GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Amazon Web Services sales leader Ernesto Chavarin joined Bellevue, Wash.-based

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Previously she was chief of staff for cloud advocacy at Microsoft, and a vice president at Kikbox. Emily Freeman. Dr. Timothy Dellit. (UW

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NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Amazon Web Services vice president Raju Gulabani departed last month, as reported by The Information. 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. as chief of staff, the Seattle fund’s first hire.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). As for Tableau — it also has a new leader.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The fresh cash will be used to further develop OpenTug’s maritime marketplace and software platform and grow its network of shippers and service providers. He co-founded OpenTug with COO Michael Baldwin , who previously worked at Amazon Web Services, and CTO Luciano de la Iglesia , who spent time as a data scientist at Microsoft.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Read the story. Gopuff Photos).

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Founded earlier this year, Griptape is developing an open-source Python framework and cloud platform. Kyle Roche , the startup’s co-founder and CEO, spent more than eight years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in various roles. Griptape looks to address a pain point in enterprise AI app development: data vulnerability.

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TM Forum

JUNE 30, 2021

Microsoft's public cloud in a deal. that involves the software company acquiring AT&T’s Network Cloud platform technology. with Google Cloud to develop and deliver 5G and edge solutions for telcos and enterprises. Microsoft revealed its ambitions in telecom network services last year when it.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The building will house the company’s research and development team — and also serve as IonQ’s second quantum data center, following in the footsteps of its Maryland HQ. To develop fertilizer and improve food production.” “We now have, in the Seattle area, about 80 people at IonQ,” he said.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2023

. “We are in a significant growth phase and we are willing to go where the talent is,” said Brad Miller , Moderna’s chief information officer who previously worked at Seattle-area giants Amazon and Microsoft. The new office will support operations throughout the company, from finance to human resources.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Sajo Jacob. Magnify Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. The Silicon Valley company announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft last month. Steve Shure. Neeva Photo). Puppet Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Fabric thinks of itself as the “AWS for commerce,” Masud said, referring to the Amazon Web Services cloud division that provides the underlying technology infrastructure for companies around the world. Karen Brewer , chief marketing officer, was a longtime executive at Autodesk and other technology companies.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. We also pulled in some experts from Microsoft and Google to really understand what AI means to our sector.” CIO Tiago Azevedo of Boston-based low-code development platform OutSystems agrees. “In

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

The team: Common Room has less than 20 employees and is led by four co-founders: CEO Linda Lian , a former associate at Madrona Venture Group and senior product marketing manager at Amazon Web Services. Design Chief Francis Luu , a designer who spent 10 years at Facebook.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Outreach opened an office in London as part of an expansion in Europe. Former Microsoft exec and Xbox legend J Allard is joining Intellivision Entertainment as global managing director. Microsoft alum Aaron Kornblum departed for the U.K. Microsoft alum Aaron Kornblum departed for the U.K.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Microsoft alum Kelly Waldher has joined Google as vice president of marketing for G Suite. Waldher most recently served as EVP and general manager for experience management technology company Qualtrics. During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. Kelly Waldher (Google Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

Eric Berg, a former Okta and Apptio executive, is taking the helm of Fauna as CEO, succeeding co-founder Evan Weaver, who is becoming CTO. Bob Muglia, the former Microsoft executive, who was most recently CEO of cloud data warehouse company Snowflake, is joining the 40-person company as executive chairman.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) — Jacob Sullivan is now chief product officer at Faculty, a London-based company that builds artificial intelligence systems. Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Engaging the Hadoop Developer — Deep-dive with industry experts into the key projects, technology, and emerging trends driving the enterprise adoption of Hadoop. Chief Strategy Officer, Cloudera. Engaging the Hadoop Developer. Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report.

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GeekWire

JULY 26, 2023

From left: Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson, CTO Badar Ahmed, and president Daryan Dehghanpisheh. Protect AI’s first product was NB Defense, an open-sourced app that works to address vulnerabilities in development platform Jupyter Notebooks. In the AI cybersecurity space, there are several well-funded startups.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Prior to Microsoft, Didascalou was an executive at Nokia and previously worked for Siemens’ mobile phones division earlier in his career. Actively Learn Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Techstars and Microsoft vet Dave Malcolm is executive director of the accelerator. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. They will both report to Chief Strategy Officer Tom Fountain. Gilbert is a co-founder of PSL Studio.

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GeekWire

MAY 28, 2021

The Slack deal will pit Salesforce against Microsoft, Zoom, Google and others in the fast-growing market for communications and collaboration technology. That deal is now expected to close in Salesforce’s current quarter, ending July 31.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI. Refactor your applications to take advantage of web services or serverless capabilities, and re-architect your infrastructure to optimize resource usage,” he says. Today, he says, they operate more accurately.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Most of these firms seem to be on one of two paths: Success, which will mean being acquired by Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or IBM, or failure, which will see them acquired by the same firms for their talent. Cortana : Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant. Delegates requests to web services powered by Google.

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APRIL 23, 2021

He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure. A graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Boler is a former Boeing engineer who got the idea for Neu while working in property management. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael Petrochuk.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

AUGUST 29, 2008

Which is the National CTO? Barack Obama states he will appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO). its own CTO ( see CIO-dot-com ). Blogger Robert Scoble recently listed (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) the “A list” of names for the National CTO job. Chief Geek comment: Yes!

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OCTOBER 3, 2013

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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