— Andrew Bennett, the former chief marketing officer at Smartsheet, is now chief marketing officer at Conga, a Denver-area startup that helps companies manage revenue.
Bennett, based in Seattle, previously spent a decade at Bellevue, Wash.-based Smartsheet in various marketing leadership roles. He became CMO in 2021 and held that position until departing last month.
Founded in 2006, Conga serves more than 11,000 customers with software that helps streamline and simplify revenue-related operations such as proposals, billing, and renewals. The company has 18 employees in the Seattle region.
Bennett previously was a vice president at Onyx, where he worked alongside Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader. Bennett also founded Deneki Outdoors, which operated fly fishing lodges around the globe.
Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry:
— Christina Mautz, the former chief marketing officer at Moz and Panopto, joined Seattle-based fintech startup Valid8 Financial as executive vice president for marketing.
Mautz was most recently a “fractional CMO” and consultant. She spent nearly a year at video management company Panopto and led marketing at SEO firm Moz for more than three years. Mautz also held marketing roles at Koru, Amazon, and Yahoo.
Founded in 2017, Valid8 sells a forensic accounting platform to lawyers, CPAs, and other enterprise and government customers that use the software to organize and analyze the flow of funds. It recently raised $8.5 million in a Series A round. The company also announced that Brett Suchor is taking on an expanded role as executive vice president for strategic partnerships.
— Seattle-area business technology company Acumatica added two longtime software leaders as new board members: Nancy Harris and Zach Nelson. Harris was an exec at Sage North America and also worked for Asure Software. Nelson is the former CEO of NetSuite and held leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and McAfee Network Associates.
— Seattle-based coding bootcamp Ada Developers Academy announced that interim CEO Shawna Young is stepping down to take a new role with Camelback Ventures as CEO. Young joined Ada last year after it reduced headcount and paused admissions. Tina-Marie Gulley, a longtime Ada board member, will assume interim CEO duties.
— Seattle-based pet insurance company Trupanion announced that Maveron co-founder Dan Levitan and Bond Vet co-founder Dr. Zay Satchu will be stepping down from the board following the company’s annual meeting this year.
