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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A SAP Concur veteran, Torrey took over as CEO from longtime leader Mike Metzger in 2019. “I’ve spent my career supporting game developers, first on the creative side, then with backend services at PlayFab, and most recently at Microsoft,” Gwertzman wrote on LinkedIn. (Payscale Photos). He is based in Atlanta.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. The longtime Seattle tech executive served as CTO of BuddyTV and Cozi Group, spent more than a decade on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association, and co-founded Bsquare. — Jay Inslee. Vancouver, B.C. Jen Haller.

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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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APRIL 28, 2023

(NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Its studio head and CEO, Paul Ehreth , is a veteran game developer who worked at Microsoft and 343 Industries on games like Halo 4 and 2007’s Shadowrun.

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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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MAY 25, 2023

(Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Rhoads joined Amazon more than a decade ago after an 11-year career with the U.S.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time.

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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. Seattle startup Ally.io, which develops goal-setting collaboration software, added three new executives: Rajiv Arunkundram as head of product. He will start in September.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So he decided to launch a startup to develop one. 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. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews. Yardstick Image).

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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, 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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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

. “The opportunity to see what you’re doing fly in such a short amount of time — that opportunity is so rare in this industry.” where scores of employees design, develop and manufacture electric powertrains. … You don’t become a CTO without being a bit of a nerd,” she says with a laugh.

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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. Media executive Virl Hill was named head of worldwide business development and strategy for Microsoft’s media and entertainment group.

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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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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

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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JANUARY 21, 2021

Fusebit , a new Seattle startup aiming to help developers with software integration capabilities, has raised a $3.3 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. Fusebit Photo).

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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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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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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The crown: BrainSpace will use the new cash to support development of its automated external ventricular drain, a type of device that relieves pressure in the brain from trauma, stroke or other conditions. based startup, founded in 2019. The startup declined to provide further details when contacted by GeekWire. Lassen Peak Photo).

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Robson Grieve , chief marketing officer at OutSystems, an enterprise application development and deployment company, is relocating to Seattle from San Francisco. . Last year, OutSystems hired three new executives in the Seattle region — all Microsoft veterans — as part of its U.S. Based in Kirkland, Wash., Lisa Nelson.

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MAY 20, 2024

Overland Photo) A hot Seattle startup developing autonomous driving technology for off-road vehicles announced a $10 million seed round to fuel its growth. Last month Overland announced that it won a two-year contract worth up to $18.6 Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S.

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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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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Hutcheson has served as Kymeta’s executive chairman since 2019 and will continue in that role along with his new responsibilities. Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Rendered.AI Todd Haedrich. It raised $15.6

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AUGUST 2, 2024

Suzan DelBene, Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson, and Sana CTO Snehal Patel also participated in the ceremony. Sana, which launched in 2019 and had a record-breaking IPO in 2021, has one drug program ready for scaled production — allogeneic CAR-T cells targeting blood cancers like leukemia and autoimmune diseases. Washington state Rep.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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MAY 14, 2020

The battery — which has been colloquially called a “million mile” battery in reference to how long it can last in a car before breaking down — is being co-developed with Chinese battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) and was designed in part by battery experts recruited by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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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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MARCH 23, 2021

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. ” AWS CEO Andy Jassy at the 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. . GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).

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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). office locations. Belinda Nieves.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Co-founder and CEO : Manny Medina , former director of business development at Microsoft. Founded : 2019. GeekWire 200 rank : No. Founded : 2016. Convoy’s Dan Lewis (left) and Grant Goodale.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The people: CEO Handol Kim co-founded the company in 2019 with CTO Jason Rolfe and three of the company’s machine learning researchers, Ali Saberali , Mehran Khodabandeh and Zaccary Alperstein. Variational AI Photo).

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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. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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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. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO. WTIA Blockchain Council Chair Arry Yu is a venture partner.

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