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MAY 3, 2023

Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. Franz Schaub joined Phase Genomics as director of business development. Garudayagari has more than 20 years of enterprise software experience.

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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. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute.

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GeekWire

MARCH 20, 2023

(Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur also worked at Microsoft for a decade years and helped develop the Windows mobile operating system.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) play a critical role in steering technology-driven businesses and tech startups towards success. From keeping pace with ever-evolving technologies to leading development teams effectively, the responsibilities of a CTO are multifaceted.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Theo AI co-founders Alex Alben, center, Patrick Ip, right, and CTO Tiago Luchini. The company plans to use the cash to enhance its prediction engine, expand practice categories, and accelerate customer growth. CTO Tiago Luchini has been a founder and tech leader across fintech, retail and biotech. million in pre-seed funding.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company. After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO.

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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. The company has raised more than $83 million. ” — Chris Vonderhaar , a former Amazon Web Services executive who joined Google Cloud last year , has left the Silicon Valley company. . Nimrod Vered. Prevette was most recently an executive at impact.com.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The former CEO of Ada Developers Academy said she will focus on Conduit’s health and performance vertical. “Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. “Prototyping alone sidelines most hardware founders.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

million in a seed funding round to continue work on its self-titled feedback management platform for game developers. Audiences are diversifying tremendously,” co-founder and CEO Sean Vesce tells GeekWire, “and more developers are realizing [the value of] building a game in lockstep with an audience from the earliest stages of development.

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle-area cybersecurity company Cyemptive named Ray McCay as its new chief revenue officer. “Ray’s appointment is an important step for Cyemptive as we scale up the company and build infrastructure,” said the startup’s founder and CEO Rob Pike. federal government agencies. Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Tina-Marie Gulley, CEO of Ada Developers Academy. Ada Photo) Tina-Marie Gulley is now CEO for Ada Developers Academy after serving as interim chief executive since April. Seattle-based Ada is a tuition-free, software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For Adrian Butler, who has been CTO of the $8 billion global business for about two years, the key is to focus on the data that matters most, and to help the entire business understand how to use its data to inform decisions and better serve customers. What’s been your approach to developing a data strategy?

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

From left: Lexion CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany; CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi; and Chief Legal Officer Jessica Nguyen. Lexion Photo) Lexion gained a foothold by using artificial intelligence to help legal departments manage contracts. Lexion has established itself as a leader in the legal tech and contract management sectors.

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JUNE 29, 2023

He will work with portfolio companies on go-to-market strategies, sales teams development, field leadership, and executive growth, the firm said. The longtime Seattle tech vet was part of the leadership teams during the acquisitions of Tableau by Salesforce for $15.7 She also serves on several biotech company boards.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2021

After executive stints at Nordstrom, Starbucks, and Nike, Courtney Kissler is now the CTO and senior vice president of technology at Seattle online retailer Zulily. The company has expanded its product selection over the past few years, including items from larger national brands. based company MicroVision. Courtney Kissler.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. The company says its software has handled more than a million pages of documents across 1,800 locations. Cameron Steele.

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TechEmpower - Information Technology

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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GeekWire

JUNE 7, 2024

Juriana Spierenburg, co-founder and CEO of Sanctum, inside a prototype of the company’s pods at the University of Washington CoMotion Labs in Seattle. The company, Sanctum , is developing pods with doors that provide fully enclosed, private spaces, with a cocoon-like spherical shape. Jason Koo, Sanctum co-founder and CTO.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. The 8-year-old company reached a $1.2 The startup develops virtual assistants for sales, marketing and customer service teams. Ogisu was most recently EVP and chief people officer for multinational media company Viacom. billion valuation earlier this year after raising $125 million.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The incubator’s second fund comes at a key moment for the AI sector, as more companies adopt generative AI technology and investors pour billions into nascent startups. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She was also a software developer at Amazon soon after it went public. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. He is now a VP of engineering at Google. based startup in June.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. True to his customer-first, business-focused leadership style, he is actively involved with customer interactions as well.

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2021

From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. The 4-year-old company is profitable and saw annual recurring revenue spike 10X over the past 21 months. Customers : SeekOut is used by six of the world’s top 10 most valuable companies.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 Developed in response to the expanding landscape of cyber threats, the DHS CDM program was established to enable government agencies to cost-effectively identify and mitigate network, system and software vulnerabilities. “In

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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. — portfolio company.

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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. Veezoo Photo.)

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sood was most recently SVP of products at oncology company Guardant Health. Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. As part of the Zepel.io Sood will report to Adaptive Biotech CEO Chad Robins.

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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2022

Walmart is hiring right in the backyard of rival Amazon, which is based in Seattle and last year surpassed Walmart as the largest retail seller outside China. Walmart currently has about 160 tech associates in the area and relies on a hybrid work model that is primarily virtual. Its total headcount is 2.3

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

So he decided to launch a startup to develop one. 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. Price describes the company’s focus as intelligent talent selection. Yardstick Image).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies. As a result, many corporate leaders who are used to hiring for IT now have to learn what makes a good product manager as they seek to fill these roles.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB). Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Later, he became a senior advisor at TPG, leading its portfolio company Wind River as CEO and overseeing its $3.5

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JUNE 5, 2023

Introduction In today's digitally connected world, cybersecurity is a top concern for businesses across all sectors, and insurance companies are no exception. In this blog post, we will explore the different dimensions of cybersecurity for insurance companies.

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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. Founded in 2018, Vouched helps companies verify the identity of customers and users by examining driver’s licenses and other forms of identification. The company is ranked No.

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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. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

(Amazon Image) Sarah Rhoads , who previously led Amazon’s aviation operations as vice president of Amazon Global Air, was promoted to lead the Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Global Operations Learning and Development (GOLD) organizations. Rhoads joined Amazon more than a decade ago after an 11-year career with the U.S.

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GeekWire

APRIL 28, 2023

NetEase Photo) Chinese technology company NetEase announced this week that it plans to open a new game development studio in Seattle called Anchor Point Studios. Anchor Point is a remote company that’s headquartered in both Seattle and Barcelona. This is Ehreth’s first time heading up a development studio of this size.

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