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Tech Moves: Qumulo hires cloud CTO; ex-Tableau CMO joins Conversica board; 98point6 adds COO

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. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for enterprise customers. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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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. Gopuff Photos).

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E-commerce startup Fabric, led by Amazon vets, raises $140M at $1.5B valuation to pursue ‘absurd’ market opportunity

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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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Data science drives big decisions at Kohl’s

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We’ve had a homegrown customer data environment for decades,” says Paul Gaffney, CTO and supply chain officer at the $19.4 Like many retailers, Kohl’s also uses publicly available machine learning models on the Google platform and has used Google’s Vertex AI platform. Data Science, Google Cloud Platform, Retail Industry

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Seattle startup Downstream, which helps brands with their Amazon ads, acquired by Jungle Scout

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Downstream co-founders Salim Hamed (left, CTO) and Connor Folley (CEO). Connor Folley , an ex-Amazon marketing manager, and Salim Hamed , who worked in business intelligence engineering for Amazon Web Services, launched the company in late 2017. Downstream Photo). Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Amazon and Microsoft vets raise $10M for computer vision startup used in warehouses

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Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger.

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PGA of America swings for the public cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

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. moved all the data from its headquarters and its three data centers in Charlotte, Louisville, and Atlanta to Amazon Web Services and a handful of SaaS providers in 2019.

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