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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. Paron previously spent more than eight years at Shopify, where he held roles including senior lead for sustainability programs, head of community relations and head of social impact.

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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

GeekWire

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” ” Wang, who is in his early 20s, dropped out of MIT to found Scale AI in 2016. Scale AI Photo).

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Tech News Roundup April 1

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Memo: RealNetworks reorganizes, names new CTO. FCC program to help poor get online will start in December - WiscNews. FCC program to help poor get online will start in December - WiscNews. Next government will face spending 'time bombs' - Irish Times. Meet the 2016 Federal 100 - FCW.com.

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Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) Holds 18 Feb Townhall in Mountain View: Great way for tech CEOs to learn more about serving DoD missions

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On 18 Feb 2016 the newly formed Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) is hosting a townhall formatted discussion at their Mountain View offices designed to inform tech company CEOs and other tech leaders on some of the nuances to track when seeking to serve DoD mission. Bob Gourley.

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Former Amazon Prime Air employees raise $4.5M for stealthy solar airplane startup

GeekWire

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 have a really good team at Radical, bringing experience from programs like Amazon.

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SAP trials meeting-free Fridays

CIO Business Intelligence

Chief Digital and Information Officer Florian Roth was among the first to try out the new program, introducing it to the company’s IT organization last year, Younosi told CIO.com. SAP’s Focus Friday program is part of a company-wide campaign to make its meetings more meaningful. IT organization an early adopter.

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