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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

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Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. The advisory council currently has 14 members including Microsoft Tech for Social Impact CTO Erik Arnold ; Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf; and King County CIO Tanya Hannah.

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Hootsuite , the widely used social media management platform and a star of the Vancouver, B.C. The private company is a recent addition to the GeekWire 200 rankings, part of an ongoing project to update our comprehensive Startup List and community resources. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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How CIOs can be pillars of stability in an uncertain world

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Several economists, a bank president, and a couple of reporters walk into a bar. The bank president wails, “ Economic hurricane.” minutes of downtime per year), and expanding digital capabilities in a world characterized by massive economic, political, social, and technological uncertainty. I am certain of that.

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

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based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Seattle-based Lighthouse eDiscovery hired Eric Emans as CFO. GeekWire is a dot.LA

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CIOs take aim at Silicon Valley talent

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Individuals are looking to make sure they have a role that is socially responsible and globally responsible.”

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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. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO.

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