GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai

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MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy. Earlier, he ran technology research for Forrester, following its acquisition of Giga Information Group. He spent a decade in the software industry after several years as a programmer on Wall Street. Bob Gourley. Editor, CTOvision.com.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The company acquired two international cosmetic resource platforms earlier this year. She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. Tiziana Figliolia. Hootsuite Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Lockstep , a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Technology Officer Bill Henslee , an entrepreneur and founder of e2b Teknologies. • million seed round.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Adrian headed IT Market Strategy, an independent market research consultancy. Earlier, he ran technology research for Forrester, following its acquisition of Giga Information Group. He spent a decade in the software industry after several years as a programmer on Wall Street. Bob Gourley. Editor, CTOvision.com.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. headquarters in Seattle, appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO of North America and global chief marketing officer. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. Portland, Ore.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2023

Modernize with purpose Before you begin, it’s essential to tie any app modernization project to the business need that is being addressed, says Aparna Sharma, a managing partner for hybrid cloud services at IBM Consulting. Select the strategy that best aligns with your goals, timeline, and resources,” Csonka advises.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Eddie Garcia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

But for Kapil Mehrotra, group CTO at National Collateral Management Services (NCMS), high turnover presented an opportunity to cut costs of the IT department, streamline its operations, and find a long-term solution to the perpetual skills scarcity problem. We then got into a task-based contract with the outgoing team members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Prioritize transparency Prioritizing transparent communication is necessary to maintain positive team morale, says Chip Kleinheksel, global SAP CTO at business consulting firm Deloitte. When provided with the right tools, team leaders can act decisively to align people and financial resources to maximize value.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Eddie Garcia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. The best arrangement is to have a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business unit or group requesting those resources.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Naren Gangavarapu, chief information and digital officer, Northern Beaches Council Northern Beaches Council Security resources, he adds, are in the driving seat and they can pick and choose where they want to go. For Gangavarapu, technology procurement specialists and modern software product experts are also hard to find.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

. — 3D content platform Unity Technologies appointed Scott Pitasky as chief people officer. Pitasky was most recently vice president of human resources for Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. I am thrilled to join the Unity team.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

The private company is a recent addition to the GeekWire 200 rankings, part of an ongoing project to update our comprehensive Startup List and community resources. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. If you value resources like these, please consider becoming a GeekWire Member. Snapbar (No.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Awareness of FinOps practices and the maturity of software that can automate cloud optimization activities have helped enterprises get a better understanding of key cost drivers,” McCarthy says, referring to the practice of blending finance and cloud operations to optimize cloud spend. I strike this language from all my contracts.”

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash. . Arvin Patel.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software using AI and machine learning. Sajo Jacob. Jeremy Ung.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. But CIOs are also working with niche consultancies and startups for skills in areas such as cybersecurity, AI, cloud, analytics, and DevOps. Seek cultural affinity and ethical alignment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. “As Venables believes that legacy IT presents a significant challenge to security teams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations. Faster time to market.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. We borrow proven techniques from the latest in NLP (natural language processing) academia to build evaluation tooling that any software engineer can use. Devs shouldn’t be neck-deep in evaluation pipelines just to test their software, so we solve that complexity for them.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

Irrespective of getting a small or a large IT budget, by managing it well, technology decision makers can put their organization’s resources effectively toward delivering great business benefits. This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 20, 2023

So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Key to this is a greater understanding of business operations and their production of CO2, or use of unsustainable practices and resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IT service delivery enables an organization to give end users access to essential IT services by designing, developing, and deploying key technology resources, including applications and data. Resist the temptation to simply throw resources at a problem — a dubious and expensive approach for any service provider.

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CTOvision

MAY 26, 2015

No law firm, consultancy, proprietary software solution, or cyber-insurance policy has a magic solution that will ensure compliance. The 7012 regulations are a “flowthrough” to the smallest businesses holding Defense contracts, as well as academia. First of all, what is UCTI? What is it not?

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

Here is more from their website: Public sector leaders are seeking to drive efficiency across their organizations—and those responsible for technology implementation and management are focused on maximizing available resources, from funding, to human capital, to IT infrastructures. Chief Executive Officer, HIT Consulting.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

In September, Deloitte AI Institute released a report citing six verticals — financial services; technology, media, and telecommunications; energy, resources, and industrial; consumer; government and public services; and life sciences and healthcare — as ripe for gen AI transformation. “As

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

The goal isn’t to restructure with nothing remaining from what was valuable and meaningful,” says Andrew Sinclair, a managing director in consulting firm Accenture’s technology strategy and advisory practice. The same can be said for IT operations itself. Change requires something that is stable and durable.”

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Calling herself a non-engineering “hacky person” proficient in no-code product development, Pope joined forces with co-founders Lydia Swift , a college friend who was handling Microsoft PR at WE Communications, and CTO Chris Morse , who previously worked on Amazon’s Alexa. Here’s how to use GeekWire as a resource.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., Icertis is valued at $2.8

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Here are the technologies they find to be among the most underappreciated in IT today. IT management software CIOs and their teams can hardly do their jobs nor build and manage the extensive tech stack required to support AI and any other newfangled technology coming to market today if they don’t have a handle on their IT environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Building a successful data strategy at scale goes beyond collecting and analyzing data,” says Ryan Swann, chief data analytics officer at financial services firm Vanguard. These information resources can hold enormous value for enterprises , enabling them to gain new insights about customers and market trends.

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