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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. Gokul spent more than three years at Amazon, and prior to that worked 14 years at Microsoft, most recently as senior director of worldwide customer success.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner leaves Core Scientific; Magic AI founder joins ThruWave

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The former Walmart exec and Nordstrom board member — known for his high energy and outspoken demeanor — was once considered a candidate to become Microsoft’s chief executive, but left in 2016 to take the CEO role at Citadel Securities. Corredor was previously a product strategy manager at Facebook. The startup raised $6.4

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Blue Origin and Aerojet get in on NASA partnerships for new space technologies

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The 20 collaborative projects are part of a program managed by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The 3-D printing project is aimed at optimizing weight, energy efficiency and manufacturability while minimizing production cost. The selected projects will be governed by unfunded Space Act Agreements.

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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

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This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). startup developing software for EV charging during energy off-peak hours that has raised $6.2 It was selected in May for the AWS Sustainable Cities Accelerator.

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Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

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He has a background in technology development and management including working on micro-displays for military head-mounted systems and founding the MicroOptical Corporation, which created industrial and consumer eyewear-based AR products. Carmen Rojas. Marguerite Casey Foundation Photo). of Transportation and U.S.

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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Other finalists: Group14 Technologies; Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington; LevelTen Energy; CoreStack. Hardware/Gadget of the Year, presented by ALLTech. I’m excited about possibilities in the future for both of those.” ” See this post for more background on this category. Winner: Deako.

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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

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” “We’re building software for program management of complex hardware, starting with the space industry,” Conafay said. ” Integrate Space’s management software is in private beta, with wider release scheduled for later this month.