GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. He’s joined by Chief Technology Officer Sriram Sankaran , a former group engineering manager at Amazon and senior director of engineering at Dell EMC, and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev , a former software developer at Dell EMC.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

(SeekOut Photo) Seattle-area recruiting software startup SeekOut laid off 16 employees, or about 7% of its workforce. 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.

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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. Who is it for?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.,

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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

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

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.

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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. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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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

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. Icertis is valued at $2.8

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. based Bumped hired Babak Farrokh-Siar as chief revenue officer. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation.

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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. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. Kamal Goel Web Werks.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

million investment led by NEA , representing a vote of confidence by the longtime venture capital firm in the Seattle startup’s software development tools for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud. The company says it also hired Lindsay Marolich as senior director of demand generation and Kevin Kotecki as VP of sales.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. Miner was most recently SVP of brand marketing and communications at Tableau Software. contract management startup Icertis. Arvin Patel.

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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

MAY 15, 2020

Another heavily-funded Seattle-based startup, sales engagement software provider Outreach, announced plans to open a New York City office led by David Rubinstein. tax automation software company Avalara, search business InfoSpace, drugstore.com, and Nextel. “I The Seattle office will initially hire 10 employees.

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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. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. Chris Garvey. 2nd Watch Photo). Belinda Nieves. WTIA Photo). —

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GeekWire

AUGUST 13, 2020

That same Gartner report, for example, also cautioned that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has “a very limited ecosystem of third-party management software.” Larry Ellison, Oracle executive chairman, CTO and co-founder, described the initiative as “a first in the cloud industry.” The Redwood Shores, Calif.,

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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 also advancing the idea of software-based services in anticipation of more complex services to come, spurred by standalone 5G.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Seattle-area startup SeekOut raised $65 million in March to fuel growth of its recruiting software that is like LinkedIn on steroids. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. “We are in talent acquisition. Winner: Auth0.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“I like thinking about how to stabilize, secure, and scale the organization at a foundational level, to really implement innovation,” she says, noting that her perspective made her a better fit for the CIO position rather than a CTO role with its focus on products. The WDNR turned 50 recently.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

It was 35 degrees at ETHDenver, an annual Ethereum event that started in 2017, and people were standing in line in the cold afternoon sun for COVID tests. It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”). Thank you, GM.” “GM”

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. He co-founded Boundless with Wang and Doug Rand in 2017 after spinning out from Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs. Prior to joining Smartsheet, Leban was founder and CTO of healthcare startup CadenceMD. His last day was Friday. Serdar Sutay.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

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. He was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate in December 2021; it’s a hiring process unlike anything in the private sector.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2024

F5 Photo) Back in 1999, when F5 recruited Jeff Stockdale to build its hardware business, expanding beyond its core expertise in software, the engineering leader had one condition for the Seattle-based technology company. SecureSave is fully remote, with a workforce of about 35 full-time employees and contractors. in Spokane County. (F5

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

I’m starting to feel a bit like a computer software salesman pushing vaporware. “Oh yes, that feature will be in our next release slated to come out in 2017”. We know FirstNet is subject to all Federal personnel procedures for hiring staff, issuing RFPs and doing procurements. So much for the “independent” part of that law.

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GeekWire

APRIL 1, 2021

Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. Anuj Gosalia , a veteran of Microsoft, Facebook and Google, joined the company as its chief software and cloud officer. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. Anuj Gosalia. Magic Leap Photo).

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