The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

EV startup Canoo is losing three top executives, including its chief technology officer Peter Savagian, as part of an apparent shakeup of its leadership team. Sohel Merchant will replace Savagian as CTO. Canoo’s chief lawyer left at the same time as Kranz, too, though he wasn’t a co-founder.

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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

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. She joined the Ethics and Society team in 2017 and specialized in cloud and AI.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO. Kineta said last year that it would enter the public markets through a merger.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Zhang co-founded Loftium in 2017. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. Amazon veteran Stephen Curial joined Jungle Scout as CTO.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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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

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

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

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. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Ali was previously CTO at Freightweb, a transportation logistics startup that raised $3 million last year. billion in November 2019.

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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. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. (Sweetgreen Photo).

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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

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

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

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. Julia Anas as chief people officer. She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time. .”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

. — Nintex Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Dustin Grosse stepped down from the Bellevue, Wash.-based A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2022

Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. Industry : Sales contract management software. Co-founder and CEO : Samir Bodas , ex-CEO of Aztecsoft, Disha Technologies and ex-director at Microsoft. . Founded : 2017.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2020

Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. “This has been the eventual plan for a long time,” Johnson wrote in the memo.

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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

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

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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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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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

. — Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based based patent holding and technology company’s Invention Investment Fund. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Jay Wampold , a veteran marketing executive with experience at companies including Chef, Amazon Web Services, Qumulo, and Cloudability, recently joined Pulumi as chief marketing officer. 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

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.

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GeekWire

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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CIO Business Intelligence

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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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In 2017, after exploring other ERP systems, whittling down a list of around 80 vendors, and defining its business requirements, Allegis selected NetSuite — and it didn’t go well. “We She hired Ryan Haunfelder as director of data and analytics, and they formally embarked on an upgrade to Deltek Vantagepoint.

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