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MARCH 4, 2024

Similarly, in customer support , AI-driven chatbots and automated response systems are taking over routine support, effectively handling common issues such as account inquiries or basic troubleshooting. It can be used to quickly scan and shortlist resumes, reducing the time and resources spent on the initial stages of the recruitment process.

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APRIL 22, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. John Aisien. and Bend, Ore.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. They’re all these brilliant individuals who have a lot to add beyond coding their part of the technical system.

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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. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. based company MicroVision.

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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. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

government agencies prevent network and system vulnerabilities. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 By Bob Gourley. HP Enterprise Security Solutions to help 33 U.S. PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced the U.S. Public Sector, HP Enterprise Services. “As

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. Price describes the company’s focus as intelligent talent selection. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. Binde previously held senior engineering roles at Google, Nordstrom and Persistent Systems. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. He is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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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.

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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.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5 Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Its Atlas Navigator tool integrates the database with customer clinical and financial systems, and aids in enrollment and reimbursement. In addition, the company’s advocates also work remotely and on-site to manage the process. The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. The company currently has 114 employees, up from 80 two months ago.

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GeekWire

JULY 7, 2021

The Routing Company Photo). The Routing Company aims to find out on Bainbridge Island near Seattle. . The Routing Company CEO James Cox. Routing Company Photo). “It’s going to be up to each transit agency to make that call,” said James Cox , CEO of The Ridesharing Company.

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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). Sabrina Wu.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. To perform the job optimally in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable environment, CTOs must possess the right mix of skills and inclinations.

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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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TechEmpower - Information Technology

JULY 24, 2023

Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? Who are the customers?

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JULY 27, 2023

Phillips previously co-founded Akimbi Systems, which was acquired by VMWare, and helped launch Couchbase. Phillips was a board member at Seattle-based F5 but the company announced this week that he was stepping down. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv chief research officer Leslie Wood. iSpot ranks No.

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APRIL 7, 2014

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2020

A new spinout from Seattle-based startup studio Madrona Venture Labs wants to help companies protect data flowing through their various cloud apps. Simplata Technologies is led by co-founders Steve Banfield , CEO, and Bruce Roberts , CTO. Banfield previously led BMW ReachNow as CEO and was an executive at traffic data company INRIX.

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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.

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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

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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APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. So, Seekr signed on with a regional colocation provider to host several GPU- and CPU-enabled systems. We were looking for like-minded, leading-edge, AI-focused hardware at the same time.”

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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. “There is just one way: You’ll be part of that speed, or you’ll be out.” Speaking at. Digital Transformation World.

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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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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The six-employee company has partnerships with an undisclosed public biopharma company, the University of British Columbia, and others. Kim previously co-founded three other companies in the mobile marketing and AI areas.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Seattle enterprise software startup Ally won last year’s award for a category that has honored companies such as Crowd Cow, Convoy, Arivale, Rover, and others in the past. Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary, CEO (left), and Greg Finak, CTO. The Series B round valued the company at close to $500 million. Ozette Photos).

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JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

So, when Synack , a crowdsourced cybersecurity vendor, told me it secured a contract with the IRS, I was intrigued. First, a little bit about what Synack does: The company is following something of an ongoing trend in the security space in that it wrangles a bunch of “ethical hackers” to essentially try and break a client's IT systems.

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APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. This lets the system respond to future queries more efficiently.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

based cybersecurity startup Polyverse raised another $16 million to help sell its software used by government organizations, defense companies, and more. The startup recently signed a partnership with SUSE , the world’s largest independent open source software company. Total funding to date in the 40-person company is $21 million.

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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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