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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. ” Why are MagniX and a host of other companies — ranging from Rolls-Royce to MagniX’s Arlington, Wash.-based

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering, data and machine learning teams. He will join AI2 full-time and become an emeritus professor at UW.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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JUNE 24, 2021

The Seattle startup today named Li its new chief technology officer. She will oversee engineering teams building Convoy’s digital freight network that matches shippers with truck drivers. Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. trucking industry.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

No offense to software contractors, but given the choice I usually prefer to build software with hired employees. By signing on as employees, engineers demonstrate belief in the mission and commitment to the long-term success of the company.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Payscale Photos) — Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. Farras previously spent more than 14 years at jobs platform Indeed, most recently as chief revenue officer.

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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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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. based startup in June.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. Axon maintains a significant engineering presence in Seattle. Former NASA Systems Engineer Nitin Arora is leaving Blue Origin to join SpaceX, according to a post on LinkedIn. Chris Chin. Axon Photo). —

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 based Mobile Technologies, Inc. Fukiko Ogisu.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Its chief financial officer Paul Balciunas resigned in April. Image: Canoo.

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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. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo).

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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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle-area cybersecurity company Cyemptive named Ray McCay as its new chief revenue officer. “Ray’s appointment is an important step for Cyemptive as we scale up the company and build infrastructure,” said the startup’s founder and CEO Rob Pike. federal government agencies.

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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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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. Based in San Francisco, Metromile is a publicly traded company founded in 2011.

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MARCH 4, 2024

The shift towards AI-driven ad technologies enables brands to set and achieve highly specific engagement KPIs, moving away from generic strategies to more personalized, data-driven approaches that resonate with their target audience. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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MAY 7, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) Brad Gray is stepping down from NanoString after 14 years leading the Seattle biotech company as CEO. NanoString this week completed its acquisition to life sciences research and diagnostic giant Bruker, which bought the company’s assets for approximately $392.6 Samar Abbas , who was previously CTO, is now CEO.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Apple hasn’t been all that vocal about its electric car project, but according to Bloomberg , the iPhone maker is hiring Tesla’s Autopilot software engineer to work on its EVs. He’ll report to Stuart Bowers, another Tesla ex-pat who previously served as the vice president of engineering.

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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.

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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.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” 14 and subsequently confirmed by the company.

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APRIL 19, 2023

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Amy Sennett , previously general counsel at OpenText and Catalant Technologies, joins as Karat’s new general counsel. Amy Sennett (left) and Scott Bonneau recently joined Karat.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. D’Ambrosio-Correll joined home fitness startup Mirror in 2018 and led engineering. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. The company says its software has handled more than a million pages of documents across 1,800 locations. Cameron Steele.

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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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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.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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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. “Soma” Somasegar; SeekOut head of engineering Vikas Manocha; and SeekOut head of product John Tippett. SeekOut Photo). SeekOut previously raised a $6 million round in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Rivas is the co-founder and former CTO of Limeade, an employee experience software company based in the Seattle area that went public in 2019 via the Australian stock market. He also serves as co-founder and CTO of Keme IX , a “Chakra Healing Hotel & Holistic Center” in Tulum, Mexico. per month and $69.99

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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. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. March 2022. March 2022.

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MARCH 15, 2022

The new positions in Seattle will primarily be data scientists and software engineers according to a career page list of current openings. Walmart is hiring right in the backyard of rival Amazon, which is based in Seattle and last year surpassed Walmart as the largest retail seller outside China. Its total headcount is 2.3

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AUGUST 3, 2023

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AUGUST 9, 2021

. — Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies announced Nitin Sood as its first-ever chief commercial officer. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sood was most recently SVP of products at oncology company Guardant Health. He was previously CEO of NuGen Technologies and Boreal Genomics. As part of the Zepel.io

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APRIL 24, 2024

Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo).

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