CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

The CrowdStrike outage: A wake-up call CrowdStrike’s global outage disrupted services for numerous Microsoft clients, highlighting the far-reaching impact that a single point of failure can have on businesses. The BIA process involves evaluating various threat scenarios, including the failure of key third-party services like Microsoft Azure.

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GeekWire

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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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

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. Tommy Morgan joined Bellevue, Wash.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

OpenAI’s November 2022 announcement of ChatGPT and its subsequent $10 billion in funding from Microsoft were the “shots heard ’round the world” when it comes to the promise of generative AI. in concert with Microsoft’s AI-optimized Azure platform. A recent survey of nearly 1,000 IT decision-makers conducted by Foundry underscores this.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 6, 2022

Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights. SAP’s Focus Friday program is part of a company-wide campaign to make its meetings more meaningful.

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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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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia.

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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. He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

Two of the top executive recruiters in the CIO retained search space, Shawn Banerji and Martha Heller, joined me for the first episode of 2024 to share their insights on a range of talent-related issues, including hiring trends, hybrid work questions, and the critical skills companies are looking for at the executive level.

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CTOvision

APRIL 1, 2016

Memo: RealNetworks reorganizes, names new CTO. Interview: Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza goes from outcast to insider at Microsoft. FCC program to help poor get online will start in December - WiscNews. NASA Awards Spacecraft Avionics Development Contract. DHS: Einstein working to stop ransomware attacks - FedScoop.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. Before that, he was the chief information security advisor at Microsoft India. .

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Seattle startup offered discounts to renters and prospective homebuyers in exchange for renting out a room in a house, among other real estate programs. Penta previously worked at Amazon and Microsoft. Seattle-based marketing software giant Marchex hired Holly Aglio as chief marketing officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

In addition to the established CIO, CTO, CISO, and chief digital officer (CDO) roles, Sharma says EY is seeing “additional instances” of chief innovation officers and chief experience officers. IFS Part of her role is determining what technologies the company needs to meet its sustainability goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. Here is a look at how CIOs are addressing ethical AI in their organizations.

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GeekWire

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. Recent hires for Seattle’s Gradial, from left: Lisa Hillmann, Cara Olson and Jason Michaels. The startup is led by former managers from SpaceX and Microsoft.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2021

Former Microsoft VP and Azure Distinguished Engineer Kushagra Vaid is now a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Eclipse Ventures. Prior to Microsoft, he was a principal engineer at Intel. Seattle sales technology startup Outreach hired Mary Shea as its first ever evangelist. held roles at Microsoft and SAP.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2020

The announcement comes as Convoy tops 1,000 employees, five years after it was founded by Lewis and CTO Grant Goodale. At some companies, hiring someone with experience as a public company CEO would foreshadow an initial public offering, but Lewis downplayed that notion. billion valuation in November. . It’s gonna be a blast.’

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GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. Wilburn is a former chief strategy officer at Thomson Reuters , and he previously spent 15 years at Microsoft, most recently as a GM for in corporate business development for Azure.

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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. Former Microsoft marketing manager Brian Smith is now senior vice president at New York-based marketing consultancy GHB Insights. Brian Smith.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We dove into publicly available information and talked to a number of product managers and those who hire, supervise, and mentor them in order to get a sense of what you can expect in this job market — and how you can improve your prospects and your compensation if you’re working in this field. Digibee’s Porte agrees. “If

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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. Paron previously spent more than eight years at Shopify, where he held roles including senior lead for sustainability programs, head of community relations and head of social impact.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

JULY 30, 2021

Gregg Ames, left, and Syed Ahmed, two recent hires at Act-On. Ahmed previously was CTO and vice president of engineering at Contiq. Sears will manage 400 employees for the division and oversee infrastructure programs for highways, rail and transit, and more. Act-On Photos). — Act-On , a Portland, Ore.-based Jeremy Showalter.

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GeekWire

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. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. The Silicon Valley company announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft last month. He previously held engineering leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. billion in November 2019. Steve Shure.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2023

Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Microsoft Photo). Microsoft added to its senior leadership team with the appointment of Christopher Young as executive vice president of business development. New York City early-stage investment firm 2048 Ventures has hired Seattle-based Minda Brusse as a venture partner. Christopher Young. Puppet raised $40 million in July.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Attendees will have the opportunity to attend expert briefings, learn from and network with experienced practitioners, and ask questions to advance their agency data analytics initiatives and save their organization’s time, funding, and staff resources. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia.

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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. She was most recently a software engineering manager at Facebook and previously an engineer at Microsoft. The four-year old Seattle company is profitable and raised $6.3 Lauren Woodman.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. GeekWire is launching a new awards program, in partnership with Greater Seattle Partners, that seeks to showcase the region’s boldest creators and builders. Soma” Somasegar. Learn more and make a nomination.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. He began running Startup Haven full-time in 2019 and recently launched a Startup Haven accelerator. Techstars and Microsoft vet Dave Malcolm is executive director of the accelerator. (F5 Crimmins, a Seattle tech veteran, founded Startup Haven in 2005.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Julie Larson-Green, an engineering leader and executive who spent more than 25 years at Microsoft, is retiring from her position as the chief experience officer at Qualtrics following the experience management technology company’s recent initial public offering. “The technology changes all the time. .”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Many organizations provide financial aid to patients, but hospitals and health systems are not equipped to navigate the programs’ complexities at scale. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Her company specializes in training non-technical entrepreneurs and start-ups, and she teaches people how to leverage no code technology to launch their applications and websites in hours without writing code or hiring developers. I had no idea that such technology could exist or at least be so advanced,” he says.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex. CEO Caitlin Morse was previously a program manager at Flex and is also a co-founder of a small medical device services startup, MorseCode Medical.

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