GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

(Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Rhoads joined Amazon more than a decade ago after an 11-year career with the U.S.

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GeekWire

JULY 2, 2021

It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. Founded in 2016, ShelfEngine offers grocers a tech platform to reduce oversupplying and waste. Digital trucking platform Convoy moved up one spot to No. With strong Amazon DNA and $668 million in funding, Convoy had a valuation of $2.75 billion as of November 2019.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. He led corporate development at Twilio for the past five years. Chris Emerson.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2024

He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur. Aaron Bilyeu joined Cloverleaf Infrastructure as its chief development officer. Bilyeu previously worked for Meta as the senior director of site development for its data centers worldwide.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

The battery — which has been colloquially called a “million mile” battery in reference to how long it can last in a car before breaking down — is being co-developed with Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) and was designed in part by battery experts recruited by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. “We’re currently hiring. “We like to be hands-on and hardware-rich with our development, and then iterate toward a solution.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Sun’s team will include two VPs of AI technology, Sebastian Wieczorek and Ulf Brackmann; a CTO, Johannes Hoffart, and a global AI product manager, Nadine Hoffmann.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. The company named Cooper Werner as its new chief financial officer, and moved Kunal Anand from CTO to the position of chief innovation officer. F5 plans to hire a new CTO.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. Based in Kirkland, Wash., Lisa Nelson.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Augmented writing startup Textio hired Jackye Clayton as vice president of talent acquisition and DEI. Tech leader and Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov to lead Cervest Board of Directors. Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO. Lee was previously an engineering manager at Facebook in Seattle and also a software development manager at Amazon.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Founded : 2016. Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Co-founder and CEO : Manny Medina , former director of business development at Microsoft. Co-founder and CEO : Mike Radenbaugh , former director of product development at GolfBoard. Founded : 2016.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Founded in 2016, CityBldr makes software that analyzes zoning and land data to assess properties redevelopment potential. . Todd Haedrich. Optimize Health Photo). It raised $15.6

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The private equity company also develops and owns companies around the globe. At Microsoft, Brown oversaw corporate development, M&A and strategic investments including the company’s acquisitions of LinkedIn and GitHub. Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. The company raised a $6.4

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development. based video game developer Bungie. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development. .

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Kashyap joined Microsoft in 2016 after spending 12 years leading Qualcomm Ventures. Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse hired Curtis Brown as chief product officer. CityBldr makes software that helps property owners and real estate developers identify and analyze properties to determine their highest and best use.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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MAY 6, 2022

SAP will also encourage employees in Germany to use their Fridays for education and professional development, important tasks for IT workers trying to keep pace with technological developments. Initial reaction to Younosi’s announcement on LinkedIn was positive, with one new hire particularly keen to see it in action.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

He left to join Tableau as CEO in 2016. Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. The company announced that Mark Nelson , the former CTO at SAP Concur who joined Tableau nearly three years ago as vice president of product development, has been named president and CEO.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

. “Startups are intense, demanding things,” Goodale said in a 2016 Working Geek feature in GeekWire. “I leave for work before my family wakes up, so I’m very protective of what little time I get with them when I get home.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He left to join Tableau as CEO in 2016, Read the full story. . F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer. F5 Networks Photos). —

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

He is currently SVP of strategic development, growth and sales at technical services firm Jacobs. Vlad Melnik as vice president of global business development and partnerships. Outreach has not yet opened its physical office in Atlanta but is already hiring there. He was previously an engineering executive at Oracle and SAP.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Murray and his team have the right solution at the right time to create a forum for reasoned civil discourse.”. He was also VP of business development at SinglePoint which was founded as Wireless Services Corporation by Steve Wood. Electricity marketplace WattBuy hired Mason Hollis as director of engineering. Mason Hollis.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. He is currently on an extended leave from Starbucks which began in 2019, according to the Seattle Times. (Sweetgreen Photo). Michael Morgan (left) and Preston Woo.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

When Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched in 2016, aiming to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, it practically redefined the concept of minimally viable product, or MVP — with just one cloud region and a handful of cloud services.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jim founded Mason to address the challenges he observed with hardware development. The company originally launched in Detroit, participated in YCombinator in 2016 and relocated to Seattle. Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. Reddit Photo). Vancouver, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Spun out of the University of Washington, Icosavax has applied its vaccine development technology to COVID-19 and other viruses. He co-founded Proprio with Gabriel Jones and James Youngquist in 2016. Smart glass company Crown Electrokinetics hired Mindy Hamlin as vice president of engineering. The company went public in July.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

CEO Satya Nadella, in a memo last week to employees about the job cuts , said the company “will continue to hire in key strategic areas. Microsoft said last week it will soon make ChatGPT available as part of its Azure OpenAI Service. Microsoft is one of many tech companies that have made layoffs in recent weeks and months.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Juno spun out of institutions including Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Seattle Children’s; and Memorial Sloan Kettering Research Institute, building up their leadership in cell therapy development. Juno helped globalize CAR T cell therapies with JW Therapeutics, a Chinese company it co-founded in 2016. Fred Hutch owned 4.6%

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Facebook also said it’s doesn’t want to be the only one developing the metaverse. 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.

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MARCH 3, 2022

At ETHDenver, developers want a utopian future I knew I was in the right place when l saw a flier taped to a streetlamp advertising the “world’s first NFT bong.”. ETHDenver is a mix between developer conference and all-out party. ETHDenver is a mix between developer conference and all-out party. It is, first of all, free.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

Seattle-based Hiya, a caller ID startup that spun out of Whitepages in 2016, named Hillery Nye as general counsel and John Novak as SVP of marketing. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. He most recently led strategy and corporate development for Toronto startup Element AI. Hiya Photo).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. He is also a Hootsuite alum and was director of software development for the social media management tool after it acquired Brightkit, which McGuire co-founded. Chris McGuire. Thinkific Photo). McGuire joined Thinkific earlier this year as vice president of engineering.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

Having worked his way up to global CIO, Lane left Chemours in 2016 to become a strategic advisor for tech startup Ramessys. 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. It’s not his first foray into government work.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Read about some new developments here: This startup may have built the world's fastest networking switch chip. MOSA Technology Solutions wins FBI contracts - Planet Biometrics. At WWDC 2016, Apple is finally embracing Not Apple - Macworld. US Accuses Chinese Software Developer of Stealing Source Code - Wall Street Journal.

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MARCH 15, 2021

She is taking over from Daniel Greenshields , who led JetClosing since it launched in 2016. The Seattle biotech company, which is developing therapies using monoclonal antibodies to target cancer, went public in December. based entrepreneur Matt Kern was named CTO and president of cryptocurrency platform Makara.

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