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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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(Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur also worked at Microsoft for a decade years and helped develop the Windows mobile operating system.

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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. based Mobile Technologies, Inc. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. Business texting startup ZipWhip hired Ravi Angadi as chief product officer and promoted Nimrod Vered to chief engineering officer. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

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Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

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” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Are you targeting desktop, tablet, or mobile?

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Prior to Microsoft, Didascalou was an executive at Nokia and previously worked for Siemens’ mobile phones division earlier in his career. He will start in September.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Morgan, who is currently president of private investment firm Camlo Hill Capital, spent almost 15 years at telecommunications giant T-Mobile. (Sweetgreen Photo).

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. tech giant also recently hired Hanno Basse , the former 20th Century Fox Film CTO, as Microsoft Azure CTO for media and entertainment.