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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. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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MARCH 31, 2025

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas (left), CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Quotable: This funding allows us to advance our mission of making execution reliability the default, whether for traditional enterprises or the next generation of AI-driven workloads,” Temporal CTO and co-founders Samar Abbas said in a statement.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Especially with companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce and others in the news recently with announcements of agentic AI and agent creation tools and capabilities. Microsoft recently announced the release of Copilot agents. Microsoft is describing AI agents as the new applications for an AI-powered world.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

The Polana AI co-founders, from left: CEO Maria Zhang, Chief Scientist Steve Liu, and CTO Tim Howes. Zhang’s background also includes stints at Microsoft and Zillow. and is interviewing for a couple more potential hires. She was a VP of engineering at Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, and Instagram, and was CTO at Tinder.

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APRIL 7, 2014

in Advanced Research Contracts For its Labs Division. in new contracts for advanced cybersecurity projects for defense and federal government agencies in the areas of cloud-based advanced malware analysis, spear-phishing attacks against Android, and big data analytics for compromise detection. contract with the U.S. – bg.

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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. He worked in various roles at Microsoft, where he helped build the SQL server, incubated multiple Azure platform services, and integrated third-party services onto the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

For example, Mosaic recently created a data-heavy Mosaic GPT safety model for mining operations on Microsofts Bing platform, and is about to roll that out in a pilot. How Mosaics team built the models, as well as how Microsoft architected the solution, helped to keep the project within budget.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

(Shopify Photo) — Shopify hired one of Microsoft’s top engineering leaders as its new chief technology officer. Parakhin spent the past five years at Microsoft leading artificial intelligence efforts and teams working on Bing, Edge browsers, advertising, web services, and more. Matt Hulett.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Then perhaps the government contracting world (we have previously written about software eating the government contracting world and DoD command and Control ). Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IFTTT. Analysis Big Data CTO DoD and IC Anki Apple DoD Facebook Google iTunes Marc Andreessen Netscape Spotify Twitter' Who is next?

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. The company named Cooper Werner as its new chief financial officer, and moved Kunal Anand from CTO to the position of chief innovation officer. F5 plans to hire a new CTO.

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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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MAY 13, 2020

Anu Engineer, CTO (left), and Mahesh Unnikrishnan, CPO, just joined SirionLabs. The 8-year-old contract management software startup originally launched out of India. Its software includes smart contract authoring and auto-contract extension, among other features. SirionLabs Photos). The company manages 3.5

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As they embark on Phase 1B, Neumeier says there will be a “no email rule,” and the team will keep all project communications in Microsoft Teams. She hired Ryan Haunfelder as director of data and analytics, and they formally embarked on an upgrade to Deltek Vantagepoint.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, developers using GitHub Copilots code-generating capabilities have experienced a 26% increase in completed tasks , according to a report combining the results from studies by Microsoft, Accenture, and a large manufacturing company.

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MAY 6, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Docusign announced an agreement to acquire Lexion for $165 million, signaling plans to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform. Lexion has more than 100 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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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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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. MTI) hired Craig Parietti as CFO and Tony Woods as VP of human resources. . ” Prior to Amazon, Kindel spent more than 20 years in various roles at Microsoft. He was previously a group engineering manager at Microsoft.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. As part of the transition, Northwestern University Professor Doug Downey will succeed Weld as head of the Semantic Scholar Research organization. Bhawna Singh. Auth0 Photo). Bellevue, Wash.-based Kayti Sullivan.

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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. Boston-based Valo Health has hired longtime Amazon leader Nish Lathia as its first chief product officer. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo). Nish Lathia. Valo Health Photo).

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MARCH 20, 2025

” Leaner and cheaper Leneway, a former startup CTO and developer evangelist at Microsoft, has spent the past year building an AI coding assistant and more recently published videos detailing his experience with Cursor. ” Patrick Ellis , CTO at Seattle startup Snapbar, said his company planned to hire an engineer last year.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Expedia Photos) — Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Bumble Photo) — Antoine Leblond , a former longtime Microsoft exec who was most recently senior vice president of software at Sonos, joined dating app company Bumble as chief technology officer.

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APRIL 11, 2024

(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

— Aziz Benmalek , a long-time leader at Microsoft , is now CEO and board director of Aeris , a Chicago company facilitating device connectivity via cellular networks. Benmalek left Microsoft in 2018 after 22 years at the Redmond, Wash., He joined the Vancouver, Wash., software development company in 2023. tech giant.

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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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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. Legal indemnification is a common feature of gen AI contracts from OpenAI, Microsoft, Adobe, and other major vendors. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models.

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MARCH 12, 2024

The report for Q3 of fiscal 2024, released yesterday, said that Oracle had signed multiple large-scale cloud infrastructure contracts in the previous three months, with no end in sight, as CEO Safra Catz touted the company’s bright prospects in cloud. “We

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We experienced the impact of one of our SaaS providers, OpCon, not having a solid DR [disaster recovery] plan during the MS Azure Central Region outage,” says Gary Jeter, CTO of TruStone Financial. Microsoft 365, for example, natively backs up data on a regular basis and users can roll back to these backups, but there are limitations.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Common Room, a Seattle startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers, hired Matt Duchesne as vice president of sales. He also worked at VMware and Avi Networks. .

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

(Qualtrics Photo) — Qualtrics appointed Microsoft veteran Rachita Sundar as its chief financial officer and member of the executive leadership team. Previous to that role she was at Microsoft for 13 years, rising to the position of senior finance director of Microsoft U.S. Capossela spent more than 30 years at Microsoft.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The Verizon only DROID MAXX is quite a nice device, but their insistence on selling it for $299 (on contract) gives me pause. This logjam makes it impossible to feel comfortable suggesting any device purchases, maybe except the 16 GB Nexus 4 (now on sale for $250 without contract ). Android CTO Gadgets iOS Mobile'

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JANUARY 13, 2022

— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Bahadur also worked at Microsoft for a decade years and helped develop the Windows mobile operating system. Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. He also spent ten years at Intel in engineering and management roles. headquarters is in Kirkland, Wash.

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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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Microsoft Photo). Athira Pharma recently appointed Rachel Lenington as CTO and head of product development strategy and Mark Worthington as general counsel. based startup Lessen named Chris Bee , a former senior director of product development at Zillow, as CTO.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. Temporal Photo). million.

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