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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

— Ali Dasdan , chief technology officer of ZoomInfo Technologies , is resigning from his role at the publicly traded company to “pursue a new opportunity,” according to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Keith Kirk is now Swiftly’s chief financial officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2022

Insurance companies are no longer only there for their customers in times of disaster. Modern approaches to insurance and changes in customer expectations mean that the insurance business model looks very different than it used to. For many insurers, this means investing in cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When Matt Postulka left Arbella Insurance Group as deputy CIO at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he didn’t intend to look back. Postulka aspired to become a CIO — and he achieved it, landing a job as CIO and senior vice president of technology and operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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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

APRIL 28, 2021

Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Scott Porad. Dolly Photo). based drugstore.com.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2024

Abrahamson also changed some of his hiring criteria, bringing on people with product management and human-centered design experience. Dundas felt it was important to establish the IT organization’s specific DNA and culture before the hiring surge. That became part of the interviewing process as we hired dozens of people.

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GeekWire

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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CIO Business Intelligence

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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. Cold: On-prem infrastructure As they did in 2022, many IT leaders are reducing investments in data centers and on-prem technologies. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

McKee, tech founder and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies, acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe. One client cut staff earlier this year, only to discover that another part of the business needed their institutional knowledge for a strategic project.

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MAY 26, 2015

The regulations themselves are a part of, and a driver to, a set of complex problems for industry — presently, with risk being transferred away from DoD to its contractors who will find risk rebounding to them via their “cyber” insurance policies. We’ll start by peeling back the onion layers around the regulations themselves.

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GeekWire

JULY 15, 2021

A new health-tech spinout from Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2) aims to reimagine how doctor’s offices and insurance companies communicate with each other, using artificial intelligence to deal with time-consuming phone calls. The company is hiring for several roles. MajorBoost co-founder and CEO Lekshmi Venu.

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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. Founded in 2015, Socotra sells cloud-based tools for insurance tech companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. The nightly processing jobs were significantly delayed, which has a large impact on our credit union and our members.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Consider consumption-based contracts One of the best ways to align IT costs with value-generating outcomes is with consumption-based pricing, although it may seem like a higher-cost option. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan. When it is renewal time, make sure to scrutinize and shop around.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

The global head of cyberthreat management at a leading global property and casualty insurance company suggests: “Look across your portfolio where you’ve got that kind of auto-update automation and [ask], ‘Can they be slowed down some to keep this from being bigger than it needs to be?’ This helps mitigate risks and ensures accountability.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2023

Seattle healthcare startup DexCare hired Robin Borg as chief people officer. The longtime human resources vet previously served as CPO of telemedicine startup Galileo and health insurance company Surest. Borg’s hire comes on the heels of DexCare’s $75 million funding round earlier this month.

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GeekWire

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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their positions, the latest in a series of moves by the Seattle-based travel giant to overhaul its workforce.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

based online insurer, is developing an LLM-based platform to handle customer requests with far more intelligent and enhanced chatbots. The WiPro exec cited an example of a recent POC that a life sciences firm conducted using Google’s Gen App Builder to reduce contract management costs and improve agreement adherence to company policies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Healthcare seemed like a better place to put his expertise to use “than the slightly ephemeral stuff I was working on at Microsoft,” says Jones, who spent a decade at Microsoft prior to his time at Meta. At the same time, he says the level of interest in working in more traditional companies is “much more than I’ve seen in previous years.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The other proposed additions to the healthcare suite includes adding inventory management systems, administrative systems including applications for management of complex contract workforce, recruiting, scheduling and payment options.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Thomas, and CTO JP Monteiro in Zurich. Veezoo Photo) Seattle-based technology investor and business leader Mark Nelson, the former Tableau CEO, has joined the board of Veezoo , a company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, that specializes in self-serve, AI-powered data analytics. That could include new hires in the Seattle region.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Introduction In today's digitally connected world, cybersecurity is a top concern for businesses across all sectors, and insurance companies are no exception. In this blog post, we will explore the different dimensions of cybersecurity for insurance companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. Taking an ad hoc approach Digital literacy takes time and at Rosendin, a national electrical and communications contracting firm, the approach is slow but steady. Leadership “puts their money where their mouth is.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. World Insurance’s Corrigan advises asking what skillsets, certifications, and personality types they look for when hiring.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2022

The Seattle startup is focusing on medical device, pharmaceutical and insurance companies. BirchAI aims to cover “those expensive calls where you have people spending a lot of time after the call documenting what they just did,” said CEO Kevin Terrell , in an interview with GeekWire. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

“I like thinking about how to stabilize, secure, and scale the organization at a foundational level, to really implement innovation,” she says, noting that her perspective made her a better fit for the CIO position rather than a CTO role with its focus on products.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Michael Day , CEO at Topa Insurance Group, and Mark Hill , chief digital officer at CSL Behring, will join as independent members. “As Day previously held leadership roles at CSAA Insurance, MTV Networks, Disney, and Deloitte. Jeff Bezos-backed General Fusion hired Jay Brister as chief development officer.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A new startup born out of Pioneer Square Labs in Seattle wants to help independent workers who don’t have medical insurance save money at the pharmacy. Otis is targeting freelance and part-time workers with a digital discount card.

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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. He was most recently SVP of product management at speciality auto insurance provider Hagerty and previously VP of digital at restaurant chain sweetgreen. Vinayak Hegde. Wheels Up Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Scout for leadership potential outside the usual venues CIOs who step away from their offices and regularly interact with IT team members tend to be best positioned to discover hidden talent, says Santhosh Keshavan, CIO at finance, investment, and insurance company Voya Financial.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He is joined by other hospitality and property tech vets: CTO Greg Mushen held the position of Director of Product Management at Expedia, and also served as VP of Product Management at Seattle-based sales startup Outreach. He is also the Founder and CEO of ClearClose, a startup that automates real estate contract compliance.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Gleam, a platform for insurance brokers to implement self-funded health plans for SMBs and startups. Watto AI From left: Watto AI founder and CEO Rishabh Panwar, co-founder Ishita Bhandari, and CTO and founder Suryansh Soni. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. What’s your secret sauce?

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GeekWire

MAY 5, 2024

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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. He was most recently SVP of product management at speciality auto insurance provider Hagerty and previously VP of digital at restaurant chain sweetgreen. Vinayak Hegde. Wheels Up Photo).

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

This has led to a competitive job market and has made it difficult for businesses to find, hire, and retain the talent they need to protect themselves from cyberattacks. This will put even more pressure on businesses to find and hire the talent they need to protect themselves from cyber threats. Cyber insurance trends in 2023.

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