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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

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(Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Tech Moves: GameStop hires more Amazon execs; Twitch COO joins Karat board; CEO of Washington STEM steps down; Big Fish HR chief joins Qumulo

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The company raised $28 million in 2019. Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Jones became CEO in August 2019. Collin Davis , who previously founded Alexa For Business at Amazon, was appointed as CTO of Pindrop, a voice security service.

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

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He was most recently CFO at RSA Security. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Mónica Guzmán is now director of digital and storytelling at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America.

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. Melina Garcia , an attorney at Seattle-based Davis Wright Tremaine LLP specializing in data privacy and security. . Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru.

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

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He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. Former ReachNow CEO Steve Banfield announced his next venture as CEO and co-founder of Simplata Technologies , a new Madrona Venture Labs spinout that aims to protect sensitive company data in cloud apps. Snohomish, Wash.-based

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

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In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals. Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible.