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Amazon’s Ring names Xbox and Oculus vet Elizabeth Hamren as new CEO; founder Jamie Siminoff remains chief inventor

GeekWire

Five years after its acquisition by Amazon, smart doorbell and home security technology company Ring named a new CEO: Elizabeth (Liz) Hamren, a former executive in Meta’s Oculus division and Microsoft’s Xbox business, who was most recently chief operating officer for social messaging platform Discord.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

GeekWire

Speaking with GeekWire this week, Larson-Green said the time was right for the next phase of her life after helping Qualtrics get to its IPO by working to build key functions and teams including people operations, program management, data science and user experience. “The technology changes all the time. Read the story.

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GeekWire Awards: Cast your ballot for the top CEO

GeekWire

“My approach is to absorb as much data and inputs as I can, then synthesize and come to a decision or conclusion,” Lin told GeekWire in 2018. Each year is a different beast,” Pace told GeekWire in 2018 interview. “Usually my best ideas come from talking to many people and hearing multiple points of view.”

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OSIRIS-REx probe touches down to grab bits of an asteroid, with assist from Aerojet

GeekWire

Mission team members wore masks and tried to observe social distancing as a COVID-19 safety measure, but some hugged nevertheless. But after the probe’s arrival at Bennu in 2018 , they were surprised to find that the surface was more rugged than they expected. “The spacecraft did everything it was supposed to do.”

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Why this Oracle exec turned to academia to help climb the cloud career ladder

GeekWire

That opened something of an academic floodgate and Alfred has continued picking up degrees as he has climbed higher on the career ladder, including an MBA from MIT and his current pursuit of a PhD in engineering management. In January 2018, Alfred became senior director of compute operations at Oracle in Bellevue, Wash.,

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Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple

The Verge

If they did this to a customer, people would lose their goddamn minds,” says Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager. In 2018, the engineering team Ashley Gjøvik worked on was involved in a lawsuit. The lack of employee privacy has made the perceived hypocrisy particularly irksome to some workers.

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Tech Moves: B.C. startup Thinkific adds CMO from Hootsuite; Amplero founder departs Zulily

GeekWire

Based in Seattle, Campher was most recently VP of corporate marketing at social media management platform Hootsuite. 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.

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