GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Widner, based in Sydney, Australia, joined the Lighter board in 2018. ” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. The Redmond, Wash., Seattle, Wash.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. Weld succeeds Doug Raymond , a former Amazon Alexa product lead, the project’s general manager since 2018. She also co-founded Molly Jones, a female-focused cannabis consultation service. Bhawna Singh.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Kunal Anand, F5’s chief innovation officer. (F5 F5 Photo) — Kunal Anand of F5 is changing roles, moving from chief technology officer to chief innovation officer. It is unclear if or when the company will be filling the CTO role.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

” Neal Oman, chief technology officer for Vouched. LinkedIn Photo) — Identity verification startup Vouched named Neal Oman as chief technology officer. Oman was previously CTO at Plunk, a Bellevue, Wash., home improvement tech startup. Sanctuary AI Photo) The Vancouver, B.C.,

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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

JUNE 24, 2021

“This is the first satellite LeoStella has delivered to a customer other than BlackSky,” Brian Rider, LeoStella’s chief technology officer, told GeekWire in an email. All of the satellites previously shipped out from LeoStella’s factory in Tukwila, Wash., for satellite design and assembly. .

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Oculus Go, originally released in 2018. The move was announced by Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack , who stepped down from his full-time role as CTO in 2019 to focus on his work as an independent AI researcher. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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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 She retired from that position in 2020.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That’s a significant jump over the figures laid out in the first assessment of the state’s space economy , published in 2018. billion may sound, the impact of the region’s space industry is dwarfed by the impact of the aviation industry, just as it was when the 2018 study was done. billion annually.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Lexion announced this week that it will be acquired by Docusign in a $165 million deal, marking a successful exit for the Seattle startup co-founded by Oberoi in 2018. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2018, Zunum ran out of cash, forcing it to lay off nearly all of its employees and vacate its headquarters. 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.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

GitHub CTO Jason Warner. He will help identify founders and technologies for the firm in the space, cloud computing and cybersecurity industries. Meyerson spent 15 years leading Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin, leaving the company in 2018. He is currently the founder and CEO of consultancy Delalune Space.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Mehta joined PSL in 2018 from ExtraHop Networks, where she was CFO. David Zager is now a partner and chief design officer for PSL Studio. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer. com CEO Jay Westerdal is a senior venture partner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2024

Starting in 2018, the agency used agents, in the form of Raspberry PI computers running biologically-inspired neural networks and time series models, as the foundation of a cooperative network of sensors. It makes sense that development is the top agentic AI use case, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

To put that number in perspective, that compares to a grand total of $2 billion that every Washington startup — 175 in total — raised in all of 2018. Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. billion in the past 12 months.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

A survey of venture capital firms found that 4% of employees were Black and 5% were Hispanic or Latinx, according to 2018 research by the National Venture Capital Association and Deloitte. His own career path includes the roles of founder, consultant, advisor and various leadership titles for more than a dozen companies.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

billion in 2018. Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. 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.

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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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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark — are reportedly leaving in the coming months. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And while the Seattle area still represents a fraction of the estimated 502 unicorns operating around the globe, Seattle venture capitalist Sheila Gulati isn’t surprised by the recent spurt. GeekWire story from July 2019 : Contract management startup Icertis hits $1B valuation with massive $115M funding round. Founded : 2018.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2021

Last year, Noone left his position as Relativity’s chief technology officer to co-found a tech venture capital firm called Embedded Ventures. In a 2018 interview with GeekWire , Ellis recalled that he and Noone started up Relativity in a WeWork co-working space in Seattle.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

CEO Nathan Kundtaz previously served as Kymeta’s CEO, however the role remained vacant after his departure in 2018. Satellite startup Xplore added former astronaut Paul Richards as co-CTO and chief engineer, based out of the company’s 22,000-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash. Rendered.AI Todd Haedrich.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. — Seattle biotech startup Silverback Therapeutics promoted Valerie Odegard to president and Naomi Hunder to chief medical officer. . Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. She was previously vice president of research at Juno Therapeutics, which was acquired by Celgene in 2018.

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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. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. . He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Headquartered in Bellevue, Wash.,

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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. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

In the wake of the pandemic, Gillis’ workforce contracted from 380 employees to 115. Neu CEO Kwame Boler during his GeekWire Elevator Pitch at the Space Needle in Seattle in 2018. The importance of cleaning for rentals skyrocketed,” said Chief Technology Officer Claudius Mbemba. Catering was hardest hit.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. Neu participated in the 11th Techstars Seattle cohort and made it to the finals of GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch series in 2018. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael Petrochuk.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

. — After 14 years at Microsoft, Dev Stahlkopf is joining Cisco in August as executive vice president and chief legal officer. She has served as Microsoft’s general counsel and corporate secretary since 2018. Neil Amrhein as vice president of value consulting. He left Microsoft this month after four years.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Over the past year and a half, many have found a way not only to continue providing critical connectivity and other services to customers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, but also sharpen their purpose and make headway on major overhauls of their businesses, technology, and operations.That was one of the main takeaways from the first week of the.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

He was lured back to gaming to work on the Intellivision Amico, a new game console with a retro look and feel first announced in 2018 and intended to make gaming a family friendly affair again. Seattle HR consultancy firm Reverb announced Vanessa Brewster Laughlin as an advisor. billion merger with T-Mobile closed. Reverb Photo).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One group getting owned can also cause problems — in 2018, hackers were able to hijack requests to Amazon’s DNS and steal thousands of dollars in Ethereum by compromising a separate ISP’s BGP servers. BGP is sometimes called the duct tape of the internet. Amazon wasn’t the one hacked, but traffic meant for it ended up somewhere else.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

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. pic.twitter.com/dNTGIQ4lFT — WIRED (@WIRED) October 12, 2018. “I

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

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. pic.twitter.com/dNTGIQ4lFT — WIRED (@WIRED) October 12, 2018. “I

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

As we’re still in the early days of 2018, let’s take a moment to reflect on the past year. In 2017, the number of cyber-incidents DOUBLED,” says Robert Douglas, President of PlanetMagpie IT Consulting. Going into 2018, it’s now a necessity to devote a larger portion of IT budgets to network security expenses,” explains Douglas.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

They may be tapping different people,” said Ben Williams, global CXO of the innovation consulting agency R/GA, who has worked with brands including Nike, Equinox, and SoulCycle on designing connected fitness products and services. create a bigger market for mass in-home fitness tools,” says R/GA EVP and global CTO Nick Coronges.

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