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

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The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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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. chief research officer Leslie Wood. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv

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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.

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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. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. The company currently has 114 employees, up from 80 two months ago.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

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NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. The new fund provides investments to companies participating in the accelerator and also makes direct investments. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer.

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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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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. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure.

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