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EV startup Canoo loses chief technology officer and two co-founders

The Verge

EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder. Image: Canoo.

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Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

GeekWire

F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down

GeekWire

He was previously chief product officer at speaker company Sonos, and spent 17 years at Microsoft. — PitchBook CEO and founder John Gabbert is departing, 17 years after he helped launch the Seattle-based financial data company that was acquired by Morningstar in 2016. “Overall, a beautiful thing and I couldn’t be prouder.”

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CIOs in financial services embrace gen AI — but with caution

CIO Business Intelligence

Highly regulated, customer-centric, and dependent on layers of human involvement and manual processes, financial services are ripe for automation through artificial intelligence (AI). So business technology leaders in financial services are carefully navigating a path toward AI. Banks have to get ready to take the step forward.”

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Tech Moves: Payscale adds president and CTO; Factor appoints CEO; and more

GeekWire

Payscale Photos) — Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. Farras previously spent more than 14 years at jobs platform Indeed, most recently as chief revenue officer.

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Cengage Group CTO Jim Chilton on the P&L difference

CIO Business Intelligence

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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Financial budgeting and analytics platform Jirav raises $20M

GeekWire

The company sells a financial planning, forecasting and analytics platform to small- and medium-sized companies and accounting firms. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Steven Turner, a veteran of Genesys, Alcatel-Lucent, LiveVox, and Zephyr Health. Seattle-based fintech startup Jirav raised $20 million.