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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. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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Tech Moves: Zillow exec Racquel Russell joins Bird’s board; new gig for startup vet Rebecca Lovell

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. — Microsoft’s M12 venture fund chief Nagraj Kashyap departed to join SoftBank’s Vision Fund as managing partner. Seattle-based Denali Financial Consulting appointed former Create33 executive director Rebecca Lovell as its new CEO. Thompson was most recently EVP of worldwide field operations at Adobe.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. When customers enter Adobe’s Creative Cloud, everything on their screen was developed by the Adobe product engineering team.

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Tech Moves: Qualtrics exec moves to Google; NHL Seattle expands team; former Amazon exec named Bluecrew CEO; and more

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Wood is co-founder and currently a partner at consultancy AirNote. He was a longtime member and former chairman of the Washington Technology Industry Association’s board of directors. Qumulo also recently hired Barry Russell as SVP and general manger of cloud and Michael Cornwell as chief technology officer.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

We dove into publicly available information and talked to a number of product managers and those who hire, supervise, and mentor them in order to get a sense of what you can expect in this job market — and how you can improve your prospects and your compensation if you’re working in this field. That can make a big difference in your paycheck.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Protecting access to sensitive data is just one part of the data governance picture. Testing will only show the presence of errors, not the absence,” says Martin Fix, technology director at Star, a technology consulting company. “AI

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If And we don’t just have our contracts team in place for the original signing, but also to review all the addendums they’re requesting, to make sure we’re protecting against any types of risk that can be inserted.”