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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. “This is a pivotal moment for Talkdesk as the market for conversational AI and virtual agents is expected to grow rapidly.” It reported revenue of $328 million, up 19% year-over-year, in its most recent quarter.

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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: DocuSign hired Marcello Majonchi , previously a general manager at Amazon, as vice president of product design.

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GeekWire 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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Also unique: record breaking investment and M&A activity across the country and in Seattle, as companies take advantage of pandemic-driven trends such as virtual experiences, at-home healthcare, remote education and more. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. billion as of November 2019.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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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. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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

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In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. 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.

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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Tech Moves: Longtime exec Kurt DelBene to retire from Microsoft; Hiya promotes Kush Parikh to president; and more

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He then returned to Microsoft in 2015 to lead corporate strategy and coordinate engineering functions across the company, reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. DelBene’s duties will be divided among existing Microsoft executives, reports Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet. He was previously CTO at startups High Fidelity and Korrio. .

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