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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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. — Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Gopuff, a Philadelphia on-demand delivery service for convenience store items, hired two new executives in the Seattle region: Tim Collins as SVP of operations. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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Companies taking a multicloud approach can experience ballooning OpEx numbers, says Barrett Schrader, managing director of the technology consulting group at Protiviti: “Organizations can take advantage of volume discounts with reduced complexity. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Zillow Group Photo). Zillow Group appointed Claire Cormier Thielke to its board of directors. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido.

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GeekWire news round-up: Pulumi and Muir raise cash; LinkedIn’s new AI tools; ‘Uncommon Thinkers’

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From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The company announced a $41 million Series C round led by Madrona Venture Group as it looks to boost its leadership position in the infrastructure as code market and invest in new AI-fueled products. Soma” Somasegar.

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Congrats, it’s a startup! Husband-and-wife team’s new baby is Bubbe, a high-tech feeding bottle

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Group B Labs Photo). Illi Eisner has more than 10 years of hardware development experience at Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, where he worked on such things as the Kindle, Fire TV, Fire Phone, Windows Phone, and iPod Nano. Group B Labs Photo). Group B Labs Photo). Group B Labs Images).

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

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But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. He is a venture partner at Madrona Venture Group. Impinj went public in 2016.

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The secrets of successful cloud-first strategies

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By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Change the organizational mindset. Build a realistic roadmap — and a surefire skills plan.

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