GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Spiffy co-founders, from top left: CEO Aniket Deosthali; CSO Iz Beltagy; CTO Sameer Singh; and Chief Architect Matthew Peters. A group of “LLM hipsters” are behind a new AI startup in Seattle emerging from stealth mode and aiming to rethink how retail companies engage with customers.

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2023

Flexe Photo) What they do: The Seattle startup offers retailers flexible logistics and cost savings through access to a network of distribution facilities and carriers. CEO background: Sean Muller was previously chief operating officer at MediaNet Digital; chief technology officer at Demand Media; and chief technology officer at eNom.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Appointed as CTO, he was immersed in a non-profit feeling the brunt. There are ambitions to engage and retain the existing customer base, attract new customers, build better services and develop a data-driven approach for the future as well. CTO, Digital Transformation, IT Leadership.

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GeekWire

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. Cartwright was most recently VP of technology at AMMEX Corporation, a PPE manufacturer.

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CTOvision

APRIL 27, 2014

We have recently written about the release of Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN ) Fire TV – the world’s largest Internet retailer is continuing to develop hardware, providing users with more devices to access its troves of music, shows, games, and movies. To read more please log in.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

There are a flurry of competitors also developing related ID verification technology, including Eugene, Ore.-based “Vouched is fully self-serve and developer-first,” added CEO John Baird , a former exec at Blue Nile and WE Communications. Vadon was previously chairman at Zulily, as well online pet retailer Chewy.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . Clients across a variety of industries, including gaming, financial services, mobile device manufacturers, online learning, retail and healthcare are already using Cloudant technology.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

. — Audio technology company Sonos named Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay to its board of directors. DocuSign announced 20-year Microsoft veteran Kamal Hathi as its new chief technology officer. Former Amazon Books VP Jennifer Cast stands inside Amazon’s first physical retail location in Seattle.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

(CHEQ Photo) CHEQ , a Seattle startup that sells point-of-sale software to sports stadiums and entertainment venues, announced Thursday it was acquired by Cantaloupe , a Philadelphia-area company specializing in self-service retail technology.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The 300-person company offers software, APIs, and other behind-the-scenes technology used by retailers and business-to-business brands for many aspects of online commerce, including pricing/promotion, inventory management, digital storefronts, and payments/checkout. ” Fabric CEO Faisal Masud.

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2022

Walmart announced a big push Tuesday to expand its Global Tech team by more than 5,000 employees, with nearly 200 of those jobs planned for Seattle, where the retailer established a tech presence last year. (Bigstock Photo). Additionally, Walmart has 14 stores in the Seattle metro area and 66 across Washington state.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Sanober Mukadam is the startup’s new chief operating and merchandising officer. She was previously head of product at logistics company Swyft and an Amazon retail and logistics lead. — Dutchie , a cannabis commerce platform that serves retailers, appointed Tim Barash as CEO and chairman. The Bend, Ore.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Tech leaders are focusing more on developing the right technologies to support and enhance customer experience. Challenges for teams include finding effective strategies for using customer data to fuel experience decisions and developing tech evaluation criteria for their organisation.

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GeekWire

JULY 8, 2021

” The former Microsoft chief technology officer, who went on to found Intellectual Ventures, is no stranger to making a literary splash around culinary topics, having previously released the epic “Modernist Cuisine” and “Modernist Bread” cookbooks from his Bellevue, Wash.,

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2024

to address worker shortages for healthcare companies Overland AI The pitch: The University of Washington spinout is developing technology for off-road autonomous vehicles. CTO Jonathan Fink worked as a researcher for the U.S. Related coverage : Kevala lands $12.1M Army Research Laboratory for more than a decade.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A longtime Nike exec, Lee was most recently head of Global Marketing Finance for the athletic retail giant and previously served as CFO for Nike Japan, among other roles. Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . .

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GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2020

The last 24 hours have been among the newsiest in recent memory on the Seattle tech beat, including a major Amazon acquisition , an Amazon arena naming deal that initially seemed like a joke, and Microsoft’s surprise decision to permanently close its physical retail stores. . Amazon Image. But it’s actually more interesting than that.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. Wouleta Ayele.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2023

million in new funding, helping the Seattle-based home inspection startup roll out new services and develop its platform. The funding round was led by Fundrise , a platform that lets retail investors participate in private asset classes like real estate, private equity and venture capital. Inspectify Photo) Inspectify raised $5.76

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. The core aim was to reduce waste and automate manual tasks, freeing up PGA staff to help develop tools in support of the association’s growth plans.

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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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TM Forum

JANUARY 7, 2022

Andersen, freelance CTO/CIO and formerly a CTO/CIO of Telenor Denmark. During mergers, for example, the focus on IT/process integration “can challenge any on-going development efforts, including digital transformation,” he says. Tiscali’s decision to acquire the retail arm of Linkem. 5G was behind.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

For an on-the-ground look at how one major company is navigating state, federal, industry and international data privacy laws, JCPenney Global Privacy Officer Shaina Varia will share the company’s winning strategy. Cloud is just one example of how IT environments are growing more complex and facing numerous potential risk exposures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

Pick n Pay’s bold plan to modernize infrastructure and drive efficiency is beginning to pay dividends as its migration to AWS was successfully completed last year, signaling the digital ambitions of this retail giant. year-to-date, with on-demand year-to-date growth in excess of 100%. That was really the catalyst.” billion ($5.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2023

It has also increased top-line revenue by enabling MoneyGram to execute far more transactions in the 200 nations it serves — exceeding the volume of business its infrastructure could handle in the past, says CTO Joe Vaughan. “We For example, in Mexico, the company’s market remains 95% cash pickup. It’s a great efficiency tool,” he says.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. The startup provides retailers the back-end infrastructure to sell products online. Its staff developed a diagnostic test dashboard for health officials to help low-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Sajo Jacob. Magnify Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

based FruitScout landed $4 million to develop technology that uses artificial intelligence to take the guesswork out of crop yield optimization. His co-founder is Chief Technology Officer Matej Ferencevic. FruitScout. FruitSource CEO Matt King puts his crop optimization tech to the test in an apple orchard.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Sourcenext is also the source of Pebblebee’s new CEO, Doug Bieter , who has served as head of partner development at Sourcenext for two years. The addition of Bieter will allow Pebblebee co-founder Daniel Daoura to transition to CTO, with a focus on product innovation and development. Doug Bieter, Pebblebee CEO.

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CTOvision

APRIL 20, 2016

Government only as transparent as its technology, advocates say - FCW.com. Technology|FBI Says It Needs Hackers to Keep Up With Tech Companies - New York Times. Startup Spotlight: Validated lets retailers reimburse parking and transportation costs for customers. CTO Greg Godbout to leave EPA - FedScoop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 7, 2024

“There’s more and more focus on being data-driven,” says Mahajan, who leads the Amplitude data strategy efforts, in addition to her digital and technology roles. “It It really drives sustainability and is a growth engine that helps develop a competitive advantage.”

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MARCH 29, 2024

That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. Today, 60% to 70% of Rocket’s workloads run on the cloud, with more than 95% of those workloads in AWS.

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GeekWire

JULY 18, 2020

Veeve had already seen growing interest in its technology based on the demand for contact-less shopping experiences due to social distancing requirements with the pandemic. Retailers in Seattle and Northern California are testing the Veeve cart. Amazon Photo). It was only logical to assume that Amazon was thinking in much the same way.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The crown: BrainSpace will use the new cash to support development of its automated external ventricular drain, a type of device that relieves pressure in the brain from trauma, stroke or other conditions. based medical device company Rehabtronics is developing a device to relieve pressure injuries resulting from immobility.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Recurrent’s co-founder is Chief Technology Officer Kyle Rippey , whose background includes Seattle startups Rover.com, Estately and Avvo. “Electric vehicles are where all the growth in the retail auto industry is,” said Galgon in a statement. The startup received seed funding from PSL Ventures.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2014

By Bob Gourley The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory is holding a Data Science Symposium we believe will be of high interest to the enterprise CTO community. Developing general, extensible performance metrics and measurement methods.

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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. Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems.

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