— Pacvue, a software startup that helps brands boost e-commerce revenue, hired Microsoft vet Sunava Dutta as senior vice president of product.
Dutta previously spent more than 18 years at Microsoft, most recently as a product leader for robotics and emerging technologies within Azure.
Pacvue launched out of Seattle and quietly bootstrapped its way to a large acquisition in 2021 to Assembly, a Los Angeles-based company that also sells e-commerce software. Pacvue still maintains an office in Seattle.
— Clay Siegall, the former longtime CEO of Seagen, was named chairman of Tourmaline Bio, a New York-based publicly traded biotech company.
Siegall co-founded and led Seagen, formerly Seattle Genetics, for more than two decades. He resigned last year following an alleged domestic violence incident involving his then-wife. Prosecutors did not press charges.
Seagen sold to Pfizer in a $43 billion deal that closed this month.
Siegall jumped back into biotech earlier this year, joining Purdue University spinout Morphimmune as CEO. The company merged with Immunome in July.
Tourmaline went public earlier this in year in a reverse merger with Talaris.
— Cassandra Chandler is stepping off the board of Seattle-based cannabis company Leafly, effective Dec. 31. Chandler previously worked for the FBI and Bank of America in various operational leadership roles.
Leafly said in a filing that the board’s audit committee will no longer have three independent members as required by Nasdaq, and expects to receive notification of noncompliance from Nasdaq the first week of January.
Leafly’s business has struggled and the company was nearly delisted from Nasdaq earlier this year. Blaise Judja-Sato stepped down from the board Nov. 30.
— Ramberto Torruella, a former Navy combat systems officer and nuclear submarine operator, recently joined Seattle radio station KEXP as chief technology officer. Read more.
— Jim Breuer, president of Fluor’s Energy Solutions business group, joined the board of Portland, Ore.-based nuclear reactor company NuScale. Breuer replaced Christopher Panichi on the board.
— Microsoft is making bevy of leadership changes within Xbox following the completion of its Activision acquisition. Read more at The Verge.
