article thumbnail

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

GeekWire

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. Athira Photos).

CTO Hire 126
article thumbnail

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

GeekWire

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” 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. The Redmond, Wash.,

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

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

GeekWire

million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The software summarizes and analyzes the contents of phone conversations between customers and representatives. The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI Photo). “It

article thumbnail

Fed Tech News Roundup

CTOvision

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.

CTO Hire 150
article thumbnail

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

GeekWire

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. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

Meeting 95
article thumbnail

New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Kamal Goel Web Werks.

article thumbnail

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

GeekWire

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. based Bumped hired Babak Farrokh-Siar as chief revenue officer. Steve Shure.