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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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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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

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UiPath also recently promoted Munil Shaw from senior vice president of engineering to chief technology officer of cloud. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. Freed will continue to serve on the board of Bamboo Learning and as an advisor.

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Tech Moves: Amazon’s director of Alexa Trust; BECU adds CIO; Lockstep, Fabric exit stealth mode

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Toth was previously VP of people and policy at Slack and head of privacy and policy for Google social products including Google+. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido.

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

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Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. Vigeo Alliance President and CEO Cassandra Chandler.

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Tech Moves: Bill-Gates backed Kymeta adds new co-CEOs; ex-Zillow exec joins Roofstock board

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Satellite startup Xplore added former astronaut Paul Richards as co-CTO and chief engineer, based out of the company’s 22,000-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash. He was most recently VP and CTO at Genesis Engineering Solutions and previously spent 13 years at NASA. The Seattle Kraken will play its inaugural game on Oct.

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