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.

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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. I’ve remained involved in day-to-day operations and remain a minority shareholder and have remained the Chief Information Officer (until recently…see below).

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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. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

Three top Magic Leap executives — chief technology officer Paul Greco, chief operating officer Henk Vlietstra, and chief patent officer David Lundmark — are reportedly leaving in the coming months. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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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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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

AUGUST 22, 2023

acquired San Francisco-based immigration consulting company Bridge. Founded in 2011, Bridge has helped more than 1,000 companies hire international talent and implement immigration strategies through its software platform and legal expertise. He’s joined by CTO and co-founder Forrest Blount , a former Google engineer.

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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

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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Morrow’s appointment comes after turnover in the top legal role at Convoy throughout 2021, as reported by Bloomberg Law. 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.

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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. CHEQ saw an opportunity to boost the event with its technology to improve efficiency and facilitate shorter lines, Lapham said. Founded in 2021, the startup raised $8 million last year to fuel growth through partnerships and events.

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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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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The startup launched in 2021, when co-founder and CEO Sharon Pope was feeling a bit overwhelmed in the midst of the pandemic. After the three co-founders, the startup counts a software designer as its lone employee, along with about 20 contracted Shelpers. Or, both, in a three-way chat.

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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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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. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 24, 2023

In July, for example, New York City started enforcing new rules about the use of AI in hiring decisions. Protecting access to sensitive data is just one part of the data governance picture. Testing will only show the presence of errors, not the absence,” says Martin Fix, technology director at Star, a technology consulting company. “AI

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2021

Lee, who is the CEO, is based in San Francisco while Watts, the CTO, is in Seattle, where the 2-person company is headquartered. Shuffl will be seeking angel investors in the first quarter of 2021. At the time, we deferred bringing in design consultants. The biggest thing we look for when hiring is: Trust.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

Nationally, nearly 41 million square feet is under construction, propelled in part by record biotech investment in 2020 and 2021. Outpace Bio, a spinout of cell therapy company Lyell Immunopharma, pulled in $30 million from investors in 2021. Outpace Bio co-founder and CTO Scott Boyken (left) and CEO and co-founder Marc Lajoie.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

“Technology such as AI is redefining business models, requiring organizations to make the seismic shift from a novice technology organization to a mature and trusted leader,’’ says Raj Sharma, consulting vice chair at EY Americas. “As Increasingly, new C-suite roles with a tech bent are permeating companies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

. — Nintex Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Dustin Grosse stepped down from the Bellevue, Wash.-based A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer.

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Vox

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. This year, Facebook also reported its first ever decline in global users in the final quarter of 2021 as it faces increasing competition from TikTok.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There were 613 SPAC deals in 2021; just 29 have been completed this year, according to SPAC Insider. Airship AI and BYTE execs believe taking the company public is essential for the nature of its business, particularly to cater to government clients and open up opportunity for larger contracts.

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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. Jos Creese, CEO and founder of digital and IT planning outfit Creese Consulting Ltd.,

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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. DelBene is the US Department of Veteran Affairs assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO. It’s not his first foray into government work.

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Vox

JANUARY 11, 2023

The survey results came around the time that rumors of layoffs started to swirl and the company had instituted a hiring freeze. After the tech giant aggressively hired more than 27,000 employees in 2020 and 2021 combined, it had over 80,000 employees before its November layoffs. You are down 71.1%

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 17, 2023

If you’re the CEO and not deeply technical, having a CTO or fractional CTO that can understand emerging AI and then translate that raw material into “most potentially impactful for us” is a great option, and can flow smoothly to the next point. Stay up on what’s emerging.

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2021

— Oren Etzioni (@etzioni) June 10, 2021. Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. Seattle digital remittance startup Remitly hired Robert Kaskel as EVP of people and appointed National Grid CFO Peggy Smyth to its board of directors. His last day was Friday. Remitly Photos).

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NOVEMBER 24, 2022

In its 2021 study on the state of low-code/no-code development around the world and how different regions are approaching it, US cloud computing company Rackspace Technology said that in the EMEA region, the use level is below the global average. I had no idea that such technology could exist or at least be so advanced,” he says.

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Vox

JANUARY 7, 2021

Based in Nevada, the company behind Parler is run primarily by two people: Matze and Jared Thomson, who serves as CTO. Jeffrey Wernick, a bitcoin enthusiast and early Airbnb investor , serves as the company’s chief operating officer. We’re still learning more about who is behind Parler.

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