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 Founded in 2014, Dolly is led by co-founder and CEO Mike Howell. Scott Porad.

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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. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Based in Bothell, Wash.,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “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 The Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

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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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

JUNE 14, 2023

Cyemptive, founded in 2014, sells cybersecurity tools including an endpoint protection service and advanced perimeter firewalls. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. 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. Silicon Valley Bank hired former Viewpath CEO and president Natalie Steck as a director on its Seattle team. Tony Bacos. Frontdoor Photo).

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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

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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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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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

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

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

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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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Industry : Sales contract management software. Co-founder and CEO : Samir Bodas , ex-CEO of Aztecsoft, Disha Technologies and ex-director at Microsoft. . Founded : 2014.

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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

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.”. Inside Expedia’s Seattle headquarters last month.

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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

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.

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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

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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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. million round earlier this year to expand its technology that uses millimeter waves to see through packaging in retail and e-commerce warehouses. Haskell was most recently CTO at distributed energy startup Alltime Power. • Jim Gort as chief engineer.

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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. You need to look objectively at the pace of the technology, the pace of adoption, and the pace your customers can move forward.

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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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CTOvision

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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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

AUGUST 25, 2021

I am excited to share that after 25 years, I have left Microsoft and joined forces with several prominent organizations poised to address one of the most critical blockers in future technology innovation – diversity, equity and inclusion. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. DEI #BeCOME [link].

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

Only 17% of respondents said they work in what can be described as a paper-free office. A staggering 40% still use paper for filing “important stuff”, and 56% are wedded to signatures on paper for contracts and order forms. This is despite around half of organisations (49%) saying they are decreasing paper consumption.

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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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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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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

“The business community is coming to terms with the new requirement for cybersecurity and the level of protection needed to defend themselves, and eSentire is ready to deliver in this environment where hyper-vigilance married to advanced technology makes the difference.”. Protecting more than $2.5 Related articles.

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