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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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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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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative.

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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 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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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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GeekWire

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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

“After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.” I strike this language from all my contracts.” A self-hosted infrastructure is time-intensive, demands specialized expertise, and comes with significant expenses.”

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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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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. Justin is a phenomenal engineering leader and one of the original inventors of WebRTC, on top of which Clubhouse is built,” Clubhouse co-founder and CTO Rohan Seth said in a statement. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. The company landed $65 million in 2021, when it won Startup of the Year honors at the GeekWire Awards. The company confirmed the layoffs in response to a GeekWire inquiry Wednesday, citing a restructuring to align with growth investment areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Gary Steen joined assistive technology provider Tunstall Healthcare as its group chief technology officer (CTO) in August 2021, having previously been managing director for technology at telecommunications provider TalkTalk. So Steen has a critical role to play. But it remains early days.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

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. He was previously VP of cybersecurity startup RiskIQ, which was acquired by Microsoft last summer. The new financing brings Atlas’ total funding to $44.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. December 2021. February 2022. Goel has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2023

(Magnify Photo) — Enterprise software startup Magnify hired Mike Saffitz as its new vice president of engineering. Saffitz replaced former Magnify CTO and co-founder Jacob Sajo , who left for personal reasons and currently works as the vice president of engineering at Flexport. He also served as head of engineering at Stripe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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 5, 2021

Qualtrics, which has been adding to its executive ranks through a series of hires , is expected to split Larson-Green’s role as chief experience officer among other leaders for now. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO.

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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. Founders: Nick Chua (CEO) and Kevin Arifin (CTO).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

“I’m excited to take some time to rest (and write!) ” Freeman joined AWS as head of DevOps Product Marketing in 2021. The company raised $95 million in 2021. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. Mika Yamamoto.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Goodale transitioned from the CTO role to chief experience officer in 2021. Convoy hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO in 2020. They are battling for a share of a $800 billion U.S. trucking industry. Lewis and Grant Goodale both worked at Amazon before launching Convoy. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.;

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

(Amperity Photo) Seattle-based customer intelligence startup Amperity conducted another round of layoffs, its second time trimming headcount in the past six months. The company said at the time it had 375 employees and planned to hire. Derek Slager , who co-founded Amperity with Shahani, remains at the company as CTO.

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