GeekWire

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Greg Bear, 1951-2022: Best-selling writer influenced sci-fi world, on and off the page. Tech Moves: Hootsuite hires CTO; Cascadia Capital CEO moves to Austin; and more. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Running on ODA status is renewed annually through self-assessment and biannually by joint assessment with the TM Forum CTO office. Open API conformance is mandatory for its suppliers, and ODA competence is expected evidenced by ODA training certifications. “We drained our own talent,” he said.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Sarah Bettencourt as chief people officer. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Reagan Attle , previously VP of marketing at Clio, as chief marketing officer. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. The company is now remote-first and hiring in the Seattle region.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their positions, the latest in a series of moves by the Seattle-based travel giant to overhaul its workforce. That rose to 16,500 at the end of 2022, more than half in tech roles.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. Benson splits his time between Bellevue, Wash.,

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

SeekOut Photo) SeekOut , a Seattle-area startup that sells recruiting software and raised $115 million in 2022, is trimming its workforce for the second time in the past eight months. billion in 2022, making it one of Seattle’s so-called “unicorn” startups. He won CEO of the Year honors at the 2022 GeekWire Awards.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Thomas, and CTO JP Monteiro in Zurich. Veezoo Photo) Seattle-based technology investor and business leader Mark Nelson, the former Tableau CEO, has joined the board of Veezoo , a company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, that specializes in self-serve, AI-powered data analytics. That could include new hires in the Seattle region.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us Seattle accounting software startup Lockstep hired Melissa Hendrick as EVP of marketing.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

John Maddison, chief product marketing and technology alliances officer for F5. (F5 F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. F5 plans to hire a new CTO.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2024

From left: Protect AI CTO Badar Ahmed; President Daryan Dehghanpisheh; and CEO Ian Swanson. The startup, founded in 2022 by former engineering leaders at Amazon and Oracle, helps companies monitor and secure their machine learning and AI systems. It plans to hire another 50 people this year. Total funding to date is $108.5

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

billion acquisition by Aptiv in 2022. “Kevin’s extensive experience across technology companies and forward-leaning approach to innovation make him the ideal leader to chart EDB’s future,” Great Hill Partners managing director Drew Loucks said in a statement. billion after raising $103 million in funding.

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GeekWire

APRIL 24, 2024

Radical’s co-founders, CTO Cyriel Notteboom and CEO James Thomas, carry a solar-powered demonstrator aircraft that flew continuously for more than 24 hours during a test flight last year. Radical’s co-founders are CEO James Thomas and chief technology officer Cyriel Notteboom. Radical Photo).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Horadan spent the past two years at The Sage Group, which acquired Lockstep in 2022. He was previously executive vice president of engineering and CTO at tax software giant Avalara, and also led teams at Microsoft and Concur.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 2, 2024

Suzan DelBene, Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson, and Sana CTO Snehal Patel also participated in the ceremony. Controlling the manufacturing process means Sana can monitor quality and hire its own personnel. Suzan DelBene, Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson, and Sana CTO Snehal Patel also participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

Helion co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Pihl (left) with founder and CEO David Kirtley at their facility in Redmond, Wash. 2022: Highspot raises $248M at $3.5B billion (as of January 2022). Industry : Sales contract management software. Industry : Hiring and recruiting . Valuation : $3.96

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He was interested in “doing something a little different,” and leading technology at a quasi-governmental entity where he would be responsible for two business areas held great appeal. “So But in 2022, after two years at the bank, Postulka returned to Arbella as vice president and CIO.

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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. . “That social validation felt good.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Katrine Fritz has been promoted to chief merchant. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. He will succeed current General Counsel Dave Miller who will retire in April 2022 after 26 years with the wireless carrier. She will start in March 2022. million to date.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2024

Last month Overland announced that it won a two-year contract worth up to $18.6 Army and Defense Innovation Unit to develop its OverDrive technology platform for the U.S. GM-backed Cruise recently halted tests and laid off employees; Argo AI shut down in 2022; and Apple ditched its own autonomous vehicle efforts. Byron Boots.

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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 2022, Far Homes offers an online listings portal to buy and sell homes in Mexico.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. He won CEO of the Year honors at the 2022 GeekWire Awards. The company confirmed the layoffs in response to a GeekWire inquiry Wednesday, citing a restructuring to align with growth investment areas. The startup now has about 200 employees.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2024

billion at the time. The company laid off 19% of its staff in 2022 amid the tech downturn. Asked about additional funding or a public offering, Gourlay said his initial focus is on spending time with customers “to make sure that we clearly understand their priorities.” Fachan left Qumulo in 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An individual organization with a turnover rate of 20% before the pandemic could face a turnover rate as high as 24% in 2022 and the years to come,” says Piers Hudson, senior director in the Gartner HR practice. As the company had legacy systems, it became tough to hire resources that could manage them. Nurturing fresh talent in-house.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ketelsen joined in July 2022 and was a principal developer advocate. Dellit has held the positions on an interim basis since July 2022. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer. Dr. Timothy Dellit. (UW

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

But the company’s single software engineer, originally hired to rebuild Snapbar’s website, was already working on the future — a virtual photo booth. ” The software engineer, Patrick Ellis, is now Snapbar’s CTO. office once a week. “We couldn’t have engineered that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CIO packages often include stock options, relocation expenses, and hiring bonuses, says Victor Janulaitis, CEO of consulting firm Janco. Typically, [CIOs] have 401ks and as part of the negotiation process, they’ll negotiate a lump sum that will offset the cost of that loss” from leaving their current job. Stephenson says.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The company said it employed 1,300 people in April 2022, when it raised a $260 million investment round at a $3.8 In his post, Lewis said the company is automating parts of its customer service model and moving away from a “more generalized approach.” Convoy has just over 1,000 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. To be eligible for consideration in this category, startups need to be no more than five years old in 2022. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Industrial AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Inflation may have dropped from its high in 2022, but the price pressures on IT budgets have continued unabated. in June, 2022, to 3.7% in June, 2022, to 3.7% McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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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. Padgett, who was previously president and COO, has been CEO since February 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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MAY 2, 2024

One Gartner study found that willingness to support organizational change dropped from 74% of employees in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Paulo Gardini Miguel, director of technology at The CTO Club, agrees. You hired smart people, after all.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer. They will both report to Chief Strategy Officer Tom Fountain.

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APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. The Gaudi 2 chip, developed by the Intel acquired Habana Labs, outperformed Nvidia’s A100 80GB GPU in tests run in late 2022 by AI company Hugging Face. Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Intel, Technology Industry

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We growth in 2022, according to Gartner.

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