GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

How you manage your time, emotions, and priorities during the transition impacts the opportunities, odds of getting offers, and your psyche. What are key activities to focus on and skills to develop that can help you land a new, exciting role faster? What does networking mean, and what activities lead to opportunities?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. Her other roles include leadership positions at Nordstrom and Ada Developers Academy. Her other roles include leadership positions at Nordstrom and Ada Developers Academy. Recent hires for Seattle’s Gradial, from left: Lisa Hillmann, Cara Olson and Jason Michaels.

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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. Seattle startup Ally.io, which develops goal-setting collaboration software, added three new executives: Rajiv Arunkundram as head of product. He will start in September.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” “In many ways, this is the unsexy part of AI,” Porter writes. Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2025

“In the past several years, weve ‘upped our game’ across all areas of systems development and operations, defining and embracing what it means to be world class at IT delivery,” DelBene wrote on LinkedIn. — Maria Belousova , former CTO of Grubhub, is now the chief technologist for Daydream.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce. Read the story. Gopuff Photos).

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Satellite startup Xplore added former astronaut Paul Richards as co-CTO and chief engineer, based out of the company’s 22,000-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It is unclear if or when the company will be filling the CTO role. He now serves on multiple corporate and nonprofit boards. LinkedIn Photo) — Seattle’s Valant hired Rick Katz as chief financial officer. Anand joined the Seattle-based application security and delivery company in April. Roberts earned a Ph.D.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders. contract management startup Icertis. Ideoclick, a Seattle e-commerce startup, promoted Jonathan Ferrell to vice president of business development. Eric Emans. Lighthouse Photo).

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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. Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Amazon Photo). Read more about Fabric and its $9.5

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting edge programs/processes. Developing Others. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Keeps up-to-date on technological developments. Problem Solving.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Heavily-funded delivery service Gopuff hired three more Seattle-based leaders: Former Beyond Meat COO Sanjay Shah as SVP of North America fulfillment. The Philadelphia company also hired Tim Collins as SVP of operations and Sharad Sundaresan as SVP of product and growth, both based in the Seattle region, earlier this year.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Oman was previously CTO at Plunk, a Bellevue, Wash., Fred Hutch Photo) — Dr. Nicole Fleming was named deputy chief medical officer for Fred Hutch Cancer Center — a new position for the Seattle nonprofit. .” Neal Oman, chief technology officer for Vouched. home improvement tech startup. cancer center.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 1, 2014

I get a first phone screen followed by a request to develop a one-year project plan with associated budgets and milestones. Not being one to let things go I spend several days researching what I could and developing a project plan. The response I got was “it is still being developed”- Red Flag #3.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. The trio had previously worked at SparkCognition, an AI-focused startup where Terrell led business development for healthcare, Liu was a research scientist, and Kawale was VP of customer success and partnerships. BirchAI Photo). “It

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GeekWire

MAY 29, 2020

He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. This is a unique and challenging time for our community and our college. Banfield’s co-founder is Bruce Roberts , who is CTO of the new startup. He most recently led strategy and corporate development for Toronto startup Element AI.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Facebook also said it’s doesn’t want to be the only one developing the metaverse. It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars.

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GeekWire

JUNE 20, 2024

Bee was most recently CTO at Lessen, a property services management startup valued at more than $2 billion last year. “I can’t be more excited to help build such a beloved product that gives people time back every day,” Bee wrote on LinkedIn. Larry Hryb. Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore.-based

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Flexe CTO and Crowd Cow board member David Glick. Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations. It also appointed David Glick , CTO of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe, to its board. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO. Merida Merger Corp.

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