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MAY 25, 2023

She started as an operations manager and in 2019 became VP of Amazon Global Air, which manages the company’s fleet of more than 110 aircraft operating out of more than 70 airports worldwide. Kakkad joined the firm, previously known as Female Founders Alliance, in 2019 after working as a senior brand manager at Starbucks.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

In his most recent role, McCay focused on multi-cloud strategy at a private firm that worked with various U.S. It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. federal government agencies. Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. 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. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. as vice president of marketing and revenue. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2021

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice lead the crowd in songs and chants in September 2019. Amazon meanwhile has promised to become net carbon neutral by 2040, and in fall 2019 started the Climate Pledge , an effort to get corporations to join it in committing to climate goals. GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit. To support that, a core part of our mission is to enable customers to consume software in whatever format they want, across those different environments.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. tech giant also recently hired Hanno Basse , the former 20th Century Fox Film CTO, as Microsoft Azure CTO for media and entertainment.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2024

Temporal Photo) — The co-founders of Temporal , a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, are swapping positions. Samar Abbas , who was previously CTO, is now CEO. Maxim Fateev , who was CEO, is now CTO. The reception to that idea sparked them to launch Temporal in 2019. Lisa Nelson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. “We It also has private cloud hosting options. Tomasz Janczuk, co-founder and CEO OF Fusebit. Fusebit Photo). million seed round.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The company both competes and partners with cloud giants Amazon and Microsoft. Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. Cloud-based IT management startup Apptio announced Kevin Meeks as chief customer officer. Lisa Nelson. Microsoft Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Jassy led AWS since the cloud computing business launched in 2006. Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, right, with Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky at the Tableau Conference in 2019. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. 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 November 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

GeekWire has profiled several Seattle companies started by Convoy alumni: Candidate, Cloud Paper, Common Room, Far Homes, Glue, GoodShip, heyLibby, Magicall, OutGo, Rollzi, Seattle NFT Museum, Solo, and Wolfscale. The company: Founded in 2019, Cloud Paper makes toilet paper, paper towels, dishcloths, and tissues from bamboo.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Staggeringly, 65% of the respondents to our survey said they are still signing contracts, orders etc on paper. Paperless clouds. Cloud is on everyone’s agenda today. With cutting edge IT available only in the cloud, enterprises will need to look to the cloud to remain competitive and ahead of the curve.

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MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. At Microsoft, Smith led support and customer success programs for its commercial cloud business. WTIA Blockchain Council Chair Arry Yu is a venture partner.

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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. He is currently on an extended leave from Starbucks which began in 2019, according to the Seattle Times. (Sweetgreen Photo). Chris Garvey. 2nd Watch Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Rascoff, who stepped down as CEO of Zillow in early 2019, resigned from the Seattle-based real estate company’s board in April. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Adriana Gil Miner.(Qumulo

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Founded : 2019. Industry : Cloud data storage. From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2021

Seattle sales technology startup Outreach hired Mary Shea as its first ever evangelist. Former Amazon Senior Engineering Leader Shama Keskar is now co-founder and CTO of Tampa, Fla.-based Cloud services provider BitTitan promoted Manoj Kalyanaraman to VP of product and engineering. Outreach Photo). Shama Keskar.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

. — Former ReachNow CEO Steve Banfield announced his next venture as CEO and co-founder of Simplata Technologies , a new Madrona Venture Labs spinout that aims to protect sensitive company data in cloud apps. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. Vancouver, B.C.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

Microsoft disclosed its initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019. The announcement today also revealed, for the first time, that Microsoft made a follow-on investment in OpenAI in 2021. That investment wasn’t announced at the time, and does not appear to have been previously reported.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Seattle hybrid cloud storage startup Qumulo appointed Craig Bumpus as its first chief revenue officer. I see tremendous opportunity to grow and expand the business as organisations around the world look to leverage file services in the cloud and the data centre,” said Bumpus. based job marketplace for hourly workers.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

Prior to joining Mason in 2019, Nancy was a product manager at Oculus VR and Facebook. In 2019, the startup closed a $25 million Series A funding round led by Coatue Ventures. Women in Cloud Photo). Reddit hired Jonathan Flesher as vice president of business development. Siblings Nancy and Jim Xiao. Mason Photo).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

released in October 2018 and the NaaS Open API Component Suite released in 2019. Telstra’s Mark Sanders, Principal Network Cloud, noted that his company has “a strong NaaS program and are well along, continuing to enhance our composition capabilities and [employ] Open APIs. Orange aims for cloud connectivity.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Adaptive announced Conroy’s appointment to its board in May 2019 as it was gearing up for its initial public offering. Lex Schoner announced he was hired as design lead at Seattle-area enterprise software startup Magnify. Seattle-area aerospace company magniX announced it hired Tim Allen as VP of sales and marketing.

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GeekWire

JUNE 12, 2024

The company, founded in 2011 in Seattle, opened its first Spokane office in 2017 in the Bennett Block before shifting to Spokane’s Wonder Building in 2019, on the top floor of the refurbished bread factory on Broadway Avenue. SecureSave is fully remote, with a workforce of about 35 full-time employees and contractors.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

. “After 12 years at AWS taking databases and analytics from a tiny startup to the biggest player in the cloud database space, I left Amazon last month. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. as chief of staff, the Seattle fund’s first hire.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. After a brief stint at Zillow Group, he joined Zulily in 2019. San Francisco cloud computing company Netlify hired Dana Lawson as senior vice president of engineering and Akram Hassan as vice president of product. Chris McGuire. Thinkific Photo). Tony Small.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Microsoft CVP Harvinder Bhela is joining hybrid cloud service company NetApp as EVP and chief product officer. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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