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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. It’s just a question of choice.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The decision blindsided even Microsoft, a key OpenAI partner that has invested billions into the company. OpenAI investors, including Microsoft, were reportedly pressuring the board to bring Altman back, according to The New York Times. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was directly involved in the negotiations, The Information reported.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Schwartz, who also worked at Microsoft for a decade, said Sēkr’s app is “near and dear to my heart” given his passion for camper vans and the impact they’ve had on his family “to truly travel freely.” Brodman previously spent more than a decade at T-Mobile, holding positions as CMO and CTO.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Sundaresan is an Amazon and Microsoft alum and was most recently head of growth and traffic at Airbnb. Outset Medical develops technology for dialysis, a temporary or long term treatment when kidneys stop functioning normally.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. He is also Gartner’s Vendor Lead for Microsoft. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. Bob Gourley.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2023

The Pacific Northwest is home to countless people applying technology to good causes and working to improve the sector, our community and the world. Related coverage: This nonprofit is showing how rigorous data analysis can dramatically curb youth homelessness Brilliant Black Minds Crystal Moore , vice president of Brilliant Black Minds.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas links customers with organizations that can alleviate some of these expenses, such as nonprofits that help cancer patients afford costly drugs. He was previously VP of cybersecurity startup RiskIQ, which was acquired by Microsoft last summer. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2022

Jessica Shapiro will join LiveRamp as its chief marketing officer. Shapiro is marketing veteran, previously working in leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Starbucks, Zulily, and SAP Concur. (LinkedIn Photo). She was most recently a vice president at Bellevue, Wash.-based based startup Icertis.

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GeekWire

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. Tony Bacos.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Xuedong Huang , chief technology officer of Azure AI at Microsoft, for speech and language technologies and products including the development of cloud-based intelligent systems.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Merv Adrian is a Research Vice President following RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and other big data technologies as digital business transforms assumptions about how to activate and leverage unused information assets. He is also Gartner’s Vendor Lead for Microsoft. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. Bob Gourley.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

. — E-commerce startup Fabric hired Val Rupp as the Seattle company’s first chief people officer. Rupp previously held senior HR roles at Microsoft and Amazon, where she worked with Fabric CEO Faisal Masud. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. We are privileged to be in tech in Seattle. Bill and Melinda set an amazing example for us all.”

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. Devlet was previously VP of client services at legal marketplace Avvo and spent more than 12 years at Microsoft. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind.

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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

MAY 29, 2020

Nye served as outside counsel for Microsoft and as founder and principal of Madrona Law Group, providing legal support to Amazon and Paramount Pictures. He previously held marketing and product leadership roles at Microsoft, Mercury and Accenture. — 3D content platform Unity Technologies appointed Scott Pitasky as chief people officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies. Heiner is the latest Microsoft veteran to join Truveta.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. Devlet was previously VP of client services at legal marketplace Avvo and spent more than 12 years at Microsoft. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. Clayville is now chief revenue officer at online payments platform Stripe.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

According to Weaver, Transparent Path has saved several loads of food from spoilage which has allowed the nonprofit to provide over 100,000 meals. The team includes: CTO Sunil Koduri , who spent nearly 20 years as a manager at Microsoft. CEO Eric Weaver (Transparent Path Photo). The company has five employees and four advisors.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That caught the attention of Community Brands , a software provider that helps associations, nonprofits, K-12 schools and faith-based groups manage events, memberships, fundraising, and more. Schwartz previously worked at Microsoft for a decade. It added more than 100 employees to its 20-person team as revenue spiked 20X.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

. — Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based based patent holding and technology company’s Invention Investment Fund. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

Washington STEM is a nonprofit organization focused on statewide education and social change. Collin Davis , who previously founded Alexa For Business at Amazon, was appointed as CTO of Pindrop, a voice security service. Jones became CEO in August 2019. Davis was most recently GM of AWS Productivity Apps.

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Vox

MARCH 15, 2023

Companies like Microsoft, which invests heavily in OpenAI, are already starting to bake GPT-4 into core products that millions of people use. Here are a few things you need to know about the latest version of the buzziest new technology in the market. Like its predecessors, it has known problems around accuracy, bias, and context.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

We see this as a tool to multiply programmers,” OpenAI’s CTO and co-founder Greg Brockman told The Verge. OpenAI used an earlier version of Codex to build a tool called Copilot for GitHub, a code repository owned by Microsoft, which is itself a close partner of OpenAI. It’s most proficient, though, in Python.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Flexe CTO and Crowd Cow board member David Glick. Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations. It also appointed David Glick , CTO of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe, to its board.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Auth0 was co-founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace , who formerly ran the patterns and practices group at Microsoft, and Matias Woloski , a software engineer who remains the company’s CTO. The all-stock deal valued at approximately $6.5 billion is one of the largest acquisitions of a Seattle tech company.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. Vigeo Alliance President and CEO Cassandra Chandler. Leigh Gower.

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GeekWire

MARCH 16, 2021

She said that 35 years ago, on March 13, 1986, Microsoft stock was first sold to the public. “For the last 35 years, my family has made a heck of a lot of money by selling our Microsoft stock,” Lipscomb said. .” Ruth Lipscomb of Bellevue, Wash., used her testimony to mention the significance of a recent anniversary.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Over the next two days, OpenAI employees as well as Microsoft , an OpenAI partner and investor, pushed to bring Altman back. As the board tried to work out a deal, Altman returned to the OpenAI offices, and it seemed as though it was just a matter of time before he’d be reinstated as the CEO. at Microsoft.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Other observers have noted that Facebook’s metaverse idea isn’t new — plenty of other companies , like Roblox, Nvidia, and Microsoft, have also been building out virtual worlds with virtual or augmented reality tech. They could also choose to opt out of the new technology entirely. We barely are able to cover the real world today.”.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

Other finalists: Kwame Boler & Claudius Mbemba, co-founders of NEU; Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs; Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Reserved.ai; Tony Huang, co-founder and CEO of Possible Finance. See this post for more background on this category. Deal of the Year: IPO and Acquisitions, presented by WSGR.

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GeekWire

MAY 16, 2023

Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft, and the implications of the tech giant’s stake in the artificial intelligence powerhouse, were raised as an issue Tuesday during a U.S. Image via webcast.) on July 15, 2019. .”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and CEO Sam Altman speak with reporters at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco earlier this month. OpenAI CTO Mira Murati will serve as interim CEO. ” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, on stage with Altman at OpenAI Dev Day in San Francisco on Nov.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2023

GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: A Harvard graduate in computer science and astrophysics, Ana-Maria Constantin was a software engineer at Microsoft for more than five years before starting Cascade Health. Bungie’s initial success was tied to Microsoft. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (right) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Microsoft campus last year, when the companies announced their partnership and a $1 billion investment in OpenAI by Microsoft. Photo by Scott Eklund, Red Box Pictures, for Microsoft.). University of Washington computer science professor Pedro Domingos.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

For those of you who know or remember, Code Red, was a computer worm that exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Server or IIS. I went to a private school, and so did our CTO, Elliot Anderson. And so, this was right, right before Code Red hit. VAMOSI: Okay, the timing was great for Daniel. Back to growing up.

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