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The Allen Institute, a Seattle-based nonprofit research institution founded by the late Paul Allen, appointed a new CEO and president, Rui Costa , last December. Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: Rick Pittenger is now chieftechnologyofficer of Seattle health tech startup DexCare.
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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. X4Impact is an AI-driven market intelligence platform for nonprofits, universities and other organizations focused on social impact. Tony Bacos.
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Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu. The new funds will enable BirchAI to expand and increase hiring. It allows the employees to focus on the conversation more as well. So, ultimately: patient satisfaction.”. BirchAI Photo). “It
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It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .
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Flexe CTO and Crowd Cow board member David Glick. Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations. It also appointed David Glick , CTO of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe, to its board.
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