GeekWire

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

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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GeekWire

MARCH 15, 2022

Walmart announced a big push Tuesday to expand its Global Tech team by more than 5,000 employees, with nearly 200 of those jobs planned for Seattle, where the retailer established a tech presence last year. (Bigstock Photo). Additionally, Walmart has 14 stores in the Seattle metro area and 66 across Washington state. Its total headcount is 2.3

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GeekWire

AUGUST 19, 2024

(Albertsons Photo) A Seattle e-commerce tech startup says Albertsons Companies ended their three-year partnership and stole the trade secrets behind its automated grocery replenishment technology to create its own version instead. Its CTO is Umair Bashir , another former Amazon e-commerce and retail technology executive.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2021

It partners with retailers such as Lowe’s and Costco to deliver large items such as furniture. It recently hired former Rover CTO Scott Porad as its first-ever chief technology officer. Seattle-based on-demand moving startup Dolly has been acquired by Updater , a New York moving services company.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2021

The news: DevHub , the Seattle software-as-a-service startup that is used by more than 179 brands and/or their agencies to build websites and landing pages, has acquired New York-based Brickwork, a retail tech company that powers local consumer experiences for leading brands.

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GeekWire

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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Retail is dynamic, ever-changing, and generates a lot of data, and through merchandising, in-store transactions, supply chain, digital, and pricing, the opportunities to leverage data are endless. Omni-channel retailing puts even greater importance on the ability to manage and integrate data effectively across the enterprise.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

. — Smart home startup Wyze Labs named Francis Lee as its first chief financial officer. A longtime Nike exec, Lee was most recently head of Global Marketing Finance for the athletic retail giant and previously served as CFO for Nike Japan, among other roles. Beason was previously a VP at HITT Contracting Inc.

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APRIL 7, 2014

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APRIL 26, 2022

At least that has been the experience of Backcountry CTO Sridhar Nallani, who was hired in 2020 specifically to overhaul the online retailer’s digital presence. Backcountry also lacked many core services critical for an online retailer — no CMS, no analytics, no data platform, and no data lake. “I

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Kunal Anand, F5’s chief innovation officer. (F5 F5 Photo) — Kunal Anand of F5 is changing roles, moving from chief technology officer to chief innovation officer. It is unclear if or when the company will be filling the CTO role. Rick Katz, chief financial officer for Valant.

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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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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

. — Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Gopuff, a Philadelphia on-demand delivery service for convenience store items, hired two new executives in the Seattle region: Tim Collins as SVP of operations. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2021

Expedia Group has hired top executives from Apple and Verizon Media as the company overhauls its leadership structure and brand after a long period of organizational disarray and declining revenues. The key hires are part of Expedia’s efforts to streamline its operations and boost its revenues. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2021

The idea is to provide fraud detection of a person in real-time. Use cases include KYC (know your customer) in banking; employment screening; gig economy hiring; contactless hotel check-in; and more. There are a flurry of competitors also developing related ID verification technology, including Eugene, Ore. .

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Berenstein told GeekWire that Brook Bay Capital will focus on AI/ML, marketplaces and technology for the financial, real estate, retail and travel industries.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Technology|FBI Says It Needs Hackers to Keep Up With Tech Companies - New York Times. Startup Spotlight: Validated lets retailers reimburse parking and transportation costs for customers. An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion. CTO Greg Godbout to leave EPA - FedScoop.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software. Machine learning monitoring. The five finalists are Arrived Homes; Lexion; Phaidra; Shipium; and WhyLabs.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The company recently subleased 123,000 square feet of office space in downtown Seattle. Other recent leadership appointments include Amazon vet Dorothy Li as CTO and Sunita Solao as VP of people. Ali was previously CTO at Freightweb, a transportation logistics startup that raised $3 million last year. billion in November 2019.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 6, 2022

. — Nintex Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Dustin Grosse stepped down from the Bellevue, Wash.-based A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. based Dutch Bros Coffee as the retailer’s first chief technology officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It’s important for CDAOs and CDOs to have good working relationships with CIOs, CFOs, and other executives, even though they aren’t always hired for their team-building skills, he says. “In In many cases, the CDOs have been hired for the skill set of data governance,” he adds. People really need to move with a certain sense of urgency.”

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GeekWire

JANUARY 14, 2021

If and when workers return to offices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new Seattle startup called Worksphere is looking to make the process safer and more manageable with a software platform that tracks everything from seating arrangements to contract tracing. and other seed funds and angel investors.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Otis is targeting freelance and part-time workers with a digital discount card. They show the card to a pharmacist and get discounts up to 90% off retail price. 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.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. Wouleta Ayele.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

When Arvest, a regional bank operating in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, hired Laura Merling as chief transformation and operations officer in 2021, one of the first things she changed was its digital transformation plan. Everybody was creating a retail neobank,” says Merling. But there were challenges.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Qualtrics, which has been adding to its executive ranks through a series of hires , is expected to split Larson-Green’s role as chief experience officer among other leaders for now. GameStop appointed former Zulily and Amazon Web Services engineering leader Matt Francis to the newly created role of CTO.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex. The device provides an electrical stimulus via pads on the skin to increase muscle contraction and blood flow.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Discover Financial Services Arooni is joined by scores of industry leaders across segments such as retail, financial services, healthcare, even government entities moving in this direction. Cloud delivery is part of the solution, but product-centric teams help build trust and continuity of expertise.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer. They will both report to Chief Strategy Officer Tom Fountain. .

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

Qumulo also recently hired Barry Russell as SVP and general manger of cloud and Michael Cornwell as chief technology officer. Cornwell was most recently a GM of storage technologies at Microsoft and spent more than eight years at Pure Storage, most recently as CTO, Asia Pacific and Japan. Mason Hollis.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

He led technology and product operations at retailers Gap Inc and L Brands, and spent more than a decade as a consultant at EY. Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash. . based patent holding and technology company’s Invention Investment Fund.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2020

She was most recently COO at retail analytics startup SoundCommerce. Seattle startup ThruWave hired Lance Troutman as vice president of sales. million round earlier this year to expand its technology that uses millimeter waves to see through packaging in retail and e-commerce warehouses. Jim Gort as chief engineer.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Customers hail from sectors including healthcare, retail, hospitality and government. I am excited to share that after 25 years, I have left Microsoft and joined forces with several prominent organizations poised to address one of the most critical blockers in future technology innovation – diversity, equity and inclusion.

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