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JANUARY 17, 2023

Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. He also ran an online gaming developer/publisher called Pixelmage Games.

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MARCH 3, 2021

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. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo).

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. and opened a Seattle office in 2017. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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JULY 5, 2023

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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JANUARY 11, 2022

Gulabani previously worked at Microsoft and Google. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. F5 appointed Microsoft Digital Transformation Group President James Phillips to its board of directors. He was most recently VP of business development at Vancouver, Wash.-based

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. Microsoft Photo). Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai The Redmond, Wash.,

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Microsoft Photo). Read the story. Lisa Nelson. Athira Photos). Lessen Photo).

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APRIL 19, 2023

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision.

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APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot CEO Shashwat Srivastav founded the startup after working as vice president of engineering at Dell EMC, and as principal development lead at Microsoft Azure. Users designate work through Aivot’s companion app.

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JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. “Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. She has been at the Redmond, Wash. Kirkland, Wash.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. “We’re providing a much simpler model for developers,” he said. Temporal Photo).

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering.

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MAY 18, 2023

The players: Savage founded the startup in 2018 after spending more than two decades at Microsoft in various management roles. Her co-founder and CTO is John Vert , another longtime Microsoft leader who also spent five years at gaming giant Valve. The company has nearly 20 employees and is hiring.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy. The 9-year old company also turned to the Pacific Northwest for talent hiring former Porch executive Asha Sharma as COO in February.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia , a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. Anuj Gosalia.

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MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. She was most recently chief product and customer officer at Portland, Ore.-based

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MAY 25, 2023

(Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Rhoads joined Amazon more than a decade ago after an 11-year career with the U.S.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python.

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APRIL 28, 2023

(NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Its studio head and CEO, Paul Ehreth , is a veteran game developer who worked at Microsoft and 343 Industries on games like Halo 4 and 2007’s Shadowrun.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. Fusebit Photo).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Microsoft gaming exec James Gwertzman has joined Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner on the consumer investing team. Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. Sarah Bettencourt as chief people officer.

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MARCH 10, 2021

Former Microsoft VP and Azure Distinguished Engineer Kushagra Vaid is now a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Eclipse Ventures. He is also currently a strategic advisor for Seattle area cybersecurity startup Cyemptive Technologies. Prior to Microsoft, he was a principal engineer at Intel. Kushagra Vaid.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts.

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MAY 8, 2024

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders. . “That social validation felt good.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc.

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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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JUNE 25, 2021

A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Sundaresan is an Amazon and Microsoft alum and was most recently head of growth and traffic at Airbnb.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Maren Costa, one of two former leaders of the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group who was fired by Amazon last April , is now a principal lead designer at Microsoft. ” Microsoft last year set a goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030. Clariond is a managing partner at New York-based private investment office Baudpont.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

. “I’m excited to take some time to rest (and write!) Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Ketelsen joined in July 2022 and was a principal developer advocate. He previously worked at Microsoft, XOR Data Exchange, and Clarity Services.

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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. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. SeekOut Photo). SeekOut CEO and co-founder Anoop Gupta.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The company also promoted Chris McGuire to chief technology officer, taking over from Thinkific co-founder Matt Payne who will now be SVP of innovation. He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. He was previously a senior director of product management at Dell EMC and program manager at Microsoft.

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MAY 5, 2024

… Read More Microsoft will base part of senior exec comp on security, add deputy CISOs to product groups Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big customers.

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