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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Seattle cloud services provider Skytap announced Chris Min as its new CFO. Read the story.

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

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In his most recent role, McCay focused on multi-cloud strategy at a private firm that worked with various U.S. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty. federal government agencies. Portland, Ore.-based

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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UiPath also recently promoted Munil Shaw from senior vice president of engineering to chief technology officer of cloud. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. Freed will continue to serve on the board of Bamboo Learning and as an advisor.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

Downing and team soon recognized their approach wasn’t adding strategic value, so they identified a preferred partner and created policies to better determine when moving to another cloud for features or functions made strategic sense. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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

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. — Kim Swift has been named the senior director of cloud gaming for Xbox Game Studios Publishing. In her new role at Xbox, Swift will work on innovation and collaborating with independent studios to build games for the cloud, according to an announcement Monday. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Strategy Officer Matthew Shanahan , previously chief operating and innovation officer at Globys, a software company offering digital billing products. Read more about Fabric and its $9.5