GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. And one million output records in each of the eight files.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“As key officers of their companies, technology leaders have entered a more lucrative compensation bracket,” notes Martha Heller, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Since 2023, compensation for CIOs and CTOs has increased by more than 7% and over 20% since 2019, according to Heller. Stephenson says.

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GeekWire

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.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. headquarters in Seattle, appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO of North America and global chief marketing officer. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. 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 Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. . billion in 2018.

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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. Seattle financial services company Remitly named Gail Miller as chief accounting officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Movers & Shakers is where you can keep up with new CIO appointments and gain valuable insight into the job market and CIO hiring trends. As every company becomes a technology company, CEOs and corporate boards are seeking multi-dimensional CIOs with superior skills in technology, communications, business strategy and digital innovation.

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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

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. Amazon veteran Stephen Curial joined Jungle Scout as CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A SAP Concur veteran, Torrey took over as CEO from longtime leader Mike Metzger in 2019. Sarah Bettencourt as chief people officer. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Reagan Attle , previously VP of marketing at Clio, as chief marketing officer. (Payscale Photos). Sabrina Wu.

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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

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

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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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their positions, the latest in a series of moves by the Seattle-based travel giant to overhaul its workforce.

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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

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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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. Anup Chamrajnagar , former CFO and COO at Certa, joined Seattle marketing startup Gradial as co-founder and chief commercial officer. . Lisa Nelson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2025

Reid was most recently CCO for three years at Gates Ventures, the private office for Bill Gates. 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.

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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.

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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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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

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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

billion in November 2019. The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. based Puppet since January 2019. based Bumped hired Babak Farrokh-Siar as chief revenue officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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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CIO Business Intelligence

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. And the fast change is also becoming a challenge for IT leaders when they need to hire skilled staff.

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GeekWire

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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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 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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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. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. office locations.

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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

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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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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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2021

He was previously chief business officer at traffic tech company INRIX and the president and CEO of PayByPhone Technologies. Parikh joined Hiya in 2019. He was previously CTO at startups High Fidelity and Korrio. . — Caller ID startup Hiya promoted Kush Parikh from COO to president. 1, were not shared.

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