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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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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CIOs in transition: 5 tips for landing your next IT leadership job

CIO Business Intelligence

They manage networking with other professional development activities such as attending conferences, reading leadership books, and participating in social media. Once in transition, they develop weekly outreach plans, schedule time with people in their network, and share a clear direction on the types of opportunities they seek.

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

GeekWire

Pitasky was most recently vice president of human resources for Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business. He was previously EVP and chief partner resources officer at Starbucks and spent 13 years as a human resources leader at Microsoft. “I He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Seattle-based Lighthouse eDiscovery hired Eric Emans as CFO. GeekWire is a dot.LA

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

GeekWire

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. Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. Amazon Photo). million seed round. Nick Nelson.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

“Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. So, I started my own tech company,” Beasley says.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. Many critics and skeptics have mocked Zuckerberg’s plan to change Facebook from a social media company to a metaverse company.