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Tech Moves: AI2 Incubator hires new managing director; Goldman Sachs director joins Dropbox; Marchex adds CFO

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(GeekWire File Photo / Kaitlyn Wang) — Yifan Zhang , a Seattle-based entrepreneur who previously led real estate startup Loftium, is joining the AI2 Incubator as a managing director. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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

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Real estate ownership. Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. The five finalists are Arrived Homes; Lexion; Phaidra; Shipium; and WhyLabs.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022.

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

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Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. It’s bigger than working on interesting problems.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

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Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. He will be based in Seattle.

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Julie Larson-Green retires as Qualtrics CXO following IPO; Instacart names Asha Sharma COO; and more

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Qualtrics, which has been adding to its executive ranks through a series of hires , is expected to split Larson-Green’s role as chief experience officer among other leaders for now. He previously served as CTO for Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes and VP of product and engineering at Zulily.

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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

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“I attribute the entrepreneurialism of so many alums to the culture and high hiring bar in the early days of the company,” said Ryan Soskin , the 15th employee at Convoy who is now CEO of trucking software platform GoodShip. Former Convoy employees point to several factors that made the company a hub for future entrepreneurs.

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