial constraints in 2022. First, CIOs should evaluate how ChatGPT and other generative AIs impact coding and software development.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

Three years later, FirstNet has less than 100 full-time employees, does not have a permanent executive director and – odd for a technology company – does not have a permanent chief technology officer. It is likely to be 2018 – six years after FirstNet was created – before the network implements anywhere.

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In one email, Zuckerberg told Facebook’s former CTO that “ that he had “been thinking about. According to the Democrats’ report on Tuesday, Apple exerts monopoly power through its oversight of software that’s downloaded on half of all mobile phones in the US. that are building networks that are competitive with our own.” .

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