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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

MAY 7, 2021

ai, Athenahealth, and Blue Yonder, previously known as JDA Software. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Kennedy joined Adaptiva in 2019 as chief growth officer. He was most recently CFO at RSA Security.

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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

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

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The majority operate in enterprise software or cloud computing. In fact, GeekWire reported this week on a little-known enterprise software company that just joined the unicorn ranks. 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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

By Tom Thorpe, Vice President International Markets, Broadcom Software. It’s been great to see people returning to face-to-face meetings in recent months – for us at Broadcom Software, a little more than most. Talk about timing: just as we completed the acquisition of Symantec in November 2019, a global pandemic hit.

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GeekWire

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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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

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. Karat helps software engineering teams with the first round of technical interviews. The company raised $28 million in 2019. Jones became CEO in August 2019. Angela Jones.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. Founded in 2004, the company makes software to help enterprises use Postgres, an open-source database. Kevin Dallas. billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022. EDB has more than 1,500 customers and over 750 employees.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.,

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

And then today, another blockbuster unicorn boosted its valuation, with Seattle-based sales engagement software company Highspot raising $248 million at a $3.5 Of the 15 companies on the list, nine of the companies employ CEOs who spent time at the software giant, many in high-level executive roles. billion valuation.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A Seattle tech vet, Morrow was an executive at Apptio for five years including through the software company’s IPO and later $1.9 billion in November 2019. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. based Puppet since January 2019. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“I attribute the entrepreneurialism of so many alums to the culture and high hiring bar in the early days of the company,” said Ryan Soskin , the 15th employee at Convoy who is now CEO of trucking software platform GoodShip. Convoy CEO Dan Lewis.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Davidoff founded Atlas in 2019. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO. The value of its contracts with hospitals and health systems grew by 450% in 2021. (Atlas Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

. — Kalungi, a Seattle-area marketing agency for business-to-business software companies, appointed Brian Graf as its new CEO. A University of Washington graduate, Graf has led marketing efforts for more than 20 software companies and most recently worked as Kalungi’s chief marketing officer team lead.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. He joined Publicis Media in 2019. February 2022. Kamal Goel Web Werks. January 2022.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex. based startup, founded in 2019. The device provides an electrical stimulus via pads on the skin to increase muscle contraction and blood flow.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Convoy opened its Atlanta office in 2019. Founded in 2015 and backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Convoy’s software automates transactions between trucking companies and shippers. Goodale transitioned from the CTO role to chief experience officer in 2021. They are battling for a share of a $800 billion U.S.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

team, from left to right: Ian White, principal software engineer, co-founder Henry Shapiro, and co-founder and CEO Patrick Lightbody. 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 original Reclaim.ai based Reclaim.ai

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2023

More recently, Ehreth was the lead designer on Remedy’s surreal 2019 action game Control , and the co-founder of the Redmond, Wash.-based Anchor Point consists of 17 people, and plans to hire three more in the next couple of months. based startup NC2 Media.

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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. Keiser was most recently COO of CRM software company Zendesk. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. Eric Emans.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The tech: Variational AI’s Enki software generates novel molecular structures using its algorithms trained on a set of compounds screened against drug targets from both experimental and computational sources. The news: Variational AI , a Vancouver, B.C.-based million in seed funding. It will also recruit a scientific advisory board.

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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. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Adams joined the Seattle biotech giant last year as CTO. A Fred Hutch spinout, Adaptive went public in 2019 and has been leveraging its immune medicine platform in the fight against COVID-19. (Adaptive Biotechnologies). Adaptive Biotechnologies has promoted one exec, while another is departing next month. Mark Adams is now COO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. Stephenson says. The broader the better.”

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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. Oregon Venture Fund Partner Scott Sandler left his full-time role at the Oregon and southwest Washington-focused investment firm. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 22, 2024

Despite those complications, a huge majority of IT leaders expect their organizations’ IT budgets to increase — at least moderately — in the next fiscal year, with IT talent and software spending leading the way. Talent, software spending lead the way According to Forrester’s guide, personnel accounts for nearly 35% of IT budgets.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year.

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GeekWire

JULY 19, 2023

The event went on a pandemic hiatus and is returning for the first time since 2019 under new ownership. Founded in 2021, the startup raised $8 million last year to fuel growth through partnerships and events. Lapham is the former CEO and board advisor of Asia Clean Capital, a solar panel developer in China.

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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. She previously spent more than a decade leading IT teams at Seattle software company Attachmate. office locations. Belinda Nieves. WTIA Photo). — Vancouver, B.C.

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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. By 2019, more than 30 percent of the 100 largest vendors' new software investments will have shifted from cloud-first to cloud-only, according to market analyst Gartner. What is holding business back. Paperless clouds.

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MAY 20, 2020

During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. At the time of his departure, he was general manager of Microsoft 365. Seattle sales engagement software startup Outreach added Sue Bostrom , former EVP and chief marketing officer of international technology conglomerate Cisco Systems, to its board.

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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. Lockstep , a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. Goldsmith was most recently CTO at identity verification provider Onfido. Amazon Photo).

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Prior to joining Mason in 2019, Nancy was a product manager at Oculus VR and Facebook. Mason’s solution provides clients with custom-built hardware and software for single-purpose Android devices. In 2019, the startup closed a $25 million Series A funding round led by Coatue Ventures. Siblings Nancy and Jim Xiao.

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