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Tech Moves: Payscale CEO steps down; a16z adds Seattle-based partner; Madrona hires investor

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“I’ve spent my career supporting game developers, first on the creative side, then with backend services at PlayFab, and most recently at Microsoft,” Gwertzman wrote on LinkedIn. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Sabrina Wu.

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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Tech Moves: Wyze names first CFO; OutSystems exec relocates to Seattle; Flying Fish adds partner

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Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. Based in Kirkland, Wash., Lisa Nelson.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

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” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. He led corporate development at Twilio for the past five years. Chris Emerson.

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We’re all becoming software CIOs — a role Red Hat CIO Jim Palermo knows well

CIO Business Intelligence

Whether you sell cars, candy, consulting, or construction, software is moving to the center of your business. Your products and services rely on software and data for nearly everything from product development to aftermarket support. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO.

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Scale and Speed with Cyber Security

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Bureaucracies exist to ensure continuity of purpose within a construct of organizational processes and since they are filled with and designed by people, aren’t able to radically evolve to meet new threats or fill new operating environments. Out of all the problems to deal with subverting bureaucracy to enable security scaling is the hardest.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. We continue to iterate and evolve our policy, but it is still in development.

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