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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Madrona adds three new venture partners; DexCare hires exec; and more

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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 Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Media executive Virl Hill was named head of worldwide business development and strategy for Microsoft’s media and entertainment group.

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Strengthening Data Security in Healthcare

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Safeguarding Intellectual Property Healthcare companies invest heavily in research and development to drive innovation in medical treatments, technologies, and pharmaceuticals. Protecting intellectual property is crucial to maintain a competitive edge in the industry.

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Tech Moves: Convoy names general counsel; startup founders land new gigs after shutdowns

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Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems. as VP of business development for its marketplace. billion in November 2019.

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How one company is embracing agile Washington Technology (Today) - CivicActions harnesses open agile software development in its bid for the GSA's 18F agile blanket purchase agreement. It’s centered primarily around two questions: When should a business hire a CDO? sv1ambo / Flickr). This is a 1965. And, SAVE THE DATE: DIA Director Lt.

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI aims to cover “those expensive calls where you have people spending a lot of time after the call documenting what they just did,” said CEO Kevin Terrell , in an interview with GeekWire. “It BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu.