Smartsheet on Friday announced several changes to its board of directors, including the departure of co-founder Brent Frei and the addition of Katie Rooney, CFO and COO at HR software giant Alight Solutions.
Frei helped launch the Bellevue, Wash.-based business software company back in 2005 and was an executive for more than a decade. He’s now CEO of TerraClear, a Seattle-area agriculture technology company he founded in 2017.
Frei will leave the board effective June 18.
“Smartsheet wouldn’t have come into existence without Brent,” Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader, who joined the company in 2006, said in a statement. “Since transitioning from an operating role at the company in 2016, he has served as a valuable member of our board. His experience and thoughtful insights have helped influence the company we are today.”
Elena Gomez is also departing the board June 18 after a 7-year stint. Gomez is currently CFO at Toast and was previously CFO at Zendesk.
Rooney joined Alight in 2017 and was previously CFO for Aon Hewitt, and also spent more than eight years at Morgan Stanley.
Smartsheet announced last week that it surpassed $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue in the fourth quarter. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company makes cloud-based enterprise work management technologies for managing and tracking projects, collaborating, storing data, and automating and assigning tasks, among other capabilities. The company has more than 3,300 employees and a market value of more than $5 billion.
Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry:
— Seattle e-commerce startup Pandion, which this week announced a $41.5 million Series B round, recently brought on several new execs, including:
- Brent Cervenka, a longtime Amazon logistics leader who was most recently at Flexport, as chief operating officer
- Jeff Petersen, who was also at Flexport and previously worked at Pandion, as head of network design and strategy
- Jay Sackos, a former Dolly exec, as vice president of sales
- Austin Luhman, a former Walmart director, as head of product
— Peat Bakke, a longtime engineering leader who worked at eBay, Kickstarter, and Peek, joined Spokane, Wash.-based fintech company Treasury 4 as vice president of engineering.
— Leah Grogan Sakas, a former vice president at Zillow Group and Invitation Homes, joined Oyster Data, a real estate data startup based in Seattle, as executive of product and operations.
— Microsoft named Sarah Bird as chief product officer of its Responsible AI team. Bird, based in New York City, joined the company in 2019 for her second stint with Microsoft.
— Greater Seattle Partners, a public-private sector initiative that seeks to attract investment, companies and quality jobs in the Seattle area, added two employees:
- Yelena Kalashnikova, a former marketing manager at NanoString and Microsoft, as marketing director
- Victoria DePalma, a former assistant professor at Coastal Carolina University, as research manager
