GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. Benson splits his time between Bellevue, Wash.,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. Amy Sterner Nelson , who founded the company in Seattle in 2017, will again be the sole CEO of the 5-person startup. Kirkland, Wash. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

SeekOut previously laid off 7% of its staff in October, and said it had about 200 employees at the time. Founded in 2017, SeekOut’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies to help with recruiting. Related: Tech job market remains in flux as layoffs continue and experienced workers struggle to get hired

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. The startup has bootstrapped since founding in 2017 and works with a handful of pilot customers. The robots were deployed at Seattle-based restaurant Marjorie to package to-go meals in boxes and bowls.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. tech giant also recently hired Hanno Basse , the former 20th Century Fox Film CTO, as Microsoft Azure CTO for media and entertainment.

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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. In 2017, he became VP of Amazon Robotics, managing the company’s robotic technology operations in its warehouses and with other high-tech projects. “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. In 2017, Oberoi joined Pioneer Square Labs. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. Founded in 2017, SeekOut’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies including Salesforce and McKinsey & Co. The company confirmed the layoffs in response to a GeekWire inquiry Wednesday, citing a restructuring to align with growth investment areas.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

Founded in Provo, Utah, Qualtrics employs more than 3,300 people and established a co-headquarters in Seattle in 2017. ” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2024

Jason Koo, Sanctum co-founder and CTO. She has been joined by Jason Koo , who is CTO and co-founder. Spierenburg said this approach differs from another company, Boston-based Sleepbox , which was one of the winners at a 2017 startup contest held during an Airport Innovation Forum at Sea-Tac Airport.

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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. Boundless, spun out of Pioneer Square Labs in 2017, helps immigrants get in touch with lawyers and file applications for spousal visas and U.S. citizenship.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

. — Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. . Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Ali previously served as EA’s vice president of engineering for player and developer experiences, departing the gaming company in 2019 to focus on Freightweb full-time. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

He helped spin out McAfee from Intel in 2017. Terrill was previously CEO of HomeAdvisor for more than seven years and led a reverse merger of Angie’s List in 2017. New York City early-stage investment firm 2048 Ventures has hired Seattle-based Minda Brusse as a venture partner. Puppet raised $40 million in July.

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2022

million sub-contract awarded to the biotech company by the U.S. Younger founded the company in 2017 with CTO Randolph Lopez using technology they helped to develop while graduate researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. The partnership is powered by a $1.1 Department of Defense.

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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. Radical Photo). Seattle-based Radical says it has raised $4.5

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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. Wang helped launch Boundless in 2017. Impinj went public in 2016. As of March, there were 388,908 cases in the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Gaurav Sharma becomes group CTO of Poonawalla Fincorp. February 2022. January 2022.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The organization, founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, started expanding its incubator program in 2017 after successfully spinning out two AI companies. He has been a professor of neurological surgery at UW for 14 years and the director of UW Medicine’s Sports Institute since 2017. million to date. Mindy Hamlin.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Canoo was founded in late 2017 when former BMW executive Stefan Krause left then-struggling EV startup Faraday Future. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder. Three of Canoo’s nine co-founders remain.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

She has worked for Qualtrics, which has dual headquarters in Seattle and Provo, Utah, since 2017. “The technology changes all the time. .” GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO. “I’m not done,” she said.

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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. Peterson joined Tagboard in 2017 as VP of marketing. Oregon Venture Fund Partner Scott Sandler left his full-time role at the Oregon and southwest Washington-focused investment firm. Vancouver, B.C.-based

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Dossett originally joined the Seattle-based company in 2017 and was most recently EVP of sales and marketing. Dayanand Sharma , The Handoff Company. Eric Emans.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The company says it also hired Lindsay Marolich as senior director of demand generation and Kevin Kotecki as VP of sales. Other recent hires include Lee-Ming Zen as VP of engineering, building out a technology team led by CTO Luke Hoban. Pulumi has raised a new $37.5 The company faces no shortage of competition.

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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. Concure Oncology, a Mercer Island, Wash.

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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. Garvey joined 2nd Watch in 2017 and was most recently EVP of cloud services. (Sweetgreen Photo). He previously held roles at Intellectual Ventures and Vulcan Capital.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. Founded : 2017. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). billion after fresh $80M round. Valuation : $2.8

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

“Over time we’re accumulating these enormous repositories of protein interaction data that we can also use with computational tools like machine learning to better understand and engineer protein interactions,” said CEO David Younger in an interview with GeekWire.

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JUNE 14, 2022

There’s also a commitment to ‘reflect the diversity of the UK population’ through the DDaT workforce, and to align role definitions to the DDaT capability and pay frameworks – which hopes to reduce average time to hire to 30 days. A system that unlocks digital transformation. Reaction to the UK’s new digital strategy. Pay and Notify.

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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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TM Forum

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Telstra is generally acknowledged as the first CSP to implement NaaS, starting at least as far back as 2017, when it lamented that there was no standard way to expose network services. TELUS is expanding its enterprise service marketplace to what CTO Ibrahim Gedeon calls a 'service delivery framework on steroids'.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

Larry Ellison, Oracle executive chairman, CTO and co-founder, described the initiative as “a first in the cloud industry.” “This has been the eventual plan for a long time,” Johnson wrote in the memo. “Oracle’s CAPEX has been declining in absolute and relative terms since 2017.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2023

The retail giant hired Jason Morris as its new chief technology and information officer, effective May 1. Seattle immigration startup Boundless hired Wenhan Zhang as its new head of engineering. Zhang previously was CTO at New York City real estate company Alfred, and held leadership roles at Amazon and Microsoft. Jason Morris.

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