Tech Moves

Tech Moves: Former DreamBox Learning CEO joins VC firm; First Fed hires Seattle entrepreneur

by Taylor Soper on April 13, 2024April 13, 2024 at 9:14 am

— Jessie Woolley-Wilson, former CEO at DreamBox Learning, joined Silicon Valley venture capital firm Owl Ventures as an operating partner. Woolley-Wilson previously led DreamBox for more than 13 years. Founded in… Read More

Amazon names business and tech leader Andrew Ng to its board, boosting AI expertise

by Todd Bishop on April 11, 2024April 11, 2024 at 6:26 am

Amazon’s newest board member is Andrew Ng, a business and technology leader, serial startup founder, investor, and educator who specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and online education. Ng, who… Read More

Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

by Taylor Soper on April 11, 2024April 10, 2024 at 7:14 pm

— Munil Shah, a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Smartsheet CMO lands at Conga; former Panopto CMO joins Valid8

by Taylor Soper on April 4, 2024April 4, 2024 at 3:54 pm

— 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… Read More

Tech Moves: F5 adds CTO and HR chief; Adaptive names CFO; Techstars Seattle leaders depart

by Taylor Soper on April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 at 10:34 am

— 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. Schramm comes… Read More

Tech Moves: VC firm Ascend names new partner; Common Room adds board member; and more

by Kurt Schlosser on March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 at 8:48 am

— Startup veteran Jen Haller has been named partner at Ascend, the Seattle-based pre-seed venture capital firm. Haller first joined the firm in January 2022 as chief of staff, and the… Read More

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s new Surface and Windows chief; ex-Zillow CEO joins Match Group board; Oleria adds execs

by Taylor Soper on March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 at 7:01 pm

— Longtime Microsoft exec Pavan Davuluri is taking on a new role leading the company’s Surface and Windows divisions, according to a report from The Verge. Following last year’s departure of… Read More

Tech Moves: Smartsheet co-founder will leave board; Pandion hires logistics execs; and more

by Taylor Soper on March 22, 2024March 22, 2024 at 8:10 am

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… Read More

Tech Moves: Accolade names new chief people officer; YouTube gaming leader joins Microsoft

by Taylor Soper on March 19, 2024March 18, 2024 at 8:03 pm

— Seattle-based healthcare software giant Accolade appointed Kelsi McDonald Harris as chief people officer and senior vice president. McDonald Harris joined the company in 2017 and was previously vice president of… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Amazon, Flexport exec Tim Collins joins Blue Origin as supply chain chief

by Taylor Soper on March 16, 2024March 16, 2024 at 8:16 am

Tim Collins, most recently an executive vice president at Flexport and a former top Amazon leader, announced Saturday that he’s joining Blue Origin as vice president of supply chain. Collins… Read More

Tech Moves: Optimize Health names new CEO; Seattle-area marketing firm makes acquisition

by Taylor Soper on March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 at 11:01 am

Optimize Health, a Seattle-based startup that sells remote patient monitoring software, announced Ryan Clark as its new CEO. Clark, based in Ottawa, Canada, was previously a senior vice president and… Read More

Former Microsoft deputy CTO Lila Tretikov joins NEA as head of AI strategy

by Taylor Soper on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 at 8:24 am

Lila Tretikov, the former deputy chief technology officer at Microsoft, has joined SIlicon Valley investment firm NEA as partner and its new head of AI strategy. Tretikov, who previously led… Read More

Tech Moves: Former AMD named Kymeta CEO; GitHub exec joins Twilio; DocuSign security vet joins Proof; Fred Hutch adds VP

by Taylor Soper on March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 at 10:52 am

Rick Bergman, former executive vice president at semiconductor giant AMD, joined Seattle-area mobile connectivity company Kymeta as its new CEO, effective April 1. Bergman left AMD in September after four… Read More

Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic is growing its Seattle workforce

by Taylor Soper on March 7, 2024March 11, 2024 at 1:34 pm

Anthropic, one of the most valuable privately held AI companies going head-to-head in the generative AI race with OpenAI, is expanding its presence in the Seattle area. The company currently… Read More

Agility Robotics names new CEO: Peggy Johnson, former Magic Leap CEO and Microsoft exec

by Todd Bishop on March 4, 2024May 17, 2024 at 7:51 am

Peggy Johnson, the former Microsoft executive who stepped down as Magic Leap CEO last fall, is the new CEO of Agility Robotics, the Corvallis, Ore.-based company known for the Digit… Read More

Tech Moves: AWS vet lands at health startup; Lumen hires longtime Microsoft GM; ex-Qualtrics exec joins Typeform board

by Taylor Soper on March 1, 2024March 1, 2024 at 1:38 pm

— Harshit Shah, a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Shah, based in the Seattle… Read More

Former Textio CEO Kieran Snyder dives into new research on how AI is impacting the workplace

by Kurt Schlosser on February 28, 2024March 1, 2024 at 7:39 am

Kieran Snyder, the co-founder and former CEO of Seattle-based Textio, has launched her next project, less than two months after stepping back from the augmented writing startup. In an email… Read More

Tech Moves: Instacart COO lands at Microsoft in AI product role; ZoomInfo accounting chief departs

by Taylor Soper on February 27, 2024February 28, 2024 at 1:52 pm

Asha Sharma is headed back to Seattle full-time for a new role leading product for Microsoft’s AI platform. Sharma was most recently at Instacart, where she was chief operating officer… Read More

Tech Moves: Expedia taps execs to run new divisions; Bumble hires Microsoft vet as CTO

by Taylor Soper on February 21, 2024February 22, 2024 at 11:14 am

— Expedia Group hired two longtime leaders to run new operating divisions within the Seattle-based travel giant. Alfonso Paredes, who joined Expedia 14 years ago, was named president of Private Label… Read More

Tech Moves: Pathable founder joins vanlife startup; Opanga Networks taps Seattle telecom vet as CEO

by Taylor Soper on February 16, 2024February 16, 2024 at 2:34 pm

— 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. Schwartz previously founded… Read More

Tech Moves: Rivian hires former Amazon and Meta leader as new marketing chief

by Taylor Soper on February 13, 2024February 13, 2024 at 10:09 am

Jennifer Prenner, a former marketing leader at Amazon and Meta, joined EV giant Rivian as its new vice president of marketing and CMO. Prenner, based in Seattle, most recently was… Read More

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta stepping down, 17 years after founding enterprise software giant

by Taylor Soper on February 9, 2024February 9, 2024 at 8:25 am

Sunny Gupta, who launched Apptio more than 17 years ago and helped build the Seattle-area company into an enterprise software giant, is stepping down as CEO. Gupta will transition to… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle marketing vet Brian Goldfarb lands at SolarWinds; ex-PopCap GM joins Sony

by Taylor Soper on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024 at 8:53 am

— Longtime Seattle-area marketing exec Brian Goldfarb took a new job as chief marketing officer at SolarWinds, the Austin, Texas-based publicly traded IT infrastructure company. Goldfarb was most recently CMO at Maryland-based… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Amazon sports leader lands at DraftKings; Seattle tech vet launches advisory firm

by Taylor Soper on January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 at 12:43 pm

— Dave Cotter, a longtime Seattle tech leader who sold a startup to Nordstrom and most recently led product at Leafly, launched a new advisory firm called D3 Advisors. “After 30+… Read More

Tech Moves: Nintex founder named CEO at WellSaid Labs; F5 hires CISO; Slalom appoints execs

by Taylor Soper on January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 at 12:36 pm

— Brian Cook, former CEO of Nintex and founder of Incredible Capital, is now CEO of WellSaid Labs, a Seattle startup developing AI synthetic voice technology. Cook helped start Nintex in… Read More

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