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Tech Moves: Xbox hires Seattle gaming vet Kim Swift; Frontdoor adds Amazon Fashion leader; more

GeekWire

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. X4Impact is an AI-driven market intelligence platform for nonprofits, universities and other organizations focused on social impact. Tony Bacos.

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Shuffl helps create new social interactions on Slack to spark joy between coworkers

GeekWire

Lee, who is the CEO, is based in San Francisco while Watts, the CTO, is in Seattle, where the 2-person company is headquartered. In addition to Amazon, Watt previously held engineering roles at Expedia, as well as Simply Measured, a social analytics firm that was acquired by Chicago-based social media management platform Sprout Social.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. The common thread is clients focused on initiatives that have a positive social impact, Kennedy Vickers says.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. In fact, at the time, the were mixed signals as a result of the report.