Mason, a Seattle startup that offers a hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.
Stevens is the former COO at Docker and previously held exec roles at Carta, Qualtrics, and Avalara. He replaces current CEO Nancy Xiao, who will become president.
Thimsen is the former CTO of Qualtrics and previously worked at Amazon as a founding member of the Amazon Echo team.
Mason serves customers in healthcare, life sciences, retail, and other verticals. It focuses on data collection use cases, such as clinical trials or remote patient monitoring.
“John and Webb’s decades of enterprise platform experience and leadership expertise scaling transformational companies will take us to new heights, starting with meeting the massive demand for Mason’s products in healthcare,” Xiao said in a statement.
Xiao became CEO in 2021, taking over for her brother, Jim, who founded the company in 2016 and remains at Mason as a partner. Mason raised a $25 million Series A round in 2019.
Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest:
— Christopher Peake, a longtime former Zappos leader who was most recently a merchandise director at Zulily, joined Beyond, the Utah-based company that recently acquired Zulily’s brand, as director of merchandising.
— Seattle tech vet Brooke Shepard launched his own B2B services business that aims to work directly with founders and senior leaders. Shepard previously was an exec at Salesforce, Tableau, and Weber Shandwick.
— Idaho-based 3D printing startup Continuous Composites named Steve Starner as CEO. Starner joined the company last year as its chief revenue officer. He previously worked at Velo3D and Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence.
— Seattle-based venture fund First Row Partners hired Kayla Renz as chief of staff. She was previously a compliance leader at Flexport.
— Seattle healthcare startup Rippl added Joe Chung as CTO and head of AI. Chung founded Kinto, which was acquired by Rippl this week.
— Seattle fintech startup Upwardli hired Justin Chukumba as head of sales. Chukumba was previously a sales manager at Stripe and Plaid.
— James Sanders joined semiconductor analysis firm TechInsights as a senior analyst. Sanders previously worked for CCS Insight, 451 Research, and CBS Interactive.
— The Oregon UAS Accelerator named Joseph Wyno as its new executive director. Wyno previously was director at Octane’s LaunchPad SBDC Accelerator.
