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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. The broader the better.”

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Todd Persen, co-founder of Era Software. Era Software Photo) — Era Software co-founder and CEO Todd Persen has left ServiceNow , which acquired his startup in 2022 for an undisclosed sum. Persen launched Seattle’s Era Software in 2019 alongside Robert Winslow.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 4, 2023

And if you’re presenting, it’s best to study older board packages and consult with colleagues about how the directors discuss, debate, and finalize key decisions. 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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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Buss previously served as KinectAir’s chief operating officer. Howard, who co-founded the privately held company in 2019, was chief technology officer before his promotion. ” Howard said KinectAir’s software platform is designed to make on-demand flight more accessible to the public.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

She is a consultant and the former president and CEO of Laird Norton Financial Group. 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. Bevier joined the F5 board in 2006. Mark Adams.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Lockstep , a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. Founded in 2019, the platform provides an accounting-specific inbox for accounts receivable and accounts payable teams. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara.

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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. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Previously, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft. (Playco Photo). Rosalyn Curato, left, and Preethi Pragash.

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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. 2019 : Convoy raises $400M at $2.7B

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software using AI and machine learning. Sajo Jacob. Jeremy Ung.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The device has “continuous intracranial pressure monitoring supporting remote consults and new discoveries” according to the company’s website. 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. The Bothell, Wash.-based

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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. He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY.

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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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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The move was announced by Oculus’ consulting CTO John Carmack , who stepped down from his full-time role as CTO in 2019 to focus on his work as an independent AI researcher. That means the headset will remain useful long after official support ends. John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) September 24, 2021. “We

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MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig studied user experience and user interface design at the Vienna University of Technology, earning a doctorate. Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I She retired from that position in 2020.

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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. David Zager is now a partner and chief design officer for PSL Studio. He joined PSL in 2015 as chief design officer.

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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. The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. based Puppet since January 2019. billion private equity deal. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

He is currently chairman of Locke Global Strategies, a consulting group, and a senior advisor and consultant for law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, specializing in doing business in China and the U.S. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. ambassador to China and secretary of commerce.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Dartmouth alum and world champion ultimate frisbee player later became the CEO and co-founder of Five Ultimate, an athletic brand for ultimate frisbee players that was acquired in 2019. Benn Bollay is now CTO at B2B software startup ReachSuite. based cannabis financial technology company POSaBIT promoted Chris Baker to COO.

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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

JUNE 14, 2023

It acquired Adaptive Technology Group in 2019. He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. headquarters in Seattle, appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO of North America and global chief marketing officer. Portland, Ore.-based

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Odegard joined the company in 2016 as chief scientific officer. Hunder joined Silverback Therapeutics at the beginning of 2019 and was most recently senior vice president of clinical research and development. Founded in 2016, Syndio creates HR technology that helps companies maintain equal pay and eliminate disparities.

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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 Impinj went public in 2016.

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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. Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy.

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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. Founded in 2016, CityBldr makes software that analyzes zoning and land data to assess properties redevelopment potential. Berger was most recently president, a title he will retain, and COO.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

During his time at Microsoft, Waldher held various roles on the Office 365 team. Seattle sales engagement software startup Outreach added Sue Bostrom , former EVP and chief marketing officer of international technology conglomerate Cisco Systems, to its board. Mason Hollis. WattBuy Photo).

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JULY 27, 2023

Wood previously worked as chief research officer at NCSolutions, a Nielsen-owned agency that helps consumer packaged goods companies target and measure advertising. Prior to NCSolutions, Wood owned and operated LWR, an industry research consulting firm. She held the position for more than a decade. iSpot ranks No.

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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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AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). “Kevin’s extensive experience across technology companies and forward-leaning approach to innovation make him the ideal leader to chart EDB’s future,” Great Hill Partners managing director Drew Loucks said in a statement. . Kevin Dallas.

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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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JULY 23, 2021

for example, shows that CSPs’ share of the market for communications services fell from 73% to 49% between 2011 and 2019, while that of digital disrupters rose to 49%. By containerizing our software, we are aligning with our customers’ DevOps practices and enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

When Chanin Kelly-Rae started working at Amazon in 2019 as a global manager of diversity in the company’s cloud computing division, she had big ambitions for her new job. Chanin Kelly-Rae was a manager of diversity for a division of Amazon Web Services in 2019. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

As a black entrepreneur and CTO in this fast growing healthcare technology space, I have often found myself in spaces where I am usually the lone black person at the table. I have since realized how grossly underrepresented black CEOs, CTOs or other C-Suite executives and founders of VC-backed startups are in this space.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back in 2019, I launched ThinkFractional.blog and took advantage of the opportunity to learn a new platform – Ghost. Yes, I needed to replatform my blog, but I also needed a web presence for my new fractional CTOing entity. That was fun, and I found Ghost a nice improvement over Squarespace.

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