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 July 2020 : Salesforce Ventures leads $120M round in Auth0 as pandemic fuels Seattle-area startup’s identity tech.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. The company, which sold a wall-mounted mirror that streams workout classes, was acquired by Lululemon for $500 million in 2020. Smedley did not ship any games at Amazon, Bloomberg noted.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Chicago, Ill.-based

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Prior to joining Kaskada in 2020, Parkey spent five years at augmenting writing startup Textio. Mishra was most recently CTO at Steve Ballmer’s USA Facts. Economic development group OneRedmond announced Shawn Palmer as an advisor for its East King County Small Business Development Center. She has her Ph.D.

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

” Diligent discernment From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Oberoi made hundreds of calls to lawyers, paralegals, contract managers, consultants, and various other stakeholders. He learned that companies were struggling to track contracts.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Former Amazon Air VP Gur Kimchi was appointed to the board of Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy, a developer of autonomous flight systems. Kimchi left Amazon in September 2020 after eight years. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Anas was previously VP of employee experience at Adobe. • Edward Chen as head of corporate development and strategy. He led corporate development at Twilio for the past five years. Chris Emerson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

That’s up by 69% over 2020 levels, meaning 517 new unicorns joined the club last year, CB Insights reported. 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. Industry : Sales contract management software. Valuation : $2.8

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles. She helped start MajorBoost last September.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. He co-founded Room on Call (now Hotelopedia) in 2015, where he set up the complete technology infrastructure, development, product management, and operations. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. February 2022. January 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

These boomerang CIOs have every reason to be as successful as a more traditional external new hire, but not more so, according to Martha Hello, CEO of Heller Search Associates. Kevin Miller, CTO of the Americas, IFS IFS A little over a year later, however, Miller returned to IFS as an associate vice president and is now CTO of the Americas.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

(Snapbar Image) Nearly three years after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live events and put Sam Eitzen’s physical photo booth business in serious jeopardy, the co-founder and CEO of Snapbar now has a developing picture of what survival and success looks like. ” The software engineer, Patrick Ellis, is now Snapbar’s CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Yoko Miyashita , Leafly’s CEO since 2020. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO. Fred Hutch promoted Hilary Hehman to VP of business development.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

The Guardian reported that from March 19, 2020, to Feb. ” The information, considered a fraction of hate incidents that actually occur, was in a report released on Tuesday by Stop AAPI Hate , a not-for-profit coalition tracking incidents of violence, discrimination and harassment. This is horrendous. StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

which Orange will develop with Cap Gemini and run on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. National data services managed by CSPs are taking root in global hyperscalers’ clouds as the result of a ruling on European data in July 2020, called. It follows the announcement by Orange in May of a. a national cloud hub in Italy.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2021

Unlike the 2020 class, which had to pivot to a remote format in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 participants and Techstars organizers are applying lessons learned from the past year of remote work. Pradyut Paul (left), CEO, and Avinash Kunaparaju (CTO) of Bild. Techstars Seattle Managing Director Isaac Kato.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Satellite startup Xplore added former astronaut Paul Richards as co-CTO and chief engineer, based out of the company’s 22,000-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash.

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GeekWire

APRIL 13, 2023

During his time off in April 2022, he worked with a therapist to develop a plan to re-establish his focus and confront some lingering childhood traumas. ” Despite trying economic times and Kumar’s personal struggles, Humanly has pivoted and emerged stronger. “But it certainly takes proactiveness and awareness.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. The trio had previously worked at SparkCognition, an AI-focused startup where Terrell led business development for healthcare, Liu was a research scientist, and Kawale was VP of customer success and partnerships. BirchAI Photo).

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Cambia Grove announced its 2020 Innovator Fellows. Ideoclick, a Seattle e-commerce startup, promoted Jonathan Ferrell to vice president of business development.

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mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

What challenges can we expect in 2020? As we look to 2020, IT teams should expect to see increasing focus on intelligent automation and AIOps to help them address challenges introduced by digital transformation and to move closer to achieving self-healing IT.”. A ransomware strategy must be a top priority in 2020.

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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. Fellow Starbucks executive Cliff Burrows joined Sweetgreen’s board of directors in 2020. (Sweetgreen Photo). Based in Tampa, Fla., Belinda Nieves. WTIA Photo). —

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. The company announced that Mark Nelson , the former CTO at SAP Concur who joined Tableau nearly three years ago as vice president of product development, has been named president and CEO. Adam is not a new face to AWS.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But with the advent of GPT-3 in 2020, LLMs exploded onto the scene, captivating the world’s attention and forever altering the landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), and in the process, becoming an essential part of our everyday computing lives. But then, that’s where we must dive in slowly.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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GeekWire

JUNE 18, 2021

Amazon’s direct workforce rose by 500,000 people in 2020 — that’s half a million people — to nearly 1.3 The extraordinary hiring, supporting the rapid expansion of Amazon’s warehouse and delivery operations, raised the natural question: what would be the consequences of all that growth? Amazon Photo). million employees.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“In January this year, as a result of a capital raise effort to support our further development, we received an investment from a company that at the time had a pristine reputation and was a darling of the financial markets,” Moonstone said in a statement Tuesday, referring to Alameda Research. Morgan Chase.

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Phil Windley

MAY 16, 2022

Last month was the first in-person CTO Breakfast since early 2020. CTO Breakfast is a monthly gathering of technologists in the Provo-Salt Lake City area that I've convened for almost 20 years. Like IIW, CTO Breakfast has no pre-planned agenda. We have just two rules: (1) no politics and (2) one conversation at a time.

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MARCH 8, 2023

“I like thinking about how to stabilize, secure, and scale the organization at a foundational level, to really implement innovation,” she says, noting that her perspective made her a better fit for the CIO position rather than a CTO role with its focus on products. She retired from that position in 2020.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It is unclear if or when the company will be filling the CTO role. The company was formed by the merger of CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, and rebranded as Lumen in 2020. LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle’s Valant hired Rick Katz as chief financial officer. Roberts earned a Ph.D.

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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. By mid-2020, the project was canceled. “It’s not one person,” she says.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Discovering that it was economical to grow in the Spokane area, the company expanded beyond hardware to include customer support, manufacturing, and digital sales teams, as well as employees working in development, legal, IT, and HR, all based in Liberty Lake, Wash., He joined F5 in 2020. in Spokane County. “I love F5 a lot. .”

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

He is the former CTO of Canadian startups Checkfront and Foodee. He is also a Hootsuite alum and was director of software development for the social media management tool after it acquired Brightkit, which McGuire co-founded. Amplero shut down in 2020 due to economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Chris McGuire. Tony Small.

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