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Tech Moves: Expedia names new CTO; F5 adds board members; Humanly hires sales exec

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Thumu joins the company following the sudden departure in May of two of former CTO Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu , former senior vice president, core services product and engineering. In 2014, Amazon acquired the live-streaming service whose broadcasts include video game and esports competitions.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft leader joins Shopify as CTO; StraighterLine taps Seattle tech vet as CEO

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Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. His first stint at Microsoft was from 2007 to 2014. Parakhin then spent five years at Russian tech giant Yandex, where he was CTO. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joined the Shopify board last month.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics. — Trajectory Magazine (@TrajectoryMag) July 30, 2014. "Making "Making your data widely available is a great way to recruitand hire data scientists" Via Sorensen, @ancestry CTO #dataanalytics.

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Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

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Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. He joined audio giant Sonos in 2014. Alfonso Paredes (left) and Greg Schulze. Alfonso Paredes , who joined Expedia 14 years ago, was named president of Private Label Solutions. Libby Johnson McKee.

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Tech Moves: Seattle startups hire new execs; board shuffles at Adaptive and Porch

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Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Portland, Ore.-based

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Prophia, which extracts info from commercial real estate contracts, raises $10.2M

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Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. Lexion , Advocat , and Clearbrief help legal teams sift through different types of contracts. Cameron Steele.

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Seattle startup Yardstick launches app for structured job interviews, better hiring decisions

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The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. The goal is to make better hiring decisions using consistent questions and processes, while incorporating culture and competencies in a way that can persist as a company grows.