GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Brian Rider, chief technology officer at LeoStella, said the backers of his company looked at a variety of locations around the country before deciding to put their satellite venture in Tukwila — and he pointed to one factor that tipped the decision in Washington state’s favor. billion annually. As impressive as $4.6

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based contract management startup Icertis. Arvin Patel.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

Launched in October 2020, the startup was co-founded by Leo Dirac and Avi Geiger. Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant. The company also announced $10 million in seed capital.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. The advisory council currently has 14 members including Microsoft Tech for Social Impact CTO Erik Arnold ; Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf; and King County CIO Tanya Hannah.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. Kimchi left Amazon in September 2020 after eight years. Founded in 2015, Convoy’s last valuation was $2.7 Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

million in contracts, awards and demonstration projects that include partnerships with seven federal government agencies, and on Wednesday the startup is hosting Washington Gov. Seeing it onsite is pretty amazing, said Elise Thomas, environmental program manager at Fairbanks International Airport. Jay Inslee. R&D facility.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Former Rover and Cheezburger CTO Scott Porad is now vice president of engineering at Seattle virtual healthcare startup 98point6. Maria Colacurcio , CEO of Seattle startup Syndio and co-founder of Smartsheet, has been selected as a 2020-21 fellow for the Emerson Collective’s Dial Fellowship. . Scott Porad. Syndio Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The company, backed by the likes of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, grew rapidly in its first five years, hitting the 1,000-employee mark in 2020. Vice president of operations Victoria Kiss was a demand program manager at Convoy. The company: Founded in 2019, Cloud Paper makes toilet paper, paper towels, dishcloths, and tissues from bamboo.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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. Founded in 2013, Flexe closed out 2020 with a $70 million Series C round and has raised $134 million in total funding. Sajo Jacob. Magnify Photo). Jungle Scout Photo).

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

the United Kingdom, Australia, China, Denmark, Italy, Korea, Portugal and Spain are working to develop the technology. In the Pacific Northwest, Oregon State University has a program called PacWave that’s building two wave energy test sites near Newport, Ore. Countries including the U.S.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Trust One is also knee deep in transforming its IT organization and operating model, transitioning away from a program management office (PMO) to a product-centered organization. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One.

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GeekWire

APRIL 23, 2021

Our Young Entrepreneur of the Year award celebrates startup founders in the Pacific Northwest who are 30 or younger at some point in 2020 or 2021. Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Avi Schiffmann.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Koinig saw the immense impact that technology could have on individuals and their ability to move through life. To pay for horseback riding lessons while growing up, Koinig worked in a program for children and young adults with special needs who used assistive technologies. She retired from that position in 2020.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We recognize we have work to do, including increasing Black representation at all levels, and we set — and met — aggressive goals to double the representation of Black Vice Presidents and Directors in 2020 and are committing to do so again in 2021. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We recognize we have work to do, including increasing Black representation at all levels, and we set — and met — aggressive goals to double the representation of Black Vice Presidents and Directors in 2020 and are committing to do so again in 2021. Chanin Kelly-Rae now runs her own consulting business based in Seattle.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

MagniX’s chief technology officer, Riona Armesmith, works on electric propulsion systems like the one in the background at the company’s headquarters in Everett, Wash. Armesmith was leaving one of the world’s best-known manufacturing companies, Rolls-Royce, where she was head of programs for aviation futures.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

Steve Grobman, CTO with Intel’s security group had this to say: CNBC: Yeah, so I think that nothing is ever impossible. Roberts: All the research we have done -- both myself and fellow security consult all science and research In this area from retired retired pilots and Engineers and other individuals indicates otherwise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 29, 2024

James Collin, a professional connection who was at that time Delaware State CIO, asked Lane if he would be interested in stepping into the vacant CTO role. Lane became CIO of Delaware State in July 2023, with the governor asking if he’d take on the chief IT role following Collin’s 2020 departure and the tenure of an interim CIO.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Optimize.heath is now a market leader in the RPM space, providing physician practices with the tools to simplify clinical workflows in connected care programs, as well as automation of regulatory and administrative tasks for recordkeeping. In the summer of 2020, we raised a $15.6 So, how did I get here? I wasn’t wrong.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 1, 2023

During keynotes and discussions with CIOs, I remind everyone how strategic priorities evolve significantly every two years or less, from growth in 2018, to pandemic and remote work in 2020, to hybrid work and financial constraints in 2022.

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Vox

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rebellion has also won several million dollars of military contracts from the Pentagon, the start of what some observers think will be a gusher of government dollars. The startup proclaimed to rebel against the entrenched government bureaucracy and, by extension, the military-industrial complex, in order to advance new technologies.

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