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OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. As part of the transition, Northwestern University Professor Doug Downey will succeed Weld as head of the Semantic Scholar Research organization. Bhawna Singh. Auth0 Photo). Bellevue, Wash.-based Kayti Sullivan.

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MAY 8, 2024

Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. Applying AI and machine learning training on precedent case history and the fact patterns associated with those cases, Predict.law uses technology to replace the current process of manually searching for relevant prior cases. .

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MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

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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. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. based Mobile Technologies, Inc.

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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. Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll. Littlebird Photo).

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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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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. as chief of staff, the Seattle fund’s first hire.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Amy Sennett , previously general counsel at OpenText and Catalant Technologies, joins as Karat’s new general counsel. He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure.

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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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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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MAY 20, 2024

But the tech downturn that began later in 2022 caused companies to curb hiring and trim workforces — possibly reducing demand for a company like SeekOut. Jobs site Indeed laid off 8% of its workforce last week and did another round of layoffs last year, citing a “global slowdown in hiring.”

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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2022

Direct-to-customer streaming is now a focus for Disney, and today it took another step in organizing that business by announcing a new CTO for the Disney Streaming business unit that includes Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Star Plus. Image: Google/Weinberg-Clark Photography.

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GeekWire

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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MAY 7, 2024

Samar Abbas , who was previously CTO, is now CEO. Maxim Fateev , who was CEO, is now CTO. Fateev previously worked at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Abbas also worked at Microsoft and Amazon. Seattle-based communications agency Kiterocket hired Jessica Fishman as a director of renewable energy. Lisa Nelson.

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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 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.

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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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JUNE 29, 2023

Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. He spent more than 23 years at Microsoft in various engineering roles, then was part of the leadership teams at UiPath and Apptio during their initial public offering runs.

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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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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. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

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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. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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MAY 25, 2023

Other key personnel changes in the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Cloud security giant Zscaler hired longtime Seattle tech vet Syam Nair as its new CTO. Nair was most recently an executive vice president at Salesforce and spent more than 14 years at Microsoft. Miler previously held the same role at Shift4 Payments.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. Temporal Photo). million.

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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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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. Its tools work across platforms and technologies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and others. “Soma” Somasegar.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts. Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. At Google Stadia, Swift oversaw development of external second party games.

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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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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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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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AUGUST 25, 2023

Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. Microsoft Photo). Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc. Lisa Nelson. DigniFi Photo).

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JANUARY 27, 2021

— Kurt DelBene ‘s second stint at Microsoft will end later this year. The former Microsoft Office president, whose recent role has included leading the company’s pandemic response, will retire at the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year in June, the company confirmed this week. DelBene is the husband of U.S.

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MAY 10, 2023

Hootsuite hired Jessica Hartigan (left) as its chief revenue officer and Ellen Terchila as its chief customer officer. Hootsuite Photo) — Hootsuite hired two new execs: Chief Revenue Officer Jessica Hartigan and Chief Customer Officer Ellen Terchila.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“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. Cynthia Randall was promoted to deputy general counsel and head of litigation at Microsoft. Britt Stromberg was hired as CMO at Seattle menopause health startup Gennev.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

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. “We Janczuk spent 12 years at Microsoft and was most recently a VP at Auth0. (Fusebit Photo). million seed round.

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