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Tech Moves: Zulily hires Nike exec as new CTO; Google vet Phil Bogle joins Kalshi; Auth0 adds CISO

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After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. Boston-based Valo Health has hired longtime Amazon leader Nish Lathia as its first chief product officer. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia. Valo Health Photo).

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

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Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Former Microsoft marketing manager Brian Smith is now senior vice president at New York-based marketing consultancy GHB Insights. He will be based in Seattle.

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

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Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.” ” Not a venture capitalist.