GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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APRIL 5, 2023

The former CTFusion team, from left to right: CEO Derek Sutherland; Chris Ajemian, vice president; Kyle Morgan, scientist; and Aaron Hossack, chief technology officer. The fourth founder, Chris Ajemian, is working as an independent consultant in the areas of fusion energy commercialization and energy policy. ”

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MARCH 11, 2021

. — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Contract management startup Icertis added two new board members; Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman of PSP Partners, former U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Ries was most recently general manager of demand generation at contract management startup Icertis. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. He was most recently head of technology at the company.

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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

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. She has been at the Redmond, Wash. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer. At Blue Nile, a Seattle-based online jewelry retailer, Gower was VP of technology. She was previously senior director of technology and product at T-Mobile and a consultant at Slalom Consulting. Doorstead raised $12.5

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO. She works as a biotech and pharmaceutical consultant at HH Consulting, where she helps investors perform due diligence. Hagen also works as CTO of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, a startup developing cell-based therapies to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting company Bridge. 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. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer. Boundless CEO Xiao Wang.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2017, Zunum Aero was flying high. The company filed a lawsuit in Washington Superior Court this week accusing aerospace giant Boeing of fraud, technology theft, breach of contract, and misappropriation of trade secrets. And now, Zunum is striking back at one of its former investors.

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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

MAY 18, 2020

In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. Counselors are often anxious about recording sessions and having others — or even themselves — listen to them, said Michelle Peavy , a clinical psychologist and research consultant with Evergreen Treatment Services. “I

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. A Microsoft alum, Grant has worked as a consultant and is a former Zillow director of product marketing. Sajo Jacob.

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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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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 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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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

What are the most important lessons that IT leaders and CIOs learned (or should have learned) in 2017? In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. The 2017 Ponemon “ Cost of Data Breach Study ” found that the average cost of a data breach is $3.62

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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

JULY 9, 2020

He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based contract management startup Icertis. Arvin Patel. Brian Smith.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The first two passengers were Virgin Hyperloop’s chief technology officer and co-founder, Josh Giegel, and head of passenger experience, Sara Luchian. Virgin Hyperloop projects that with enough track it can eventually get up to 670 mph — but the company’s record to date is 240 mph, which it hit in 2017.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

CDDO representatives said that the strategy will align with government departments’ own digital transformation strategies, and that CDO and CTO networks throughout Whitehall were consulted throughout its development. The technology industry is excited by this ambitious strategy and is ready to support its delivery and implementation.”.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

Seattle HR consultancy firm Reverb announced Vanessa Brewster Laughlin as an advisor. She previously spent more than five years at strategy consulting firm Chamber Collective and more than six years at Starbucks as an analyst and product manager. software company Clearwater Analytics hired Warren Barkley as CTO. Reverb Photo).

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The infamous Israel-based NSO Group, known for its hacking spyware Pegasus, was placed on the United States Government's Entity List for engaging in malicious cyber activities, along with three other foreign companies, Candiru, Computer Security Initiative Consultancy PTE (COSEINC), and Positive Technologies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. million in 2017). million from 2015 to 2016 and an additional $35.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I The WDNR turned 50 recently.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 24, 2017

These points are consistent with what I have found in my own research and consulting on data program planning and management, i.e., the need to align data analytics with business goals, coupled with the need to provide both tactical and strategic value from improved analytics. Copyright © 2017 by Dennis D. McDonald.

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Chief Seattle Greek Blog

AUGUST 6, 2015

The Board also struggled with “get it started urgently” versus “consult with public safety” to design the network. FirstNet made mistakes in hiring professional staff – Bill D’Agostino as Executive Director and Ali Afrashteh as Chief Technology Officer. State Plans finished and sent to Governors – late 2017 and 2018.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Group14 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Rick Costantino (left) and CEO Rick Luebbe inside of the company’s commercial-scale manufacturing factory in Woodinville. Group14 Technologies , the Woodinville, Wash. Zap has raised a total of roughly $200 million since launching in 2017. Corvallis, Ore.-based

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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. Former Smartsheet Distinguished Engineer Bruce Leban has joined San Francisco HR management startup Rippling as chief architect.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Prouty joined Convoy in 2017 and previously led Uber’s Seattle engineering center. and plans to add an office in Seattle. based Cheq , a mobile payment platform for restaurants and concessionaires, appointed Jake Stone as chief revenue officer and Jim Castillo as chief technology officer.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

pic.twitter.com/2AZKIhVy3H — Jared Axelrod (@JaredAxelrod) October 20, 2017. Kelly-Rae left Amazon in September after just 10 months; she is now focused exclusively on a consulting business she founded 20 years ago, Chanin Kelly-Rae Consulting. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

pic.twitter.com/2AZKIhVy3H — Jared Axelrod (@JaredAxelrod) October 20, 2017. Kelly-Rae left Amazon in September after just 10 months; she is now focused exclusively on a consulting business she founded 20 years ago, Chanin Kelly-Rae Consulting. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Class of 2017 Yearbook: The Honorees. Agrafiotis Chief data officer and head of technology products Covance. Sami Ben Jamaa Senior executive officer and CIO Coca-Cola East Japan. Garcia Chief technology adviser Manila Water. Gint Grabauskas CTO Vixxo. Saravanan Gurumurthy CTO ForwardLine.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2020

White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios speaks at the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Tech Prom in 2018. White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios ?— has himself been enlisted for another role as the Defense Department’s top official for technology.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In 2017, for example, Radian struck a deal with the Port of Bremerton to lease a half-acre of land at Bremerton National Airport for a rocket engine test facility. Despite Radian’s stealthiness, there’s ample evidence that the venture’s plan is more than a pack of PowerPoint slides.

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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. DelBene manages a budget of approximately $5 billion, leads a workforce of some 16,000 government and contract staffers, and provides tech services to more than 3,000 locations. “We

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