GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

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).

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AUGUST 9, 2021

In this new role, Sood will be responsible for the commercialization of Adaptive Biotech’s research solution immunoSEQ; its testing tool clonoSEQ; and T-Detect, a T-cells test which has been used to detect COVID-19 antibodies. He was most recently CTO for San Francisco-based employee management software Reflektive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Seattle recruiting startup Candidate hired Sean B House as VP of engineering and Krista Place as head of marketing. The Washington Research Foundation announced its 2022 cohort of postdoctoral fellows.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. To perform the job optimally in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable environment, CTOs must possess the right mix of skills and inclinations.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. He’s joined by Chief Technology Officer Sriram Sankaran , a former group engineering manager at Amazon and senior director of engineering at Dell EMC, and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev , a former software developer at Dell EMC.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Seattle accounting software startup Lockstep hired Melissa Hendrick as EVP of marketing.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. Karat helps software engineering teams with the first round of technical interviews. Coliton was named interim president and CEO of the Washington Research Foundation. Angela Jones.

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JANUARY 21, 2015

A key collector of lessons learned and best practices is the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, who has been applying their community focused talent into building a coalition of researchers and practitioners around this discipline. About the Speakers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Forty-one percent of the CIOs in the survey said they’ve changed their cycle for revisiting IT budgets to at least every month, says Tony Olvet, IDC’s VP of worldwide C-suite and digital business research. Rising software costs create headaches Another example is Ameritas Life Insurance, which has operations in the US, but the current 3.7%

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. New funding: Seattle startup SeekOut raised $65 million to fuel growth of its recruiting software. What’s next: SeekOut has 50 employees and plans to hire rapidly. SeekOut Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The challenge for IT leaders is clear : With employees quitting faster than they can be replaced, the rush to hire the right talent is on — so too is the need to retain existing IT talent. At that time, application migration was under way, and our supply chain software was also getting a major upgrade.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

More recently, the company launched Carbon Pathfinder, an AI-driven sustainability software planning tool that is sold as SaaS or a suite with professional services. “AI The company has also issued guidelines to its software developers and business executives about how to protect client data and define what they can and cannot use.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. He was previously the director of software engineering at NBC Universal.

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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2015

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.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. He was previously the director of software engineering at NBC Universal.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tech leader and Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov to lead Cervest Board of Directors. Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 18, 2022

The discipline of enterprise architecture (EA) is often criticized for forcing technology choices on business users or producing software analyses no one uses. But the practice of EA is booming today, and architects of any description are hard to find and “incredibly expensive,” says Gartner Research VP Marcus Blosch. .

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Seattle enterprise software startup Ally won last year’s award for a category that has honored companies such as Crowd Cow, Convoy, Arivale, Rover, and others in the past. Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary, CEO (left), and Greg Finak, CTO. Common Room; Ozette; SeekOut; Shelf Engine; and Strike Graph are on the brink of stardom.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

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. Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. (BirchAI Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2024

Cultivating a culture of creators Power Home Remodeling’s business model is centered on remodeling the exterior of homes while its IT organization — what it calls the Business Technology (BT) Group — serves as the creative force behind a build-your-own software platform that operates in service to the business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Never forget the power of people Despite trendy talk about current and future use cases, as with any technology artificial intelligence is only as powerful as the people developing and working with it, says Satish Jayanthi, co-founder and CTO at Coalesce. Hiring in tech has always been a rollercoaster,” Hruby says. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Research is under way to correct biases, using synthetic data to address attributes such as gender, race, and ethnicity, he says, “but there will always be a need for a human-centric lens to be applied.” Bias can be inadvertently perpetuated when AI is trained on historical data, he notes.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Announcing the new “Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer” service in a virtual event on Wednesday afternoon, Oracle executive chairman, CTO and co-founder Larry Ellison called out the company’s cloud rivals in his trademark competitive style. Oracle photo).

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The tech: Variational AI’s Enki software generates novel molecular structures using its algorithms trained on a set of compounds screened against drug targets from both experimental and computational sources. The news: Variational AI , a Vancouver, B.C.-based million in seed funding. It will also recruit a scientific advisory board.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

New York City early-stage investment firm 2048 Ventures has hired Seattle-based Minda Brusse as a venture partner. Human resources technology company Limeade hired Padmashree Koneti as VP of product and Julie Nyberg as VP of people. Jeff Bezos-backed General Fusion hired Jay Brister as chief development officer.

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