GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2024

Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. The company raised a $230 million Series D round in 2021, but has had multiple rounds of layoffs since then. . Former Redfin CTO Sasha Aickin is CEO of the company, which aims to help customers improve prompt engineering.

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JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

LinkedIn Photos) — Swiftly , a grocery retail tech startup based in Seattle, welcomed two new hires to its C-suite. Its stock price rose to nearly $300/share in 2021 but is now trading at around $5/share. He more recently held leadership roles at ConnectWise, Sage and Splunk. ESS launched in 2011 and went public in 2020.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO. Athira Photos).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Bumble, which recently hired new CEO Lidiane Jones, announced several new exec hires, including a new chief product officer, chief people officer, and chief marketing officer. Libby Johnson McKee.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month. . Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO. Vancouver, B.C.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

She joined the board of directors in 2021 and was the CEO of Outset Medical in California. Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. He previously worked as CTO and information officer at customer loyalty company cxLoyalty. Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

JANUARY 2, 2021

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. growth rate, which resulted in about 117,000 net new hires.) Downing points to the November 2021 discovery of the Log4j vulnerability, which had many teams working long days and over weekends to respond. Last year saw a 1.2%

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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

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. — Madrona Venture Group Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 30, 2022

We are in the spectrum of making many decisions across a huge dataset that are not life-threatening if we get them wrong,” says Matthias Baumhof, CTO at LexisNexis Risk Solutions. With hiring, the outcomes are relatively clear,” he says. You can see the hires’ performance. But that’s only part of the story.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. billion valuation in October 2021. Common Room, a Seattle startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers, hired Matt Duchesne as vice president of sales.

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MARCH 21, 2023

When Arvest, a regional bank operating in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, hired Laura Merling as chief transformation and operations officer in 2021, one of the first things she changed was its digital transformation plan. We had our executives there, the bank presidents, the whole technology team plus,” she says.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

According to Amazon’s latest safety report , the company said it improved its recordable incident rate by 11% from 2021 to 2022, and reduced its lost time incident rate by 14%. Other key personnel changes in the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Cloud security giant Zscaler hired longtime Seattle tech vet Syam Nair as its new CTO.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWire Awards returned to honor some of the leading innovators and entrepreneurs who make up the Pacific Northwest tech community. GeekWire video screen grabs).

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Murati previously served as CTO at OpenAI for six and a half years, contributing to the development of ChatGPT and various AI research initiatives. Following the abrupt dismissal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023, Murati was briefly appointed as interim CEO before Altman returned to the role and Murati resumed her position as CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

In addition to the established CIO, CTO, CISO, and chief digital officer (CDO) roles, Sharma says EY is seeing “additional instances” of chief innovation officers and chief experience officers. Rob Green, who had come into the company in 2021 to modernize the e-commerce infrastructure, was appointed as its first chief digital officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Adaptive previously hired Goldman Sachs to explore “strategic alternatives” for the businesses. Studer, a longtime fixture in Seattle’s startup community, joined Techstars Seattle in 2021 and was director of platform. The company’s stock was down more than 9% on Wednesday. But she is also moving on.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

The work that is not repetitive is changing at a remarkable pace,” says Jon Walden, Blue Prism’s CTO for the Americas. Talent is another key to agility, IT leaders say, making the hiring and retention of IT pros vital to any organization-wide efficiency and transformation efforts. Much of IT work is repetitive.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2021

— Microsoft (@Microsoft) March 12, 2021. — Brad Smith (@BradSmi) March 17, 2021. ” 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.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2024

He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur. The company, which went public in 2021, has four drugs in human testing: two for cancer, one for autoimmune disease and another for type 1 diabetes.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Supio Photos) Supio , a Seattle startup founded in 2021 by longtime friends and former Microsoft engineers, raised a $25 million Series A investment to supercharge its software platform designed to help lawyers quickly sort, search, and organize case-related data. Supio co-founders Kyle Lam (left) and Jerry Zhou.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Even with that attrition, this year’s list has grown to 15, meaning eight new unicorns were minted in 2021. GeekWire story from July 2021 : Amperity is Seattle’s latest unicorn with $100M round to supercharge its customer data platform . billion (as of July 2021). Industry : Sales contract management software.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2025

ExtraHop was founded in 2007 and acquired by private equity firms Bain Capital and Crosspoint Capital Partners in a $900 million deal in June 2021. — Maria Belousova , former CTO of Grubhub, is now the chief technologist for Daydream. Clark has moved to the role of executive chairman of the company’s board of directors.

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Eric D. Brown

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In August 2021, I (along with my business partner) sold part of our business ( Sundial Capital Research ) to a private equity firm in Canada. After seven years of helping to build Sundial, its time to start something new. Earlier this year, I stepped into the Treasurer role of this organization. More info on that soon.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Other executive hires announced by Qualtrics include: • Stephanie Barton as managing director of the EMEA region. Former Microsoft Dynamics 365 CTO Sri Srinivasan joined Redwood, Calif.-based Seattle event technology startup eventcore hired Chris Emerson as VP of sales and marketing. She was most recently a VP at VMware.

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JUNE 14, 2022

There’s also a commitment to ‘reflect the diversity of the UK population’ through the DDaT workforce, and to align role definitions to the DDaT capability and pay frameworks – which hopes to reduce average time to hire to 30 days. A system that unlocks digital transformation.

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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. The company: Founded in 2021, Outgo is a banking solution for freight carriers.

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JANUARY 12, 2022

The fresh funding follows a big 2021 for SeekOut, which raised $65 million in March and won Startup of the Year honors at the GeekWire Awards this past May. billion, more than double its valuation in March 2021. The global HR and recruitment market is expected to reach $772 billion this year. It also led the Series B round.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Morrow’s appointment comes after turnover in the top legal role at Convoy throughout 2021, as reported by Bloomberg Law. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. based Bumped hired Babak Farrokh-Siar as chief revenue officer. billion in November 2019.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

. “Their advice could be optimistically summarized as ‘hire good people and give them room to do their jobs.’ Rather than hiring new managers and getting out of the way, it might actually be better for founders to micromanage and be directly involved with all company operations, Graham writes. garage in 1994.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

Reclaim aims to hire engineers, product managers and folks in sales. Reclaim is currently free through 2021 and pairs with Google Calendar. The product is being used by employees at more than 4,000 companies internationally. Expansion plans: New funding will be used to grow the team of eight employees who work in Oregon and California.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

… Read More Amazon hires Covariant founders, inks licensing deal with AI startup in latest ‘reverse acquihire’ Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems. … Read More . … Read More

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The primary focus of the internal email was not the cutbacks among rank-and-file employees but a series of changes in executive leadership, including one departure and one new hire. Jonathan Finch, former Global CTO for Amazon Insurance, is joining Expedia Group and will lead its InsurTech business.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

Rad Power Bikes slashed 100 positions in April 2021 , then made another 63 cuts in July, and had its third round of layoffs in December. It grew into the leading e-bike seller in North America and raised $304 million in 2021, part of two separate cash infusions to fuel its capital-intensive business. Rad was valued at $1.65

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