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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He is now a VP of engineering at Google. Zoe Hillenmeyer.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Educative Photos).

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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. “I’m excited to take some time to rest (and write!) The UW School of Medicine educates more than 9,000 students and trainees annually. Seattle cybersecurity startup Zatik Security announced Zack Glick as its third founder and CTO.

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Tech Moves: Tanium hires CFO; Utrip founder launches VC firm; AWS IoT exec joins Siemens

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Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Goyal told GeekWire he plans to take a break and is considering a new venture, likely in education again. He will start in September. Alicia Bedard (left) and Manohar Ganesan.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo). Dave Heiner.

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Tech Moves: Qualtrics exec moves to Google; NHL Seattle expands team; former Amazon exec named Bluecrew CEO; and more

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I see tremendous opportunity to grow and expand the business as organisations around the world look to leverage file services in the cloud and the data centre,” said Bumpus. Qumulo also recently hired Barry Russell as SVP and general manger of cloud and Michael Cornwell as chief technology officer. Mason Hollis. WattBuy Photo).

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company. Bothell, Wash.-based