GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

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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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

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. The advisory council currently has 14 members including Microsoft Tech for Social Impact CTO Erik Arnold ; Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf; and King County CIO Tanya Hannah.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 2014, I interviewed Gerri Martin-Flickinger, then CIO of Adobe, on this topic. Martin-Flickinger, who, before Adobe, was CIO of McAfee and VeriSign, became CTO of Starbucks for many years. Clearly, the leadership team at Starbucks had the foresight to hire a software company CIO.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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.

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CTOvision

JUNE 24, 2014

June 24, 2014 , New York City – MongoDB World — Continuing to deliver on thefuture of analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced the general availability of version 5.1 With YARN, Pentaho Data Integration jobs can make elastic use of Hadoop resources, expanding and contracting as data volumes and processing requirements change.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

6, 2014 – In the future, when an earthquake or tsunami strikes a populated area or a terrorist attack decimates a city, teams of disaster experts partnered with robots — whose skills are being honed in rigorous competitions funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — may be the first responders. “The By Cheryl Pellerin.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. Tee worked at Microsoft for nearly 20 years, leaving as a partner group program manager with Windows in 2014. Recent hires for Seattle’s Gradial, from left: Lisa Hillmann, Cara Olson and Jason Michaels. Smartsheet Photo) Cynthia Tee is now chief technology officer for Smartsheet.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. ” Porter joined Amazon in 2007, and in 2014 became a distinguished engineer, an exclusive title given to only a handful of employees. . “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai . “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit co-founder Yavor Georgiev also spent time at Microsoft before stints at Hulu and Auth0. Benn Bollay , the company’s third co-founder, was CTO at Union Bay Networks, a Seattle cloud startup acquired by Apple in 2014.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2021

Founded in 2014, Dolly connects customers with movers for short-distance deliveries. It recently hired former Rover CTO Scott Porad as its first-ever chief technology officer. (Dolly Photo). Seattle-based on-demand moving startup Dolly has been acquired by Updater , a New York moving services company.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2020

Simplata Technologies is led by co-founders Steve Banfield , CEO, and Bruce Roberts , CTO. Roberts spent seven years as CTO at Domain Tools and has extensive cybersecurity experience. Simplata is hiring for two open roles and wants to raise a seed round later this year.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

. “Their advice could be optimistically summarized as ‘hire good people and give them room to do their jobs.’ Rather than hiring new managers and getting out of the way, it might actually be better for founders to micromanage and be directly involved with all company operations, Graham writes. . We must change this.”

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Long served as the director of the NGA from 2010 until her retirement in 2014. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Gopuff, a Philadelphia on-demand delivery service for convenience store items, hired two new executives in the Seattle region: Tim Collins as SVP of operations.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

” Rick Gordon, a leader in the cybersecurity industry, was hired in July as the Managing Partner of MACH37™. The cyber test range is targeted to be operational in the fall of 2014 for companies entering the MACH37™ program and university research projects. Analysis CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC'

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

More recently, he was the creative director on Never Alone , a critically and commercially successful 2014 indie video game that’s based upon real-world Native Alaskan folklore. In a typical test session for a video game, testers and volunteers will generate mountains of data and footage, only a relative fraction of which is at all useful.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2014.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Founded : 2014. Founded : 2014. From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). billion after fresh $80M round.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 22, 2023

Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed. immigration process.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees. We are looking forward to hiring from this impressive pool of talent and growing our global presence,” said Gauthey. Concure Oncology, a Mercer Island, Wash.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

Founded in 2014 by Madrona Venture Group, the 12-person studio fast-tracks the startup journey for entrepreneurs. The firm recently announced that it hired Kelci Zile — who worked for more than three years as a sustainability leader at Amazon Web Services — as a venture partner. Madrona Venture Group led the financing round.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. based company developing technology that uses high-intensity light to beam power, announced three new hires: • Bob Zak as COO. Haskell was most recently CTO at distributed energy startup Alltime Power. • He spent seven years at Airship, a Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014, two years before the company went public in 2016. Chris Diorio took over as CEO in 2014, two years before Impinj went public. And hire good people — people with high integrity that are passionate and caring and put others first.

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2021

Last week Expedia announced the hiring of Jon Gieselman , Apple’s former head of marketing for services, to help customers make sense of the online travel giant’s tangled product lineup. When Apple released its watch in 2014, it simply called it “Apple Watch.”. billion for the same period last year. Personalization opportunity.

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CTOvision

MARCH 3, 2016

Back in 2014 I published a guest post on the Open Data Institute's web site titled How important is the quality of open data? Don't just recruit and hire data analysts. Here's a quote from that piece: Setting aside for the moment how we define “quality”. Also consider upgrading middle and upper management's analytical skills.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Diorio founded Impinj in 2000 while teaching at the University of Washington.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 15, 2015

A staggering 40% still use paper for filing “important stuff”, and 56% are wedded to signatures on paper for contracts and order forms. The number of companies actively looking at every process for paper elimination has grown from 9% in 2014 to 16% in 2015. Those that have made the move to paper-free have seen the benefits quickly.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. Meanwhile, Kurvv’s founding CTO Vince Roche has departed. Kuck joined Pushpay in 2014. DEI #BeCOME [link]. — Gavriella Schuster (@gavriels1) August 18, 2021. Jonathan Flesher. Reddit Photo). Kevin Kuck. Pushpay Photo). Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Before launching Karat in 2014, he was chief of staff for Melinda Gates at the Gates Foundation. Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru. (Ada Developers Academy Photos). Bothell, Wash.-based Mitchell joins Vioguard from the telecommunications industry.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. The company is betting a lot on this concept succeeding.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

James Collin, a professional connection who was at that time Delaware State CIO, asked Lane if he would be interested in stepping into the vacant CTO role. He was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate in December 2021; it’s a hiring process unlike anything in the private sector. and Madrona Venture Group.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 17, 2015

Simply hiring expensive data scientists isn’t enough. In September 2014, Jeanne G. By Kord Davis. To create real business value with data scientists, top management must learn how to manage them effectively. ". Full article: [link]. This article was originally run in the new People + Data Digest , subscribe to the digest at [link].

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JANUARY 9, 2015

Statistics from the Department of Justice reveal that over 7% of US households, representing more than 11,000,000 Americans, suffered some form of identity theft in 2014. The total financial loss from identity theft alone exceeded $24 billion in 2014, nearly double the amount lost in 2010.

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