GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

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. Bacos will be responsible for the company’s digital execution and strategy. (Frontdoor Photo). Memphis, Tenn.-based Emily Parkhurst. PSBJ Photo).

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JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. The company, which sold a wall-mounted mirror that streams workout classes, was acquired by Lululemon for $500 million in 2020.

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JUNE 9, 2021

It’s not clear exactly why Greco, Vlietstra, and Lundmark are leaving the company. But Insider says Greco disagreed with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson — who replaced co-founder Rony Abovitz last year — over a choice to move the software division out of the CTO’s purview.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s CEO and founder, dropped out of MIT to start the company. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. Expedia Group Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. The company raised $28 million in 2019. It tripled the size of its enterprise client based in 2020. Rachael Granby (Karat Photo). He previously worked at Procter & Gamble.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo. In the three years Xu led SAP’s AI initiatives, the company introduced AI technologies to many of its products, including tools for supply chain planning , expense management , customer experience , and online commerce.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Postulka is an example of a boomerang IT leader — professionals who leave a company, gain experience elsewhere, and then return in a higher tech leadership position. These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Moonstone Bank , formerly known as Farmington State Bank, said in a statement that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research trading firm has less than a 10% stake in its parent company, with no board seats and no direct involvement in management. The New York Times reported Nov. Moonstone Bank’s reputation as well.”

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. The software works behind-the-scenes to ensure that the code powering a company’s business processes across various microservices remains safe and preserved. “Temporal is one of the most promising software companies,” Muglia said in a statement.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

None of the companies have female co-founders or CEOs. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. Spoiler alert : Before reading any further, take a moment and see if you can name all 10 startup companies valued at $1 billion or more in the Seattle area?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The workforce cuts and real estate footprint reduction are tied to a change in the company’s customer service model, as well as “running a more efficient business overall and speeding our path to profitability,” CEO Dan Lewis wrote on LinkedIn Thursday. The company, ranked No. billion valuation. trucking industry.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2023

acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting company Bridge. Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The technology taps into a company’s network of cameras to gather real-time data.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2020

Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. .” “Companies that are intentionally designing and optimizing the experiences they provide are pulling ahead.

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APRIL 26, 2022

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. The company is awesome and has such phenomenal loyalty from its customer base. This was pretty egregious for a billion-dollar company,” he says.

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MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Write to us if you have news to share.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S. tallied $388 billion in 2020, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO. The value of its contracts with hospitals and health systems grew by 450% in 2021. million.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Littlepage was most recently senior vice president of marketing at cybersecurity company Tenable. Outreach’s former CMO Margaret Arakawa left the company in December. He was previously a financial executive at public software companies Digital River and Lawson Software. based Concur. Kane McCord. ShelfEngine Photo).

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JULY 15, 2021

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2021

What Valve’s top Steam titles of 2020 say about the state of video games. The cost of an Uber trip in Seattle will jump about 24% starting Friday as the ride-hailing company is raising its prices in response to a new law requiring drivers to be paid the city’s minimum wage. Most popular stories on GeekWire.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

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JULY 7, 2015

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI instead saves time by building a summary document after listening to the call. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The 8-person company is led by former Expedia director David Krieger. Former Expedia director David Krieger is the founder of Onder , a Seattle company that provides a twice-yearly inspection and digital platform to create a checklist for home maintenance and upkeep. Onder CEO and founder David Krieger.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

His mental and physical health were impacted, and he had less time to spend with his wife and two children. Since launching his company in August 2018, Kumar had faced one challenge after another: the pandemic, an economic slowdown, and eventually his own fatigue. GEEKWIRE AWARDS: Meet the five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Krause left Canoo in June 2020 before it merged with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and became listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Strickland and Charbonneau did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Canoo did not respond to a request for comment.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2021

Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. The accelerator has graduated more than 100 companies over the past decade. Read on to learn more about each company.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. contract management startup Icertis.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

National data services managed by CSPs are taking root in global hyperscalers’ clouds as the result of a ruling on European data in July 2020, called. The European Court of Justice ruled that the EU-US Data Protection Shield, which allowed companies to transfer data between the US and the EU in compliance with. Schrems II.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

Seattle-area tech companies and personalities from across the community joined in condemning Tuesday’s attack and the surge in hate crimes. The response is similar to the way companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and others reacted last summer in the days and weeks following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

Companies will be required to publish real numbers about sustainability across the supply chain—and much of the data will come from IT procurement.” Scope 1 is on direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by an organization, including emissions from company-owned power generators.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

. — Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. Michael Morgan (left) and Preston Woo. Ossia Photos). Chris Garvey.

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