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Tech Moves: Workday CIO joins Tanium board; Madrona investor departs; City of Seattle hires CTO

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Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — The City of Seattle announced Thursday it hired Rob Lloyd as its interim CTO and director of the IT department. Diefendorf has been chief operating officer since 2016; he’ll keep that title and also become the company’s new president.

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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. Gennev, which launched as Genneve in 2016, was acquired by Florida-based women’s healthcare company Unified Women’s Healthcare in October. Bahadur will be based in the Seattle area.

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Tech Moves: Madrona adds three new venture partners; DexCare hires exec; and more

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Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month. The company was acquired in 2016 by biotech giant AbbVie for $6.2 Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO.

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Tech Moves: Docker and Qualtrics leaders join Seattle startup Mason; Beyond adds Zulily director

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From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Gao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. Mason Photo) Mason , a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.

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Tech Moves: Amazon names new workplace safety leader; Zscaler hires Salesforce EVP; and more

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Raoul Sreenivasan , who joined Amazon in 2016 and is director of Amazon Global Air, will take over most of Rhoads’ Amazon Air responsibilities, Felton said. Other key personnel changes in the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Cloud security giant Zscaler hired longtime Seattle tech vet Syam Nair as its new CTO.

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Why the former Tableau CEO just joined the board of a Zurich-based AI data analytics startup

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Thomas, and CTO JP Monteiro in Zurich. He was announced as Veezoo’s new board member Monday, joining its three co-founders on the four-person board: brothers Marcos Monteiro (CEO) and JP Monteiro (CTO), and Till Haug (COO). With that, it’s also planning to hire in the U.S., Veezoo Photo.)

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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet named CEO at Vouched; Sana hires chief scientific officer

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He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur. Founded in 2016 and previously known as DroneSeed, Mast Reforestation restores forests scorched by wildfires and is the biggest seed supplier in the western U.S.