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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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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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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. Lexion has more than 100 employees, according to LinkedIn.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

. — Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. She previously held IT roles at Tyler Technologies, Novartis-Alcon Labs and Southwest Airlines. Qumulo does not have an overall CTO. She previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft. based Mobile Technologies, Inc.

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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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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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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. Kissler was most recently VP of Nike Global Technology and helped lead the athletic giant’s inventory and fulfillment systems. Courtney Kissler. Zulily Photo).

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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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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Karat Image). — Karat , a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews , hired two new executives. Amy Sennett , previously general counsel at OpenText and Catalant Technologies, joins as Karat’s new general counsel. He spent the past 11 years as a principal program manager lead for Microsoft Azure.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. “One silver lining of COVID is that companies, including Lighter, have realized that geography and working together in an office every day isn’t necessary to serve our customers,” Widner said. Microsoft Photo). Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai The Redmond, Wash.,

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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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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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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. Sundar will be based in Seattle.

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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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AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

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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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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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MAY 13, 2020

Anu Engineer, CTO (left), and Mahesh Unnikrishnan, CPO, just joined SirionLabs. The company announced a $44 million investment Wednesday that will help it establish a new Seattle-area technology center led by veterans of Google, Cloudera, and more. The 8-year-old contract management software startup originally launched out of India.

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AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Microsoft Photo). Read the story. Lisa Nelson. Athira Photos). Lessen Photo).

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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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APRIL 3, 2023

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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JUNE 29, 2023

Kummert will return to Madrona as venture partner after serving as chief product development officer at UiPath. 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.

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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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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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JUNE 23, 2024

. … Read More Tech Moves: Superhuman hires CTO; Getty Images founder departs board; Xbox vet joins Unity Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief technology officer. … Read More

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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

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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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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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

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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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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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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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.

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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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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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MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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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. Sarah Bettencourt as chief people officer.

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