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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. He also previously spent 12 years at Microsoft in roles including principal software engineering manager and senior director. Remitly went public in September.

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Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more

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Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Seattle-area startup Data Literacy announced Alli Torban is joining as its senior data literacy advocate.

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Congrats, And Thanks, To Megan Smith U.S. CTO, Alexander Macgillivray Deputy U.S. CTO

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John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), posted an announcement on the White House blog today naming Megan Smith as U.S.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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On July 30 th in northern Virginia, some of the greatest minds in analytics for business, outcomes, and mission impact gathered to share their lessons learned and experiences with data analytics. Sorensen’s speech actually came out of Ancestry.com’s policies and procedures for sharing its data with students.

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

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Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M to put data centers in space

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million pre-seed investment round to launch its plan to put hundreds of satellites in orbit, with the goal of processing data in space before it’s downlinked to customers on Earth. “Essentially, other satellites will send our constellation the raw data they collect. . Johnston is a former associate at McKinsey & Co.

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The New York CTO Connection/Nasdaq Startup CTO Summit is back! Use CTOvision discount code

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On Tuesday November 1st at Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square CTO Connection is hosting the New York Startup CTO Summit (15th event globally in the last 2 years). Much more info available at https://www.ticketbase.com/ events/2016-new-york-nasdaq- cto-summit - use discount code of ctovision to get 40% off any tickets!

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