GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5

CTO Hire 92

CTO Hire Microsoft Fractional CTO Biotechnology 92

GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. As part of the transition, Northwestern University Professor Doug Downey will succeed Weld as head of the Semantic Scholar Research organization. Bhawna Singh. Auth0 Photo). Bellevue, Wash.-based Kayti Sullivan.

CTO Hire 106

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Engineering 106

GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

CTO Hire 116

CTO Hire CTO Data Center Data 116

GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

CTO Hire 88

CTO Hire Research Google Microsoft 88

GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. The company has expanded its product selection over the past few years, including items from larger national brands. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia.

CTO Hire 126

CTO Hire CTO Google Retail 126

GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. The longtime Seattle tech vet was part of the leadership teams during the acquisitions of Tableau by Salesforce for $15.7 She also serves on several biotech company boards.

CTO Hire 93

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Healthcare 93

GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 Ogisu was most recently EVP and chief people officer for multinational media company Viacom. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. Hillsboro, Ore.

CTO Hire 80

CTO Hire CTO Cloud Engineering 80

GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. The company, which sold a wall-mounted mirror that streams workout classes, was acquired by Lululemon for $500 million in 2020. Smedley did not ship any games at Amazon, Bloomberg noted.

CTO 118

CTO Microsoft CTO Hire Google 118

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. Enterprise Applications, SAP

SAP 105

SAP Microsoft CTO Hire Artificial Intelligence 105

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The incubator’s second fund comes at a key moment for the AI sector, as more companies adopt generative AI technology and investors pour billions into nascent startups. Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Real Estate Energy CTO 81

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.

CTO Hire 132

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Engineering CTO 132

GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sood was most recently SVP of products at oncology company Guardant Health. Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy. As part of the Zepel.io

CTO Hire 128

CTO Hire Biotechnology Advertising Project Management 128

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. True to his customer-first, business-focused leadership style, he is actively involved with customer interactions as well.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire CTO Industry Strategy 98

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. Customers : SeekOut is used by six of the world’s top 10 most valuable companies.

CTO Hire 141

CTO Hire Company Unified Communications CTO 141

GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Gulabani previously worked at Microsoft and Google. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. F5 appointed Microsoft Digital Transformation Group President James Phillips to its board of directors. . — as chief of staff, the Seattle fund’s first hire.

CTO Hire 80

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Web Services 80

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. Microsoft gaming exec James Gwertzman has joined Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner on the consumer investing team. Sabrina Wu.

CTO Hire 121

CTO Hire Microsoft Research Engineering 121

GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. Temporal Photo). million.

Engineering 145

Engineering Microsoft CTO Hire Open Source 145

GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

She started as an operations manager and in 2019 became VP of Amazon Global Air, which manages the company’s fleet of more than 110 aircraft operating out of more than 70 airports worldwide. Nair was most recently an executive vice president at Salesforce and spent more than 14 years at Microsoft.

CTO Hire 79

CTO Hire Real Estate CTO Industry 79

GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

CTO Hire 116

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Fractional VPE Education 116

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

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. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Data Center 52

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. ” — The Riveter co-CEO Heather Carter is stepping down from her role as co-CEO of the women-focused professional network and mentorship company. Kirkland, Wash.-based

CTO Hire 88

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Development Hardware 88

Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Shortly after leaving the company that Altman himself founded a couple of years ago, one of OpenAI’s biggest investors Microsoft welcomed the mastermind behind prominent AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E to lead a new advanced AI research team alongside Greg Brockman, the former president of OpenAI.

Microsoft 74

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence CTO Hire Research 74

The Verge

MARCH 30, 2022

Direct-to-customer streaming is now a focus for Disney, and today it took another step in organizing that business by announcing a new CTO for the Disney Streaming business unit that includes Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Star Plus. Image: Google/Weinberg-Clark Photography.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire CTO Google Video 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Oracle’s latest financial report boasts substantial increases in revenue, net income, and earnings per share, largely thanks to cloud sales, which the company was quick to credit to the rise of AI. Despite the fact that we are opening new and expanding existing cloud data centers very, very rapidly.”

Oracle 98

Oracle CTO Hire Fractional CTO Data Center 98

GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. “We Janczuk spent 12 years at Microsoft and was most recently a VP at Auth0. (Fusebit Photo). million seed round.

Software 122

Software Software Apple Microsoft 122

GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2021

— Kurt DelBene ‘s second stint at Microsoft will end later this year. The former Microsoft Office president, whose recent role has included leading the company’s pandemic response, will retire at the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year in June, the company confirmed this week. Kush Parikh.

Microsoft 105

Microsoft CTO Hire CTO Engineering 105

GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts. Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. Bacos will be responsible for the company’s digital execution and strategy.

CTO Hire 99

CTO Hire Fashion Fractional CTO Symantec 99

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. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

Cloud 119

Cloud CTO Hire Web Services CTO 119

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. It was a job that Evergreens previously struggled to fill.

Dell 127

Dell CTO Hire CTO Engineering 127

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).

CTO 107

CTO CTO Hire Microsoft Programming 107

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.” Microsoft Photo).

Fractional CTO 75

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Microsoft 75

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.’

CTO Hire 145

CTO Hire Engineering Authentication Industry 145

GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Tanium relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area to Kirkland, Wash.

CTO Hire 91

CTO Hire Oracle Web Services Real Estate 91

CTOvision

APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. Major Market Demand for Advanced Threat Protection Driving Rapid Platform Adoption and Expansion of Technology Ecosystem; Company Announces Integration With Palo Alto Networks’ Wildfire Platform. contract with the U.S. FAIRFAX, VA—April 7, 2014 —Invincea, Inc.,

CTO Hire 255

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Enterprise Enterprise 255

GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Hootsuite hired Jessica Hartigan (left) as its chief revenue officer and Ellen Terchila as its chief customer officer. Hootsuite Photo) — Hootsuite hired two new execs: Chief Revenue Officer Jessica Hartigan and Chief Customer Officer Ellen Terchila. San Francisco-based EMOTIV announced Gary Flake joined as its CTO.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Research 98

GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The company confirmed the layoffs in response to a GeekWire inquiry Wednesday, citing a restructuring to align with growth investment areas. SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. The company raised $115 million last year, pushing its valuation past $1.2 The startup now has about 200 employees.

CTO Hire 78

CTO Hire Unified Communications CTO Microsoft 78

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

Conference 123

Conference Fractional CTO Company Real Estate 123