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JANUARY 11, 2022

Life Science Washington also announced four new board members: University of Washington Bothell School of STEM Dean Leslie Cornick Wedbush Managing Director Kelly Lisbakken Seagen SVP of Global Value Access Cindy McDonald-Everett Madrona Venture Group Partner Chris Picardo. Madrona Venture Group Photo). Joseph Williams. PNNL Photo).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. The 4-year-old company is profitable and saw annual recurring revenue spike 10X over the past 21 months. SeekOut Photo). SeekOut previously raised a $6 million round in 2019.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 The startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. Ogisu was most recently EVP and chief people officer for multinational media company Viacom. billion valuation earlier this year after raising $125 million.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 Developed in response to the expanding landscape of cyber threats, the DHS CDM program was established to enable government agencies to cost-effectively identify and mitigate network, system and software vulnerabilities. “In

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. The company’s new CEO is Alex Hart. The company recently acquired CURO Compensation Ltd. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Payscale Photos).

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot Photo) A trio of former Dell EMC engineers are building a fleet of rentable robots to help companies crank out monotonous tasks amid a lingering labor shortage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

Overland Photo) A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. It’s the latest milestone for Overland AI , the University of Washington spinout aiming to help companies — and the U.S. million with the U.S. Byron Boots.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. He previously worked at Nike, Symantec and The Regence Group.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He is also responsible for Vodafone Group’s global “Modernization Garage”, which is driving transformation of business support systems (BSS) across the companies. All of Vodafone has been undergoing radical transformation for several years, and the company is relying on. TM Forum’s Open Digital Framework.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. “Customers tell us this all the time.” “Soma” Somasegar.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. I really enjoy this period in a startup company, when they are poised on the brink of tremendous growth,” said Porad. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s CEO and founder, dropped out of MIT to start the company. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka is an example of a boomerang IT leader — professionals who leave a company, gain experience elsewhere, and then return in a higher tech leadership position.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company helps entrepreneurs raise funding without going the traditional route of venture capital. “I’m passionate about the company’s mission,” Widner told GeekWire via email. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. “We’re providing a much simpler model for developers,” he said. Temporal Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company, Anderson was most recently a key Microsoft 365 leader, overseeing areas including engineering and deployment of Windows for large businesses, and PC and mobile device security. .” “Companies that are intentionally designing and optimizing the experiences they provide are pulling ahead.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. Last year’s winner was Common Room, a Seattle-area startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

With more and more companies undertaking the journey of digital transformation, the role of the CIO has become critical. He joins the Indian beverage company after a 17-year stint at Wockhardt where he was associate vice president of information technology head. Cera Group appoints Manish Chandegara as group CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The challenge for IT leaders is clear : With employees quitting faster than they can be replaced, the rush to hire the right talent is on — so too is the need to retain existing IT talent. As the company had legacy systems, it became tough to hire resources that could manage them. This gave us the time to groom the freshers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Christoph Wollersheim, a member of the services and artificial intelligence practices group at global consulting firm Egon Zehnder, pinpoints five critical areas most organizations need to address when implementing AI: accuracy, bias, security, transparency, and societal responsibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Pulumi Photo) As more companies move to the cloud and adopt AI tools, Seattle startup Pulumi is looking to capitalize. Startup wins contract to inspect space debris: NASA awarded Tukwila, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

She will serve on the nominating and corporate governance committee and as the company’s national security director, a role required through the wireless carrier’s merger with Sprint. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

(Madrona Venture Labs Photo) Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) announced Wednesday it raised $11 million for its fifth fund, providing fresh fuel for the Seattle startup studio as it continues to double down on developing artificial intelligence startups. Since it was launched, the fund has raised $40 million and backed 32 companies.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Chan says. “The Geographical nuances are also arising.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2021

Littlepage was most recently senior vice president of marketing at cybersecurity company Tenable. Outreach’s former CMO Margaret Arakawa left the company in December. He was previously a financial executive at public software companies Digital River and Lawson Software. based Concur. Kane McCord. ShelfEngine Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. Fusebit Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

After years of IT expanding into non-traditional responsibilities, we’re now seeing how AI is forcing CIOs back to their core mandate,” Ken Wong, president of Lenovo’s solutions and services group, said in a statement. For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

. — Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. Young will be responsible for developing Microsoft’s global business development strategies, including assessing partnerships, alliances, venture investments, and joint ventures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

“People may be used to working on legacy applications and processes, but as part of digitally transforming the organization, an IT leader will have to put in place new processes and solutions that are beneficial for the company and don’t impact it in any negative way.” To curtail costs, Pal froze new hiring.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2024

We sought technology leaders who could advise on succeeding fast, along with creating a strong organization, developing team leaders, leveraging the support of peers, and specifically how to streamline day-to-day management of a technology group. Bad hires happen, and sometimes, promotions don’t work out.

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