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Tech Moves: iSpot’s new CTO; VMWare exec returns to Microsoft; Expedia CFO to resign

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Nipun Dureja, chief technology officer for iSpot. iSpot Photo) — Nipun Dureja is now chief technology officer for iSpot , a Bellevue, Wash., Last month, former Fanatics exec Ramana Thumu was named chief technology officer. She was previously at Microsoft from 2008 to 2016.

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

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Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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Tech Moves: Google engineering director Ankur Sinha joins Remitly as CTO

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Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. ” Karim Meghji , who became CTO in October 2020 and joined Remitly in 2016, will transition into an executive advisory role at the end of February. Ankur Sinha.

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The New York CTO Connection/Nasdaq Startup CTO Summit is back! Use CTOvision discount code

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On Tuesday November 1st at Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square CTO Connection is hosting the New York Startup CTO Summit (15th event globally in the last 2 years). Much more info available at https://www.ticketbase.com/ events/2016-new-york-nasdaq- cto-summit - use discount code of ctovision to get 40% off any tickets!

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Tech Moves: Flexe taps new CTO; Talus adds head of biology; Vouched names a sales VP

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(Flexe Photo) — Pirasenna Thiyagarajan joined Seattle warehousing logistics and shipping startup Flexe as its chief technology and product officer. Thiyagarajan in recent years held multiple CTO roles at Bay Area startups. Flexe’s former longtime CTO David Glick left his role in January 2023.

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

GeekWire

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.