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Tech Moves: OfferUp names new CTO; Amazon data center leader departs; and more

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— Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She was also a software developer at Amazon soon after it went public. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

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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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Robots for hire: Dell EMC vets lead Seattle startup aiming to automate monotonous tasks

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From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. Aivot CEO Shashwat Srivastav founded the startup after working as vice president of engineering at Dell EMC, and as principal development lead at Microsoft Azure.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Why enterprise CIOs need to plan for Microsoft gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Why the former Tableau CEO just joined the board of a Zurich-based AI data analytics startup

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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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AI2 spinout MajorBoost uses artificial intelligence to help medical providers deal with insurance calls

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“Our AI-enabled phone automation delivers productivity, intelligence and decision support to healthcare teams, getting [providers] off the phone and back to helping patients,” co-founder and CTO Ben Hesketh said. The third co-founder, VP of engineering Andrew Palmer, was previously a software developer at Microsoft, Moz and Rover.