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Tech Moves: Allen Institute hires COO; DexCare adds CTO; and more

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Pittinger was previously chief technology officer at analytics company Lucid, which was acquired by digital market research company Cint last year for about $1.1 Pittenger remained at Cint as CTO for about a year before joining DexCare in November.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle-area cybersecurity company Cyemptive named Ray McCay as its new chief revenue officer. “Ray’s appointment is an important step for Cyemptive as we scale up the company and build infrastructure,” said the startup’s founder and CEO Rob Pike. federal government agencies. . Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

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F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer. Piskel joined the Seattle-based biotech company in 2015 and was most recently principal accounting officer.

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

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The Seattle and Philadelphia-based company also announced that OMERS Ventures Managing Partner Michael Yang and Carrick Capital Partners Managing Director Jim Madden have stepped down from the board. Ames has served on the board since 2004 and is the former president and CEO of telecommunications company MediaOne International.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech hires commercial officer; Instacart names new president; and more

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Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Nitin Sood as its first-ever chief commercial officer. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sood was most recently SVP of products at oncology company Guardant Health. She is one of several former Facebook executives to join the company this year including new CEO Fidji Simo.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.

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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

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MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures.