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

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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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Tech Moves: UW announces director for new DoD program; Microsoft vet joins EQT; and more

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NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. He’ll be based at the CoMotion, the university’s innovation hub, and will run programs including Hacking for Defense and Starts. NSIN tapped Justin Dunnicliff as its university program director at the UW. The company raised a $6.4

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

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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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How Important Is “Perfect Data” To Data Analytics Programs?

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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? The question of "where to start" on a data analytics program was another important question raised by the DorobekINSIDER attendees. Don't just recruit and hire data analysts.

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Haystax Technology (@HaystaxTech) Names Advisory Board Members (including @BobGourley and @BobFlores)

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McLean, VA – January 14, 2014 – Haystax Technology, Inc. He also was a representative on several government-wide information sharing committees and councils; and was assigned line and staff management roles in applications programming, training and education, contract and program management. Media Contact: Laura Taylor.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

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Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Founded : 2014. Founded : 2014. Co-founder and CEO : Nick Fajt , former principal program manager working on Microsoft’s HoloLens. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). billion after fresh $80M round. Karat Photo). Valuation : $1.1

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

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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