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Tech Moves: Workday CIO joins Tanium board; Madrona investor departs; City of Seattle hires CTO

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Founded in 2007, Tanium moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Seattle at the end of 2020. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — The City of Seattle announced Thursday it hired Rob Lloyd as its interim CTO and director of the IT department.

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

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Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. 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.

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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

GeekWire

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. By mid-2020, the project was canceled. … You don’t become a CTO without being a bit of a nerd,” she says with a laugh.

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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. Farras previously spent more than 14 years at jobs platform Indeed, most recently as chief revenue officer.

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EV startup Canoo loses chief technology officer and two co-founders

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EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder.

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Tech Moves: Flexe CTO departs; Impinj names chief innovation officer; and more

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— David Glick left his position as chief technology officer of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe. Prior to Flexe, Glick spent almost two decades at Amazon and was VP of Amazon’s transportation and fulfillment technologies. David Glick. Flexe Photo).

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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