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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet joins insurance tech startup; Cyemptive Technologies adds exec

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Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. Founded in 2015, Socotra sells cloud-based tools for insurance tech companies.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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

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Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Seattle recruiting startup Candidate hired Sean B House as VP of engineering and Krista Place as head of marketing. Sabrina Wu.

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CIOs sharpen cloud cost strategies — just as gen AI spikes loom

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Other top concerns are data privacy and security challenges (31%) and lack of cloud security and cloud expertise (24%). After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” 1 barrier to moving forward in the cloud.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator

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Neum AI, a platform designed to assist companies in maintaining the relevancy of their AI applications with the latest data. Gleam, a platform for insurance brokers to implement self-funded health plans for SMBs and startups. Over time, our proprietary LLMs fine-tune and learn to become your team’s star performer.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%). This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Kamal Goel has migrated from one data centre operator to another. Before that he worked in a number of other roles in IT infrastructure and data centre planning and management. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO.