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OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Pulumi recently hired longtime cloud industry leader Bob Laskey as chief customer officer.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

. “Lighter is the pioneer and the leader in RBF for software-as-a-service companies.” The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. based Vettd.ai’s board of advisors.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. Tee worked at Microsoft for nearly 20 years, leaving as a partner group program manager with Windows in 2014. million seed funding round led by Four Rivers Group with participation from Madrona and others. million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group. company for nearly three years.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. 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.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Former Amazon Web Services VP Steven Shure relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Seattle to join alternative search engine Neeva as chief business officer. Steve Shure. Neeva Photo). Freightweb Photo).

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MARCH 16, 2022

Eugene Wessels is the Group CTO at King Price (South Africa & Namibia), Stangen (South Africa) and NEXT Forsikring (Denmark), through the Porcupine Union group servicing entity. Our next phase of cloud adoption came about through the acquisition of two new businesses.

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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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JULY 27, 2023

Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. . James Phillips.

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APRIL 7, 2021

Former Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April 19. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. Teresa Carlson. Splunk Photo). Dave Heiner.

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APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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APRIL 19, 2023

Dirac worked as a senior principal engineer at Amazon Web Services for more than six years, where he led the AutoML program. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Tola Capital , which led Pulumi’s $15 million Series A funding round two years ago , also participated in the new Series B funding round. Somasegar, managing director of Madrona Venture Group, and Sheila Gulati, managing director of Tola Capital.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

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MAY 15, 2020

Sampaio was a director of product in Apple’s cloud infrastructure group and previously held product management and marketing roles at Canadian companies Digital Ocean and Sandvine. • Ken Oestreich as VP of product marketing. office in Seattle and hired Microsoft alum Benjamin Gauthey as VP of global strategy and business development.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

When Oracle Cloud Infrastructure launched in 2016, aiming to compete against the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, it practically redefined the concept of minimally viable product, or MVP — with just one cloud region and a handful of cloud services. Synergy Research Group Chart).

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JANUARY 18, 2015

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MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Founded in 2014 by Madrona Venture Group, the 12-person studio fast-tracks the startup journey for entrepreneurs. The firm recently announced that it hired Kelci Zile — who worked for more than three years as a sustainability leader at Amazon Web Services — as a venture partner.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Prior to StrikeGraph, Beals was CTO at Seattle startups NextStep , which he also co-founded, and Koru. Tune COO Cameron Stewart will become general manager of Tune, which will maintain its brand under Constellation’s Perseus Operating Group unit. million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group. Bothell, Wash.-based

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MAY 5, 2024

… Read More Microsoft will base part of senior exec comp on security, add deputy CISOs to product groups Microsoft is changing its security practices, organizational structure, and executive compensation in an attempt to address a series of major security breaches, under growing pressure from government leaders and big customers.

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MAY 20, 2020

. “In these tumultuous times, organizations need the sales ‘system of action’ that Outreach provides. Oak View Group, the firm leading t he new Seattle Center Arena project , and Seattle Hockey Partners named Hewan Teshome as SVP and general counsel for the new arena and NHL Seattle. Mason Hollis. WattBuy Photo).

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JUNE 18, 2021

The extraordinary hiring, supporting the rapid expansion of Amazon’s warehouse and delivery operations, raised the natural question: what would be the consequences of all that growth? And then you also have people who are hired now by machine, functionally. We see it now: hiring bonuses, pay increase, not screening for marijuana.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Founder: Bolbi Liu was previously a product manager at Amazon Web Services. AI’s impact on robotics development: “To help reduce the need to hire more senior developers,” Okoye said. “You can [hire] a modular developer and have the AI co-pilot be a guiding hand.”

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JULY 9, 2020

Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle photo).

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MARCH 28, 2022

At Vault Health, CTO Steve Shi begins enterprise architecture (EA) work with a site survey of the entire IT, application, system, and data infrastructure but restricts it to two weeks with one-hour interviews about each function. Gregor Hohpe Amazon Web Services. At Carrier Global Corp., Set and enforce standards.

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APRIL 1, 2021

Magic Leap continues to hire from the Seattle region. This is the third recent executive hire from the Seattle area by the augmented reality company based in Plantation, Fla. I am honored to join the leadership team at Magic Leap to be a part of redefining how enterprises engage with augmented reality technologies,” said Gosalia.

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