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Tech Moves: F5 and Esper hires marketing leaders; Workiva exec steps down; YoungTech Seattle grows

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F5 Photo) — Seattle-based networking and security giant F5 hired John Maddison as chief product marketing and technology alliances officer. Maddison was previously at California-based computer and network security company Fortinet for more than 12 years, leaving the role of chief marketing officer.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began in 2011 when LinkedIn’s first CEO, Jeff Weiner, saw the value in working with the Year Up to open the talent pipeline and to give back.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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Tech Moves: IMDb taps new CEO; Tagboard adds COO; SingleFile gets CFO; and more

GeekWire

Willow Photo) — Long-time Microsoft product and program manager Bert Van Hoof is now CEO of Willow Technology. The company launched in Australia in 2017 and uses AI-generated digital twins to provide insights into building management to cut energy costs and carbon impacts. Bert Van Hoof, Willow Technology.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

GeekWire

He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

GeekWire

Ivashchenko and other delegates spoke with GeekWire at a life science networking event Wednesday at a pub in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The Seattle office of the nonprofit World Affairs Council is hosting the delegates as part of the Open World Program , established in 1999 by the U.S.

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Tech Moves: Meta leader for Pacific NW steps down; Phase Genomics adds to C-suite

GeekWire

Shoultz’s resume runs deep in Seattle health companies and nonprofits. Other former positions include leadership roles at the Gates Foundation and directing the global drug development program at PATH. Phase Genomics has developed technology for sequencing DNA from wide-ranging and tricky to study organisms.