GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. He also previously spent 12 years at Microsoft in roles including principal software engineering manager and senior director. Remitly went public in September.

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s absolutely true that innovation can be in direct conflict with company goals or mandates to reduce carbon footprint and emissions,” said Ken Ringdahl, CTO at software company Emburse. Google, meanwhile, has been making progress with geothermal energy in Nevada.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

“As technology has advanced, the opportunity has increased, too,” he says, adding that moving forward “the best candidates [for CIO jobs] will be technologists who can connect the dots, understand businesses, as well as appreciate and articulate customer needs. He says he is interested in more advisory work and board positions.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

GCN names 2015's top tech solutions - Washington Technology. Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. Software problem temporarily grounds Lockheed's air traffic control system. Another lawsuit for OPM, Ashley Madison's government customers and more - FCW.com.

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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.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo). Chicago, Ill.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Choo was previously Zillow’s senior vice president of real estate software. ” Neal Oman, chief technology officer for Vouched. LinkedIn Photo) — Identity verification startup Vouched named Neal Oman as chief technology officer. Oman was previously CTO at Plunk, a Bellevue, Wash.,

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The couple struggled to navigate a fragmented industry filled with small nonprofits. The site uses identity verification software to guard against scammers who pose as expectant mothers. Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Justin Friberg is a startup veteran and former CTO of Seattle software company Record360.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

LinkedIn) — The nonprofit Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) appointed Randa Minkarah as the its executive chair. Todd Persen, co-founder of Era Software. Era Software Photo) — Era Software co-founder and CEO Todd Persen has left ServiceNow , which acquired his startup in 2022 for an undisclosed sum.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. Leblond previously spent 25 years at Microsoft leading various engineering teams working on Windows, Office, and other products.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Lockstep , a Seattle accounting software startup, has emerged from stealth mode. The founding team includes: • CEO Peter Horadan, previously EVP of engineering and CTO at tax automation startup Avalara. Chief Technology Officer Bill Henslee , an entrepreneur and founder of e2b Teknologies. • million seed round.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. The former head of engineering and science at Amazon Web Services Health Jean-Olivier Racine joined Outset Medical as its chief technology officer. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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AUGUST 10, 2021

The software is called Codex and is designed to speed up the work of professional programmers, as well as help amateurs get started coding. Users type English commands into the software, like “create a webpage with a menu on the side and title at the top,” and Codex translates this into code. It’s most proficient, though, in Python.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Cynthia Tee, CTO for Smartsheet. Smartsheet Photo) Cynthia Tee is now chief technology officer for Smartsheet. In January, the enterprise software giant again became a privately held company, completing its $8.4 Tee was previously senior vice president of engineering at the Bellevue, Wash.,

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Michael Sherman, SVP of Zillow Rentals, and Cynthia Taylor, Zillow VP of agent software and advertising. Cynthia Taylor has taken the title of SVP of agent software and advertising. software development company in 2023. The nonprofit organization collaborates with the state’s business leaders to advocate for public policy.

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MARCH 11, 2024

He was previously CEO of Synaptics, a hardware and software giant also based in Silicon Valley. Kymeta, which was founded in 2012 with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , makes use of an innovative type of technology called metamaterials to build antennas that can be steered by software, without moving parts.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

. “There’s a lot of different areas we can get into, but I think holistically what we really want to do is build program management software,” Morgan said. But the problem is there’s no real software that enables them to.” Former Expedia CTO Stuart Silberg joined Snap Raise as CTO in December.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

UiPath also recently promoted Munil Shaw from senior vice president of engineering to chief technology officer of cloud. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was most recently VP of finance at InterDigital, a mobile and video technology company. Figliolia was previously based in Shanghai where she held senior roles at software companies PTC and Autodesk. E-commerce startup Fabric hired Val Rupp as the Seattle company’s first chief people officer. .

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MAY 18, 2020

The software is able to determine if the therapist is empathetic, detecting changes in vocal pitch and identifying phrases where the therapist shares their understanding of what a patient has said. The nonprofit is publicly funded and many of its patients are experiencing homelessness and other difficulties.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Pathable Photo) — Veteran Seattle-area software entrepreneur Jordan Schwartz joined Sēkr , a San Diego startup that aims to help “vanlife” travelers find campsites and community, as its chief product officer. Brodman previously spent more than a decade at T-Mobile, holding positions as CMO and CTO.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Swift is a longtime Seattle-area gaming industry vet whose resume includes Valve Software (she helped lead development of Portal), Airtight Games, Amazon, EA, and most recently Google Stadia, where she was a game design director for the tech giant’s cloud gaming service. Google Stadia closed its first-party game studios in February.

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MARCH 7, 2014

Creating software and hardware designs that incorporate security and ensure protection and proper operation of mission-critical hardware components. Big Data CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC Computer security Dallas Darwin Deason Deason George W. Bush Lyle School of Engineering National Security Agency R.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Along with his brother, he published a step-by-step guide encouraging other software engineers to seek out climate endeavors that needed their skills. Almost two years ago he made the jump from software engineer for companies including Deloitte Digital and Slalom Build to the nonprofit Climate Neutral, which certifies climate neutral brands.

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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. There are also leveraging crowdsourcing platforms, direct sourcing agencies, and freelance marketplaces, as well as nonprofit programs with expertise in specific areas such as sustainability.

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JUNE 14, 2023

He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. 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. Portland, Ore.-based

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

AiShield co-founders Brian Roundtree (left), CEO and chief product officer, and Kevin Allan, chief technology officer. They also worked together at SNAPin Software, telecom software company that Roundtree founded and was acquired by Nuance for roughly $180 million in 2008.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Atlas Health’s software is built on a proprietary database of more than 20,000 medical financial aid programs. Atlas links customers with organizations that can alleviate some of these expenses, such as nonprofits that help cancer patients afford costly drugs. Software engineer Bryan Andrade is a co-founder and serves as CTO.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Binkley started exploring the resale space a few years ago with a focus on nonprofits receiving and selling donated goods. Founders and funding: Binkley and Chief Technology Officer Ari Kardasis met years ago while earning degrees in math and computer science at Brown University.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

“Entrepreneurs are out in the community or out in the field developing great technology, but oftentimes don’t know how to get started,” said Leo Ochoa, accelerator manager at VertueLab, a longtime Pacific Northwest nonprofit supporting climate tech innovation. So VertueLab and Tacoma, Wash.-based ”

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MARCH 9, 2022

Male founders are asked questions about scaling and about the numbers, while female founders are asked about managing family and office life, and this gender bias affects how much funding they may receive. This difference is widely noted by female entrepreneurs. Miya regularly sits on judging panels at tech and innovation summits.

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MAY 15, 2023

The Pacific Northwest is home to countless people applying technology to good causes and working to improve the sector, our community and the world. Related coverage: This nonprofit is showing how rigorous data analysis can dramatically curb youth homelessness Brilliant Black Minds Crystal Moore , vice president of Brilliant Black Minds.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

million in seed funding for its software to streamline customer support for healthcare companies. The software summarizes and analyzes the contents of phone conversations between customers and representatives. Terrell co-founded the company in June 2020 with CTO Yinhan Liu and Austin-based COO Sumant Kawale. (BirchAI Photo).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Seattle-based Ada is a tuition-free, software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities. It launched as a Technology Alliance project, and became a standalone nonprofit in 2015. The organization grew over the years and showed impressive stats in getting graduates placed in jobs.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Founded in 2016, CityBldr makes software that analyzes zoning and land data to assess properties redevelopment potential. Satellite startup Xplore added former astronaut Paul Richards as co-CTO and chief engineer, based out of the company’s 22,000-square-foot facility in Redmond, Wash. . -based startup CityBldr.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

The company named Cooper Werner as its new chief financial officer, and moved Kunal Anand from CTO to the position of chief innovation officer. F5 plans to hire a new CTO. Maddison will be based out of F5’s San Jose office. “F5 F5 made multiple recent changes in its C-suite this fall.

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