GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. The company raised $28 million in 2019. GameStop added two former Amazon executives as CEO and CFO, the company announced Wednesday. . Rachael Granby (Karat Photo).

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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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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S. Atlas links customers with organizations that can alleviate some of these expenses, such as nonprofits that help cancer patients afford costly drugs. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO. million.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. The company’s revenue for the full year ended Jan. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. 31 was down 5% to $2.23 Elizabeth Solomon.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI instead saves time by building a summary document after listening to the call. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. contract management startup Icertis.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Sengupta acknowledges that layoffs at the tech giants in the past year or so eased the talent crunch a bit — but only for other big companies who could offer highly-competitive salaries to those laid-off workers. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). It just brought on Faisal Masud as CEO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. There are also leveraging crowdsourcing platforms, direct sourcing agencies, and freelance marketplaces, as well as nonprofit programs with expertise in specific areas such as sustainability.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jeffrey Spector , co-founder of Seattle startup Karat which helps companies conduct technical interviews for software engineers. Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. This is a unique and challenging time for our community and our college. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. million and acquired IT consulting service company Adaptive Technology Group.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 1, 2014

I started to ask questions from those interviewing about the mission, vision, brand and direction the company was moving in. I also discovered that they were loosing contract work due to the lack of technology experience. I also discovered that they were loosing contract work due to the lack of technology experience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

“Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” So, I started my own tech company,” Beasley says. Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Flexe CTO and Crowd Cow board member David Glick. Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations. It also appointed David Glick , CTO of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe, to its board. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Roofstock is a fintech company that allows individuals to invest in single family rental homes. The company recently acquired property management platform Great Jones and has raised $133 million in total funding to date. Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. Kymeta Photos). — Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. Tech companies around the country continue to recruit executives from Amazon: Rene Villegas , the former head of marketing for Amazon Subscription Boxes, is now chief marketing officer at Boston-based wireless broadband provider Starry. Dustin Grosse.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. It’s also now illegal for the city government to enter into contracts that permit the use of facial recognition technology.

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