GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Bumble, which recently hired new CEO Lidiane Jones, announced several new exec hires, including a new chief product officer, chief people officer, and chief marketing officer. Libby Johnson McKee.

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GeekWire

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

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. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty. Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

The longtime Seattle tech vet was part of the leadership teams during the acquisitions of Tableau by Salesforce for $15.7 billion in 2019 and Concur by SAP for $8.3 Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO. billion in 2018.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A SAP Concur veteran, Torrey took over as CEO from longtime leader Mike Metzger in 2019. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. Seattle recruiting startup Candidate hired Sean B House as VP of engineering and Krista Place as head of marketing.

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GeekWire

MAY 2, 2024

From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Gao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. Mason Photo) Mason , a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.

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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

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Berenstein founded travel itinerary planning startup Utrip in 2011 when he was 23 years old and led the company until it shut down in 2019. He will start in September.

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GeekWire

JUNE 9, 2021

As vice president of interview delivery, she will focus on improving Karat’s interviewing process to help companies stay ahead on hiring engineers. The company raised $28 million in 2019. GameStop hired two other Amazon execs in April, bringing on Chief Growth Officer Elliott Wilke and COO Jenna Owners. Angela Jones.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. The goal is to make better hiring decisions using consistent questions and processes, while incorporating culture and competencies in a way that can persist as a company grows.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2022

Founded in 2019, the company raised $12.5 It recently hired former Facebook and Amazon manager Philip Lee as CTO. Doorstead helps small real estate investors who own single-family units and need help renting out their space. million last year in a Series A round led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group.

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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Rivas is the co-founder and former CTO of Limeade, an employee experience software company based in the Seattle area that went public in 2019 via the Australian stock market. He also serves as co-founder and CTO of Keme IX , a “Chakra Healing Hotel & Holistic Center” in Tulum, Mexico. per month and $69.99

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

” MagniX’s partnership with Harbour Air led to the first flight of a MagniX-equipped electric airplane in 2019. That milestone mission kicked off a test campaign that’s expected to lead to certification in the 2025-2026 time frame. In the two and a half years since Armesmith joined MagniX, the company has won a $74.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Investment mode for some SnapLogic, an integration-platform-as-a-service provider, is among the companies expecting to bump up its IT budget, says Jeremiah Stone, CTO at the company. It’s a good time to invest in generative AI, as leading companies began to find strong use cases , he says.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2025

Reid previously worked for the Seattle-based foundation for nearly a decade, leaving in 2019 as head of global campaigns. The foundation’s former chief HR officer, Sonia Vora , is leaving the organization, which she joined in 2019. — Maria Belousova , former CTO of Grubhub, is now the chief technologist for Daydream.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. SeekOut previously raised a $6 million round in 2019. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Matt Doka, CTO of FiveStars, a marketing platform for small businesses, doesn’t like that trade-off and goes out of his way to outsource whatever he can. The net effect was that the data analysts spent most of their time just keeping the system running. They struggled to get new data insights developed into analyses,” he says.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2024

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. ” — Seattle cybersecurity startup Cyemptive Technologies hired Wessel Graatasma as vice president overseeing the company’s business in European markets.

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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. Our Vitality program is a great example of the kind of hiring, training, and customer placement programmes we are investing in to counter that trend.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

billion in November 2019. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Founded in 2019 by former Google SVP of Ads Sridhar Ramaswamy and former VP of YouTube monetization Vivek Raghunathan , Neeva is an ad-free, private search engine. based Puppet since January 2019.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. After going public in 2016, Apptio went through a private equity buyout in 2019. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc. Lisa Nelson. Microsoft Photo). Kris Beason. Katerra Photo).

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JULY 4, 2023

Be prepared to answer common board questions about cyber readiness, technology roadmaps, and plans to hire and retain a diverse team. They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

From left: Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird when the company launched in 2019. ” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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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 November 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B billion (as of November 2019). billion (as of July 2019).

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

IT leaders made regaining control of their cloud environments a top priority in 2023,” says Martin Hulbert, CTO of Ignite Technology, a software solutions provider based in the UK. Starlink, which began launching satellites in 2019, now has over 5,500 satellites in low earth orbit (LEO), making their services very useful in remote locations.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

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. “Preeti is an exceptionally talented engineering leader,” Temporal CTO and co-founder Samar Abbas said in a statement.

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JULY 2, 2021

billion as of November 2019. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. 63) — The contract management software startup originally launched in India but recently added several executives based in the Seattle region and relocated its headquarters to Bellevue, Wash. Moz , previously ranked at No.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I joined TechCXO Back in 2019, and it’s been a great experience surrounded by an awesome group of people. I’ve learned so much … most importantly, I think, that I love being a fractional CTO, a role that allows me to make use of everything I’ve learned and experienced over a long technology-focused career.

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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 Fusebit co-founder Yavor Georgiev also spent time at Microsoft before stints at Hulu and Auth0. Fusebit Photo). million seed round.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Moved to Colorado in 2019. After seven years of helping to build Sundial, its time to start something new. In the mean time, while I work on a few entrepreneurial ideas, I’ll be picking up some work as a fractional CIO / CTO and some data science / machine learning consulting. More info on that soon.

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MAY 26, 2021

million in a seed funding round to help grow its calendar tool that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help users better manage their time. The startup launched in June 2019 and previously raised $1.5 Timely time management: Effective time management has been an ongoing struggle for many people.

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JULY 27, 2023

He replaces co-founder Fadi George , who will transition to CTO and remain as president of the board. Bosché previously co-founded Slope, a startup that helped companies manage their creative project production processes and was acquired by Smartsheet in 2019. as vice president of marketing and revenue. .

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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. Eric Emans. Lighthouse Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The primary focus of the internal email was not the cutbacks among rank-and-file employees but a series of changes in executive leadership, including one departure and one new hire. Jonathan Finch, former Global CTO for Amazon Insurance, is joining Expedia Group and will lead its InsurTech business.

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