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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. Fun fact: She also said during the podcast that virtually everyone in her family is an engineer. She co-founded Trend Micro in 1988 and has been leading the company ever since; first as executive vice president, CTO in 1996, and CEO since 2005.

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Tech Moves: Startup Haven grows team to lead new fund; PSL promotions; F5 Networks adds execs

GeekWire

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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Founders Unfound: How this podcast is using personal stories to circumvent racial bias in tech

GeekWire

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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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

. — 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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Transformation, Transparency, and Talent: Takeaways from TM Forum

TM Forum

an annual gathering of network and communications service providers, technology suppliers, consultancies, and systems integrators hosted by TM Forum. pivoting last year’s event to a virtual digital series due to the pandemic. , Digital Transformation World Series. , The conference runs through October 14.

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

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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Bias, disrespect, and demotions: Black employees say Amazon has a race problem

Vox

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. And she walked away from me.”. Meron Menghistab for Vox. In AWS, for example, 12.7