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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. Boston-based Valo Health has hired longtime Amazon leader Nish Lathia as its first chief product officer. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia. Valo Health Photo).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Flexe CTO and Crowd Cow board member David Glick. Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations. It also appointed David Glick , CTO of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe, to its board. Flexe Photo).

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. . He was previously a group engineering manager at Microsoft.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Microsoft Photo). New Athira execs Mark Worthington, general counsel, and Rachel Lenington, chief technology officer and head of product development strategy. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia , a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. Anuj Gosalia. Magic Leap Photo).

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. “We’re providing a much simpler model for developers,” he said. Temporal Photo).

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MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

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MAY 18, 2023

The players: Savage founded the startup in 2018 after spending more than two decades at Microsoft in various management roles. Her co-founder and CTO is John Vert , another longtime Microsoft leader who also spent five years at gaming giant Valve. The company has nearly 20 employees and is hiring.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy. The 9-year old company also turned to the Pacific Northwest for talent hiring former Porch executive Asha Sharma as COO in February.

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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. He was most recently VP of business development at Vancouver, Wash.-based

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Microsoft gaming exec James Gwertzman has joined Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner on the consumer investing team. Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. and merged with Payfactors earlier this year.

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MAY 25, 2023

(Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Rhoads joined Amazon more than a decade ago after an 11-year career with the U.S.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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APRIL 28, 2023

(NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Its studio head and CEO, Paul Ehreth , is a veteran game developer who worked at Microsoft and 343 Industries on games like Halo 4 and 2007’s Shadowrun.

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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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APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot CEO Shashwat Srivastav founded the startup after working as vice president of engineering at Dell EMC, and as principal development lead at Microsoft Azure. Users designate work through Aivot’s companion app.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. Fusebit Photo).

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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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MARCH 15, 2021

Maren Costa, one of two former leaders of the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group who was fired by Amazon last April , is now a principal lead designer at Microsoft. ” Microsoft last year set a goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030. (Amazon Employees for Climate Justice Photo). Vancouver, B.C.-based

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

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MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Prior to Microsoft, Didascalou was an executive at Nokia and previously worked for Siemens’ mobile phones division earlier in his career. Actively Learn Photo).

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MARCH 10, 2021

Former Microsoft VP and Azure Distinguished Engineer Kushagra Vaid is now a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Eclipse Ventures. Prior to Microsoft, he was a principal engineer at Intel. Seattle sales technology startup Outreach hired Mary Shea as its first ever evangelist. held roles at Microsoft and SAP.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

. “I’m excited to take some time to rest (and write!) Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Ketelsen joined in July 2022 and was a principal developer advocate. He previously worked at Microsoft, XOR Data Exchange, and Clarity Services. Mika Yamamoto.

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APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S. – bg.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Longtime Microsoft executive Brad Anderson is moving back to his hometown in Utah as part of his new role at Qualtrics. Brad Anderson, a longtime Microsoft corporate vice president, has joined Qualtrics as president of products and services. He joined Microsoft in 2003 as a general manager after 12 years at Novell.

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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. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. SeekOut Photo). SeekOut CEO and co-founder Anoop Gupta.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Startup wins contract to inspect space debris: NASA awarded Tukwila, Wash.-based Read his full answer to one audience question at the Microsoft Alumni Network conference in Redmond. Soma” Somasegar.

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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). Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Jim founded Mason to address the challenges he observed with hardware development. A graduate of the University of Washington, Jim previously worked for Microsoft in China, was an analyst for Detroit Venture Partners and was an executive at a wireless company. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. .

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“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.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.” It depends on what business model you’re in.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Former Microsoft Corporate Vice President Marc Brown joined EQT as a partner and global head of EQT Growth, a new strategic initiative focused on technology. The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. tech giant.

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