GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles.

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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.” Microsoft Photo).

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark — are reportedly leaving in the coming months. It’s not clear exactly why Greco, Vlietstra, and Lundmark are leaving the company.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

As of today, AI development companies have signed contracts to purchase more than $4 billion of AI training capacity in Oracle’s Generation 2 cloud. In its last sequential quarter, the company posted a total revenue of $13.8 “Generative AI is changing everything. billion. billion, boosted by cloud sales that brought in $4.4

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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.

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2023

(Greater Seattle Partners Photo) — Rebecca Lovell was named chief operating officer of Greater Seattle Partners , a public-private sector initiative that seeks to attract investment, companies and quality jobs in the Seattle area. Peterson has served on the Microsoft board of directors since 2015.

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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 device has “continuous intracranial pressure monitoring supporting remote consults and new discoveries” according to the company’s website.

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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.”

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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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. Additionally, Microsoft alum Alex Wade has joined AI2 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and is now director of strategic partnerships. Bhawna Singh. Auth0 Photo). Bellevue, Wash.-based Kayti Sullivan.

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

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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. . — portfolio company. Joseph Williams. PNNL Photo).

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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

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2023

Adaptive Photo) — Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies , the company said today in a regulatory filing. He was first hired by Adaptive as chief technology officer. The Seattle-based company reported 20% growth in revenue for 2022. Mark Adams.

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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.,

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APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. ”

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Zillow’s VP of Partner Success Racquel Russell joined the board of micro-mobility company Bird, known for its scooter sharing platform. Microsoft’s M12 venture fund chief Nagraj Kashyap departed to join SoftBank’s Vision Fund as managing partner. The company has raised $6 million to date. Bird Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 4, 2024

FUSE founding partner Kellan Carter (bottom row, fifth from left) recently visited India and stopped at the Chennai offices of Zuper, the Seattle-based software startup. Photo courtesy of Zuper) On a recent trip to India, something caught my attention inside a tech company office. Zuper has offices in both Bellevue and India.

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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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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

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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MARCH 11, 2021

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Previously, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft. (Playco Photo).

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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 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. Nelson will scout new startups and work with portfolio companies, Madrona said. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). Based in Kirkland, Wash., Lisa Nelson.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Then perhaps the government contracting world (we have previously written about software eating the government contracting world and DoD command and Control ). Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IFTTT. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Anki Apple DoD Facebook Google iTunes Marc Andreessen Netscape Spotify Twitter' Who is next?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. The company acquired two international cosmetic resource platforms earlier this year. She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. (RealSelf Photo).

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GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

San Francisco-based EMOTIV announced Gary Flake joined as its CTO. Flake, a longtime Seattle-area investor and advisor, was previously the CTO of search and data science at Salesforce. Helen Johnson was named chief financial officer at AI data company Appen , which has a U.S. headquarters in Kirkland, Wash.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

— IonQ’s quantum computer factory is still ramping up to full operation, but the company is already expanding its footprint by tens of thousands of square feet. ” Some companies, including as Google , IBM and Microsoft , are developing quantum hardware that’s based on superconducting circuits.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

Principal accounting officer Kyle Piskel will serve as interim CFO after Cohen resigns. Cohen will work with Piskel and Adaptive in a consulting capacity during the transition, as Adaptive searches for a permanent CFO. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Joseph Sirosh was appointed to the Absci board. That’s compared to $98.4

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, announced a formal advisory board drawing from industry experts and past mentors. The inaugural advisory board members, all from within the Microsoft organization, include: • Distinguished Scientist Matthias Troyer. • GitHub CTO Jason Warner. GitHub CTO Jason Warner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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