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AI meets M&A: How these former management consultants are upending due diligence

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Wokelo co-founders Saswat Nanda, left, and Siddhant Masson, both worked previously as management consultants. That’s the premise behind Wokelo , a Seattle-area startup co-founded by two former management consultants, Siddhant Masson and Saswat Nanda. ” Funding: The company, founded in 2022, has raised $1.5

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

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Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Watto AI From left: Watto AI founder and CEO Rishabh Panwar, co-founder Ishita Bhandari, and CTO and founder Suryansh Soni. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. What’s your secret sauce? We’ve got a great team.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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Tech Moves: Accolade’s new board member; Adaptive Biotechnologies names a COO; and more

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. — Longtime F5 Networks board members Gary Ames and Deborah Bevier will be retiring from the board of directors effective March 11, when the company hosts its annual meeting. She is a consultant and the former president and CEO of Laird Norton Financial Group. Adams joined the Seattle biotech giant last year as CTO. Mark Adams.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

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I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said. In one, he mocked up a cover of the Financial Times , showing the company’s stock soaring and praising its technologically enabled innovations.

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Top 9 challenges IT leaders will face in 2023

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The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”