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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Media executive Virl Hill was named head of worldwide business development and strategy for Microsoft’s media and entertainment group.

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Fed Tech News Roundup

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How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement. It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? Why Most Public Cloud Solutions Are Unsafe? sv1ambo / Flickr).

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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. I can tell you he didn’t come for the weather,” Rau jokes.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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Chief AI officer: What it takes to land the C-suite’s hottest new job

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That includes the decision to appoint or hire a chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO). They should be able to work collaboratively with many departments in developing AI strategy and vision, and they should be able to design and target relevant business use cases, assess project outcomes, and measure ROI in each case.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Seattle cloud services company 2nd Watch promoted Chris Garvey to chief operating officer. Garvey joined 2nd Watch in 2017 and was most recently EVP of cloud services.

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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. based Aquinox Pharmaceuticals, appointed Holly Vance as its general counsel. Holly Vance.