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. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. billion. —

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

But the Redmond company was blindsided Friday by the OpenAI board’s decision to remove Altman, learning about it shortly before the news was announced, according to a report by Axios , which GeekWire confirmed independently. But, as I understand it, it was a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company. .”

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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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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. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Chanin Kelly-Rae was a head of diversity for Amazon Web Services in 2019. Recode reviewed some of this data for the Amazon Web Services division of the company, and it shows large disparities in performance review ratings between Black and white employees. “We Meron Menghistab for Vox. Isaac Brekken/AP.

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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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