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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 then spent five years at Russian tech giant Yandex, where he was CTO. Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joined the Shopify board last month. Mikhail Parakhin.

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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. Garudayagari has more than 20 years of enterprise software experience.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

SAP CTO Juergen Mueller will step down from SAP’s executive board at the end of September. “I SAP had only just renewed Mueller’s contract, announcing in April that it was extending it by three years to the end of 2027. Hasso Plattner, chairman of SAP at the time of the announcement, said then. “We

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Ramana Thumu, chief technology officer for Expedia Group. Expedia Photo) Ramana Thumu has taken the role of chief technology officer for Expedia Group. “Ramana’s extensive experience in successfully building and managing multi-tenant tech platforms will be invaluable for our company’s future.

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GeekWire

MAY 30, 2024

Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — The City of Seattle announced Thursday it hired Rob Lloyd as its interim CTO and director of the IT department. Diefendorf has been chief operating officer since 2016; he’ll keep that title and also become the company’s new president.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2021

The Seattle startup today named Li its new chief technology officer. Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. Goodale was previously CTO; he will transition to a new role overseeing the company’s carrier marketplace. . billion valuation in November 2019.

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GeekWire

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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JUNE 27, 2024

Vered was most recently CTO at engineering insights startup Uplevel. She was most recently chief communications officer at police body camera giant Axon, and previously worked for Tesla in investor relations. — Robert Villaseñor joined Seattle crypto startup Coinme as chief legal and compliance officer. .

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2021

based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes hired Kayti Sullivan as the company’s first chief revenue officer. Bhawna Singh. Auth0 Photo). Bellevue, Wash.-based Kayti Sullivan. Flyhomes Photo).

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MARCH 20, 2023

Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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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 5, 2023

Payscale Photos) — Compensation data company Payscale hired two new executives: Nolan Farris as president and chief operating officer, and Raj Cherukuri as chief technology officer. Farras previously spent more than 14 years at jobs platform Indeed, most recently as chief revenue officer.

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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 is now a VP of engineering at Google.

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APRIL 3, 2024

F5 Chief People Officer Lyra Schramm (left) and Chief Technology Officer Kunal Anand. (F5 F5 Photos) — Seattle-based application security and delivery giant F5 announced two new executive appointments this week: Lyra Schramm , the company’s new chief people officer, and Kunal Anand , chief technology officer.

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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.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Prior to joining Convoy in 2018, Kreiner was CEO of Cal Net Technology Group and a managing partner at Olympic Valley Capital.

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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. True to his customer-first, business-focused leadership style, he is actively involved with customer interactions as well.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Apple hasn’t been all that vocal about its electric car project, but according to Bloomberg , the iPhone maker is hiring Tesla’s Autopilot software engineer to work on its EVs. We do know, however, that Apple has been hiring EV experts from other companies — especially Tesla. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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APRIL 3, 2023

From left: CTO Sriram Sankaran; CEO and founder Shashwat Srivastav; and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev. He’s joined by Chief Technology Officer Sriram Sankaran , a former group engineering manager at Amazon and senior director of engineering at Dell EMC, and Founding Engineer Igor Medvedev , a former software developer at Dell EMC.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Prophia , a startup building a platform that scours and extracts key terms from commercial real estate contracts, raised $10.2 Prophia’s users can upload PDF contracts that are analyzed by its software. Lexion , Advocat , and Clearbrief help legal teams sift through different types of contracts. Cameron Steele. million.

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MAY 2, 2024

From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Gao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. Mason Photo) Mason , a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With a significant push toward infrastructure modernization, many organizations have hired Chief Modernization Officers (CMOs) to help navigate the complexities of this undertaking. But many still question the need for a CMO when they already have a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in house.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 9, 2021

Instacart has been building out its advertising business and reportedly hired more than 50 former Facebook employees based on LinkedIn data compiled by Silicon Valley tech news site The Information. 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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MAY 8, 2024

Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. Applying AI and machine learning training on precedent case history and the fact patterns associated with those cases, Predict.law uses technology to replace the current process of manually searching for relevant prior cases.

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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. Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll. Littlebird Photo).

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JUNE 14, 2023

Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering. headquarters in Seattle, appointed Isabelle Guis as its new CEO of North America and global chief marketing officer. based startup Smarsh named Vinay Mehta as its new CTO. Tasker was previously the chief medical officer at Codagenix.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

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JUNE 29, 2023

Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month. Shape Therapeutics named Adrian Briggs as CTO. Kineta said last year that it would enter the public markets through a merger.

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MARCH 4, 2024

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Sarah Bettencourt as chief people officer. Jonathan Watson , previously VP of engineering at Clio, as CTO. Reagan Attle , previously VP of marketing at Clio, as chief marketing officer. Madrona Venture Group hired Sabrina Wu as an investor. The company is now remote-first and hiring in the Seattle region.

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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. But now it’s taking aim at a much larger vision.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Rogers spent the past decade at Amazon and was most recently director of business, product and technology for Amazon One , the tech giant’s palm-reading ID system. Amazon veteran Stephen Curial joined Jungle Scout as CTO.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While reports cite skill and talent gaps, what’s really holding back CIO, CTO, and CDO in driving digital transformation and innovation?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Theo AI co-founders Alex Alben, center, Patrick Ip, right, and CTO Tiago Luchini. Theo AI Photo) A Seattle tech veteran who was Washington state’s first chief privacy officer is the co-founder of a startup using artificial intelligence to help legal professionals predict the likely outcome of cases.

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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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