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Tech Moves: Payscale adds president and CTO; Factor appoints CEO; and more

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Payscale Photos) — Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. Minh Le , previously a Silicon Valley Bank leader in the Seattle area, joined Stifel Bank as managing director.

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Bank downplays ties to FTX sister company in latest fallout from crypto exchange failure

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A bank in rural Washington state sought to distance itself from FTX on Tuesday following a report last week detailing its connections to the failed cryptocurrency exchange. The New York Times reported Nov. 23 that FBH, the parent company of Farmington State Bank, received $11.5 Moonstone Bank’s reputation as well.”

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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. The advisory council currently has 14 members including Microsoft Tech for Social Impact CTO Erik Arnold ; Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf; and King County CIO Tanya Hannah.

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‘Boomerang’ CIOs: IT leaders level up by coming back

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Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. But in 2022, after two years at the bank, Postulka returned to Arbella as vice president and CIO. Moving to Loftware “was an opportunity to go retool this other team.”

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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Seattle area boasts 10 fast-growing unicorns: Can you name the billion dollar startups?

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And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2020 : Salesforce Ventures leads $120M round in Auth0 as pandemic fuels Seattle-area startup’s identity tech.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. She continued to serve on Axiom’s board through 2020 but stepped down this month. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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