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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft president joins Google Cloud as VP; iSpot hires research chief; and more

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(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. chief research officer Leslie Wood.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

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Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. . Rubenstein spent more than five years as regional vice president of marketing cloud sales for Salesforce.

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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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Aran Khanna is CEO of Reserved.ai , a Seattle startup offering software to automate cost management of companies cloud-related expenses. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure.

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We asked 24 startups in the new Techstars Seattle class about how AI is impacting their business

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The companies represent industries including healthcare, finance, culinary, advertising, robotics, and more. GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) AdsGency The pitch: A no-code platform to automate advertising workflows from ideation and content generation to performance monitoring and optimization. Others have AI embedded within the products.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

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When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global head of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Let me add: Amazon appeared to be taking steps backward instead of forward.”.