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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Expedia Group lays off 36 workers as part of broader cuts

GeekWire

Consultation with local employee representatives, where applicable, will occur before making any final decisions.” After peaking at more than 25,000 employees in 2019, the company employed 14,800 people as of 2021, following a restructuring just prior to the pandemic.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

GeekWire

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. is a natural language data platform to help admissions and human resources teams review applicants. Seattle, Wash.-based

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UW spinout Overland AI raises $10M for off-road self-driving tech used by U.S. military

GeekWire

Last month Overland announced that it won a two-year contract worth up to $18.6 Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S. Speaking at the GeekWire Summit last year, Boots recounted how self-driving technology’s roots started with military-related applications.

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Tech Moves: Wyze names first CFO; OutSystems exec relocates to Seattle; Flying Fish adds partner

GeekWire

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . After going public in 2016, Apptio went through a private equity buyout in 2019. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc. Kris Beason.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive CFO to resign; Meta comms exec departs; AI vet joins Absci board; new Zymeworks CEO

GeekWire

Principal accounting officer Kyle Piskel will serve as interim CFO after Cohen resigns. Cohen will work with Piskel and Adaptive in a consulting capacity during the transition, as Adaptive searches for a permanent CFO. Sirosh is currently CTO of real estate platform company Compass. That’s compared to $98.4 Vancouver, Wash.-based