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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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. John Aisien. and Bend, Ore.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Zipwhip, Microsoft, VoloMetrix, and Cisco. Sri Shivananda , recently named global CTO at JPMorgan Chase, resigned from the board of Seattle application delivery giant F5.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Supio Photos) Supio , a Seattle startup founded in 2021 by longtime friends and former Microsoft engineers, raised a $25 million Series A investment to supercharge its software platform designed to help lawyers quickly sort, search, and organize case-related data. Supio co-founders Kyle Lam (left) and Jerry Zhou.

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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. 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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

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. Phillips left Microsoft last year after spending a decade at the Redmond, Wash., Last year, Phillips joined Stripe after leaving Microsoft but departed one month later.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

He spent more than 23 years at Microsoft in various engineering roles, then was part of the leadership teams at UiPath and Apptio during their initial public offering runs. Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. . Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

. — Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. D’Ambrosio-Correll was also named a co-founder of the company as part of her hire.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer. Seattle AI development studio Simply Augmented hired Larry Arnstein as CTO and Ashwin Kadaru as vice president of engineering. Kadaru spent time at Meta and Accenture.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

Former Microsoft CVP Carolyn Everson will take over as president of San Francisco-based grocery delivery company Instacart in September. At Microsoft, she led global ad sales and strategy. The 9-year old company also turned to the Pacific Northwest for talent hiring former Porch executive Asha Sharma as COO in February.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Gulabani previously worked at Microsoft and Google. Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. F5 appointed Microsoft Digital Transformation Group President James Phillips to its board of directors. as chief of staff, the Seattle fund’s first hire.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Microsoft gaming exec James Gwertzman has joined Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner on the consumer investing team. Gwertzman founded gaming infrastructure startup PlayFab, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, and sold Sprout Games to PopCap Games in 2005. and merged with Payfactors earlier this year.

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GeekWire

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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The Verge

MARCH 30, 2022

Direct-to-customer streaming is now a focus for Disney, and today it took another step in organizing that business by announcing a new CTO for the Disney Streaming business unit that includes Disney Plus, Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Star Plus. Image: Google/Weinberg-Clark Photography.

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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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GeekWire

MAY 25, 2023

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. Nair was most recently an executive vice president at Salesforce and spent more than 14 years at Microsoft. Miler previously held the same role at Shift4 Payments.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems. The 25-year veteran of Microsoft left in August to focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Lara Rogers. Flexe Photo).

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Thomas, and CTO JP Monteiro in Zurich. This contrasts with the deep expertise needed to take full advantage of tools such as Salesforce-owned Tableau and Microsoft’s PowerBI, which can require engaging with data analysts and other specialists inside companies. With that, it’s also planning to hire in the U.S.,

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud-related gaming efforts. Tony Bacos , former vice president and CTO of Amazon Fashion, has been hired at Frontdoor as the company’s first senior vice president and chief digital officer. At Google Stadia, Swift oversaw development of external second party games. Tony Bacos.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Space Foundation and Microsoft Photos) The buzz in tech circles over the past few days is all about “Founder Mode.” “Their advice could be optimistically summarized as ‘hire good people and give them room to do their jobs.’

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2019 by veterans of Microsoft, Apple, and Auth0, the startup offers flexible APIs to software-as-a-service vendors that make it easier to add integrations as part of their apps. “We Janczuk spent 12 years at Microsoft and was most recently a VP at Auth0. (Fusebit Photo). million seed round.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

“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. Cynthia Randall was promoted to deputy general counsel and head of litigation at Microsoft. Britt Stromberg was hired as CMO at Seattle menopause health startup Gennev.

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MAY 20, 2024

But the tech downturn that began later in 2022 caused companies to curb hiring and trim workforces — possibly reducing demand for a company like SeekOut. Jobs site Indeed laid off 8% of its workforce last week and did another round of layoffs last year, citing a “global slowdown in hiring.”

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2024

Samar Abbas , who was previously CTO, is now CEO. Maxim Fateev , who was CEO, is now CTO. Fateev previously worked at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Abbas also worked at Microsoft and Amazon. Seattle-based communications agency Kiterocket hired Jessica Fishman as a director of renewable energy. Lisa Nelson.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2021

— Kurt DelBene ‘s second stint at Microsoft will end later this year. The former Microsoft Office president, whose recent role has included leading the company’s pandemic response, will retire at the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year in June, the company confirmed this week. DelBene is the husband of U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

… Read More Amazon hires Covariant founders, inks licensing deal with AI startup in latest ‘reverse acquihire’ Amazon is hiring three of the founders from Covariant, a Bay Area startup that develops AI for advanced warehouse robotics systems. … Read More . … Read More

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