GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. The Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. E-commerce startup Fabric hired Val Rupp as the Seattle company’s first chief people officer. Fabric Photo). —

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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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GeekWire

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. . Previously, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft. Rosalyn Curato, left, and Preethi Pragash. Lockstep Photos).

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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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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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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. 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. . Arvin Patel.

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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. Valuation : $3.96

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software using AI and machine learning. Sajo Jacob. Jeremy Ung.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. The software is able to determine if the therapist is empathetic, detecting changes in vocal pitch and identifying phrases where the therapist shares their understanding of what a patient has said. The UW innovation hub CoMotion helped with the launch.

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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 Impinj went public in 2016.

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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

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 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.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

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

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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

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. Former Lighthouse CEO David Rostov joined Seattle biotech company CorneaGen as its chief financial officer. . • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing.

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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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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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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. Sales software startup HighSpot lands $248M. It has offices in Tualatin, Ore.

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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. The four-year old company provides software to connect patients, therapists and insurance companies. He spent almost a decade at Isilon Systems as director of engineering. Cheq Photos). Bellevue, 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.

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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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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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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”. Contract staffing. FirstNet’s already had a scandal. They also relate to the contract vehicle used, how the staff were identified and hired, and more.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a black entrepreneur and CTO in this fast growing healthcare technology space, I have often found myself in spaces where I am usually the lone black person at the table. I have since realized how grossly underrepresented black CEOs, CTOs or other C-Suite executives and founders of VC-backed startups are in this space.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Founded in 2019, Rebellion wants to create AI-powered software for the military, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement. The startup has claimed its tools could sort through heaps of sensitive data to help officials make decisions, and that it will ultimately build software capable of making battlefield decisions. billion. “The

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