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

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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: Allen Institute hires COO; DexCare adds CTO; and more

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The Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit research institution founded by the late Paul Allen, appointed a new CEO and president, Rui Costa , last December. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Rick Pittenger is now chief technology officer of Seattle health tech startup DexCare.

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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. ” Karim Meghji , who became CTO in October 2020 and joined Remitly in 2016, will transition into an executive advisory role at the end of February. Ankur Sinha.

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AWS vets lead new startup that aims to connect workers with nonprofits through ‘volunteerism’

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The Field Day team, left to right: co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jason LaPier, engineer Garrett Sparks, engineer Trevor Smith, marketing and community lead Catalin Wong, and co-founder and CEO Eli Blackman. Employers and nonprofits will be able to share feedback with each other on the experience.

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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

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(Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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Tech Moves: Flexe CTO departs; Impinj names chief innovation officer; and more

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— David Glick left his position as chief technology officer of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe. Seattle real estate startup FlyHomes , which helps people buy homes using a cash offer program, hired Andrea Collins as chief marketing officer and Dan Richards as executive vice president of mortgage.

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Nonprofits accept cryptocurrency as Bitcoin and Ether values spike – is it a fad or the next frontier?

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As the values of Bitcoin and Ether are hovering near record highs, America’s nonprofits are in the peak months of their annual fundraising. 501 Commons, the nonprofit that organizes GivingTuesday and GiveBIG events in Washington, said few nonprofits in the state are directly accepting crypto at this point.

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