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GeekWire Awards: Cast your ballot for the top CEO

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

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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

Employees have been asked to install software builds on their phones to test out new features prior to launch — only to find the builds expose their personal messages. If they did this to a customer, people would lose their goddamn minds,” says Ashley Gjøvik, a senior engineering program manager.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Previously, he led the design, planning, implementation and delivery of IT managed services, cloud and security services, data centre and disaster recovery services at NTT. He has also worked with Reliance Communications, Global Tele-Systems, Mahindra Consulting, and Microtech Software and Consultants. November 2021.

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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. Tony Small. Wiliot Photo). —

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Chess Club is making all the right moves in Seattle, attracting players to lively venues across the city

GeekWire

Now a program manager at Microsoft, the younger Raftery started Chess Club with a small group of friends while living on Capitol Hill in 2018. ” The bars set aside some dedicated space for chess players and try to create an equilibrium for those who are there to do traditional bar stuff — drink, eat, socialize.

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Apple’s fortress of secrecy is crumbling from the inside

The Verge

The overarching desire — the thing that connects the tenured software engineer in Cupertino with the retail employee in New Jersey — is that employees want to feel heard. Steve Jobs was so adamant about keeping his workforce under wraps that he removed all the names from the ‘About’ boxes on the software when he returned to Apple in 1997.

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