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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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Convoy is one of a handful of privately-held companies in the Seattle region valued at more than $1 billion, raising $400 million at a $2.7 billion valuation in November 2019. Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. trucking industry.

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

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Amazon Web Services vice president Raju Gulabani departed last month, as reported by The Information. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. His appointment expands the Seattle-based company’s board from ten to 11 members. Joseph Williams.

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Selipsky oversaw the company’s acquisition by Salesforce for $15.7

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

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The cloud arm of Google, which competes with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, boosted its operating profits to $395 million, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv chief research officer Leslie Wood.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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

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In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 billion in November 2019. The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. based Puppet since January 2019. billion private equity deal. Steve Shure.

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