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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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Customer data platform Amperity adds marketing and HR execs from F5, RealWear

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Deals are taking longer and there are more hoops to jump through to get contracts signed. Amperity competes against a bevy of other customer data platforms from companies such as Segment, which was acquired by Twilio; Adobe; Salesforce; Oracle; and other startups such as Lytics. Barry Padgett. Amperity Photo).

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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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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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

You need to know where the data’s coming from, how it’s transformed, and what the outputs are,” says Nick Amabile, CEO at DAS42, a data consulting firm. As companies mature in their understanding and use of gen AI, they’ll have to put safeguards in place, says Juan Orlandini, CTO, North America at Insight, a Tempe-based solution integrator.

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CIOs confront generative AI’s workplace X factor

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At CES this week, Accenture released a public statement that generative AI tools are more “human by design,” pointing to refined conversational user interfaces, robots that respond to English commands, and software that augments how humans work naturally, such as Adobe Photoshop’s Generative Fill and Expand features.

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